List of Red Dwarf episodes

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

Contents 1 Summary 2 Series 2.1 Series I (1988) 2.2 Series II (1988) 2.3 Series III (1989) 2.4 Series IV (1991) 2.5 Series V (1992) 2.6 Series VI (1993) 2.7 Series VII (1997) 2.8 Series VIII (1999) 3 Lost episodes 3.1 Bodysnatcher 3.2 Dad 3.3 Identity Within 4 Other appearances 4.1 The Red Dwarf A-Z 4.2 Can't Smeg Won't Smeg 4.3 Universe Challenge

[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
	Slobby, unhygenic and undisciplined Liverpudlian caretaker Dave Lister, the lowliest crew member aboard the spaceship Red Dwarf, is sentenced to be frozen for 18 months in suspended animation as punishment for breaking quarantine regulations by smuggling his pregnant cat Frankenstine on-board. But Dave awakes from suspended animation only to find the rest of the crew have since been wiped out in a radioactive disaster, and he's actually been frozen for three million years. However, to his relief and horror, he isn't alone.
	"Future Echoes"	February 22, 1988	2	2
	Red Dwarf has been steadily accelerating for three million years and when it breaks the speed of light, time dilates and the new crew begin to experience visions from their own futures. Sadly for Lister his future appears to include being reduced to his component atoms by a rather large explosion. Happily for Rimmer, Lister’s future appears to include being reduced to his component atoms by a rather large explosion.
	"Balance of Power"	February 29, 1988	3	3
	Lister wants to go on a date with the hologram of his old flame, navigation officer Kristine Kochanski, but it would mean replacing Rimmer as the ship hologram, which of course Rimmer won't let happen. Lister decides to do a cooking exam so he can become a chef, and if he passes he will hold sufficient rank to order this. Just how low will the universe's most obnoxious dead man stoop to stop him?
	"Waiting for God"	March 7, 1988	4	4
	Red Dwarf stumbles upon one if its own garbage pods, and Rimmer is convinced that it's a stasis capsule carrying a dormant alien woman. Meanwhile, Lister learns about Cat's people (the Felix Sapien species) and discovers he is their mythical god, "Cloister the Stupid"and will bring them to the mythical island of fuchal (not fiji).
	"Confidence and Paranoia"	March 14, 1988	5	5
	Lister contracts a mutated pneumonia virus. The hallucinations of his fevered brain materialise in solid form, and suddenly the ship is beset by herring rain and exploding sixteenth century mayors of Warsaw. When his fever breaks, Lister wakes up to find he has created personifications of his Confidence and Paranoia and a war of manipulation begins.
	"Me²"	March 21, 1988	6	6
	Rimmer creates his perfect companion - an identical hologramic duplicate of himself. He moves out of his quarters he shares with Lister and starts rooming with his doppelganger. At first things are blissful, but the course of true love never runs smoothly, and soon the two Rimmers find themselves locked in a conflict so fierce, only one of them can survive. Meanwhile, Lister watches a video containing footage of the living Rimmer's death in an attempt to unravel the mystery of his last words, "gazpacho soup".

[edit] Series II (1988)

