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	Considered to be one of the best episodes by many,<ref name="Series IV on Video"/><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.scifidimensions.com/Mar04/reddwarf3and4.htm \|title=Red Dwarf Series III review at Sci-fi Dimensions \|publisher=scifidimensions.com \|access-date=2008-01-25 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070107145650/http://www.scifidimensions.com/Mar04/reddwarf3and4.htm \|archive-date=7 January 2007 }}</ref> it also topped the Series IV list in a ''Red Dwarf'' magazine poll—with 7.3% of the vote.<ref name="Red Dwarf Smegazine: Survey Results">Red Dwarf Smegazine, issue 10, December 1992, Fleetway Editions Ltd, ISSN 0965-5603</ref> In the Series IV DVD, Chris Barrie names this as his favourite episode.		Considered to be one of the best episodes by many,<ref name="Series IV on Video"/><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.scifidimensions.com/Mar04/reddwarf3and4.htm \|title=Red Dwarf Series III review at Sci-fi Dimensions \|publisher=scifidimensions.com \|access-date=2008-01-25 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070107145650/http://www.scifidimensions.com/Mar04/reddwarf3and4.htm \|archive-date=7 January 2007 }}</ref> it also topped the Series IV list in a ''Red Dwarf'' magazine poll—with 7.3% of the vote.<ref name="Red Dwarf Smegazine: Survey Results">Red Dwarf Smegazine, issue 10, December 1992, Fleetway Editions Ltd, ISSN 0965-5603</ref> In the Series IV DVD, Chris Barrie names this as his favourite episode.

	The BBC decided to use the popularity of the episode to head the second part of the Series IV video tape release, despite "[[White Hole]]" fourth in the running order.<ref name="Red Dwarf Series IV Aftermath">{{cite web\|url=http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_4/aftermath.html \|title=Series IV Aftermath Aftermath \|publisher=reddwarf.co.uk \|access-date=2008-01-07 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061006082516/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_4/aftermath.html \|archive-date=6 October 2006 }}</ref>		The BBC decided to use the popularity of the episode to head the second part of the Series IV video tape release, despite "[[White Hole (Red Dwarf)\|White Hole]]" fourth in the running order.<ref name="Red Dwarf Series IV Aftermath">{{cite web\|url=http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_4/aftermath.html \|title=Series IV Aftermath Aftermath \|publisher=reddwarf.co.uk \|access-date=2008-01-07 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061006082516/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_4/aftermath.html \|archive-date=6 October 2006 }}</ref>

	==See also==		==See also==

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	"'''Dimension Jump'''" is the fifth episode of [[science fiction]] [[~~sit-com~~]] ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' Series IV<ref name="British Sitcom Guide – Red Dwarf – Series 4">{{cite web \| url =http://www.sitcom.co.uk/red_dwarf/series4.shtml \| title =British Sitcom Guide – Red Dwarf – Series 4 \| publisher =sitcom.co.uk \|access-date =2008-01-28}}</ref> and the twenty-third episode in the series run.<ref name="TV.com – Dimension Jump summary">{{cite web \| url =http://www.tv.com/red-dwarf/white-hole/episode/10967/summary.html \| title =TV.com – Dimension Jump summary \| publisher =tv.com \|access-date =2008-01-25}}</ref> It was first broadcast on the British television channel [[BBC Two\|BBC2]] on 14 March 1991, written by [[Rob Grant]] and [[Doug Naylor]], and directed by [[Ed Bye]].<ref name="Dimension Jump cast and crew">{{cite web \| url =https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0684153/fullcredits \| title =Dimension Jump cast and crew \| publisher =IMDb \|access-date =2008-01-28}}</ref> The episode, featuring the first appearance of [[Ace Rimmer]], was intended to end the series; but [[Meltdown (Red Dwarf)\|''Meltdown'']] was rescheduled and broadcast last due to the [[Gulf War]].		"'''Dimension Jump'''" is the fifth episode of [[science fiction]] [[sitcom]] ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' Series IV<ref name="British Sitcom Guide – Red Dwarf – Series 4">{{cite web \| url =http://www.sitcom.co.uk/red_dwarf/series4.shtml \| title =British Sitcom Guide – Red Dwarf – Series 4 \| publisher =sitcom.co.uk \|access-date =2008-01-28}}</ref> and the twenty-third episode in the series run.<ref name="TV.com – Dimension Jump summary">{{cite web \| url =http://www.tv.com/red-dwarf/white-hole/episode/10967/summary.html \| title =TV.com – Dimension Jump summary \| publisher =tv.com \|access-date =2008-01-25}}</ref> It was first broadcast on the British television channel [[BBC Two\|BBC2]] on 14 March 1991, written by [[Rob Grant]] and [[Doug Naylor]], and directed by [[Ed Bye]].<ref name="Dimension Jump cast and crew">{{cite web \| url =https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0684153/fullcredits \| title =Dimension Jump cast and crew \| publisher =IMDb \|access-date =2008-01-28}}</ref> The episode, featuring the first appearance of [[Ace Rimmer]], was intended to end the series; but [[Meltdown (Red Dwarf)\|''Meltdown'']] was rescheduled and broadcast last due to the [[Gulf War]].

