Confidence and Paranoia
| "Confidence and Paranoia" | |
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| Red Dwarf episode | |
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Lister turns on Kochanski's hologramatic disk only to have another Rimmer appear
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| Episode no. |
Series 1 Episode 5 |
| Directed by | Ed Bye |
| Written by | Rob Grant & Doug Naylor |
| Original air date | 14 March 1988 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Lee Cornes as Paranoia |
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Lee Cornes as Paranoia
Craig Ferguson as Confidence
"Confidence and Paranoia" is the fifth episode from series one of the science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf. It was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 14 March 1988. The plot involves Lister's mutated pneumonia which manifests solid hallucinations.
Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, and directed by Ed Bye, the episode was originally going to be broadcast as the series cliffhanger but was moved down in the broadcast schedule with a new series finale taking its place. Considered to be one of the weaker efforts from the first series, the episode was re-mastered, along with the rest of the first three series, in 1998, to bring the episode up to a standard suitable for international broadcast.
Lister (Craig Charles) falls ill after snooping through Kristine Kochanski's quarters, which have not been decontaminated yet. The pneumonia he contracts is a mutated strain and, while delirious, he has hallucinations which become solid—fish rain in his sleeping quarters, the Mayor of Warsaw from 1546 spontaneously combusts, and two guests materialise in the drive room. These guests are Lister's Confidence (Craig Ferguson) and appears as everything Lister associates with confidence - a tall, tanned, flashily-dressed game show host type who calls Lister "the King" (quoted by Lister as 'looking like the manager of the London Jets and sounding like an American game show host), and Lister's Paranoia, who appears as essentially the complete opposite of Confidence in personality and appearance (and ergo comes to common ground with Rimmer surprisingly quickly), (Lee Cornes) a stooped, pallid, black suit-clad little man.
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