Doug Naylor — Writer

Episodes 73

The End

75%
February 15, 198830m
1x1

Dave Lister emerges from 3 million years of suspended animation to find that he's the only surviving crew member of the Red Dwarf.

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Future Echoes

74%
February 22, 198829m
1x2

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.

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Balance of Power

75%
February 29, 198830m
1x3

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.

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Waiting for God

74%
March 7, 198828m
1x4

When Holly, the ship's computer, reports a mysterious pod floating in space, Rimmer insists on capturing the capsule.

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Confidence & Paranoia

76%
March 14, 198830m
1x5

Plagued by a nasty case of space pneumonia, Lister begins to hallucinate.

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Me²

78%
Season Finale
March 21, 198829m
1x6

Tired of sharing space with Lister, Rimmer begins a blissful new relationship with the ultimate roommate: a holographic replica of himself.

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Kryten

80%
September 6, 198828m
2x1

A distress signal draws the ship's crew to the site of a space shuttle crash.

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Better Than Life

79%
September 13, 198829m
2x2

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.

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Thanks for the Memory

84%
September 20, 198828m
2x3

When Lister awakens after a night of revelry, he's at a loss to explain how he and Cat broke their legs.

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Stasis Leak

81%
September 27, 198830m
2x4

A wrinkle in time takes the crew 3 million years into the past, before the radiation leak killed everyone aboard except Lister.

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Queeg

84%
October 4, 198830m
2x5

With Holly on the fritz, the ship's backup computer, Queeg 500, steps in to command the Red Dwarf and its crew of misfits.

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Parallel Universe

81%
Season Finale
October 11, 198828m
2x6

After testing Holly's latest invention, the crew ends up in a parallel universe where they encounter opposite versions of themselves.

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Backwards

81%
November 14, 198927m
3x1

Under Rimmer’s supervision, Kryten takes a driving lesson at the wheel of Starbug, Red Dwarf's newly-revealed scout ship. A chance meeting with a wormhole, however, sends student and teacher to a world that literally has everything backwards.

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Marooned

81%
November 21, 198929m
3x2

As the Red Dwarf approaches a minefield of black holes, the crew must evacuate, throwing Lister and Rimmer together on a frozen planet.

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Polymorph

85%
November 28, 198927m
3x3

Terror reigns on the Red Dwarf when a shape-shifting genetic mutant climbs aboard and subjects the crew to its menacing slobber.

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Bodyswap

77%
December 5, 198927m
3x4

When a haywire scutter meddles with the circuitry on the Red Dwarf, Lister accidentally throws the ship into self-destruct mode.

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Timeslides

81%
December 12, 198928m
3x5

Kryten's discovery of a liquid that transforms photographs into interactive portals sends the Red Dwarf crew on a series of misadventures.

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The Last Day

79%
Season Finale
December 19, 198927m
3x6

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.

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Camille

76%
February 14, 199127m
4x1

After bucking an order, Kryten meets his match while investigating a distress call from Camille -- a female version of himself.

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D.N.A.

82%
February 21, 199128m
4x2

While investigating an abandoned alien vessel adrift in space, the crew discovers a device that can change organic life by altering an object's DNA.

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Justice

84%
February 28, 199128m
4x3

Not knowing if the stasis pod they've found contains a security guard or a homicidal criminal, the crew heads to the capsule's initial destination.

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White Hole

83%
March 7, 199128m
4x4

Kryten's attempts to restore Holly's IQ to genius level inadvertently cause the Red Dwarf to shut down its support systems.

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Dimension Jump

87%
March 14, 199129m
4x5

After Rimmer comes face-to-face with his alter ego, the craven hologram decides he can't stand the sight of his counterpart.

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Meltdown

77%
Season Finale
March 21, 199126m
4x6

When a matter transporter sends the crew to a theme park populated by wax androids that have overridden their programming, they get ensnared in a war.

