Dimension Jump is the biggest and best convesion anywhere associated with Red Dwarf. Each year most of the Red Dwarf cast, crew and creators converge on a hotel in England for weekend of nothing but Red Dwarf. Dwarfers and Smegheads travel from all over the world to Dimension Jump.
Dimension Jump 2000
Dimension Jump 2000 ( red dwarf convention )
10 - 12 November 2000
Heathrow Park Hotel
Heathrow
London
England
Dimension Jump 98
Update:
Guests: confirmed guests (work permitting) are; Danny, Norman, Doug and Ed.
Most guests don't confirm until about 2 months prior to the convention. Some
confirm even later than that!
October 30 - November 1, 1998
BRITANIA ADELPHI HOTEL, LIVERPOOL
Dimension Jump 97
3-5 October 1997
Hanover International Hotel
Daventry
3-5 OCTOBER 1997
GUESTS
The line up of guests was the biggest we've ever had for
a convention. Guests for the weekend were:
CHLOE ANNETT
CRAIG CHARLES
HATTIE HAYRIDGE
DANNY JOHN-JULES
ROBERT LLEWELLYN
NORMAN LOVETT
DOUG NAYLOR
All agreed that this convention was the hugest Red Dwarf weekend known to man. All that
PLUS Grant Naylor Productions brought their cameras to
record events over the weekend for inclusion in a 10th Anniversary
programme being transmitted January 1998.
THE PROGRAMME
Our main function room is in the Danetree Suite where all our
guest talks and panels will take place.
We also have a video room running all weekend nearby and
a separate merchandise room.
On Saturday evening our ever-brilliant disco will be downstairs
in 'Cats'.
FANCY DRESS COMPETITION
Again judged by a panel of Red Dwarf celebrities. This is not a
compulsory competition, but it has always been very well supported
in the past There's no need to register for it now, simply tell
us when you arrive at the hotel that you'd like to enter. There
are great prizes to be won and you'll probably end up on the cover
of the fan club magazine.
Dimension Jump 96
Guests included:
Craig Charles
Danny John-Jules
Hattie Hayridge
Norman Lovett
Rob Grant
DIMENSION JUMP 95
This is an overview of Dimension Jump 95, run by the Official Red Dwarf Fan
Club. A more in depth report can be found in issue 17 of Better Than Life, the fan club newsletter.
The fan club runs one convention per year, sometime in the summer.Weekend main events scheduleFriday
Opening
Ceremony
Boys Vs Girls
QuizSaturday
Doug Naylor Q&A
Craig Charles stand up and
Q&A
Visual Effects Team talk and
Q&A
Norman Lovett stand up and
Q&A
Robert Llewellyn as Kryten
(joined by Craig Charles)
Fancy Dress
Disco Sunday
Jane Killick's behind the
scenes slide show
Danny John-Jules Q&A
Mel Bibby Q&A
Hattie Hayridge Q&A
Auction
Hotel Bar!
FRIDAY
Friday's Interactive boys v girls quiz was Sean's baby. Red Dwarf, he proposed, is a boy's style
comedy, and in a battle of the sexes blokes would come out on top. In an interactive quiz that saw
everything from blindfold contestants with mallets to quote-the-next-line video clips he attempted to
prove it. After several rounds and prizes including books and photos of 20th century telegraph
poles, girls came out on top.
I really enjoyed taking part in Sean's Interactive Quiz although I apologise to all the people
in the front row of the audience whom I battered while taking part in it.
Aileen McKerr
SATURDAY
Doug Naylor...
Doug was our first guest on Saturday, the day when the film crew were also in attendance taping
material for the Smeg Outs video. The variety and stature of our guests ensured that the main hall
remained pretty full throughout. Thankfully, in contrast with the previous year, our hotel had a
decent air conditioning system. At the Fan Club we learn from our mistakes! Doug on Red Dwarf USA: Oh, it was supposed to be wonderful. We were meant to go over to the States and
see the sights while they got on with it all. We'd go looking around and maybe come
back once in a while to check Rimmer's H was straight. As it turned out everything
went wrong. There were far too many rewrites, and the guy they got in for Lister,
Craig Bierko, well, he was so out of place. It was like trying to imagine Craig Charles
in Baywatch! Eventually we did a rewrite and showed it to everyone but the
producers didn't want to go with it. It went to vote and it was decided we'd do that
one, but they wouldn't allow us to rehearse it! We wound up shooting it in a garage
somewhere after the producer was sacked."... on Red Dwarf's future:
As soon as we're short of stories then I'll stop writing Red Dwarf. At the moment I
think we have plenty of time to go.Four hours on a train, but it was all worth it. If anyone is reading this, thinking about going
to a RD convention and is put off by the journey, believe me it is well worth it - most people
have to travel a long way. You'll be glad you made the effort once you are there. Thank you for yet another brilliant convention. This is my third one and I'm definitely
coming next year. I thought Norman's stand-up routine was very funny - even better than
'93.
