
Red Dwarf (1988)
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Doug Naylor — Writer
Episodes 73
Future Echoes
The members of the Red Dwarf crew get a glimpse of their respective futures when the ship goes into light speed, and time begins to dilate.
Read MoreBalance of Power
Fed up with Rimmer always pulling rank, Lister decides to take the chef's exam to become his superior -- which doesn't sit well with Rimmer.
Read MoreWaiting for God
When Holly, the ship's computer, reports a mysterious pod floating in space, Rimmer insists on capturing the capsule.
Read MoreConfidence & Paranoia
Plagued by a nasty case of space pneumonia, Lister begins to hallucinate.
Read MoreBetter Than Life
Rimmer learns that his father has passed away but isn't sure which is sadder: his father's death or that he is now encumbered with an £8,500 tax bill.
Read MoreThanks for the Memory
When Lister awakens after a night of revelry, he's at a loss to explain how he and Cat broke their legs.
Read MoreStasis Leak
A wrinkle in time takes the crew 3 million years into the past, before the radiation leak killed everyone aboard except Lister.
Read MoreParallel Universe
After testing Holly's latest invention, the crew ends up in a parallel universe where they encounter opposite versions of themselves.
Read MoreTimeslides
Kryten's discovery of a liquid that transforms photographs into interactive portals sends the Red Dwarf crew on a series of misadventures.
Read MoreThe Last Day
When the Red Dwarf crew learns that Kryten has only 24 hours left to live, they band together to give the android the best night of his life.
Read MoreWhite Hole
Kryten's attempts to restore Holly's IQ to genius level inadvertently cause the Red Dwarf to shut down its support systems.
Read MoreDimension Jump
After Rimmer comes face-to-face with his alter ego, the craven hologram decides he can't stand the sight of his counterpart.
Read MoreThe Inquisitor
The crew crosses paths with a dark figure who calls himself the Inquisitor.
Read MoreTerrorform
After being captured by a "psy-moon," Rimmer becomes a prisoner of his own thoughts.
Read MoreQuarantine
When the crew goes exploring on a snowy planet, they cross paths with a hologram scientist infected with a nasty virus.
Read MoreDemons & Angels
Lister and Kryten inadvertently blow up the Red Dwarf with a new invention that makes two copies of any object.
Read MoreBack to Reality
While exploring an ocean planet, Lister, Kryten, Rimmer and Cat discover an abandoned ship whose entire crew committed suicide.
Read MoreGunmen of the Apocalypse
The crew heads to the Wild West when Kryten contracts a deadly computer virus.
Read MoreEmohawk: Polymorph II
When the Starbug crashes on a planet inhabited by a devastatingly ugly GELF tribe, Lister is forced to marry the chief's homely daughter.
Read MoreRimmerworld
Rimmer finds himself on a strange planet where the only other inhabitants are the clones he's made of himself.
Read MoreOut of Time
After experimenting with an abandoned time drive, the crew of the Red Dwarf comes face-to-face with an exact replica of the ship.
Read MoreTikka to Ride
The crew goes back in time to get food but inadvertently lands in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, the day President Kennedy was assassinated.
Read MoreStoke Me a Clipper
Ace Rimmer -- Rimmer's charming alter ego from another reality -- revisits the crew to ask Rimmer an important favor.
Read MoreBeyond a Joke
The crew reluctantly explores the works of Jane Austen when Kristine Kochanski takes them on a virtual reality tour of Pride and Prejudice World.
Read MoreBack in the Red (1)
Thanks to the nanobots, the Red Dwarf is back in business with its original crew on board, which means Rimmer is alive and well.
Read MoreBack in the Red (2)
Armed with a stash of confidential files, Rimmer proceeds to brown-nose Capt. Hollister in hopes of receiving officer status.
Read MoreBack in the Red (3)
After being slapped with a two-year prison sentence for committing crimes against the Space Corps, the Red Dwarfers are desperate to escape.
Read MoreOnly the Good...
The series concludes as a mysterious life form invades the Red Dwarf courtesy of an escape pod and starts eating away at the ship.
Read MoreBack to Earth (1)
Nine years later the Red Dwarf crew are older but still none the wiser. Lister's busy day of annoying Rimmer is interrupted by the discovery of a dimension-hopping leviathan in the ship's mile-deep water tank.
Read MoreBack to Earth (2)
Rimmer's replacement, Katerina, is determined to guide Lister back to his home planet. But Earth in 2009 is not everything the boys had expected, and Rimmer has no intention of being replaced.
Read MoreBack to Earth: The Director's Cut
The Director's Cut of Back to Earth combines all three of the Back to Earth episodes in a single feature-length programme.
Back to Earth takes place after series X. Kochanski is dead and the crew are hurled through a portal and discover they are just characters from a TV series.
Knowing that they will die in the final episode the Dwarfers, in best Blade Runner traditions, decide to track down their creators to discover how long they have left to live.
First the crew attempt to track down the actors who play them in the series and their metaphysical odyssey begins...
Read MoreBack to Earth (3)
When Lister's busy day of annoying Rimmer was interrupted by the discovery of a dimension-hopping leviathan in the ship's mile-deep water tank, transporting the crew back to Earth, all Lister's dreams appear to be coming true.
Read MoreTrojan
The Dwarfers' mining ship is still creaking though the wastelands of unchartered deep space, but the posse soon stumble upon the mysteriously abandoned SS Trojan. As they inspect the ship Rimmer receives an SOS distress call from an old foe, and is suddenly faced with the dilemma of his life.
Read MoreFathers and Suns
Lister grapples with the problem of being his own father.
Read MoreThe Beginning
The series final episode finds the boys surrounded by a Simulant War Cruiser and its fleet of attack ships. Armed with only two forks and a pencil sharpener, the Dwarfers begin to wonder whether this is the beginning of the end. Only one man can save them. Unfortunately that man is Arnold J Rimmer.
Read MoreGive and Take
After an altercation with a deranged droid Lister has his kidneys organ-napped. The only solution is to ask Cat, the most selfish creature in the universe, to give him one of his.
Read MoreOfficer Rimmer
After a scandalous piece of good fortune Rimmer saves the life of a bio-printed Captain and is promoted, fulfilling his life-long dream of becoming an Officer. He immediately opens an Officer's club, which is out of bounds to the lower orders, and uses the bio-printer to fill it with versions of himself.
Read MoreCan of Worms
Cat takes time off from being in love with himself to fall head over heels in love with a lady Cat with a big secret.
Read MoreMechocracy
The machines of Red Dwarf go on strike. Kryten and Rimmer campaign against each other for their votes in an election to represent them.
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