	==Plot==		==Plot==

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{{Infobox television episode
| series = [[Red Dwarf]]
| image = Dimension Jump (Red Dwarf episode).jpg
| image_size = 250px
| caption = Swashbuckling space-adventurer, Ace Rimmer
| series_no = 4
| episode = 5
| director = Ed Bye
| writer = Rob Grant & Doug Naylor
| airdate = {{Start date|1991|03|14|df=yes}}
| guests = * Simon Gaffney as Young Rimmer
* Kalli Greenwood as Mrs Rimmer
* [[Hetty Baynes]] as Cockpit Computer
| prev = [[White Hole (Red Dwarf)|White Hole]]
| next = [[Meltdown (Red Dwarf)|Meltdown]]
| episode_list = List of Red Dwarf episodes
}}
"'''Dimension Jump'''" is the fifth episode of [[science fiction]] [[sit-com]] ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' Series IV<ref name="British Sitcom Guide – Red Dwarf – Series 4">{{cite web | url =http://www.sitcom.co.uk/red_dwarf/series4.shtml | title =British Sitcom Guide – Red Dwarf – Series 4 | publisher =sitcom.co.uk |access-date =2008-01-28}}</ref> and the twenty-third episode in the series run.<ref name="TV.com – Dimension Jump summary">{{cite web | url =http://www.tv.com/red-dwarf/white-hole/episode/10967/summary.html | title =TV.com – Dimension Jump summary | publisher =tv.com |access-date =2008-01-25}}</ref> It was first broadcast on the British television channel [[BBC Two|BBC2]] on 14 March 1991, written by [[Rob Grant]] and [[Doug Naylor]], and directed by [[Ed Bye]].<ref name="Dimension Jump cast and crew">{{cite web | url =https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0684153/fullcredits | title =Dimension Jump cast and crew | publisher =IMDb |access-date =2008-01-28}}</ref> The episode, featuring the first appearance of [[Ace Rimmer]], was intended to end the series; but [[Meltdown (Red Dwarf)|''Meltdown'']] was rescheduled and broadcast last due to the [[Gulf War]].

==Plot==
In a [[Parallel universe (fiction)|parallel dimension]], [[Arnold Rimmer]] works as a test pilot in the Space Corps under the name 'Ace' Rimmer, who is popular, brave and a charming, good-looking person, with the others from ''Red Dwarf'' living alternate lives as well – [[Dave Lister]] is a Head Technician in the Corps; [[Cat (Red Dwarf)|Cat]] is human and a priest; [[Kryten (Red Dwarf)|Kryten]] is human and Rimmer's superior; and [[Holly (Red Dwarf)|Holly]] is human and Kryten's secretary. Returning from a mission, Ace is given the task of test-flying a dimension-jumping [[prototype]] spacecraft, accepting despite the risk he may never return. After saying farewell, he departs and initiates a dimension jump. Meanwhile, Lister, Kryten, Cat and Holly attempt to head out fishing on a nearby ocean planet without Rimmer, but are forced to take him along when he discovers this. As they are heading out in a ''Starbug'', their ship collides with Ace's and crashes on the ocean planet.<ref name="Prog Guide p72">Howarth & Lyons (1993) p. 72.</ref> Ace follows after them to rescue them, and promptly makes friends with Lister, while in contrast Rimmer develops a mutual dislike of him.<ref name="Prog Guide p73">Howarth & Lyons (1993) p. 73.</ref>