Screenshot	Title	Original airdate	# in series	Total #
	"Kryten"	6 September 1988	1	7
	The Dwarfers intercept a SOS distress call from the American Space cruiser Nova 5, which has crashed on an asteroid. Much to their disappointment, the Dwarfers (who are expecting to find female crew members) find the only survivor is Kryten, an android butler with an overactive guilt chip. Lister wants to teach Kryten to be rebellious, whilst Rimmer wants to abuse Kryten's servitude.
	"Better Than Life"	13 September 1988	2	8
	A post pod carrying a three million year old bag of mail arrives, and Rimmer becomes depressed when he reads a letter saying his dad is dead. Meanwhile the Dwarfers play a total-immersion computer game called "Better Than Life" which makes the player's wishes come true. Rimmer's neurotic brain fittingly begins to rebel against the fantasy and turn it into a nightmare.
	"Thanks for the Memory"	20 September 1988	3	9
	The Dwarfers wake up after celebrating the anniversary of Rimmer's death, only to find four whole days have passed and they've got no memories of the previous four days. But when they find the black box on a moon, they slowly learn what happened over the past few days - Lister gave Rimmer his memories, including former girlfriend Lise Yates, as a "birthday present".
	"Stasis Leak"	27 September 1988	4	10
	The Dwarfers find a time barrier called a "Stasis Leak" on Floor 16 and it takes them back in time on Red Dwarf three million years earlier, to a point three weeks before the disaster which killed the rest of the crew. Rimmer tries to change the past by putting himself into suspended animation, so he doesn't die in the radioactive disaster. Lister has similar plans for Kochanski.
	"Queeg"	4 October 1988	5	11
	When Holly allows a meteorite to damage the ship and Rimmer's hologram to malfunction, his back-up computer, Queeg 500, takes command of Red Dwarf. Queeg 500 runs the ship like a military garrison so the Dwarfers encourage Holly to challenge Queeg to a game of chess, where the loser gets erased from the system.
	"Parallel Universe"	11 October 1988	6	12
	The Dwarfers test Holly's new invention, the "Holly Hop Drive", which will supposedly warp them back to Earth in seconds. Instead Red Dwarf enters an alternate parallel dimension in which the Dwarfers encounter female versions of themselves (Cat encounters another version of himself too, a scruffy "dog" with a southern accent). Lister gets drunk and sleeps with his female self. Later he finds himself pregnant with twins, as in the parallel dimension, it is the men who fall pregnant.

• A "lost episode" with the title Dad was to have chronicled the events between Series II and Series III, revealing how Kryten returned to become a regular member of the crew and what happened to Lister's unborn children.

[edit] Series III (1989)

Screenshot	Title	Original airdate	# in series	Total #
	"Backwards"	14 November 1989	1	13
	With Kryten now a regular member of the crew, Rimmer takes him on a driving course to teach him how to pilot the transport vehicle Starbug. However they find themselves whisked away through a time hole (perhaps left over from the "Holly Hop Drive" in the last episode) and the Dwarfers find themselves on Earth in the year 1993. However, time is running backwards.
	"Marooned"	21 November 1989	2	14
	The crew abandon ship as Holly sees five black holes in the direct flight path of Red Dwarf. Rimmer and Lister then find themselves marooned on an ice planet after Starbug is struck by a meteorite. Lister is freezing and starving but the only firewood is his beloved guitar and Rimmer's prized possessions, and the only food left is dog food and a pot noodle, Lister's most hated food.
	"Polymorph"	28 November 1989	3	15
	The Dwarfers become radically different people after they encounter the Polymorph, a genetically engineered space mutant that drains certain emotions from humans.
	"Bodyswap"	5 December 1989	4	16
	Rimmer suggests that the perfect way to help Lister get "healthy" is swopping bodies, by implanting his mind into Lister's and vice versa, so that Rimmer can undergo a hefty exercise regime in Lister's body. However, Rimmer is overtaken with excitement at the prospect of having a physical body again and refuses to give it back to Lister.
	"Timeslides"	12 December 1989	5	17
	The developing fluid that Kryten uses to process old photographs mutates and the photographs come alive. The Red Dwarf crew find they can go into the photograph, and Lister finds that the photographs allows them to go back in time and he plans on changing history so that he doesn't end up marooned in deep space.
	"The Last Day"	19 December 1989	6	18
	Lister receives a pre-recorded message from Jim Repear, head of Diva-Droid international, the company that created Kryten. Kryten is ordered to be dismantled within 24 hours and is to be replaced by Hudzen-10, a super-strong android, who has been tracking Kryten for thousands of years and is now on an intercept course with Red Dwarf. The Dwarfers decide to throw Kryten a leaving party, and give Kryten one last night to remember.

