Camille (Red Dwarf)

Dave Lister does his best to teach Kryten to lie, stating he needs it as a natural form of defence. Although Kryten has some success, he finds he cannot properly lie in the presence of anyone else, and is forced to abandon his lessons when Arnold Rimmer requires him to pilot a Starbug for asteroid spotting. When they receive a distress call from a doomed ship, Kryten manages to make use of Lister's insubordination training to search for survivors, despite Rimmer's orders against this. The pair swiftly encounter and rescue Camille, the only survivor, and become attracted to her – Kryten sees her as another mechanoid like himself, yet Rimmer sees her as a hologram with similar interests that he has. When they bring her back to Red Dwarf, Lister meets her and finds her attractive – to him, she appears as a human female with interests matching his own. However, he soon suspects something is not right with her when Rimmer arrives and questions her over viewing one of his collections and hears a different response to what Lister gets from her. When Lister learns that Kryten lied to her to spare her feelings, he smiles at knowing he has learnt well, especially when Kryten insults him for being responsible for what happened. ==Production==

For Series IV, recording of the show moved from the studios in Manchester to Shepperton Studios due to the old studio undergoing refurbishment. Shepperton turned out to be a blessing to the show as it allowed for use of the sets for rehearsals in addition to recording. Production starting with Series IV also permanently shifted to Grant Naylor Productions. The droid version of the GELF was played by Judy Pascoe, Robert Llewellyn's partner (they have since married). Llewellyn has often joked how he used to complain to Pascoe about the amount of make-up he had to endure, and yet when she wore it she had no complaints. She also provided the voice of the blob Camille, which was controlled from inside by effects artist Mike Tucker. The initial plan was for Camille to appear as Kristine Kochanski in Lister's eyes; while this later changed, Suzanne Rhatigan was still credited as "Kochanski Camille". Like Pascoe and Llewellyn, Rhatigan and Craig Charles were in a relationship at the time of the recording. ==Cultural references==

Casablanca, Lister's favourite film, was used for the main plot of the episode and is mentioned and referenced throughout. Kryten and Camille even watch the film in the episode. When Lister explains to Kryten why it is necessary to lie, he mentions examples of Humphrey Bogart in the final scene of Casablanca and Nelson's "I see no ships." The ending of Casablanca is also parodied in the Kryten and Camille farewell scene. Lister watches a video recording of the television show Tales of the Riverbank: The Next Generation, a parody of the Tales of the Riverbank show and Star Trek: The Next Generation. The concept of an alien whom each person sees differently is also a reference to the first-aired Star Trek episode, "The Man Trap". ==Reception==

The episode was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 14 February 1991 in the 9:00pm time slot, although it was originally planned to be shown as the third episode of Series IV as shown in the repeat runs in both 1992 and 1994. The series' transmission order was changed as it was felt more appropriate to run the episode on Valentine's Day and so it went out first. The episode received a mixed response from fans. ==Notes==