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Red Dwarf IV detailed review


Subject: Red Dwarf Season 4 complete SPOILER guide.

From: James B. Harold <[email protected]>

Here's the episode list I got off of the net awhile back
Note the request to include the author's name if you use it....
And try to get it on an ftp site somewhere....

Have fun,

James Harold
[email protected]

From: [email protected] (Neil J Smalley)
Sender: [email protected] (Ian Dickinson)

Red Dwarf Season 4 Complete Guide.

The episodes are listed with the following key (not an
official BBC one) but one I've made up. It seems to work ok
though. Each episode is classed as follows.
Episode Number/series reference (from A-D)
E.g Better than life would be

2/B/BTL Better Than Life.

Where things are tied in they are cross referenced by the
episodes classification number.

Where Episodes or parts of episodes are mentioned the key
has the following after it.

RD .. Red Dwarf.
BTL .. Better Than Life.

Copyright Notice..
Because this guide took me a while compile I ask that if you
reproduce this guide in part or in full,in any form add to it
mention my name. Otherwise feel free to mess about with
it

Season 4.

Credits..

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

The season 4 synopsis are in more detail than the previous
seasons. This is because season 4 has not to date been screened
outside the UK. Also new sections have been added to the grades
section to deal with characters. This also enables people who
hav'nt seen any season 4 to get a picture. Up until now I've
assumed most people have seen the last 3 seasons.

1/D/BTL 14/2/91 Camille.

Brief summary

The same old,old story.

Droid meets Droid,
Droid becomes Chameleon
Droid loses Chameleon
Chameleon truns into Blob
Droid gets Blob
Blob meets Blob
Blob goes off with Blob
Droid loses Blob
Droid loses Droid,Chameleon and Blob.

The story starts with Lister trying to get Kryten to lie,cheat and
insult by getting kryten to lie about the identity of fruit. Kryten eventually
succeeds until he tries it out on Cat.
Kryten is then asked to acompany Rimmer on an asteroid spotting
trip. Whlist in flight Holly(now with much longer hair and still 'Hilly')
gets a distress call from an escape pod on a planet that is about to explode
Kryten disobeys orders and lands starbug to check for survivors.
Kryten explores the ship but falls off a gantry only to be rescued
by a female mechanoid who calls herself 'Camille'.
Camille is a 4000 series GTi with realistic toes and a flip top
sunroof head and Kryten falls instantly in love. However when Camille is
brought back to Starbug Rimmer sees a Hologram Girl instead and he too
falls totally in love with Camille.
On their return to Red Dwarf Lister sees Camille as a scouse
girl dressed in kind to Lister. However when Camille talks to Rimmer and
Lister ,Lister notices that Rimmer hears something different to what he hears
and questions Camille on this. Camille then spills the beans.
Camille is in fact a Pleasure-Gelf, A genetically engineered being
whose sole purpose is to give pleasure by being who you desire most. In other
word you see what you want to see.
The cat wishes to see who he desires most and is surprised and then
delighted to see a mirror image of himself, the cat of course falls instantly
in love with himself.
Camille is persuaded to show her true form and she is in fact a
green blob with a protruding Eye stalk. Kryten is however still in love and
says he does'nt care , he then proceeds to wine and dine Camille.
They are both watching Casablanca when Holly interupts and says that
Camilles 'Husband',Hector has arrived and wants her back.
Kryten persuades her to go with Hector and she leaves with him.
Kryten then says he was lying all along as not to hurt her feelings and
promptly blames Lister by insulting him,much to Listers delight

Character Scores(Not acting ability)
Range 0-1 where 1 is perfect,

Kryten 0.83 Right in keeping with Krytens charater.
Lister 0.70 He seemed a bit too clever for the ships slob.
Cat 0.82 Wonderfully vain, his reaction on meeting himself was excellent
Rimmer 0.63 Not really a Smeg Head at all this week
Holly 0.67 Very few lines but I still prefer The old (Norman Lovitt) Holly
so I suppose I'm a bit biased.

Plot 0.79 A good story,with some interesting Parodys of old movies.
Comedy 0.63 More of a story than a real laugh.

