HACK-MAN's Red Dwarf Guide
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This guide is put together by Otto "Hack-Man" Heuer (ot...@cfsmo.honeywell.com)
Copyright 1991 Otto E. Heuer. All rights reserved.
You may re-distribute it as long as you keep this message on it.
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Debut: A British series following the strange adventures of Dave Lister, the
lone survivor of a disaster in outer space that wipes out his ship's crew.
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This is an S.O.S. distress call from the mining ship Red Dwarf. The
crew are dead, killed by a radiation leak. The only survivours are:
Dave Lister, who was in suspended animation during the disaster, and his
pregnant cat, who was safely sealed in the hold. Revived three-million
years later, Lister's only companions are: a life form who evolved from
his cat, and Arnold Rimmer, a hologram simulation of one of the dead crew.
-- Holly (opening speech)
Three million years in the future, Dave Lister, the last human being alive,
discovers he is pregnant after a liaison with his female self in a parallel
universe. His pregnancy concludes with the successful delivery of twin boys,
Jim and Baxley. However, because the boys were conceived in another universe,
with different physical laws, they suffer from highly accelerated growth rates
and are both eighteen years old within three days of being born. In order to
save their lives, Lister returns them to the universe of their origin, where
they are reunited with their father (a woman), and are able to lead
comparatively normal lives. Well, as normal as you can be if you've been born
in a parallel universe and your father's a woman and your mother's a man and
you're eighteen years old three days after your birth. Shortly afterwards,
Kryten, the service mechanoid, who had left the ship after being rescued from
his own crashed vessel, the Nova 5, is found in pieces after his space bike
crashed into an astroid. Lister rebuilds the 'roid, but is unable to recapture
his former personality. Meanwhile, Holly, the increasingly erratic Red Dwarf
computer, performs a head sex change operation on himself. He bases his new
face on Hilly, a female computer with whom he'd once fallen madly in love.
-- Opening crawl from "Backwards"
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End credit song lyrics:
It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere,
I'm all alone, more or less.
Let me fly far away from here,
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun.
I want to live shipwrecked and comatose,
drinking fresh mango juice.
Goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes,
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun,
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun.
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===== 1. The End (1987)
Guest Cast: Robert Brathurst (Tod Hunter), Paul Bradley (Chen), David
Gillespie (Selby), Mac McDonald (Capt. Hollister), Robert McCulley
(McIntrye), Mark Williams (Peterson), C.P. Grogan (Kochanski)
The Red Dwarf is mining around the moons of Saturn. Five miles long and
three miles wide, the ship has a crew of 169. Within 24 hours, 168 of
them will be dead.
===== 2. Future Echos (1987)
Guest Cast: John Lenahan (Toaster), Tony Hanks (Dispensing Machine)
Having accelerated constantly for three million years, Red Dwarf breaks
the light barrier. Rimmer and Lister witness images from the future and
Rimmer sees Lister die.
===== 3. Balance Of Power (1987)
Guest Cast: Rupert Bates (Trout a la Crema & Chef), Paul Bradley, David
Gillespie, Mark Williams, C.P. Grogan
Credits: Motor City Diva (Disco Music), Melvyn Cross (Camera Supervisor)
Lister wants to go on a date with dead console officer, Christine
Kochanski, but that would mean turning Rimmer off, and Rimmer wakes up
with someone else's arm.
===== 4. Waiting For God (1987)
Guest Cast: Noel Coleman (Cat Priest), John Lenahan (Toaster).
Credits: Duncan Wheeler (Prop Buyer), Mill Jackson (Camera Supervisor)
Lister discovers some startling facts about the history of Catkind when
he learns to read Cat writing.
===== 5. Confidence and Paranoia (1987)
Guest Cast: Lee Cornes (Paranoia), Craig Ferguson (Confidence).
Credits: John Spicer (Technical Co-ordinator)
Lister contracts a mutated form of pneumonia, and has hallucinations
which become real.
