Red Dwarf The Inquisitor (1988– ) watch online HD

The red dwarf crew encounter the inquisitor, a mechanical lifeform who has made himself judge, jury and executioner of all of humanity throughout history. If he decides your life hasn't been worthy enough you are erased and replaced. Bad luck for the dwarfers.

The sets are mainly made out of plastic and balsa wood. This causes problems. In this episode, there is a lot of running up and down the corridors of Red Dwarf, so to make it sound metallic the sound supervisor Keith Mayes re-recorded every footstep by walking on a metal grate in time to the actors on screen, then added an echo.

The 2000 AD comic strip "Judge Dredd", The Marvel comic "The Punisher" and RoboCop (1987) were major influences behind The Inquisitor.

In a heat of Series 2 of Robot Wars (1998) (Which Craig Charles later hosted), a robot entered called 'Inquisitor' competed. When the people who made the bot met Craig on the podium, Craig asked: "Where does the name come from?" and the roboteer replied "Red Dwarf (1988)". Craig, in a joke responded "Never heard of it!"

The plot resembles the 1984 film "The Terminator".

For this episode, Doug Naylor and Rob Grant were heavily inspired by The Terminator (1984) and the works of Harlan Ellison. Howard Goodall composed the Inquisitor's theme to be reminiscent of the synthesized theme to "The Terminator".

The writers originally planned for the Inquisitor's first appearance with Thomas Allman to go out before the title montage and setting up the villain as a significant threat, however this idea was dropped and the titles are still the first sequence with the villain appearing after.

The removal of The Inquisitor's existence at the end of the episode triggers major changes in the time-space continuum. By undoing all of his work (remembering all the people who had been erased by him previously), the timeline would have changed dramatically, although it is never indicated to what degree this would have impacted the crew (certainly there's no indication, for example, that restoring people to history prevented the accident). This is one of several key moments in the series, however, where a major change to the timeline does occur, which may help in explaining continuity inconsistencies between seasons.

The Inquisitor is said to judge everyone, to ensure they have led a worthwhile life, & they are replaced if they have not. Rimmer is only a hologram, as he died in the radiation leak which killed the rest of the crew. He should therefore have already have been judged. Kryten is a mechanoid & replacing him would only result in an identical mechanoid occupying his place & would not change what he has done.

Jake Abraham previously worked with Chris Barrie in The Brittas Empire: Stop Thief (1991).

Lister attempts to prove he knows Rimmer by listing personal facts about him, all of which have been identified or referenced in earlier series: He has 3 older brothers: John, Howard and Frank. He's tight with money. He's a massive coward. He spent one afternoon working for the Samaritan Switchboard, resulting in 4 people committing suicide. His middle name is Judas, but he tells people it's Johnathan. He signs important documents 'A.J. Rimmer, BSc'. BSc stands for Bronze Swimming Certificate.

Danny John-Jules and Jake Abraham were both in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), although not in the same scene.

The comic book that Lister reads when The Inquisitor takes control of Starbug is the Siege of Troy.

The Inquisitor's robotic voice was added in post-production.

This which was the second episode to be filmed. It was considered by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor to lead the series, but as it was heavily science fiction influenced the casual viewer friendly Red Dwarf: Holoship (1992) was chosen to go out first instead.

The following scenes were cut from the episode: -Three extensions to the "Trojan Horse" discussion. They include Lister mocking the Greeks, Rimmer mocking Lister's historical knowledge, and Kryten talking of Silicon Heaven while Rimmer shows him the manual that shows Kryten has installed a "silicon heaven belief chip".

• As the Inquisitor remotely takes over Lister's body, ordering Starbug to turn around, Rimmer comes up with a plan to outwit the rogue droid - that is, knocking Lister unconscious. As the Inquisitor then speaks through Lister, telling them that he can erase them from history without any damage to causality, the Cat hits Lister with a shovel, and a second time when Lister goes to get back up. As Kryten protests, the Cat then hits Kryten on the head with the shovel. Rimmer and Cat seem smug believing that they have outwitted the Inquisitor, who then takes over the Cat's body. Then Rimmer's, then Kryten's. The Cat hits Kryten again with the shovel.
• Lister and Kryten face death in a number of trimmed chase scenes with the Inquisitor. These also include extended dialogue in the meeting with the alternate Lister and alternate Kryten.
• After Holly fails to recognise Lister and Kryten, there was a short sequence of Lister saying that they no longer exist in this timeline, with Kryten telling Lister that "More accurately, we don't ever have existed here anymore." However, Craig Charles and Robert Llewellyn simply could not get through the scene without corpsing or flubbing their lines, and so it was truncated to just Lister realizing that they have been erased from history.
• As originally shot, the Inquisitor was to remove his mask to reveal a pale, thin man with red around the eyes, black lips and black veins across his face. However it was decided this was not the stuff of campfire horror stories it was intended to be and so was dropped, leaving an air of mystery around the character. The original ending was later re-shot with mostly identical dialogue - but in the re-shoot the Inquisitor kept his visor down.

In the first half of this episode, Rimmer has reverted to wearing the green uniform that he wore in the previous two series, after wearing a red version of it in the previous episode. In the second half of the episode however, he wears the red version. The green version doesn't appear again and red becomes Rimmer's default dress code until he changes to blue when he is converted into a hard light hologram in the second episode of series VI, Red Dwarf: Legion (1993).