Overall 0.72

Guest Stars
Mechanoid Camille ..... Judy Pascoe
Hologram Camille ..... Francesca Folen
Kochanski Hologram ..... Suzanne Rhatigan
Hector Blob ..... Rupert Bates

2/D 21/2/91 D.N.A

Summary : The crew finds an abandoned space craft which contains
a machine that can transform any organic matter into any living
thing. This has it's problems when one of Listers curries turns
psycotic.

The crew detects a UFO and is in the hectic task of tracking
it and bringing it in. They just reach a crucial stage when the
cat pulls out the plug and switches on his hairdrier. After much
persuasion the cat agrees to turn it off.
The crew board the ship and walk through gunk covered walls
and they find a mysterious three headed creature . Cat comes
across a funny looking console and presses a few buttons. Lister
is trapped inside a forcefield and the cat plays around with a
few buttons which results in the 'transmogrification' of Lister
into a chicken. The rest of the crew try and get him back but
only succeed in turning Lister into a hamster and trapping Kryten
in the same forcefield.
Eventually Lister is returned to normal and Kryten is turned
into a human(apparently his brain is organic and so he can be
transmogrified). The machine can alter any organic substance
into any other thing just by altering it's DNA.
Kryten tries to get to grips with being human but mostly
fails(what no Zoom capacity?) and especially with the sexual
parts of the male anatomy.
Kryten goes off the visit his spare parts for advice and to
say goodbye but only succeeds in hurting their feelings. Kryten
regrets his new found humanity and wants to be a mechanoid again.
Holly says 'she' as just about sussed how the machine works
but the crew wants to try it out first. The crew need some
organic material so Listers lamb vindaloo curry is chosen , the
experiment goes wrong and the curry turns into the mutton
vindaloo beast, half man, half extra hot curry. Resembling a man
with a sheeps skull covered with goey curry
Memories of the polymorph come flooding back (incidentally
the adventure take place a year exactly to the day that the
polymorph was encountered). 'How can the same smeg happen to the
same guy twice'(from Die Hard 2 I think?).

Last time it was hors d'ouvre(sp?) this time it's lunch' (from
Aliens). Both Lister and cat fire their Bazookoids but to no
effect. They retreat to the DNA machine Lab where Lister has an
idea, turn into a superman. It sort of works when Lister is
turned into half robocop ,half Lister but only in miniature. The
creature finds them and the rest of the crew scarper leaving
robo-lister to fight the creature.
Robo-Lister hides behind some cans of lager knocks one of
them over and it spills over the floor. When the creature steps on
the lager it recoils in pain. 'Of course Lager the only thing
that can kill a vindaloo'. Lister then throws a can into the
creatures mouth and fire at it with his miniature Bazookoid, thus
killing the creature(Jaws).
The creature killed and the crew safe Lister enjoys the
reamins of his curry.

Ratings. Movement from last week

Plot 0.93 +0.14
Comedy 0.84 +0.21

Characters.

Lister 0.80 +0.10
Rimmer 0.83 +0.20
Kryten 0.87 +0.04
Cat 0.80 -0.02
Holly 0.72 +0.05

Overall 0.82 +0.10

D.N.A Computer Voice ...... Richard Ridings

Other Credits
Makeup Designer ...... Keith Mayes &
Jem Whippy.

Notes :
This should have been an hour episode (2 half hour episodes)
as the capacity of the DNA machine was never fully explored)
Much better than last week,(0.72). If the series continues
like this it will be the best yet. However there is a slight
continuity error in that(in the TV episodes) Lister Never
actually went out with Kochanski(Holly says in episode 2/A
'your coversation with kochanski totalled 173 words. Also in 3/A
Lister wants a date with kochanski to find out if she liked
him) but in this episode Lister says that when Kochanski finished
with him he wished he was a squirrel.

Like last week spot the film parody/tie in. The list I've
compiled include.
Alien (nasty on board ship)
Aliens (gunk on walls, this time it's lunch parody)
Die hard 2 (How can the same smeg happen to the same guy
twice).
Jaws (shooting the lager can in the creatures mouth)
Robocop (Robo-Lister)

I hope they continue this film parody stuff it's very clever and
I've a few questions on the DNA machine and other stuff. Here
goes.
Since (as far as we know) the DNA machine is still on board
then it would be possible to re-create the human race once Holly
has it figured out
simply turn your common or garden plant into a human,
use the mind-swap technique to restore personality(from the
hologram simulation disks) to the being and there you have it.
Also Rimmer(if he can find more dandruff) could also be
restored to life by the above technique. Is this feasible??