Upon ''Starbug'' being repaired, the group return to ''Red Dwarf'' to provide treatment to Ace, after breaking his arm during the accident, who subsequently treats Cat for an injury he received. During this time, Lister and Rimmer talk about Ace. While Lister is in awe of him, Rimmer reveals disgust that he embodies all of the "breaks" he never received while growing up, and fails to be convinced to be happy that another version of himself was successful. Ace later meets with Lister and reveals that he plans to leave, unable to bear the kind of person he is in this dimension. When asked, Lister learns of the point of divergence in Rimmer's life which resulted in him becoming Ace; when he was young, Rimmer was under consideration to be held back a year in school – while Rimmer was able to progress further, Ace was kept back but was humiliated by this, prompting him to change and work harder, effectively creating the "break" in his life. Ace soon bids Lister farewell and proceeds on an impossible search to find a worse off Rimmer in another universe.<ref name="Prog Guide p73"/>

==Production==
The idea behind this episode came as a result of Chris Barrie (simultaneously filming this series while playing [[Gordon Brittas]], another character disliked by those around him in ''[[The Brittas Empire]]'') asking Rob Grant and Doug Naylor for the chance to play someone heroic, suffering from what he described as 'git overload'.

The ending scene went through numerous changes. The plan was to have Rimmer drop a load of kippers on Ace, but it didn't work on comic or practical levels. Since this didn't work well, the text scroll was added in the post production.<ref name="Red Dwarf Series IV Production">{{cite web|url=http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_4/Production.html |title=Red Dwarf Series IV Production |publisher=reddwarf.co.uk |access-date=2008-01-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821131317/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_4/production.html |archive-date=21 August 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Several models for the episode were produced, including Ace's ship, the [[Io (moon)|Io]] city dome and the Space Corps test space station. Filming of Ace's ship crashing into Starbug involved flying it through space on wires. The Starbug crash site was achieved using an ocean moon miniature construction.<ref name="Red Dwarf Series IV Effects">{{cite web|url=http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_4/effects.html |title=Red Dwarf Series IV Effects |publisher=reddwarf.co.uk |access-date=2008-01-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061006082521/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_4/effects.html |archive-date=6 October 2006 }}</ref>

For the first time in the series run, the end theme tune was changed. The director, Ed Bye, requested a "naff organ sound" to end the episode. In keeping with the Rimmer theme, [[Howard Goodall]] performed an instrumental arrangement over the end credits.<ref name="Interview: Howard Goodall">Interview: Howard Goodall, Red Dwarf Smegazine, issue 10, December 1992, Fleetway Editions Ltd, issn 0965-5603</ref>

The regular cast all get to play their alternative universe roles. [[Chris Barrie]] plays Ace Rimmer, [[Craig Charles]] is Spanners, [[Danny John-Jules]] is the Chaplain, [[Robert Llewellyn]] is Bongo, and [[Hattie Hayridge]] got the chance to play more than just a computer head as Mellie.<ref name="Series IV on Video">Series IV on Video, Red Dwarf Smegazine, issue 11, January 1993, Fleetway Editions Ltd, issn 0965-5603</ref> Kalli Greenwood appeared as Mrs. Rimmer and Simon Gaffney appeared as Young Rimmer—reprising their roles from Polymorph (and Simon also appeared as young Rimmer in "Timeslides"), while [[Hetty Baynes]] voiced the Cockpit Computer.<ref name="Dimension Jump cast and crew" />

