Duct Soup
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| Red Dwarf episode | |
| "Duct Soup" | |
| Image:Duct Soup (Red Dwarf).jpg | |
| Episode № | 4 |
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| Airdate | February 7, 1997 |
| Writer(s) | Doug Naylor |
| Director | Ed Bye |
| Guest star(s) | none |
| Series VII January 17 – March 7, 1997 |
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| List of all Red Dwarf episodes... | |
Duct Soup was the fourth episode to air in the seventh series of Red Dwarf.
[edit] Synopsis
An engine failure leaves the crew trapped in Lister's quarters and they must navigate the tiny duct labyrinth to get to restart the engines before they crash. Lister starts to suffer from claustrophobia and explains how he got it while Kochanski tells how her Dave was gay.
[edit] Connection to Identity Within
Duct Soup was the last episode of series seven to be written, as it replaced the script for the "lost episode" Identity Within. This was due to budget constraints as the script for Identity Within was quite ambitious would have been too costly to produce (most of the budget had already been spent on the previous episode Stoke Me a Clipper). So, they opted instead for this simple-to-shoot idea of a character driven episode and of filming without special effects and in quickly put together tunnels built on the car park at Shepperton Studios.
[edit] Trivia
- Due to its unusual nature as a Red Dwarf episode, Duct Soup was not well received by fans, generally speaking.
- Robert Llewellyn (who plays Kryten) states in the series seven DVD special features that Duct Soup is his favourite ever episode of Red Dwarf, due to the character development of the Dwarfers and the backstories developed, as no other Red Dwarf episode had character development on this level. In the episode commentary for the series seven DVD, Chloë Annett (who plays Kochanski) also states that this is her favourite ever episode, while Craig Charles (who plays Lister) counts it among his favourites.
