Camille (Red Dwarf episode)
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| Red Dwarf episode | |
| "Camille" | |
| Image:Camille (Red Dwarf).jpg | |
| Episode № | 1 |
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| Airdate | February 14, 1991 |
| Writer(s) | Rob Grant & Doug Naylor |
| Director | Ed Bye |
| Guest star(s) | Judy Pascoe as Mechanoid Camille, Francesca Folan as Hologram Camille, Suzanne Rhatigan as Kochanski Camille |
| Series IV February 14 – March 21, 1991 |
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Camille was the first episode to air in Series IV of Red Dwarf.
[edit] Synopsis
Lister begins to try and break Kryten's programming in order to make him able to lie, cheat and be insulting. Kryten then takes Rimmer asteroid-spotting in Starbug, and when they receive a distress call from a doomed ship Lister's insubordination training allows Kryten to go and search for survivors despite Rimmer's order to keep a safe distance away. He finds Camille, who appears to him to be a female 4000 GTi mechanoid: "You’ve got all those little extras like realistic toes and a slide back sun-roof head!" The two fall instantly in love. When all four crew members see different people, and all fall in love, the truth outs: she is a Pleasure GELF, designed to be everyone's perfect mate. She reverts to her real appearance (a big green blob), but Kryten still takes her out on a date. The relationship is put in jeopardy when Camille's partner Hector arrives. In a pastiche of the end of Casablanca (one of the movies Lister made him watch to see how lying can be noble), Kryten convinces Camille to be with her partner, then laments that Lister taught him how to lie so effectively.
[edit] Trivia
- The Gulf War forced a change in the original running order of Series IV of Red Dwarf and as a result this episode was the first to be aired, appropriately enough on Valentine's Day.
- Lister's love of the movie Casablanca was first revealed in "Better Than Life". At the time, however, he considered the remake starring Peter Beardsley and Myra Binglebat to be the definitive version.
- The droid-appearing version of the GELF was played by Judy Pascoe, Robert Llewellyn's then girlfriend (they have since married). She was also the voice of the blob version.
