Red Dwarf: Waiting For God [1988]

Date(s) of Broadcast: 7 March 1988
Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC / Paul Jackson Productions
Executive Producer: Paul Jackson
Producer: Ed Bye
Production Manager: George R. Clarke
Unit Manager: Mario Dubois

SCRIPT
Script: Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

DIRECTION
Director: Ed Bye

PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting Director: John Pomphrey
Camera Supervisor: Mick Jackson

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Vision Mixer: Jill Dornan
Videotape Editor: Ed Wooden

MUSIC
Music: Howard Goodall

SOUND
Sound Supervisor: Tony Worthington

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Designer: Suzanne Jansen
Costume Designer: Jacki Pinks

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Designer: Peter Wragg

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Paul Montague
Prop Buyer: Duncan Wheeler
Graphic Designer: Mark Allen

MISCELLANEOUS
Technical Co-Ordinator: Ron Clare
Assistant Floor Manager: Dona DiStefano
Production Assistant: Alison Thornber

CAST
Craig Charles [Dave Lister]
Chris Barrie [Arnold Rimmer]
Danny John Jules [Cat]
Norman Lovett [Holly]
Noel Coleman [cat priest]
John Lenahan [toaster]

Lister learns how to read Cat's books [by sniffing them!] and discovers the truth behind his position as the Cat race's god and what indeed became of his followers. He meets the only other survivor of the Cat race, a blind, dying priest and restores his faith in the legend of Cloister the Stupid. Rimmer, meanwhile, is convinced that he's captured an alien space pod and is awaiting the emergence of the creatures he has dubbed the Quagaars. But he's neglected to read the label on the side of the pod...

The highlight of season one offering everything from the potted history of the Cat race, the second coming of Cloister the Stupid and Rimmer's grandest humiliation to date. It introduced Rimmer's obsession with finding aliens and gave something of a back story for Cat. An extremely funny episode, though it's sad that we never saw any of the other members of the Cat race again.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC

1988
March
7: UK - television broadcast

2001
July
28: UK - television broadcast [on UK Gold]

BOOKS

Red Dwarf Programme Guide [3rd edition] pp.69-71
credits, synopsis

space travel; computers; cats; spaceships; robots; holograms; religion; priests