Rimmerworld

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Red Dwarf episode
"Rimmerworld"
Episode №	5
Airdate	November 4, 1993
Writer(s)	Rob Grant & Doug Naylor
Director	Andy de Emmony
Guest star(s)	Liz Hickling
Series VI October 7 – November 11, 1993
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"Rimmerworld" is the fifth episode of science fiction sit-com Red Dwarf Series VI^[1] and the 35th in the series run.^[2] It was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 4 November 1993.^[3] Written by Rob Grant & Doug Naylor and directed by Andy de Emmony.^[4]

1 Plot
2 Production
3 Cultural references
4 Broadcast
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Plot

Rimmer undergoes a medical and discovers he has a stress-related condition. Kryten prescribes several measures for him to prevent an electronic aneurysm. Meanwhile, the crew decides to replenish supplies by looting the simulant ship they shot down a few weeks ago. However, one of the Simulants has survived and confronts Lister, Kryten and the Cat. Rimmer, however, sneaks into an escape pod and runs away which causes the destruction of the ship. The others escape using a hand-held time and matter transporter which Kryten has found.

Rimmer's pod heads straight for the closest S3 planet, on the other side of a wormhole, and when it arrives Rimmer decides to use the terraforming equipment to create a paradise. He manages to clone himself, hoping for female company, but instead begins an entire new race of Rimmer-clones who eventually turn against him and imprison him in a dungeon.

When his shipmates arrive with Starbug a time dilation effect means that for Rimmer 600 years have passed. They arrive on Rimmerworld only to be promptly captured and thrown into Rimmer's dungeon by power-hungry Rimmer-clones, who consider anything un-Rimmer like — charm, bravery, intelligence — to be a crime. There they discover Rimmer, who has been locked in the dungeon for 557 years. Lister comes up with a complicated and ellaborate plan to the dungeon before Kryten suggests using the time and matter transporter. Instead of arriving in Starbug, though, they end up a few weeks in the future, where it is implied something terrible will happen to Lister.

[edit] Production

"Rimmerworld" was filmed back to back with "Gunmen of the Apocalypse," to avoid having to rebuild the sets and models for the Simulant ship, and having to hire actress Liz Hickling twice. It was planned as a sequel to "Gunmen..." but was effectively cut down from its original idea.^[5]

[edit] Cultural references

"I had created "Rimmerworld". I was Adam, in my own Eden." Rimmer referencing the bible and comparing himself to Adam. The Thirty Years War and The Hundred Years War are both referenced when Kryten explains how long he will be spend on the other side of the worm hole before help can arrive.

[edit] Broadcast

This episode was due to be broadcast as part of a repeat season on 13 March 1996. It was suspended due to the Dunblane massacre when Thomas Hamilton killed sixteen children and a teacher before committing suicide, an event similar to this episode when a crazy woman android threatens to kill herself and the Red Dwarf crew.^{[citation needed]}