"Confidence and Paranoia" | |
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Red Dwarf episode | |
Episode no. | Series 1 Episode 5 |
Directed by | Ed Bye |
Written by | Rob Grant & Doug Naylor |
Original air date | 14 March 1988 |
Guest appearances | |
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.[1] It was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 14 March 1988.[2] The plot involves Lister's mutated pneumonia which manifests solid hallucinations.
Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, and directed by Ed Bye,[3] 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.[4] Considered to be one of the weaker efforts from the first series,[5] 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.[6]