3/D 28/2/91 Justice.
Summary

Red Dwarf meets the Borg in a fight to the death on board a
prison ship,Rimmer is imprisoned for the death of the Red Dwarf
Crew.

Lister has got space mumps which has disfigured his head to
resemble the elephant man. Meanwhile Rimmer has been on a
walking holiday in the ships diesel decks with two scutters and
Kryten mistakenly reveals that Cat has been investigating an
escape pod that supposedly contains a Barbara Bellini. Lister
gets up to investigate and goes to investigate. The cat is
drooling over the contents of the pod and after telling Lister to
get lost starts up the de-frost sequence.
After a short while Rimmer walks in and reveals that all is
not as it seems. Apparently the Pod was launched from a prison
ship in which all but two people were killed in a convicts
revolt.
One was a warden, Ms Bellini and one was a simulant, a
highly advanced and lethal killing machine. It is decided to go
to the prison ship and intern the pod until it opens(the thought
being that the prison will have the facilities in which to hold
the simulant). They set off in starbug and while on the trip
Listers mumps burst spreading pus everywhere but especially over
the cat who wants to be shot as a result.
They arrive at the prison and are welcomed by escort boots
which when worn lock onto the feet and force the wearer to go
where the boots are directed. The crew are subjected to a mind
probe which scans the mind in search of crimes committed which
have'nt been punished or for which the subject feels guilty of
doing.
Lister is worried as his past is littered with petty
crimes however it is Rimmer who is singled out for committing
1167 counts of 2nd degree murder. Each counts carries a sentence
of 8 years and so because of his hologrammatic nature the
sentences are to be carried out consecutively bringing the total
to 9328 Years.
The crimes for which he was sentenced was the wilful
negligence of failing to re-seal the drive plates which resulted
in the death of the entire crew of Red Dwarf.
Rimmer is led away into the Justice Zone in which it is
impossible to commit any crime. In order to demonstrate this
'justice field' Lister is encouraged to try and set light to
Rimmers bed sheets. Instead of them catching alight Listers
Jacket catches on fire. In short any thing you do wrong happens
to you instead.
The Justice computer has allowed an appeal and the entire
case rests on Kryten proving Rimmers incompetence in all things.
At the hearing Kryten continually insults Rimmer and calling upon
Lister as a witness proves the Rimmers only crime and punishment
is being Arnold Judas Rimmer. The Justice computer grants the
appeal as Rimmer is far too incompetent even be near a drive
plate let alone fix one. What the mind probe sensed was just
Rimmers guilt over the death of the crew.
The crew walk back to Starbug and find the pod open and a
smell of perfume. Unfortunately it is'nt Babs but the
Simulant(it bears more than a passing resemblance to a Borg.
another spoof?). The crew run with the Simulant in pursuit
firing away at everything.
Both Crew and simulant enter the justice zone where the
simulant discards it's weapon and demands to talk. Lister
ignores Rimmers suggestion to shoot it in the back and goes to
talk to the simulant.
The simulant lied when it says it was unarmed and pulls out
a knife, Lister has also lied and pulls out a metal bar.
However the Simulant has lied twice and pulls out a pistol/knife
combo. The simulant fires at Lister but instead of killing Lister
it hits the simulant(because of the justice field). The simulant
then throws his knife at Listers chest but it embeds its self in
It's chest instead. After removing the knife it throws it again
at Listers head and the knife sticks in the simulants head.
Lister by this time has sussed it's the justice field that has
caused this and persuades the simulant to hit him over the head
with a variety of objects, all having the desired result of
weakening the Simulant. Finally the simulant gets a stranglehold
on Lister and strangles it's self to death. The cat runs to
rescue and against Listers warning hits the Simulant over the
head with a spade. Of course it does nothing to the simulant but
totally flattens the cat.
Back on board Red Dwarf Lister is philosophically
contemplating natural justice. why do bad things happen to good
people and vice versa. Fortunately Lister is so concerned with
his revelations that he fails to miss an open man hole cover and
falls right down it much to every ones relief.