===== 6. Me^2 (1987)
Guest Cast: Mac McDonald (Captain)
Credits: Lesley Staves (Costume Assistant), Alan Machin & Wendy Rath (Sound)
Now that Rimmer has discovered how to duplicate himself, he decides to
leave the quarters he shares with Lister and move in with himself.
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===== 7. Kryten (1988)
Guest Cast: David Ross (Krtyen), Johanna Hargreaves (The Esperanto Woman),
Tony Slattery (Android Actor).
The Red Dwarf picks up a distress call from another space ship which
says three female officers have been injured. To their dismay, the crew
discovers that the women have been dead for centuries. Rimmer studies a
new language, Holly fiddles with music.
===== 8. Better Than Life (1988)
Guest Cast: John Abinert (Rimmer's Dad), Debbie Ash (Marilyn Monroe),
Jeremy Austin (Rathbone), Nigel Carrivick (The Captain), Tony Hawkins
(McGruder), Tina Jenkins (Newsreader), Ron Pember (The Outland Revenue
Taxman), Gordon Salking (Gordon)
Credits: David Parker & Gordon White (OB Lighting), Rocket (OB Cameraman)
Rimmer receives a letter from his mother, but cannot read her handwriting.
Is his father "dad" or "dead"? Did he pass away peacefully in his "sleep"
or in a "jeep"?
===== 9. Thanks for the Memory (1988)
Guest Cast: Sabra Williams (Lisa Yates)
Credits: John Battye (Vision Supervisor)
The crew on board the Red Dwarf wakes up one morning to discover that
someone has erased their memories of the last four days. Lister finds
that his leg is broken and is in a cast, and his jigsaw puzzle has been
completed. Rimmer blames the problem on aliens.
===== 10. Stasis Leak (1988)
Guest Cast: Morwenna Banks (Lift Hostess), Sophie Doherty (Kochanski's Room
Mate), C.P. Grogan (Kochanski), Richard Hainsworth (The Medical Orderly),
Tony Hawks (The Suitcase), Mac McDonald (Captain Hollister), Mark Williams
(Peterson).
Credits: John Battye (Vision Controller), Kate Preston (Production Secretary)
A leak from the suspended animation chamber has created a doorway to the past.
Lister finds a picture of his wedding, but he's still single - or is he?
===== 11. Queeg (1988)
Guest Cast: Charles Augins (Queeg).
Credits: John Battye (Vision Supervisor), Lighting Director (Trish King)
There's electronic mutiny on board the Red Dwarf as Queeg 500, the
back-up computer, tries to take the control of the ship away from Holly.
===== 12. Parallel Universe (1988)
Guest Cast: Suzanne Bertish (Ms. Rimmer), Angela Bruce (Ms. Lister),
Matthew Devitt (The Dog), Hattie Hayridge (Ship's computer Hilly)
Credits: Charles Augins (Choreography)
Opening sequence features a Dream Music Video, "Tongue Tied".
The crew is sitting around discussing dreams and good pick-up lines,
when Holly tells them about the Holly Hop Drive, an astonishing device
which can transfer an object anywhere.
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===== 13. Backwards (11/14/1989, 9pm)
Waitress (Maria Friedman), Compere (Tony Hawks), Customer in Cafe (Anna
Palmer), Pub Manager (Arthur Smith)
Lister and Rimmer finally arrive back on Earth through a time hole--only
to discover time is running backwards and so are the inhabitants.
===== 14. Marooned (11/21/1989)
No additional cast.
Hilly spots 5 black holes and in the resulting evacuation, Lister and
Rimmer get marooned on a frozen planetoid. As Red Dwarf heads on a
collision course towards a minefield of Black Holes, the crew are forced
to abandon ship. Lister and Rimmer find themselves marooned on an artic
moon, with only a pot noodle and a tin of dogfood between them. And
there's no way Lister is eating the pot noodle.
===== 15. Polymorph (11/28/1989)
Genny (Frances Barber), Young Rimmer (Simon Gaffrey), Rimmer's mother
(Kalli Greenwood).
