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	The remastering of Series I to III was carried out during the late 1990s.<ref name="Remasters of the Universe">{{cite web \| url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck01/dvd_remasters_of_the_universe_221206.html \| title =Remasters of the Universe \| publisher =reddwarf.co.uk \|access-date =28 April 2008 \|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080104012351/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck01/dvd_remasters_of_the_universe_221206.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> \|archive-date = 4 January 2008}}</ref> Changes throughout the series included replacement of the opening credits,<ref name="Red Dwarf Series I Remastering">{{cite web \| url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_1/remastering.html \| title =Red Dwarf Series I Remastering \| publisher =reddwarf.co.uk \|access-date =30 January 2008 \|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080118140243/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_1/remastering.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> \|archive-date = 18 January 2008}}</ref> giving the picture a colour grade and [[filmising]],<ref name="The End Re-Mastered Commentary">{{cite video \| people =Remastering Crew \| title =The End Re-Mastered DVD Commentary \| medium =DVD \| publisher =BBC \| location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset Red disc \| date =2007 }}</ref> [[Computer-generated imagery\|computer generated]] [[~~special~~ effects]] of ''Red Dwarf''<ref name="Re-Dwarf">{{cite video \| people =Remastering Crew \| title ='Re-Dwarf' Documentary \| medium =DVD \| publisher =BBC \| location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset Red disc \| date =2007 }}</ref> and many more visual and audio enhancements.<ref name="Re-Dwarf"/>		The remastering of Series I to III was carried out during the late 1990s.<ref name="Remasters of the Universe">{{cite web \| url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck01/dvd_remasters_of_the_universe_221206.html \| title =Remasters of the Universe \| publisher =reddwarf.co.uk \|access-date =28 April 2008 \|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080104012351/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck01/dvd_remasters_of_the_universe_221206.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> \|archive-date = 4 January 2008}}</ref> Changes throughout the series included replacement of the opening credits,<ref name="Red Dwarf Series I Remastering">{{cite web \| url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_1/remastering.html \| title =Red Dwarf Series I Remastering \| publisher =reddwarf.co.uk \|access-date =30 January 2008 \|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080118140243/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_1/remastering.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> \|archive-date = 18 January 2008}}</ref> giving the picture a colour grade and [[filmising]],<ref name="The End Re-Mastered Commentary">{{cite video \| people =Remastering Crew \| title =The End Re-Mastered DVD Commentary \| medium =DVD \| publisher =BBC \| location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset Red disc \| date =2007 }}</ref> [[Computer-generated imagery\|computer generated]] [[visual effects]] of ''Red Dwarf''<ref name="Re-Dwarf">{{cite video \| people =Remastering Crew \| title ='Re-Dwarf' Documentary \| medium =DVD \| publisher =BBC \| location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset Red disc \| date =2007 }}</ref> and many more visual and audio enhancements.<ref name="Re-Dwarf"/>

	Changes made specific to "Stasis Leak" include the caption "Three million years earlier" has been removed from the opening flashback scenes. The stasis leak sound effects have been added. The split-screen wipe — with the older Lister shutting the door on his younger self — has been re-done frame by frame to remove previous errors.<ref name="Stasis Leak text commentary">{{cite video \| people =Remastering Crew \| title =Stasis Leak text commentary \| medium =DVD \| publisher =BBC \| location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset, Blue disc \| date =2007 }}</ref>		Changes made specific to "Stasis Leak" include the caption "Three million years earlier" has been removed from the opening flashback scenes. The stasis leak sound effects have been added. The split-screen wipe — with the older Lister shutting the door on his younger self — has been re-done frame by frame to remove previous errors.<ref name="Stasis Leak text commentary">{{cite video \| people =Remastering Crew \| title =Stasis Leak text commentary \| medium =DVD \| publisher =BBC \| location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset, Blue disc \| date =2007 }}</ref>

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	==External links==		==External links==
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	*{{BBC episode\|p00bp2ks}}		*{{BBC episode\|p00bp2ks}}
	*{{IMDb episode\|0684177}}		*{{IMDb episode\|0684177}}

