Production
Due to Juliet May leaving as director, the remaining episodes were directed by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. Quarantine, which was fifth to be filmed in the series, was the first one to be solely directed by the co-creators. Although supposed to be the simple 'dialogue' episode for the series Grant and Naylor found it hard going. The main scene of the Cat, Lister and Kryten arguing in the quarantine bay took a grand total of 57 minutes to record, the cast either breaking up with laughter or else having trouble with dialogue that had only recently been delivered.
The original idea was to have each of the crew infected with Psi-powers, but this was later changed to the positive viruses story. Time constraints, coupled with the fact that it was pitched as the cheap show, meant that the script wasn't developed as well as Grant and Naylor had hoped. It was the cheap show so that the others were affordable.
Maggie Steed agreed to wear a prosthetic face mask to appear as the dying hologramatic Dr Lanstrom.
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