Sets

The sets for the second season were essentially the same as those used in Red Dwarf I - albeit with a great deal more decoration in a continued attempt to add some colour to the lifeless grey. Fans everywhere particularly remember the inflatable banana hung on one wall. The female version of the ship mirrored these additions, with inflatable dice and pictures of semi-naked blokes replacing Marilyn Monroe inside the locker doors.

The walls of the main bunkroom include such details as Rimmer's 'Today is the first day of the rest of your death' sign, another reading 'You don't have to have a slightly dry sense of humour to work here, but it certainly helps', Rimmer's newspaper headlines upon which Lister poured such scorn in Me2, and the lamp above Lister's bunk which occasionally changed the phrase it displayed. (Anything from 'Drunk' to 'Asleep'.)

Outside the ship, Red Dwarf landed on new terrain for the first time, with Rimmer's death-day celebrations actually taking place in a quarry in Wales. The set for the wreck of the Nova V, meanwhile, was canted to match the crashed model exterior. Blue Midget's interior started the Red Dwarf metaphor of the space craft-as-car with furry dice present and correct - indeed, the interior of Blue Midget was designed to be little more than car-sized, created, as it was, to simply transport our heroes to new situations. (Which would later be considered a problem in itself, leading to the Starbug interior being designed to contain more of the action.)

The 'Dwarf itself acquired a few new sections: an observation dome at the top of the ship, a hologram projection suite (with Rimmer's memories being played out on a wall of monitors), a brand new, rather more technical science room, plus the only (brief) glimpse to date of Kochanski's shared bunkroom.

Away from the sets, Red Dwarf went on location to Sacha's Hotel for Better Than Life, The Crowne Plaza Midland Holiday Inn for Stasis Leak (008 is the room's real number), plus a beach in paradise... actually the soggy coastal town of Rhyl.