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{{Infobox television episode
| series = [[Red Dwarf]]
| image =
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| series_no = 2
| episode = 4
| director = [[Ed Bye]]
| writer = [[Rob Grant]] & [[Doug Naylor]]
| airdate = {{Start date|1988|9|27|df=y}}
| guests = [[Morwenna Banks]] as The Lift Hostess [[Sophie Doherty]] as Kochanski's Room Mate [[Clare Grogan|C P Grogan]] as [[Kristine Kochanski]] [[Richard Hainsworth]] as The Medical Orderly [[Tony Hawks]] as The Suitcase [[Mac McDonald]] as Captain Hollister [[Mark Williams (actor)|Mark Williams]] as Petersen
| prev = [[Thanks for the Memory (Red Dwarf)|Thanks for the Memory]]
| next = [[Queeg (Red Dwarf)|Queeg]]
| episode_list = List of Red Dwarf episodes
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"'''Stasis Leak'''" is the fourth episode of the [[science fiction]] [[sitcom]] ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' series two<ref name="British Sitcom Guide — Red Dwarf — Series 2">{{cite web | url =http://www.sitcom.co.uk/red_dwarf/series2.shtml | title =British Sitcom Guide — Red Dwarf — Series 2 | publisher =sitcom.co.uk |access-date =24 January 2008}}</ref> and tenth in the series run.<ref name="TV.com — Stasis Leak summary">{{cite web | url =http://www.tv.com/red-dwarf/stasis-leak/episode/10954/summary.html | title =TV.com — Stasis Leak summary | publisher =tv.com |access-date =24 January 2008}}</ref> It premiered on the British television channel [[BBC Two|BBC2]] on 27 September 1988. Written by [[Rob Grant]] and [[Doug Naylor]], and directed by [[Ed Bye]], the crew [[time travel in fiction|travelling back in time]], before the accident had wiped out the crew of ''Red Dwarf''. The episode was [[remastered|re-mastered]], along with the rest of the first three series, in 1998.

==Plot==
[[Arnold Rimmer]] becomes annoyed when he finds [[Dave Lister]] reading his diary. Lister stipulates it was essential when he reveals he found a wedding photo in the quarters of [[Kristine Kochanski]] ([[Clare Grogan]]), in which he was her groom, suspecting time travel is going to happen soon. Rimmer questions why reading the diary is essential, to which Lister points out it might be linked to his entry regarding the hallucinogenic mushroom incident – three million years in the past, Lister had been reprimanded by Captain Hollister ([[Mac McDonald]]) for giving Rimmer hallucinogenic mushrooms that led to him attacking two officers. Lister points out that Rimmer wrote about seeing himself as a hologram coming out of the table in their quarters, when he returned from the Captain's office, and hearing him state that he had come to the past from a stasis leak they had found. Lister determines that it really happened and not a hallucination as he assumed, and that they should investigate where the leak was found, after [[Holly (Red Dwarf)|Holly]] ([[Norman Lovett]]) can't give any information on the subject.

The group traces the stasis leak and find it is a passageway to the past, to around three weeks before the [[The End (Red Dwarf)|Cadmium 2 accident]] that wiped out the crew. Discovering that the stasis leak prevents anything from the past being brought to the present,<ref name="prog guide p56">Howarth & Lyons (1993) p. 56.</ref> Lister and Rimmer each decide to use it still to make their futures better. While Rimmer uses it to find his past self and warn him of the upcoming accident, thus hoping he will get into stasis and avoid dying, Lister opts to find [[Kristine Kochanski]] ([[Clare Grogan]]) and have her use the ship's other stasis cell. Lister soon tracks her down to a hotel with [[Cat (Red Dwarf)|Cat]], he finds her already married to his future self from five years into the future, much to his confusion. When they rejoin Rimmer, they find him unsuccessfully convincing his younger self he is real. When future Lister and Kochanski arrive alongside future Rimmer, the matter becomes so complicated that past Rimmer decides to accept it only as a hallucination and asks them all to leave him alone.

