Back to Reality (Red Dwarf episode)
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| Red Dwarf episode | |
| "Back to Reality" | |
| Image:Back to Reality (Red Dwarf).jpg | |
| Episode № | 6 |
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| Airdate | March 26, 1992 |
| Writer(s) | Rob Grant & Doug Naylor |
| Director | Ed Bye |
| Guest star(s) | Timothy Spall as Andy, Lenny Von Dohlen as the Fascist Policeman |
| Series V February 20 – March 26, 1992 |
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Back to Reality was the sixth epsiode to air in the fifth series of Red Dwarf.
[edit] Synopsis
The crew are in Starbug on a recon mission to an ocean planet when they discover the wreckage of the SSS Esperanto, which conducted a marine seeding experiment. It appears that all life on board committed suicide, right down to a haddock which closed its gills and suffocated itself. The crew is attacked by a giant squid and Starbug crashes and it is game over. The crew awakes, having just spent four years playing the total-immersion video game Red Dwarf, and they prepare to return to reality which is a frightening totalitarian world. It is down to Holly to snap the crew out of it before they follow the crew of the Esperanto and commit suicide. This episode marks the first appearance of Duane Dibbley, Cat's non-cool alter-ego.
[edit] Trivia
- Much of the set in the arcade scene where the crew awoke was re-used from the earlier episode Holoship.