Ratings.(0-1) Movement from last week

Plot 0.82 -0.11 .Original but not another pod!
Comedy 0.90 +0.06 . Excellent 1 liners and
character interaction.

Characters.

Lister 0.82 +0.02 . Still a bit too clever.
Rimmer 0.86 +0.02 . Much better a real smeg head.
Kryten 0.90 +0.03 . Continues to be Excellent
Cat 0.87 +0.07 . ' '
Holly 0.75 +0.03 . Better than last week (given
more to do probably).

Overall 0.84 +0.02

Keeps getting better all the time but
- In Episode 5/A Listers states that Red Dwarf has a crew of
169.
- This pod collecting thing is a getting a bit well used now
. The've found 2 pods in the last two episodes.

Guest Stars

Simulant ..... Nicholas Ball
Justice Computer Voice ..... James Smille

4/D/BTL 17/3/91 White Hole.

Summary
'The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long and
you have burned so very,very brightly Holly.'

Kryten is in the midst of repairing the toaster(2/A,3/A)
when Lister turns up. Lister warns Kryten of the consequences
of fixing it. Kryten however carries on and the toaster is soon
asking them if they want toast. Lister tells the toaster nobody
wants any toast,buns,baps etc . The toaster replies with asking
is anyone wants any waffles. Kryten saying that he understands
machines tries to deal with the toaster but fails miserably.
Kryten reveals the purpose of the experiment is to try and boost
the toasters intelligence with a view to boosting Hollys
also(Holly is becoming increasingly senile) .

Kryten then works on Holly to boost her IQ. This is
achieved with Holly eventually getting a new IQ of around
12,681(Holly now appears with a short sophisticated haircut and a
much more educating accent). Holly is boasting of her new
abilities to the toaster and tells it to ask her any question
whatsoever. The toaster then asks her three questions to do with
toast and then asks how come shes got an IQ of 12,000+ instead of
6000. Holly replies by saying that her IQ has doubled but her
lifespan has decreased exponentially, she now has 3.41 mins left.
Holly promptly shuts down leaving the ship without mains power
except the batteries.
The crew are discussing the potential of Hollys new IQ when
Lister discovers(with much useless comments by Kryten) that all
power has gone. They eventually make it up to the drive room
(after using Kryten as a battering ram on the doors) to ask Holly
whats going on. They eventually Re-Start Holly (much to her
consternation) and find out that she is about to expire(in about
1 min 30).
Further more it turns out that Rimmer is being
run from the ships batteries and back up systems and that the
living members can survive for 6 months instead of 2 if Rimmer is
turned off.
Kryten informs Rimmer of star corps directive 195 which
states that in an emergency power situation a Hologram must
sacrifice it's existence in order that the human crew members
might survive.
Rimmer however invokes Rimmer directive 271 which states 'no
way you Barsteward' and that end the conversation. The crew then
decides to live by thier resources with Lister on an exercise
bike generating power for Cat,trying to fry an egg with his
hairdrier. Kryten and Rimmer are down in the cargo decks when
they discover a strange phenomenon, a field of distorted time in
an amazingly compressed time. They decide to risk Hollys
remaining time to ask her what is going on.
Kryten makes a guess as a white hole and is in the midst of
explaining it(A black hole sucks time and matter out of space, A
white hole returns it) when the conversation repeats it's
self(another time dilation). Time is now ocuring at random and
the laws of causality now do not apply it can only be countered
if they all concentrate. Holly is consulted (very quickly) on
what to do and comes up with a cartridge in which to plug into
starbug.
Starbug is boarded and Hollys plan is revealed. It goes like
this.
Starbug fires a Thermo-Nuclear device into a sun causing it
to flare ,thus knocking a planet into the white hole presumably
blocking it up.
Lister doubts this approach ,not the idea but the shot(not
enough side). Rimmer scoffs at Listers theory but Lister is
adamant. The crew have a vote to let Lister take the shot
in which Lister Votes for,Rimmer votes against,Cat for and Kryten
votes for(Humans outrank Holograms).
Starbug is launched and Lister prepares to take the shot
,but not before drinking a six pack of 'wicked strength Lager'.
Lister insists he won't mish and is not pished and staggers
off the to the table. While he is preparing to take the shot he
dreams himself as some kind of pool hustler. Lister takes the
shot which goes something like this.