[edit] Series IV (1991)

Screenshot	Title	Original airdate	# in series	Total #
	"Camille"	14 February 1991	1	19
	Lister helps Kryten to break his programming so that he can lie and insult. Later, when Kryten rescues a mechanoid named Camille, the sole survivor from a crashed spaceship, she appears to be his perfect mechanoid partner. However, Rimmer and Lister also see their fantasy women when they see Camille. Secrets, lies and broken hearts ensue and an ending similar to Lister's favourite film, Casablanca.
	"DNA"	21 February 1991	2	20
	A mysterious derelict spacecraft containing extremely advanced technology, perhaps alien, docks with Red Dwarf. On board the Dwarfers discover a D.N.A modifier, a genetic altering machine that can metamorphose any organic life. But all havoc breaks loose, when Lister gets turned into a chicken and then a hamster; Kryten becomes human; and a curry monster is created from Lister's vindaloo.
	"Justice"	28 February 1991	3	21
	The Dwarfers pick up a defrosting escape pod bearing a woman's name. There is also the possibility it may in fact be a deranged bio-mechanical killer on his way to "Justice World", a deep space penal station. The Dwarfers go to "Justice World" for answers about the pod. Rimmer is promptly convicted of the radioactive disaster that wiped out the entire crew of Red Dwarf, equal to 1,169 separate counts of second-degree murder.
	"White Hole"	7 March 1991	4	22
	Holly has her intelligence briefly restored to an I.Q. of 12,370, but a side effect of this is that her run-time is reduced to a few minutes and Red Dwarf is left entirely without power befor this holly has a wierd `chat` with the talkie toaster then because of the run time she switches herself off which leaves red dwarf with no lighting or maneuvering capability. Meanwhile, Lister has to play pool with planets in order to seal up a "white hole" that is causing disruptive time anomalies.
	"Dimension Jump"	14 March 1991	5	23
	The crew meet a parallel version of Rimmer. Arnold "Ace" Rimmer is a dashing daredevil test pilot for the space corps, and he has been assigned to test-pilot a ship that can travel through dimensions, so he can meet many different versions of himself. He enters our dimension to meet our Rimmer, the weasely cowardly version, who has gone on a fishing holiday with the rest of the Dwarfers.
	"Meltdown"	21 March 1991	6	24
	The Dwarfers use a prototype "matter paddle" to teleport to a nearby planet with an S3 (or Earth-like) atmosphere. They discover the planet has been visited by humans many years previously, who populated the planet with "wax droids"; animated wax works of famous characters from Earth's history. Lister and Cat are taken prisoner by Caligula, Adolf Hitler and Godzilla, whilst Rimmer and Kryten lead a resistance group against them along with Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Gandhi, Winnie the Pooh, Mother Teresa and Elvis Presley.

[edit] Series V (1992)

Screenshot	Title	Original airdate	# in series	Total #
	"Holoship"	20 February 1992	1	25
	Rimmer is abducted for the purposes of study by holograms with super intelligence, away to a space vessel which is itself holgramatic, where Rimmer has a physical presence. There he does his best to show he is capable of becoming one of them before he is taken back to Red Dwarf by passing an exam against a hologramic genius. The situation is complicated further when he discovers his opponent in the test is Nirvanah Crane, a female hologramic commander he thinks he is falling in love with.
	"The Inquisitor"	27 February 1992	2	26
	The Inquistor is a time-travelling android who acts as jury and executioner to those whom he believes have led worthless lives, and erases all trace of them from history and out of existence. The Red Dwarf crew are the next to be put before this judge and justify their existence, and it doesn't sound good for our crew of slobs, failures and misfits...
	"Terrorform"	5 March 1992	3	27
	Kryten and Rimmer crash land on a "psi-moon", an artificial planetoid which terraforms itself to match the inner psyche and subconscious of anyone who lands on it. Kryten is smashed to pieces in the crash, and Rimmer finds himself alone and taken prisoner by manifestations his own inner demons. Lister, Cat and Holly arrive to rescue them, but too find themselves trapped in an environment shaped by Rimmer's bizarre, self-loathing mind.
	"Quarantine"	12 March 1992	4	28
	After investigating an abandoned biological research complex on an ice planet, Lister, Cat and Kryten return to Red Dwarf only to find Rimmer has taken over the ship. While Rimmer orders them into quarantine for three months, Rimmer is himself slowly taken over by an electronic virus that corrupts his hologram, gives him telekinetic powers, and turns him completely and utterly insane.
	"Demons and Angels"	19 March 1992	5	29
	An experiment with a machine that can make duplicates of an object goes wrong and Red Dwarf explodes. The Dwarfers escape aboard Starbug but find that the duplicating machine has made two copies of Red Dwarf in place of the original; one of these copies has extracted all the "good" qualities of the former vessel, and the other has extracted all the "bad" qualites. The Dwarfers board both, meeting angelic manifestions of themselves and demonic manifestions of themselves.
	"Back to Reality"	26 March 1992	6	30
	The Dwarfers take Starbug down into the watery depths of an ocean planet to investigate the wreck of the Esperanto, where they find the ship's crew have all committed suicide and they are attacked by a sea monster, the "Despair Squid". The crew then wake up to find they are not who they think they are, Red Dwarf and Starbug don't exist, and they have in fact been playing a virtual reality computer game for four years.

