Enano rojo Camille (1988– ) Online

Enano rojo Camille (1988– ) Online

Rimmer and Kryten rescue Camille, a female android from a passenger ship that has crash landed. Kryten falls in love with Camille, only to learn Camille is not who she appears to be, and finds she can shape-shift into Kochanski, a female Rimmer and the Cat.

Kryten's ideal partner is played by Robert Llewellyn's then-girlfriend (now wife) Judy Pascoe, whilst Lister's is played by Craig Charles's then-girlfriend Suzanne Rhatigan.

Robert Llewellyn has often joked how he used to complain to Judy Pascoe about the amount of make-up he had to endure, and yet when Judy wore it she had no complaints.

Scenes cut from the episode:

• Extended dialogue to various scenes; these include Rimmer's happiness at asteroid-spotting, Lister talking about lost love Kochanski, and the "hammy hamster" discussion.
• A new scene of Kryten and blob-Camille slow-dancing in the Parrots Bar.

This episode was first broadcast on Valentine's Day.

Kryten lying, and Lister helping him to do it, is a follow on from the last episode where Kryten lied for the first time and in so doing defeated Hudzen-10.

When Rimmer calls the ship to report Kryten leaving to search for survivors, Lister urges Rimmer to go with him as Kryten might need help. As well, when Kryten falls off a gantry, he calls for Rimmer to help him just before he's saved by Camille. Both of these instances seem to forget that, his abject cowardice aside, Rimmer's an insubstantial hologram at this point in the show's history. He couldn't interact with a solid object if he wanted to.

It was originally planned for Lister's Camille to be Kristine Kochanski, but it was decided that the sudden and inexplicable reappearance of Lister's dead ex-girlfriend would tip him off too soon that something wasn't right. It was then decided that Lister's Camille would instead become a Lister-like character (essentially a Caucasian version of Deb Lister). Tracy Brabin shot some scenes as the Kochanski Camille, but these were eventually removed by the writers as they didn't think them strong enough. Suzanne Rhatigan was brought in at last-minute. Despite the change in character, Rhatigan is still credited as "Kochanski Camille" in the closing credits.

Camille's hologram form is seen wearing a red version of Rimmer's outfit, a design which would be carried forward into Series V and worn by Rimmer himself.

The concept of an alien whom each person sees differently is also a reference to Raumschiff Enterprise: The Man Trap (1966).

Judy Pascoe also provided the voice of the blob Camille, which was controlled from inside by effects artist Mike Tucker.

For Series IV, recording of the show moved from the studios in Manchester to Shepperton Studios due to the old studio undergoing refurbishment. Shepperton turned out to be blessing to the show as it allowed for use of the sets for rehearsals in addition to recording. Production starting with Series IV also permanently shifted to Grant Naylor Productions.

While everyone else sees Camille as a female love interest, The Cat sees her looking like him. This shows how vain The Cat is because the one thing he deeply loves is himself.

It is unclear and unexplained on how Camille's husband Hector tracked down Camille and found Red Dwarf.