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Kryten (Red Dwarf episode)
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| Red Dwarf episode | |
| "Kryten" | |
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| Episode № | 1 |
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| Airdate | September 6, 1988 |
| Writer(s) | Rob Grant & Doug Naylor |
| Director | Ed Bye |
| Guest star(s) | David Ross Johanna Hargreeves Tony Slattery |
| Series II September 6 – October 11, 1988 |
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| List of all Red Dwarf episodes... | |
Kryten is the seventh Red Dwarf episode and first from series two. It premiered on 6 Sep 1988 in the 9:00pm BBC2 time slot.[1] Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, and directed by Ed Bye. This episode introduced the mechanoid character Kryten.
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The crew of Red Dwarf receives a distress call from a mechanoid named Kryten. He informs them that three women of the crew of the Nova 5 have survived a crash. However, on arrival the crew, who took special effort to look their best to meet the girls, are shocked to find Kryten has been looking after, clothing and feeding three skeletons ever since the crash many years previously. Eventually they take Kryten back to Red Dwarf; Rimmer then gives him a list of chores to do while Lister attempts to teach him to rebel against Rimmer by making him watch the films Rebel Without a Cause and Easy Rider. It seems Lister's attempts are unsuccessful — until Kryten paints a picture of Rimmer on a toilet in his admiral uniform, throws a container of liquid (including the contents) onto his bed and insults him while doing so. He then dresses up in leathers and borrows Lister's space bike.
This is the first appearance of Kryten, who wasn't originally intended to become a main character and is not seen again in series 2. David Ross played Kryten in this episode, but because of scheduling clashes Robert Llewellyn played the character when he became a regular in series 3.[2]
Initially it had taken David Ross up to nine hours to get into the full Kryten make-up. And to make matters worse Ross suffered from claustrophobia.[3]
David Ross played this, first, version of Kryten. Johanna Hargreeves appeared as Esperanto Woman and Tony Slattery as Android actor.
Lister insisted that Kryten watches classic rebel films like The Wild One, Rebel Without a Cause and Easy Rider. The hope was that the film's, including the Marlon Brando rebel speech would help the mechanoid break his servant programming. Kryten's favourite TV show, Androids has a similar credits sequence and theme tune ("Androids... everybody needs good androids...") to Neighbours.
Rimmer is trying to learn the Esperanto language and has been for the last eight years. Upon dressing up to rescue the crashed Nova 5 crew, he is described by Lister as looking like Clive of India. When he arrives at the crash site he refers to the dead human crew's skeleton's as having "less meat on them than a Chicken McNugget".
- Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers - the first Red Dwarf novel which features an expanded version of events from this episode and builds on the backstory.
- Kryten at the Internet Movie Database