Why the change in style between seasons 2 and 3 in Red Dwarf?
While changes as a TV series progresses in normal, there seems to have been an inordinate amount of change between Red Dwarf's season 2 and 3. To list a few:
- The title sequence changed from the 2001-esque sequence to a more generic sitcomish sequence (boo!)
- The whole plotline with the alternate universe pregnancy was completely dropped and hand waved away.
- Kryten becomes a regular cast member.
- Holly undergoes a sex change.
- A new Red Dwarf logo is introduced.
- Much higher production values overall.
So what happened in between seasons 2 & 3 that sparked so much change? Getting a higher budget due to success explains some of it, but not all.
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A lot of this was due to the network realising how well the show was working and providing a bigger budget (higher production values, change in intro sequence).
They dropped the previous pregnancy plotline now that they had the budget to write more ambitious plots.
They needed an additional crew member to allow these to work for the script dynamic and also, as they were going into more of a sci fi direction, they needed an information source which could explain new cultures and technologies to the crew (and therefore the audience).
Holly's sex change was caused by the previous actor being unhappy with the commute involved as he had to drive for hours to get to the studio.
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Why did they change Holly in Red Dwarf?
Hayridge also played Hilly, the male Holly's female opposite from a parallel universe in the Series II finale "Parallel Universe". The story explanation for Holly's change between the episodes was that Holly had fallen so madly in love with Hilly that he transformed his face to resemble hers as an act of affection.Why was Kryten replaced?
David Ross played Kryten in this episode, but because of scheduling clashes Robert Llewellyn played the character when he became a regular from Series III onwards. The writers had resisted using robot characters as they had considered the practice a sci-fi clich\xe9.Why did they leave Red Dwarf?
Because they wanted to get rid of the crew again for the new special, it was said they just wandered off. Another alternative reality was created when Red Dwarf had apparently become a sitcom. In Series X this status was more or less the same.When did they lose Red Dwarf?
Problem: At the end of series 8, the resurrected Red Dwarf began to be destroyed by a lethal corrosive microbe. Captain Hollister and the rest of the crew then departed using all the remaining ships, including several Blue Midget and Starbug crafts.Red Dwarf - All Change (Series 3)
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When a show is a hit new creative people get involved, actors get big heads and make demands on the producers. But mostly the tension that probably manifested in the writing team. Where one of the writer left in 1988. After season 4 the writing was never the same.
Oh, as to Holly...
The original actor to play Holly, Norman Lovett, left the series after a dispute over his salary. In an interview with Red Dwarf Smegazine (issue 9, November 1992), Lovett said that he asked to be paid the same as the other actors on the series, but his request was turned down. Hattie Hayridge had appeared in "Parallel Universe" as Hilly, Holly's female counterpart. "When Norman said he wasn't doing another series, I auditioned," she recalls. The character of Holly kept the same name and personality despite the recasting.
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