[edit] Series VI (1993)

Screenshot	Title	Original airdate	# in series	Total #
	"Psirens"	7 October 1993	1	31
	200 years after investigating the Esperanto, the Dwarfers awake from suspended animation aboard Starbug with amnesia, and find that their mothership Red Dwarf is missing (or has been stolen from them). Chasing a faint vapour trail which may lead to their mothership, the Dwarfers travel through an asteroid field containing many lost and crashed spaceships. The asteroid field is inhabited by "Psirens", genetically engineered alien creatures that telepathically lure the ship's crew on the asteroids so that they can suck out their brains.
	"Legion"	14 October 1993	2	32
	Chasing the supposed vapour trail of Red Dwarf into a gas nebula, Starbug is taken over by a tractor beam which takes it to a deep space space station. The Dwarfers discover Legion, a highly intelligent, sophisticated and cultured lifeform conceived out of an experiment by a group of famous scientists.This is the episode where Arnold Rimmer requires a hard light holoprojection unit which enables him to do any thing a normal human can do (touch,feel,eat,pain and pleasure) and is virtually indestructible which is proved later on in the episode also Later on, they learn that Legion is composed from the minds of each member of the crew and as such they are sustaining his very existence with their presence. Legion won't allow them to leave and continue the search for Red Dwarf...
	"Gunmen of the Apocalypse"	21 October 1993	3	33
	Starbug narrowly wins a battle with some murderous cyborgs, or "Rogue Simulants". However the "Simulants" have infected Starbug with a computer virus and the ship is locked on a collision course with a volcanic planet. Kryten attempts to fight the virus, the battle against the virus taking the form of an old wild-west movie in his mechanical mind, but the virus overtakes him. Lister, Cat and Rimmer then enter Kryten's wild-west dream using an artificial reality video game in attempt to buy Kryten some time to come up with an antidote.
	"Emohawk: Polymorph II"	28 October 1993	4	34
	Starbug is attacked by an advanced Space Corp enforcement probe, for looting from derelict ships. The Dwarfers manage to escape by entering Gelf space but Starbug crashes on a Gelf moon. Lister must marry the Gelf chieftain's daughter in exchange for an oxygen breathing unit. The Dwarfers escape with the engine part during Lister's honeymoon, but the Gelf chieftain sends a Polymorph after them.
	"Rimmerworld"	4 November 1993	5	35
	The Dwarfers return to the wreck of the Simulant's battleship to salvage for food supplies. But Rimmer, who has been diagnosed with a tense nervous disorder, escapes in a pod which has no steering, and is whisked away through a time-hole and crashes on a planet. The Dwarfers follow Rimmer through the time-hole, but due to its effects arrive at the planet 600 years after Rimmer arrived. And the planet is populated with thousands of Rimmer's clones...
	"Out of Time"	11 November 1993	6	36
	Starbug enters an artificial fog containing devices that create false realities. Persevering through it, the Dwarfers find what it is hiding - a time machine. Shortly after they meet themselves from fifteen years into the future. The Dwarfers learn their future selves are incredibly corrupt and amoral through abusing the time drive for years and experiencing the "very best" of history. In the end, the two Starbug crafts engage in a space battle, and the present Dwarfers are blown to smithereens.