==Production==
With its multiple views of the future, "[[Future Echoes]]" had been one of the better liked episodes from series I. With this in mind writers, Grant and Naylor, showed their desire to return to this story element with another sci-fi heavy story.<ref name="Red Dwarf Series II Writing">{{cite web | url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_2/writing.html | title =Red Dwarf Series II Writing | publisher =reddwarf.co.uk |access-date =7 January 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080408101254/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_2/writing.html  |archive-date = 8 April 2008}}</ref>

The "Crowne Plaza Midland Holiday Inn", in [[Manchester]], was used as "The Ganymede Holiday Inn" where Lister and the Cat search for Kochanski. Grogan was released from the production without filming the final scene which involved her character Kochanski. Assistant floor manager Dona DiStefano stepped in to double as Kochanski, wearing a large hat to disguise the fact.<ref name="Programme Guide p9">Howarth & Lyons (1993) p. 9.</ref>

Returning pre-accident crew members include [[Mac McDonald]] as Captain Hollister, [[C. P. Grogan]] as Kochanski, [[Mark Williams (actor)|Mark Williams]] as Petersen, and Sophie Doherty as Kochanski's friend.<ref name="Stasis Leak cast and crew">{{cite web | url =https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0684177/fullcredits | title =Stasis Leak cast and crew | publisher =IMDb |access-date =24 January 2008}}</ref> [[Morwenna Banks]] appears as the on-screen Lift Hostess, while [[Tony Hawks]] makes his third ''Red Dwarf'' guest appearance as the talking suitcase.<ref name="Stasis Leak cast and crew"/>

==Reception==
The episode was originally broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 4 October 1988 in the 9:00 pm evening slot.<ref name="BBC Programme Catalogue RED DWARF — STASIS LEAK">{{cite web | url =http://catalogue.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/NMRE805W |title =BBC Programme Catalogue — RED DWARF — STASIS LEAK | publisher =BBC |access-date =10 December 2007}}</ref> It received average television ratings.<ref name="Red Dwarf Series II Aftermath">{{cite web | url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_2/writing.html | title =Red Dwarf Series II Aftermath | publisher =reddwarf.co.uk |access-date =24 January 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080408101254/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_2/writing.html  |archive-date = 8 April 2008}}</ref> Fans considered the episode to be one of the better efforts from Series II, coming at 12th place overall in a ''Red Dwarf Smegazine'' readers' poll with 3.3% of the votes.<ref name="Red Dwarf Smegazine: Survey Results">Readers survey results, ''Red Dwarf Smegazine'', p. 27., issue 10, December 1992, Fleetway Editions Ltd, ISSN 0965-5603</ref>

==Remastering==
{{See also|Red Dwarf remastered}}

The remastering of Series I to III was carried out during the late 1990s.<ref name="Remasters of the Universe">{{cite web | url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck01/dvd_remasters_of_the_universe_221206.html | title =Remasters of the Universe | publisher =reddwarf.co.uk |access-date =28 April 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080104012351/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck01/dvd_remasters_of_the_universe_221206.html  |archive-date = 4 January 2008}}</ref> Changes throughout the series included replacement of the opening credits,<ref name="Red Dwarf Series I Remastering">{{cite web | url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_1/remastering.html | title =Red Dwarf Series I Remastering | publisher =reddwarf.co.uk |access-date =30 January 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080118140243/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_1/remastering.html  |archive-date = 18 January 2008}}</ref> giving the picture a colour grade and [[filmising]],<ref name="The End Re-Mastered Commentary">{{cite video | people =Remastering Crew | title =The End Re-Mastered DVD Commentary | medium =DVD | publisher =BBC | location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset Red disc | date =2007 }}</ref> [[Computer-generated imagery|computer generated]] [[special effects]] of ''Red Dwarf''<ref name="Re-Dwarf">{{cite video | people =Remastering Crew | title ='Re-Dwarf' Documentary | medium =DVD | publisher =BBC | location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset Red disc | date =2007 }}</ref> and many more visual and audio enhancements.<ref name="Re-Dwarf"/>

Changes made specific to "Stasis Leak" include the caption "Three million years earlier" has been removed from the opening flashback scenes. The stasis leak sound effects have been added. The split-screen wipe — with the older Lister shutting the door on his younger self — has been re-done frame by frame to remove previous errors.<ref name="Stasis Leak text commentary">{{cite video | people =Remastering Crew | title =Stasis Leak text commentary | medium =DVD | publisher =BBC | location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset, Blue disc | date =2007 }}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
{{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#.22Stasis_Leak.22|Stasis Leak}}
*{{BBC episode|p00bp2ks}}
*{{IMDb episode|0684177}}
*[http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/guide/index.cfm?sectionID=behind-the-scenes&seriesID=2 Episode Guide – Series II at RedDwarf.co.uk]

{{Red Dwarf episodes}}

[[Category:Red Dwarf II episodes]]
[[Category:1988 British television episodes]]
[[Category:Television episodes about time travel]]