A genetic mutant highly dangerous shape-changer which feeds on emotions,
salivates unspeakable slobber, and has more teeth than the entire Osmond
family, gets loose aboard Red Dwarf, and the nightmare begins. The crew
are subjected to 24 hours of non-stop horror, in a gruesome, petrifying
comedy blood-feast.
===== 16. Bodyswap (12/5/1989)
Carol Brown (Lia Williams)
The imminent destruction of Red Dwarf results in the discovery of a
process that allows mind/body swaps, with disasterous results. Rimmer
proposes a novel way for Lister to lose weight and get in shape. The two
of them swap bodies, but once Rimmer's mind is in Lister's body, will he
give it back?
===== 17. Timeslides (12/12/1989)
Adolf Hitler (Himself), American Presenter (Ruby Wax), Gilbert (Robert Addie),
Bodyguards (Rupert Bates, Richard Hainsworth), Young Lister (Emile Charles),
Young Rimmer (Simon Gaffrey), Thicky Holden (Simon McKintosh), Ski Woman
(Louisa Ruthren), Lady Sabrina Mulholland-Jjones (Koo Stark), Ski Man
(Mark Steel).
Kryten discovers some developing fluid which prints photographs the crew
can walk into. Lister uses one to change history, and winds up back on
Earth, wealthy and famous, with a string of beautiful companions. Rimmer
sets out to rescue him.
===== 18. The Last Day (12/19/1989)
Jim Reaper (Robert Llewellyn), Girl Android (Julie Higginson), Hudzen
(Gordon Kennedy).
All mechanoids are supplied with an built-in expiration date, and Kryten
discovers he has less than 24 hours to live, which leads to an
interesting discussion of religion, the rest of the crew throwing a huge
party to give him the best night of his life, and a violent encounter
with his replacement.
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===== 19. Camille (2/14/1991) 9:00 pm, BBC 2
Judy Pascoe (Mechanoid Camille), Francesca Folen (Hologram Camille),
Suzanne Rhatigan (Kochanski Hologram), Rupert Bates (Hector Blob)
Kryten, Red Dwarf's on-board mechanoid, rescues a female droid from a
crashed vessel. She, like him, is a 4,000 series, but Camille is the GTi
model, with realistic toes and a slide-back sun-roof head. Kryten finds
himself falling in advanced mutual compatibility on the basis of a
primary initial ident, or what humans call "love at first sight", but
the course of true advanced mutual compatibility never runs in a
non-glitch bug-free way.
===== 20. DNA (2/21/1991)
Richard Ridings (D.N.A Computer Voice)
Keith Mayes & Jem Whippy (Makeup Designer)
The crew locks onto an unidentified craft which contains a machine that
can transform living things by rewriting their DNA. A blessing or a
curse? The Dwarfers are unsure, until Lister's curry assumes near-human
form.
===== 21. Justice (2/28/1991)
Nicholas Ball (Simulant), James Smille (Justice Computer Voice)
Innate natural justice does not exist, except in Justice World, where
the consequences of a crime are inflicted on its perpetrator. The
innocent have nothing to fear, but Rimmer is in trouble, imprisoned for
the death of the Red Dwarf crew.
===== 22. White Hole (3/7/1991)
David Ross (Talkie Toaster)
Fiona Kemp & Jo Netleman (Assistant Makeup Designers)
Holly's IQ is doubled but her lifespan is drastically reduced, leaving
the crew drifting helplessly towards a white hole. Will Rimmer
sacrifice his hologrammatic life to save the rest of the crew? No.
===== 23. Dimension Jump (3/14/1991)
Robert Llewllyn (Bongo), Simon Gaffney (Young Rimmer),
Kalli Greenwood (Mrs Rimmer), Hetty Baynes (Cockpit Computer)
In a universe almost identical to our own, another Arnold Rimmer exists,
but this one is nothing like the old Rimmer, fortunately. Of course, the
old Rimmer is terribly jealous.