S1 = Sun W = White hole
P1 = Planet * = Flare.
N = Nuke

W
P4
/
P3 <--/----<-----3----------- \
\ / \
4 / S1*P1 -----2--------- S2 P2
\/ \ \__/
P4 1
\
N

The forth planet then blocks up the white hole thus stopping
the time dilations. Since time has been changed by the influence
of the white hole The experiment to increase Hollys IQ never
happened, thus Holly was never in danger etc etc. Because all
this will not have happened and thier memories will be erased Kryten
can tell Rimmer what a smeg Head he really is.

Ratings

Movement from last week

Plot 0.87 +0.05
Comedy 0.88 -0.02

Characters.

Lister 0.87 +0.05
Rimmer 0.86 -0.01
Kryten 0.86 -0.04
Cat 0.88 +0.01
Holly 0.80 +0.05

Overall 0.85 +0.01

Guest Stars

Talkie Toaster David Ross()

Credits

Assistant Makeup Designers Fiona Kemp &
Jo Netleman.

5/D 14/3/91 Dimension Jump

Summary
'Smoke me a kipper I'll be back before breakfast'. Arnold J.
Rimmer Superhero and all round nice guy to the rescue.

The story opens with a microworld type dome(it looked like
something from the film 'silent running') and Rimmers mother is
telling the boy Rimmer that he has'nt done well enough at school
and has had to be kept back a year.
Twenty Years later....

Top test pilot Arnold 'Ace' Rimmer has just completed a
successful test flight of the new Faster than light drive. He is
welcomed back to a heroes welcome with 'Spanners' Lister as the
chief technician of the craft exchanging complements with him.
Ace Rimmer walk a bit down the corridor and meets up with
Melle(Holly with a body) who is totally in love with him and
Padre(cat) who also adores him.
He meets up with Bongo(Kryten but in human form) at the de-
briefing session who informs him that a new dimension jumping
drive has just been invented and wants to know if Rimmer can test
pilot it. Naturally Ace Rimmer jumps at the chance even though
there will be no return.
Kryten and Lister are sneaking out loaded with fishing gear
when Rimmer awakes and demands to know why they are going
fishing without him. Cat turns up, dressed in fishing gear and
is soon telling Rimmer the real reason they don't want him to
come. Eventually after much excuse making Holly appears with a
fishing hat on and this leads Rimmer into one of his reminiscent
monologues.
After droning on for a while the others agree to allow
Rimmer to come fishing on the planet they had
selected(an ocean planet they passed a couple of days ago).
Starbug 7 is launched and Rimmer is intensely worried about
Krytens driving ability and repeatedly says so. Holly suddenly
interrupts with a purple alert. Apparently a purple alert is'nt
as bad as red one but is worse than a blue alert. Another ship
appears from nowhere on a collision course and the Red Dwarf
crews only reaction is to adapt the crash position and read the
in-flight magazines.
The mystery ship hits Starbug 7 causing it to crashland on
the ocean planets surface. Cats leg is badly broken but the cat
has more important things to worry about like blood on paisley
trousers. Starbug is'nt much better off with both engines out.
the hull breached and the ship slowly sinking.
Ace Rimmer decides to land to help out and to apologise
(after all he did cause it). Ace Rimmer bursts in explains that
he's from another dimension and there is no time explain.
He complements everybody ,He knows what make of mechanoid
Kryten is,complements cat on his dress sense, causes Holly to
fall into a swoon and calls Rimmer more handsome than he is .
However Ace Rimmer soon learns that Rimmer as well as being a
hologram knows nothing at all about engines.
Lister volunteers and is about to help out Ace Rimmer with
the engines when Kryten asks Ace Rimmer for a word in private.
Ace Rimmer is told by Kryten that he is'nt allowed to fix
the engines as his left arm has multiple fractures(from the
crash). Ace Rimmer soon silences Kryten with a hefty right hook.
Lister and Ace Rimmer venture outside braving the storm that
lashes the ship. However Lister falls and just manages to
grasp onto the hand rails. Ace Rimmer tells Lister to grab onto
his (broken) left arm and pulls Lister to safety(just before
doing a cissy thing of blacking out). Seconds later he comes to.
Meanwhile the cat has slipped into delirium and Rimmer is now
intensely jealous.
Ace Rimmer is Rimmer but his life took a different path
after one single incident. Kryten is about to explain in more
detail when Ace Rimmer and Lister march in,both congratulating
each other after fixing the starboard engine. However the cat is
getting worse and it looks like he might lose his leg. Back on
board Red Dwarf and Kryten declares that he cannot heal cats leg.
Ace Rimmer to the rescue and he soon has Cats leg healed and
getting better. Rimmer is now bitter as well as jealous , as he
sees Ace Rimmer as having all the breaks.
It turns out that in Ace Rimmers dimension Lister is called
'spanners' , is married to Kochanski and has twin boys Jim and
Bexley. Ace Rimmer declares that he is leaving as he can't stand
Rimmer and that he wishes to explore the billions of other
realities and Rimmers. Lister mentions to him that Rimmer is
bitter because his side of the life changing event never happened
to him.
It turns out that on of the Rimmers was kept back a year at
school and the other one was'nt. Lister assumes his Rimmer was
the one that failed but is proved incorrect when Ace Rimmer says
that it drove him to prove himself and fight back.
In the shadows Rimmer is hiding with a scutter with a trap
to kill Ace Rimmer. The scutter sets off the trap but it fails
to go off and Ace Rimmer flies off into another dimension.

