User Reviews

30 years on and there are lines from this episode that I can still remember.

It demonstrated that although the early series of Red Dwarf could be uneven it also had lots of promise and fun.

The crew have lost confidence in Holly, too old, too senile, too incompetent after a meteorite hits the ship and Holly fails to warn the crew.

Holly is hurt with the criticism and the ship's backup computer, the Queeg 500 takes over. Holly thinks it is mutiny and ends up with nightwatch duties.

Queeg runs the crew ragged with exercises and work, he runs a tight ship and there is no slacking. The crew wants Holly to challenge Queeg for the fate of Red Dwarf.

However Holly has a bigger trick up his sleeve.

Just fantastic.

After a series of incidents the crew start to get impatient with Holly.

This is a memorable episode with a strong character focus and some very funny moments.

Rob Naylor and Doug Grant are massive cinema buffs and it comes through in so much of their writing. I love the Caine Mutiny and High Noon references used to great comic effect in this episode.

It is unique in that Holly gets to be the star of the show with much more involvement and story focus. Some of his lines are epically delivered in his deadpan style with wonderful timing.

Lister, Rimmer and the Cat are really made to suffer in this episode and it's all done in great humour. For once it's nice to see them all on the receiving end of the abuse rather than it just being Rimmer.

All performances are great with Norman Lovett standing out playing a great character not only taken for granted by the crew but probably by the Red Dwarf audience as well. I did miss him when he left the show.

It is quickly becoming apparent that there are no bad episodes of Red Dwarf, not even average ones, because the average episode, like this one, is absolutely perfect in pretty much every way.