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Holoship

84%
February 20, 199228m
5x1

Rimmer is beamed aboard the computer-generated ship Enlightenment and finds that all his wildest dreams have come true.

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The Inquisitor

82%
February 27, 199228m
5x2

The crew crosses paths with a dark figure who calls himself the Inquisitor.

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Terrorform

78%
March 5, 199227m
5x3

After being captured by a "psy-moon," Rimmer becomes a prisoner of his own thoughts.

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Quarantine

82%
March 12, 199228m
5x4

When the crew goes exploring on a snowy planet, they cross paths with a hologram scientist infected with a nasty virus.

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Demons & Angels

83%
March 19, 199227m
5x5

Lister and Kryten inadvertently blow up the Red Dwarf with a new invention that makes two copies of any object.

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Back to Reality

87%
Season Finale
March 26, 199227m
5x6

While exploring an ocean planet, Lister, Kryten, Rimmer and Cat discover an abandoned ship whose entire crew committed suicide.

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Psirens

78%
October 7, 199329m
6x1

After realizing that the Red Dwarf has been stolen, Lister, Rimmer, Kryten and Cat go looking for the missing ship.

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Legion

81%
October 14, 199328m
6x2

With the Starbug running low on supplies, the crew goes hunting for rations and finds an abandoned spaceship with a wish-granting being on board.

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Gunmen of the Apocalypse

84%
October 21, 199329m
6x3

The crew heads to the Wild West when Kryten contracts a deadly computer virus.

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Emohawk: Polymorph II

80%
October 28, 199328m
6x4

When the Starbug crashes on a planet inhabited by a devastatingly ugly GELF tribe, Lister is forced to marry the chief's homely daughter.

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Rimmerworld

79%
November 4, 199328m
6x5

Rimmer finds himself on a strange planet where the only other inhabitants are the clones he's made of himself.

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Out of Time

81%
Season Finale
November 11, 199329m
6x6

After experimenting with an abandoned time drive, the crew of the Red Dwarf comes face-to-face with an exact replica of the ship.

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Tikka to Ride

85%
January 17, 199737m
7x1

The crew goes back in time to get food but inadvertently lands in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, the day President Kennedy was assassinated.

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Stoke Me a Clipper

80%
January 24, 199729m
7x2

Ace Rimmer -- Rimmer's charming alter ego from another reality -- revisits the crew to ask Rimmer an important favor.

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Ouroboros

71%
January 31, 199730m
7x3

The Red Dwarfers pick up a new crew member -- Lister's old flame, Kristine Kochanski -- when they encounter a wormhole.

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Duct Soup

80%
February 7, 199729m
7x4

Fearing he'll someday be replaced by Kristine Kochanski, a jealous Kryten "accidentally" shuts down the Starbug's engine.

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Blue

72%
February 14, 199727m
7x5

Lister is conflicted when he discovers that he actually misses Rimmer, who's been away protecting the universe for far too long.

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Beyond a Joke

77%
February 21, 199729m
7x6

The crew reluctantly explores the works of Jane Austen when Kristine Kochanski takes them on a virtual reality tour of Pride and Prejudice World.

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Epideme

81%
February 28, 199729m
7x7

After being seduced by a 3-million-year-old corpse, Lister discovers he's contracted a deadly STD.

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Nanarchy

81%
Season Finale
March 7, 199729m
7x8

After losing his arm in a battle with the Epideme virus, Lister enlists the help of nanobots to reconstruct his mangled body.

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Back in the Red (1)

76%
February 18, 199928m
8x1

Thanks to the nanobots, the Red Dwarf is back in business with its original crew on board, which means Rimmer is alive and well.

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Back in the Red (2)

80%
February 25, 199928m
8x2

Armed with a stash of confidential files, Rimmer proceeds to brown-nose Capt. Hollister in hopes of receiving officer status.