===== 24. Melt Down (3/21/1991)
Clayton Mark (Elvis), Kenneth Hadley (Hitler), Martin Friend (Einstein),
Stephen Tiller (Pythagoras), Jack Klaff (Abraham Lincoln),
Tony Hawkes (Caligula), Micheal Barrel (Pope Gregory),
Forbes Masson (Stan Laurel), Roger Blake (Noel Coward),
Pauline Bailey (Marilyn Monroe)
Kryten finds a matter transporter which whisks the crew to Waxworld,
a giant theme park where the waxdroids are running amok. Rimmer has
a chance to lead an army against the greatest generals of all time.
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===== 25. Holoship (2/22/92)
===== 26. High and Low (92)
===== 27. The Inquisitor (92)
===== 28. Terrorform (92)
===== 29. Quarantine (92)
===== 30. Back to Reality (92)
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===== season 1:
Arnold J. Rimmer Chris Barrie
Dave Lister Craig Charles
Cat Danny John-Jules
Holly Norman Lovett
Written by Bob Grant
Doug Naylor
Music Howard Goodall
Developed for Television by Paul Jackson Productions
Graphic Designer Mark Allen
Visual Effects Designer Peter Wragg
Prop Buyer Mike Fallon
Assistant Floor Manager Dona Distefano
Production Assistant Alison Thornber
Unit Manager Mario Dubois
Production Manager George R. Clarke
Costume Designer Jacki Pinks
Make-up Designer Suzanne Jansen
Vision Mixer Jill Dornan
Camera Supervisor Mike Jackson
Technical Co-ordinator Ron Clare
Videotape Editor Ed Wooden
Lighting Director John Pomphrey
Sound Supervisor Tony Worthington
Designer Paul Montague
Executive Producer Paul Jackson
Producer & Director Ed Bye
===== season 2:
Arnold J. Rimmer Chris Barrie
Dave Lister Craig Charles
Cat Danny John-Jules
Holly Norman Lovett
Kryten Robert Llewellyn
Written by Bob Grant
Doug Naylor
Music Howard Goodall
Developed for Television by Paul Jackson Productions
Graphic Designer Mark Allen
Visual Effects Designer Peter Wragg
Prop Buyer Mike Fallon
Production Team Helen Campbell
Kate Preston
Assistant Floor Manager Dona Distefano
Production Assistant Ann Zahl
Unit Manager Kelvin Jones
Production Manager Mike Agnew
Costume Designer Jacki Pinks
Make-up Designer Bethan Jones
Vision Mixer Jill Dornan
Camera Supervisor Melvyn Cross
Vision Supervisor Len Greenhalgh
Technical Co-ordinator Andrew Cowley
Videotape Editor Ed Wooden
Lighting Director John Pomphrey
Sound Supervisor Tony Worthington
Designer Paul Montague
Executive Producer Paul Jackson
Producer & Director Ed Bye
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===== season 3:
Arnold Rimmer Chris Barrie
Dave Lister Craig Charles
Hilly Hattie Hayridge
Cat Danny John-Jules
Kryten Robert Llewellyn
===== season 4:
Music Woodhead
Casting Judy Davis
Production Accountant Joanna Birkenshaw
Graphic Designer Paul D'Auria
Production team Celia Bargh
Malread Carfah
Camera Supervisor Rocket
Vision Mixer Simon Sanders
Vision Supervisor Mike Spencer
Prop Buyer Don Cave
Properties Peter Blackall
VT Editor Graham Hutchings
Stage Manager Kerry Waddell
Production Assistant Christine Moses
Costume Designer Howard Burden
Make Up Designer Andria Pennell
Visual Effects Designer Peter Wragg
Sound Supervisor Keith Mayes
Lighting Director John Pomphrey
Designer Mel Bibby
Production Manager Julian Scott
Asscociate Producer Candida Julian-Jones
Produced By Rob Grant
Doug Naylor
Produced and Directed Ed Bye
===== season 5:
TBD