The Visual Effects Team...
The visual effects on Red Dwarf are created by a dedicated team of BBC staff overseen by Peter
Wragg. Peter was unable to attend this convention, although did make Dimension Jump 94. Paul
McGuinness returned, though, bringing with him Rocky (Alan Marshall) and Mike Tucker. The
team also brought a variety of Red Dwarf models from Starbug to the mutton vindaloo beast's
head. These were displayed in the merchandise room. The team on first impressions of Red Dwarf:
Rocky: We have a big board, in our office and it lists the programmes in production in
the department. I went in and looked and it said Red Dwarf, so I said to the design
manager, "This programme, Red Dwarf - is it a science fiction?" and he looked
through his books and he said, "Nah, it's a comedy."
... on Paul as a Psiren kissing Craig Charles:
Mike: The funny thing about that was because Andy DeEmmony wanted this sort of
dream like quality to them kissing each other, they were on this big revolve, so they
were stood on this thing going round and round and round, and Pete Wragg was
crouched at the bottom of the shot moving the thing by hand. As they shouted cut,
Craig, with this mouthful of KY that he'd sucked off this monster, went FLOB!,
straight onto Peter's head!
After lunch the Special Effects guys were very entertaining - they do all the special effects
for all the BBC programmes (obviously) from Bottom to - er - well anything you can think of
really! They told me they were going to "do" some special effects at next year's con - which
will be brilliant. I made it in late to see Norman, but what I did see was very funny indeed -
he just goes on about his observations and life's little oddities and makes it really funny. I
was quite shocked when I saw him later as he was sitting with Bev and Helen Norman and
was laughing - I saw Norman Lovett laugh!!
I can quite happily die now, my life is complete. I've been in a lift with Craig Charles - I
know I'm sad - I've been polished by Robert Llewellyn and I've danced to buckets of Abba
songs.
Kryten
Robert Llewellyn was invited to the convention. As it turned out he appeared in full nightmare make
up and costume. Speaking to him as Robert provoked a "Mr Llewellyn tells me..." response, and it
was a quite surreal experience to stand face to face with a mechanoid.
Kryten on lying:
Aha (picks up a glass of water.) It's, .. it's an aardvark (wild applause) It's an
aardvark in the shape of a glass - damn - almost did it.
... on Lister:
I admire Mr Lister immensely. He's an incredibly sensitive and caring man. He has
one or two personal hygiene problems that an orbital sander produced by Bosch
would be quite useful for, but he's a wonderful man and I admire him immensely. Very
intelligent with an alarmingly good memory, and an appetite for sugar puff sandwiches
which surpasses all understanding. Mechanoid or humanoid. Never have so many
sugar puffs passed into one gut and come out the other end looking horribly similar. I
don't understand it. But then being a mechanoid I don't have poo. I just have a small
box of waste products that I offload every week.
Thanks for one of the best weekends of my life. Being able to meet 5 of the main cast was
wonderful. I especially enjoyed Robert Llewellyn who came dressed up as Kryten. What an
honour.
Craig Charles
Craig, having already performed his stand up in the morning, joined Kryten on stage in one of the
weirdest double acts ever seen.
Craig on Robert's series I Camcorder:
Craig: I thought it was good. It's good to see him doing something with his ugly head
on. (The audience sympathise with Robert.) Oh come on! You soft middle class
wusses!
Kryten: He means you charming delightful, intelligent well educated people.
Craig:He translates for me. Into Robo-Bollocks ... on eating Pot Noodles: Oh come on! Don't be obscene. I ate the dog food, but no way the Pot Noodle. I'm
not that sick. They wouldn't buy me enough beer that day so I wouldn't go for it. I
actually ate the dog food. That was actually genuinely real. Talk about method acting,
or what. and do you know what it tasted like? Pot Noodle. I'll never do it again.
You may have felt a slight earth tremour at about 5 on that Saturday afternoon. Not an
earthquake, but the tilt created by fans rushing to one side of a room to form an autograph
queue! Friendships were struck, stories and anecdotes were swapped, legs buckled as the
queue inched it's way gradually towards the rogues gallery of famous people you could just
about see with a set of binoculars!
David Flett
Saturday for me has got to be the best day of my life - every time you just started to get over
seeing one of your heroes - another one came on. It was awesome! The best bit though is
that unlike every other convention I've ever been to (Star Trek, Doctor Who) the guests
mingle with the attendees - Craig Charles was in the bar all day, playing pool with anyone
who wanted a game, they all had their lunch there! You realise that they are all genuine and
normal people. Whereas at other conventions you are not allowed to see the guests, let alone
talk to them, unless it is a scheduled talk.
SUNDAY
Danny
Danny's act was bounced off Norman who sat at the back of the room, having performed his
comedy routine the previous day. Danny didn't appear at the hotel until Sunday, so had missed a
lot of the hot gossip supplied by Doug and co the previous day. The audience were quick to fill him
in.
