List of Red Dwarf episodes

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This is an episode list for the British science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Contents

[edit] Summary

Series Episodes Originally Broadcast
I 6 1988
II 6 1988
III 6 1989
IV 6 1991
V 6 1992
VI 6 1993
VII 8 1997
VIII 8 1999

[edit] Series

[edit] Series I (1988)

Screenshot Title Original airdate # in series Total #
"The End" February 15, 1988 1 1
Lister spends 3,000,000 years in stasis. 
"Future Echoes" February 22, 1988 2 2
As Red Dwarf breaks the light barrier, the crew see images of their future. 
"Balance of Power" February 29, 1988 3 3
Lister takes a chef's exam in order to out-rank Rimmer. 
"Waiting for God" March 7, 1988 4 4
Red Dwarf pick up a pod, floating in space. Lister learns about the cat people. 
"Confidence and Paranoia" March 14, 1988 5 5
Lister contracts a virus causing hallucinations to become real. 
"Me²" March 21, 1988 6 6
Rimmer moves in with another version of himself. 

[edit] Series II (1988)

Screenshot Title Original airdate # in series Total #
"Kryten" 6 September 1988 1 7
The crew find a mechanoid on a crashed spaceship. 
"Better Than Life" 13 September 1988 2 8
The crew play a total-immersion computer game. 
"Thanks for the Memory" 20 September 1988 3 9
The crew have lost all memory of the last few days. 
"Stasis Leak" 27 September 1988 4 10
The crew go back in time via a 'stasis leak'. 
"Queeg" 4 October 1988 5 11
Holly is replaced by a back-up computer. 
"Parallel Universe" 11 October 1988 6 12
Red Dwarf is transported to a parallel universe. 

[edit] Series III (1989)

Screenshot Title Original airdate # in series Total #
"Backwards" 14 November 1989 1 13
The crew land on Earth, but time is running backwards. 
"Marooned" 21 November 1989 2 14
Rimmer and Lister crash on an icy planet. 
"Polymorph" 28 November 1989 3 15
An emotion stealing life form boards the ship. 
"Bodyswap" 5 December 1989 4 16
Rimmer and Lister swap bodies. 
"Timeslides" 12 December 1989 5 17
Rimmer and Lister change their pasts. 
"The Last Day" 19 December 1989 6 18
Kryten's replacement arrives. 

[edit] Series IV (1991)

Screenshot Title Original airdate # in series Total #
"Camille" 14 February 1991 1 19
Kryten rescues the sole survivor from a crashed spaceship. 
"DNA" 21 February 1991 2 20
The crew find a machine that can change their DNA. 
"Justice" 28 February 1991 3 21
The crew pick up a floating escape pod bearing a woman's name. 
"White Hole" 7 March 1991 4 22
The crew experience time anomalies while trying to restore Holly's intelligence. 
"Dimension Jump" 14 March 1991 5 23
The crew meet a parallel version of Rimmer. 
"Meltdown" 21 March 1991 6 24
The crew are teleported to a planet, populated by wax droids. 

[edit] Series V (1992)

Screenshot Title Original airdate # in series Total #
"Holoship" 20 February 1992 1 25
Rimmer meets a crew of holograms and decides to join them. 
"The Inquisitor" 27 February 1992 2 26
A time-travelling android makes the crew justify their existence. 
"Terrorform" 5 March 1992 3 27
Rimmer is imprisoned on a moon, shaped by his own mind. 
"Quarantine" 12 March 1992 4 28
Rimmer contracts a 'holo-virus' and goes mad, imprisoning the others in quarantine. 
"Demons and Angels" 19 March 1992 5 29
The crew create two copies of Red Dwarf; one good, one bad. 
"Back to Reality" 26 March 1992 6 30
The crew think they've been playing a video game for the last four years. 

