Red Dwarf USA (Pilot #1, Early Edit, 1992)

Special thanks to ‪@waymu-vhs‬ for helping me out with the upscaling of this!
In 1992, NBC and Universal Television set out to produce an American version of the hit BBC britcom "Red Dwarf", which by that time, was popular with American audiences with airings on PBS. This American version of the series would've featured a mostly new cast, save for Robert Llewellyn, who would reprise his role as Kryten.
There would be two pilots made, this first one would be a remake of the pilot episode of the British series, "The End", though this version would feature some changes, most notably the addition of Kryten and some plotlines that were not in the British version.
This particular version of the first pilot is a workprint, as well as an early version as there would be some scenes in the revised edit that was either added on or deleted. Notably, this version features the intro of the first two series of the British version. The background music is also missing from this version.
While this pilot has been on TH-cam in several formats, the other versions were sourced from older encodes from the early-2000s with added noise reduction. For this particular edit, the existing versions feature music from the British version at the beginning. This comes from a multi-generation copy transferred via a Panasonic AG-1980 VCR with a Panasonic DMR-ES35V DVD recorder as a time base corrector, and then upscaled to 1080p.
For the other Red Dwarf USA pilots:
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