Meltdown (Red Dwarf episode)

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Red Dwarf episode
"Meltdown"
Image:Dimension Jump (Red Dwarf).jpg
Episode №	6
Airdate	March 21, 1991
Writer(s)	Rob Grant & Doug Naylor
Director	Ed Bye
Guest star(s)	Clayton Mark as Elvis
Series IV February 14 – March 21, 1991
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Meltdown was the sixth episode to air in the fourth series of Red Dwarf.

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Kryten discovers a matter transporter in the research lab, which Holly informs them will home in on any atmosphere-bearing planet within 500,000 light years. The crew are sent 200,000 light-years to Wax-World, a Wax-Droid theme park that has been abandoned for millions of years, during which time the droids have broken their programming and now the inhabitants of Villain World are waging war against Hero World. Rimmer sets himself up as commander of the Hero World droids (a motley crew led by Elvis Presley, Albert Einstein, Stan Laurel and Father Christmas), seeing this as his chance to pit his tactical wits against the greatest military minds of the past, while the Cat and Lister are captured by Adolf Hitler ("They're tying someone to the stake ... It's Winnie-the-Pooh!"). Rimmer 'saves' the day when he sacrifices all the Hero World droids in an assault on the Villains, but manages to assassinate the leaders and all the other villain droids by turning up the temperature and melting them. In the end, Rimmer gets what he deserves as Lister swallows his light bee.