Cassandra (Red Dwarf episode)

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Red Dwarf episode
"Cassandra"
Episode №	4
Airdate	March 7, 1999 (USA), March 11, 1999 (UK)
Writer(s)	Doug Naylor
Director	Ed Bye
Guest star(s)	Geraldine McEwan
Series VIII February 18 – April 5, 1999
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"Cassandra" is the fourth episode of Red Dwarf and the 48th in the series run. It was first shown in the UK on 11 Mar 1999 in the 9:00pm BBC2 time slot,^[1] Written by Doug Naylor and directed by Ed Bye.

1 Synopsis
2 Production
3 Cultural references
4 External links
5 References

[edit] Synopsis

Lister, due to a misunderstanding, signs the gang up for "the Canaries", a group of expendables who go first into dangerous situations and not as Lister thought, the prison choir (which Rimmer, Lister, Kryten, Kochanski and the Cat try to get out of by singing You Are the Sunshine of My Life). Their first mission is aboard the wreck of the SSS Silverberg, a prison ship for its computer, Cassandra, who can predict the future with 100% accuracy, and she predicts Rimmer is soon to die.

[edit] Production

"Cassandra" was the first episode to be seen by US fans first. Some PBS stations were broadcasting the entire series in the United States, even showing the last five episodes before the BBC broadcast, "Cassandra" being the first of the five. ^[2]

Mac McDonald appeared as Captain Hollister, Graham McTavish as Governor Ackerman, Geraldine McEwan as Cassandra, Jake Wood as Kill Crazy, Ian Soundy as Guard.

[edit] Cultural references

As observed by Danny John-Jules in the DVD commentary to this episode, the name and appearance of Cassandra were homaged in the "Doctor Who"episode "The End of the World".