[edit] Series VI (1993)

Screenshot Title Original airdate # in series Total #
"Psirens" 7 October 1993 1 31
The crew have lost Red Dwarf. They chase its trail through an asteroid belt populated by psychic life forms. 
"Legion" 14 October 1993 2 32
The crew meet a highly intellegent life-form. 
"Gunmen of the Apocalypse" 21 October 1993 3 33
The crew have to enter Kryten's dream to fight a computer virus. 
"Emohawk: Polymorph II" 28 October 1993 4 34
The crew trade Lister to some GELFs for an oxygen generator. 
"Rimmerworld" 4 November 1993 5 35
Rimmer terraforms a barren world and populates it with clones of himself. 
"Out of Time" 11 November 1993 6 36
The crew find a time machine and quickly discover the consequences of its use. 

[edit] Series VII (1997)

Screenshot Title Original airdate # in series Total #
"Tikka to Ride" 17 January 1997 1 37
The crew travel back to Earth to find curry but their actions quickly change the course of history. 
"Stoke Me a Clipper" 24 January 1997 2 38
Ace Rimmer returns, seeking a replacement. 
"Ouroboros" 31 January 1997 3 39
A parallel version of Kristine Kochanski is stuck on Starbug. 
"Duct Soup" 7 February 1997 4 40
The crew have to navigate Starbug's air ducts. 
"Blue" 14 February 1997 5 41
Lister is missing Rimmer. 
"Beyond a Joke" 21 February 1997 6 42
Kryten's head explodes from a build-up of negative thought. 
"Epideme" 28 February 1997 7 43
Lister catches a virus from a long dead ex-girlfriend. 
"Nanarchy" 7 March 1997 8 44
While looking for Kryten's nanobots to fix Lister's arm, the crew find Red Dwarf. 

[edit] Series VIII (1999)

Screenshot Title Original airdate # in series Total #
"Back in the Red: Part I" 18 February 1999 1 45
 
"Back in the Red: Part II" 25 February 1999 2 46
 
"Back in the Red: Part III" 4 March 1999 3 47
 
"Cassandra" 7 March 1999* 4 48
 
"Krytie TV" 7 March 1999* 5 49
 
"Pete: Part I" 7 March 1999* 6 50
 
"Pete: Part II" 7 March 1999* 7 51
 
"Only the Good..." 7 March 1999* 8 52
 
  • The last five episodes of series 8 were all broadcast in the United States before they were aired in the UK.

[edit] Lost episodes

Dad

This episode would have been the opening to Series III. It was to be a direct continuation of the earlier episode Parallel Universe, dealing with Lister's pregnancy. The idea was rejected by Grant and Naylor, who felt that the script was unfunny and possibly sexist. Some of the events were referenced in the pre-title sequence of the episode Backwards.

Identity Within

This episode was going to be in Series VII but was replaced by "Duct Soup". A reconstructed version of the episode, performed by Chris Barrie (who does all the voices), appears on the Series VII DVD release. The Cat is ill and it's fatal but there is one way to cure it. He has to have sex to live. They then have to go to a GELF village where a female cat called Aura is being held prisoner for auction. Lister, Rimmer and Kryten have to save Aura and get her to fall in love with the Cat before he dies from being a virgin. The episode was not produced due to the high cost of creating a whole village of GELFs. A script of this episode was auctioned for charity at a Red Dwarf convention in Melbourne, Australia before Series VII aired there.

[edit] Other appearances

Can't Smeg Won't Smeg

The Red Dwarf Crew (Lister, Rimmer, the Cat, Duane Dibbley, Kryten, and Kochanski) appear in an episode of the TV show Can't Cook, Won't Cook to celebrate the 10th anniversary for the show to be on the air. Lister and Kryten are on the red team and Rimmer and the Cat are on the blue team. Cat decides not to be on a team with Rimmer and leaves. A few moments later, Duane Dibbley makes his appearance in the waste disposal unit and fills the place of Cat for the rest of the show. Kochanski is the taste tester and has to decide which team wins the contest. The host chef is Ainsley Harriott (Before becoming a celebrity chef, Harriott was a comedian who played the role of the GELF elder in Emohawk: Polymorph II.)

Universe Challenge

The cast compete with fans of the show in a University Challenge–style quiz based on the show, also for the 10th anniversary of the show. The show features Bamber Gascoigne, the presenter of University Challenge until 1994. The fans won the quiz.

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