As an epilogue text scrolls up the screen(similar to season
3 Episode 1 but much slower). It reads something like this.

' After This Arnold J. Rimmer went on to countless
other dimensions and met thousands more Arnold J Rimmers
but he found none as sad as the first one.

The Search Continues....'

Ratings

Movement from last week

Plot 0.85 -0.02 Another Parallel universe.
Comedy 0.65 -0.20 Basically a Micky take of
childrens programs/Comics.

Characters.

Lister 0.87 0.00
Rimmer 0.88 +0.02 We learnt some more about Rimmers
Unhappy childhood.

Kryten 0.85 -0.01
Cat 0.90 +0.02 Brilliant cat like priorities when
facing injury.
Holly 0.85 +0.10 The purple alert joke was like the
Holly of old.

Overall 0.83 -0.02 Ace Rimmer really made the
episode, if it was'nt for him
it would have been down in the 70's
What a guy!

Guest Stars

Bongo .... Robert Llewllyn(Kryten)
Young Rimmer .... Simon Gaffney(3/C,5/C)
Mrs Rimmer .... Kalli Greenwood(3/C,5/C)
Cockpit Computer .... Hetty Baynes

Notes
Hammond Organ(Sounds like a music box) music was played at the
end sequence to the normal end tune.

6/D 21/3/91 Meltdown.

Summary : Kryten finds a matter transporter which whisks the crew
to wax world where Rimmer has his chance to lead an army against
the greatest generals of all time. He succeeds and fails in his
mission to bring peace to waxworld.

