Costumes

With the main existing costumes - including uniforms for the extra crew members seen in Stasis Leak and female versions of the crew's gear for Parallel Universe - returning from the first season, Jacki Pinks began work on the show's secondary and guest characters.

Kryten was given a reflective, mechanical-looking tuxedo - maintaining the 'butler' notion that his name referred to. Kryten's head proved more bothersome to the make-up's team Bethan Jones and effects expert Peter Wragg. The prosthetic foam used proved to be prone to disintegration, and test version after test version simply fell apart. Eventually, a combination of latex and two-parts foam was used, but even then the two halves of the mask were made separately. Poor David Ross, meanwhile, was in make-up for hours.

A more bizarre set of costumes had to be found to provide fancy dress for some of the crew - the most sinister of which was a giant chicken outfit made for Hollister (and subsequently coated with green 'paint' made from flour, water and food dye). Parallel Universe's dog, meanwhile, was kitted out with a medallion handily proclaiming 'dog'.

And if you thought that was fancy, it was nothing compared to the spangly suits and too-tight Cuban heeled shoes the cast wore for the Tongue Tied dance number. Holly got off rather lightly with some dark glasses and two pairs of gloves - a white pair for some funky hand jiving, and a black pair to create the illusion that his ears were moving!

Better Than Life's fantasy world included a restaurant filled with weird, Hitch-Hiker-esque life-forms and the half-woman, half-fish Miranda. How often does someone get to make a giant fish head in their career? Less strange was the iconic recreation of a Marilyn Monroe outfit.