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Red Dwarf: Timeslides [1989]
Country of
Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 12 December 1989
Running Time: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound:
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC / Paul Jackson Productions
Executive Producer: Paul Jackson
Producer: Ed Bye, Rob Grant, Doug Naylor
Assistant Producer: Gilly Archer
Production Manager: Mike Agnew
Unit Manager: Janet Smith
SCRIPT
Script: Rob Grant, Doug Naylor
DIRECTION
Director: Ed Bye
PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting Director: John Pomphrey
Camera Supervisor: Dave Fox
EDITING AND POST
PRODUCTION
Vision Mixer: Sonia Lovett
Videotape Editor: Ed Wooden
MUSIC
Music: Howard Goodall
Songs: Craig Charles [Bad News; Cash; Om Song -
uncredited]
SOUND
Sound Supervisor: Tony Worthington
MAKE UP AND
COSTUMES
Make Up Designer: Bethan Jones
Costume Designer: Howard Burden
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Designer: Peter Wragg
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Mel Bibby
Prop Buyer: Stella McIntyre
Graphic Designer: Mark Allen
MISCELLANEOUS
Producer's Assistant: Christina Hamilton
Technical Co-Ordinator: Tony Smith
Assistant Floor Manager: Dona DiStefano
CAST
Craig Charles [Dave Lister]
Chris Barrie [Arnold Rimmer]
Danny John Jules [Cat]
Robert Llewellyn [Kryten]
Hatty Hayridge [Holly]
Adolf Hitler [himself]
Ruby Wax [American presenter]
Robert Addie [Gilbert]
Rupert Bates, Richard Hainsworth [bodyguards]
Emile Charles [young Lister]
Simon Gaffney [young Rimmer]
Simon McKintosh ['Thicky' Holden]
Louisa Ruthren [ski woman]
Koo Stark [Lady Sabrina Mulholland-Jjones]
Mark Steel [ski man]
Napalm Death [The Heads - uncredited]
SUMMARY
Kryten discovers that
some photographic developing fluid has mutated after
three million years and allows the crew to enter into
photographs and interact with the people pictured there.
After a close encounter with Adolf Hitler and a couple on
a skiing holiday, Lister meets his younger self playing
in a dreadful rock band in a pub. But the timelines are
about the get scrambled in unpredictable ways...
CAPSULE REVIEW
Time paradoxes and
alternative histories are not the easiest of things to
pull off and although Red Dwarf would do
a number of them and do most of them very well, this one
takes some sorting out. Despite not making a lot of
sense, it's still an enjoyable episode boasting some
excellent special effects and an eye-opening glimpse into
Lister's "shady" past. The ending is perhaps
the weakest bit - what's going on with Rimmer? - but
overall, it's not at all bad.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC CENSORSHIP HISTORY
UK
Rating: PG
TIMELINE
1989
December
12: UK - television broadcast [on BBC2]
2001
August
11:
UK - television broadcast [on UK Gold]
REFERENCES
BOOKS
Red Dwarf Programme Guide [3rd
edition] pp.97-99
review, synopsis
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits KEYWORDS
spaceships; cryogenics; cats; holograms;
computers; photographs; adolf hitler; rock bands; time
travel; alternative histories
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