Rimmer is boring the crew solid by telling them his RISK
game stories . He cannot be told to shut up but is when Kryten
suddenly appears from nowhere holding a black cross shaped object
with a sphere on each side point of the cross.
Kryten explains that he has found and repaired a matter
transporter in the science labs on Z floor. It works by
digitally recording the molecular structure of the holder/s and
transmitting sub space to anywhere in the universe.
Kryten directs them to the science labs. Rimmer and Cat have
to work but Kryten and Lister try to teleport there but end up in
the shower. They too walk to the labs.
Holly also says that it can be made to seek out planets with
a breathable atmosphere within a 5000 Light year radius. Kryten
suggests that Rimmer accompanies him on the first trip so that is
the planet is not suitable no harm will be done. Rimmer objects
and says he has no physical presence so he can't go but Kryten
refers to his 'light bee' which is a diamond shaped projector
that floats around inside Rimmer.
Rimmer is then 'switched off' leaving only his light bee and
a small squeeky voice. Lister takes the light bee and buts it in
his mouth much to squeeky Rimmers disgust. The light bee is
returned and kryten and Rimmer disapear only to re appear on an
earth like planet. They send the 'paddle' back so that Cat &
Lister can follow them. Howvever they are both disturbed when
very phony looking dinosaurs chase after them and both run away
pretty quickly.
Cat and Lister appear a little way away in a meeting between
Hitler and his minions. They try frantically to move elsewhere
but only succeed in teleporting to the table and finally the
chimney. They are captured,the paddle confiscated and thrown in
jail.
Meanwhile Kryten and Rimmer have escaped the dinosaurs but
are captured by Elvis and Pope Gregory touting submachine guns.
While this is going on Lister witnesses the execution by firing
squad of winne the pooh and the construction of some gallows.
Abraham Lincoln is thrown into thier cell,still protesting about
rights.
The Emperor Caligula and rasputin enter with the paddle and
demand to know how it works. Lister tricks them into teleporting
out thus leaving the cell unguarded and they escape.
Meanwhile Kryten and Rimmer are taken to a HQ where they
meet Stan Laurel,Pythagorus(whith an obsession about
triangles),Marilyn Monroe and Einstien. They reveal that they
are 'waxdroids' who after millions of years have broken their
programming and are now at war with Villian World.
Hero World forces are down to less than 20, leaderless and
demoralised they face certain execution. Enter General Arnold J.
Rimmer who releshes the thought of facing up against the worlds
greatest generals. He reviews his troops which include Ghandi,
Noel Coward, Mother Terasa and santa claus.
Lister and Cat are brought in and try to tell Rimmer that if
he sends his 'troop' into battle they will all be wiped out,
Rimmer does'nt listen however and gets Elvis to tie them up.
Arnies Army charges and is soon getting shot to bits,
however this main attack is just a feint for Queen Victoria and
Kryten who sneak into Villian worlds HQ and kill all the leaders.
Unfortunatly Queen Victoria is killed in this attack. Kryten
then proceeds to the boiler room,destroys the thermostat and turn
the heat right up thus causing all the waxdroids to melt.
The Battle is over and Rimmer wallows in victory. When
questioned by Lister on how many of his troops survived Rimmer
is forced to admit that none of them did. But peace and
democracy have prevailed(even though theres no-one left to enjoy
it). Lister is in the most bitter and angry mood ever and
commands holly to give him Rimmers Light Bee. She does so and
Lister promptly swallows it asking if anyones wants a vindaloo.

Ratings. Movement from last week

Plot 0.78 -0.08 Pretty thin,you could tell what was
going to happen.
Comedy 0.93 +0.17 One of the funniest ever(ranks up
there with timeslides IMHO).

Characters.

Lister 0.90 +0.02 Excellent interaction with all
characters.
Rimmer 0.93 +0.06 Spot on. A real Smeg head.

Kryten 0.88 +0.05
Cat 0.90 0.00 still excellent

Holly 0.75 -0.10 why can't they get Holly to be more
like the old Holly??

Overall 0.86 +0.02 Highest Rated for the season and
deservedly so.

Note:
When Rimmer and Kryten teleport to waxworld you can see
condensation from thier mouths.. Do holograms and mechanoids
cause condensation??
The end tune was sung by an unconvincing Elvis Presley
impressionist.
This episode was swapped around from forth to sixth because
of the Gulf War.
If the writers now wanted to the Crew of the Red Dwarf could
now return to earth and recreate the human race(using th DNA
machine). Will they take this easy option or try and work out
the final solution revealed in 4/B. Season 5 here we come..

Guest Stars

Elvis .... Clayton Mark
Hitler .... Kenneth Hadley
Einstien .... Martin Friend
Pythagorus .... Stephen Tiller
Abraham Lincoln .... Jack Klaff
Caligula .... Tony Hawkes
Pope Gregory .... Micheal Barrell
Stan Laurel .... Forbes Masson
Noel Coward .... Roger Blake
Marilyn Monroe .... Pauline Bailey
 
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