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Epideme
"Epideme" is the seventh episode of science fiction comedy series "Red Dwarf VII" and the 43rd in the series run. It was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 28 February 1997. Written by Paul Alexander & Doug Naylor and directed by Ed Bye, the episode involves Lister contracting an intelligent, but deadly, virus.
Plot.
The crew encounters an abandoned ship, the "Leviathan", which is buried in the middle of an ice planetoid. In it, they find
, flying through space and then towards the camera - but it was decided to end the episode just before this scene.
Of the many new props needed for the new series was a laser bone-saw - used for the scenes of severing the Epideme-infected arm. For the scene, Chloë Annett had taken several attempts to cut the arm off.
Voice artist Gary Martin played the talking virus Epideme. He was recommended by Danny John-Jules, his friend of many years' standing, and had even