Costumes

Once again, Howard Burden returned on costume duty for Red Dwarf XI - and the emphasis was very much on continuity for the main characters, with Rimmer in particular having barely changed outfit at all from Series X. Lister's costume saw tweaks here and there, and the Cat had a new range of outfits to change on an episode-by-episode basis.

But it was all change for Kryten, who not only had a new, improved and significantly more comfortable mask care of make-up designer Vanessa White, but a newly-designed costume, too. The changes were subtle, with a new chest monitor and re-shaped shoulders - but became more apparent when set alongside Butler in Krysis, whose own costume was a repurposed Series X Kryten shell.

For the first time, Robert Llewellyn had his face 3D-scanned by effects experts Millennium FX, rather than needing to sit through the ordeal of having a mould made in plaster of Paris. Millennium were also responsible for the designs of Asclepius and Snacky, who both went through several possible concept iterations before settling on their distinctive and memorable looks.

Vanessa also brought a new approach to those characters whose hair needed... ahem... artificial embellishment. Chris Barrie declared himself happy with the quality of the hairpiece that kept Rimmer looking Rimmerish, while the designer was determined to give the Cat a wig that resembled Danny John-Jules actual hair from the 1980s rather than what she called the "Caucasian" style he'd been given in more recent years.

Officer Rimmer saw the wheeling out of the self-aggrandising "Clive of India" outfit favoured by Rimmer in episodes such as Me², Better Than Life and Kryten - a remake that was barely distinguishable from the original. And Kryten was also granted a special one-off: the "Rosso Corsa Red" mid-life crisis chassis in Krysis. In classic Dwarf tradition, the reveal of this costume was held back from the studio audience until the moment of reveal - ensuring a well-earned raucous reaction.