==Cultural references==
The spaceship scene introducing Ace Rimmer parodies the 1986 [[Tom Cruise]] movie ''[[Top Gun]]'' and even features similar heroic music.<ref name="Red Dwarf Series IV Music">{{cite web|url=http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_4/music.html |title=Red Dwarf Series IV Music |publisher=reddwarf.co.uk |access-date=2008-01-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061006082501/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_4/music.html |archive-date=6 October 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'' is mentioned by Lister as to where they're going in the middle of the night with fishing rods. After hearing Lister's nickname given by Ace, Rimmer references ''[[Skippy the Bush Kangaroo|Skippy]]'', "'Ace and Skipper?' You sound like a kids' TV series about a boy and his bush kangaroo!"<ref name="Red Dwarf movie connections">{{cite web | url =https://www.imdb.com/rg/title-tease/movieconnections/title/tt0684153/movieconnections | title =Red Dwarf movie connections | publisher =IMDb |access-date =2008-01-08}}</ref>

The episode plays heavily on the theory, for every decision, the alternative is played in another reality, opening the possibilities to infinite universes where anything could be true. Lister sums this up by saying, somewhere, there may be a super freaky weird reality where Rimmer is the better looking of the two. All the alternative characters appear as 'better' than those in the current reality; Rimmer is heroic and sexually irresistible, Lister is a brilliant engineer married to [[Kristine Kochanski]], The Cat is a morally respectable chaplain, Kryten is a high-ranking space corps official, able to give orders rather than receive them.

==Reception==
The episode was broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 14 March 1991 in the 9:00pm evening time slot.<ref name="BBC – Programme Catalogue – RED DWARF IV – DIMENSION JUMP">{{cite web|url=http://catalogue.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/NMRI075P |title=BBC – BBC – Programme Catalogue – RED DWARF IV – DIMENSION JUMP |publisher=BBC |access-date=2007-12-12 }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Although it was intended to be shown as the series finale, the Gulf War hostilities at the time meant the BBC showed the episode fifth and swapped the finale with "Meltdown".

Considered to be one of the best episodes by many,<ref name="Series IV on Video"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scifidimensions.com/Mar04/reddwarf3and4.htm |title=Red Dwarf Series III review at Sci-fi Dimensions |publisher=scifidimensions.com |access-date=2008-01-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070107145650/http://www.scifidimensions.com/Mar04/reddwarf3and4.htm |archive-date=7 January 2007 }}</ref> it also topped the Series IV list in a ''Red Dwarf'' magazine poll—with 7.3% of the vote.<ref name="Red Dwarf Smegazine: Survey Results">Red Dwarf Smegazine, issue 10, December 1992, Fleetway Editions Ltd, ISSN 0965-5603</ref> In the Series IV DVD, Chris Barrie names this as his favourite episode.

The BBC decided to use the popularity of the episode to head the second part of the Series IV video tape release, despite "[[White Hole]]" fourth in the running order.<ref name="Red Dwarf Series IV Aftermath">{{cite web|url=http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_4/aftermath.html |title=Series IV Aftermath Aftermath |publisher=reddwarf.co.uk |access-date=2008-01-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061006082516/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_4/aftermath.html |archive-date=6 October 2006 }}</ref>

==See also==
* ''[[Backwards (novel)|Backwards]]'' – the fourth ''Red Dwarf'' novel features the plot of "Dimension Jump" as well as other episodes.<ref name="Red Dwarf Series VI Aftermath">{{cite web|url=http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_6/aftermath.html |title=Series VI Aftermath |publisher=reddwarf.co.uk |access-date=2008-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080104013125/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_6/aftermath.html |archive-date=4 January 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
* {{cite book |last=Howarth |first=Chris |author2=Steve Lyons |title=Red Dwarf Programme Guide |year=1993 |publisher=Virgin Books |isbn=0-86369-682-1 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/reddwarfprogramm0000howa }}

==External links==
{{Wikiquote|Red_Dwarf#.22Dimension_Jump.22|Dimension Jump}}
* {{BBC episode|p00bp2rm|Dimension Jump}}
* {{IMDb episode|0684153|Dimension Jump}}
*[http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/guide/index.cfm?seriesID=4 Series IV episode guide at www.reddwarf.co.uk]

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