Psirens

This Story: Season 6, Episode 1
Overall: Story 31, Episode 31
Airdate: 7 Oct 1993
Written by Rob Grant & Doug Naylor
Directed by Andy De Emmony

Notes

• This is the first episode with (proper) Kochanski in it since Series 2 Episode 4.  It’s also the last time that Claire Grogan plays the character.  When we next see Kochanski in Series 7, she’s played by someone else.  Kochanski is not actually physically here, it was a trick by the titular Psirens to tempt Lister.
• The character (Captain Tau) who appears with Kochanski is in real life Anita Dobson.  She is the wife of Queen guitarist Brian May (although they were just dating when this episode was being made).
• That captain name was the same name of the captain (Tau) in the first of the two USA pilots.
• The first episode without both the Red Dwarf ship & Holly until late in Series 7.

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