Remastering

As well as the usual clean ups on sound and picture, plus the travelling starscapes and new CGI shots, Red Dwarf II underwent more vigorous updating for its re-release. (Including a set of opening titles for the previously intro-less Parallel Universe.)

In another major ship redesign, Blue Midget was altered to include the JMC logo on its side and massive legs for walking (or, more accurately, staggering) as Lister drunkenly pilots the vessel home - another suggestion that the ship functions much as a car would. As with Red Dwarf, a full model was built by the BBC team for Chris Veale to scan into a computer and animate.

Video effects allowed the corrupting of Rimmer's hologrammatic status to be shown on his body and also made Better Than Life's beach scenes seem a bit more sunny. Footage re-introduced from the original tapes allowed Kryten to be shown blasting away from Red Dwarf on Lister's space bike, and additional cut dialogue was also reinstated to the final moments of Stasis Leak.

But, to show that not all the old techniques have been forgotten, one effect from the old shows was replicated. The dual Red Dwarfs in Parallel Universe were recreated in CGI... by putting sets of two existing model shots together.