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Back in the Red (3)

82%
March 4, 199929m
8x3

After being slapped with a two-year prison sentence for committing crimes against the Space Corps, the Red Dwarfers are desperate to escape.

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Cassandra

80%
March 11, 199929m
8x4

Lister thinks he's signing the gang up to sing in a prison choir but learns that he's enlisted them in an army of convicts used for suicide missions.

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Krytie TV

73%
March 18, 199929m
8x5

After being cornered and reprogrammed by restless, sex-starved prisoners, Kryten launches his own television station called Krytie TV.

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Pete (1)

73%
March 25, 199928m
8x6

After infecting the prison guards' basketball team with a sexual-enhancement virus, Lister and Rimmer are sent to the hole.

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Pete (2)

72%
April 1, 199927m
8x7

In an attempt to bring Pete the sparrow back to life, the Red Dwarfers inadvertently cause him to devolve into a tyrannosaur that stalks the ship.

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Only the Good...

78%
Season Finale
April 5, 199930m
8x8

The series concludes as a mysterious life form invades the Red Dwarf courtesy of an escape pod and starts eating away at the ship.

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Back to Earth (1)

70%
April 10, 200923m
9x1

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.

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Back to Earth (2)

0%
April 11, 200925m
9x2

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.

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Back to Earth: The Director's Cut

60%
April 12, 200930m
0x18

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...

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Back to Earth (3)

0%
Season Finale
April 12, 200924m
9x3

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.

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Trojan

75%
October 4, 201230m
10x1

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.

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Fathers and Suns

75%
October 11, 201230m
10x2

Lister grapples with the problem of being his own father.

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Lemons

90%
October 18, 201230m
10x3

The posse find themselves marooned in 23 AD where they rescue a famous historical figure with a beard.

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Entangled

85%
October 25, 201230m
10x4

Kryten and Cat become quantum entangled forcing them to do everything in unison.

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Dear Dave

70%
November 1, 201229m
10x5

Lister gets involved in a love triangle with snack dispensers 23 and 34.

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The Beginning

90%
Season Finale
November 8, 201230m
10x6

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.

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Twentica

60%
September 22, 201628m
11x1

The Dwarfers find themselves in an alternative version of America where modern technology is prohibited, making Rimmer and Kryten illegal. The Dwarfers infiltrate the tech savvy underground and try to bring down the authoritarian regime.

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Samsara

75%
September 29, 201630m
11x2

When the Dwarfers investigate a crashed ship at the bottom of an ocean moon, Lister and Cat become trapped together and Lister's nightmare begins. Meantime Rimmer and Kryten discover the ship is controlled by a dark force.

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Give and Take

72%
October 6, 201629m
11x3

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.

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Officer Rimmer

70%
October 13, 201628m
11x4

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.

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Krysis

68%
October 20, 201627m
11x5

Kryten has a mid-life crisis and changes his body cover from Mech grey to Ferrari red. The posse try and show him how much he's achieved in life by taking him to visit a mechanoid from his old fleet.

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Can of Worms

70%
Season Finale
October 27, 201629m
11x6

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.

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Cured

72%
October 12, 201729m
12x1

The crew stumble on a science centre where vile historical figures have been 'cured' of evil.

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Siliconia

74%
October 19, 201727m
12x2

A ship full of rogue androids who broke their programming want to help Kryten do the same. The M.I.L.F can only spell trouble for the remainder of the crew.

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Timewave

58%
October 26, 201727m
12x3

The boys from the Dwarf discover a ship where all forms of criticism are illegal.

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Mechocracy

76%
November 2, 201728m
12x4

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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M-Corp

70%
November 9, 201727m
12x5

A long overdue software update spells trouble for the crew when they discover that the Jupiter Mining Corp has been sold!

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Skipper

68%
Season Finale
November 16, 201728m
12x6

With the aid of a Quantum Skipper, Rimmer leaves the Red Dwarf to travel the multiverse in search of a dimension where he isn't such a loser.

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