[edit] Series VII (1997)

Screenshot	Title	Original airdate	# in series	Total #
	"Tikka to Ride"	17 January 1997	1	37
	The Dwarfers find themselves resurrected due to the time paradox resulting from the battle with their future selves. The time paradox also results in a greatly upgraded and much larger Starbug. However, the curry supplies have gone missing, and so Lister devises a sneaky plan which involves swopping Kryten's heads, once again utlising the dreaded time machine, and which ultimately results in the Dwarfers accidentally getting mixed up in the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas in 1963.
	"Stoke Me a Clipper"	24 January 1997	2	38
	Daredevil pilot Ace Rimmer, fatally wounded after rescuing Princess Bonjella from the Nazis, travels from his own dimension into the Dwarfer's dimension. His intention is to try and bring out some courage in the cowardly version of himself aboard Starbug, and then hopefully recruit Arnold Rimmer as his replacement so that after his death another version of himself will carry on the legacy of the interstellar space hero. Will Arnold Rimmer continue the legacy of Ace Rimmer?
	"Ouroboros"	31 January 1997	3	39
	Lister, Cat and Kryten stumble upon a tear in the fabric of space that leads to another dimension (this doorway is possibly a result of Rimmer's departure to another dimension in Wildfire at the end of the previous episode). There they meet a parallel version of Lister's old flame, Kristine Kochanski, who becomes stranded on Starbug. Meanwhile Lister discovers the truth about himself and who his parents were.
	"Duct Soup"	7 February 1997	4	40
	Kryten gets fussy thinking that Lister likes Kochanski better than him. When the primary power goes off and they all get stuck in a room, they have no choice but to climb into the small ventilation ducts which wind round Starbug like intestines, in order to escape. Whilst inside the ducts they discover a lot about each other, including the fact Lister is claustrophobic. After hours of scurrying around they end up back out in the same room.
	"Blue"	14 February 1997	5	41
	Starbug is travelling through a rather uninteresting region of space and the crew are bored and begin to nipick at petty areas of their lives. Kryten's rivalry with Kochanski reaches new heights as the salad cream keeps winding up in the cupboard and pants are found in her socks drawer. Meanwhile Lister finds, much to own surprise and disgust, that he is missing Rimmer, and even having romantic dreams about him returning (which leads to Lister's hottest kiss yet). Kryten's solution is to take him on a ride called "The Rimmer Experience," which recounts many outrageously fictionalised events from Rimmer's diaries. Sure enough Lister is soon remembering what Rimmer was really like.
	"Beyond a Joke"	21 February 1997	6	42
	Searching for a new head for Kryten (which exploded due to build-up of negative thought after an incident involving ketchup and lobster), the crew encounter a rogue simulant on a deserted ship. The simulant kidnaps Kryten and commissions one of his own droids, Able, to fix him up. But Kryten and Able discover they're brothers, the same model, and Able helps Kryten escape. Kryten then discovers from Able a disturbing secret about his creation...
	"Epideme"	28 February 1997	7	43
	The crew come across a frozen supply ship, the Leviathan, with one survivor: Caroline Carmen, one of Lister's former crushes. She revives in the middle of the night (as a zombie; she has apparently been dead for a long time) and infects Lister with the dreaded Epideme virus. Epideme is a genetically engineered virus that will kill Lister and turn him into a zombie so Lister tries talking with it directly through a communication link (Epideme is a sentient, self-aware organism) but Epideme refuses to let Lister live. Lister ends up losing an arm to the virus, before coming up with an even more drastic solution...
	"Nanarchy"	7 March 1997	8	44
	Lister tries to cope with the loss of his arm. Meanwhile Kryten searches for his nanobots; microscopic robots that are incredibly advanced and which can alter or metamorphose all forms of matter at the sub-atomic level, so that he can get the nanobots to rebuild Lister's arm. In Lister's laundry basket, Kryten finds the nanobots, and also discovers that it was the nanobots who stole the mothership Red Dwarf in the first instance. Kryten gets the nanobots to rebuild Red Dwarf and also Lister's arm. Lister finds that the nanobots have made him into a gigantic muscleman and Red Dwarf makes an appearance, hundreds of times larger then its original size.

[edit] Series VIII (1999)

Screenshot	Title	Original airdate	# in series	Total #
	"Back in the Red: Part I"	18 February 1999	1	45
	Part 1 of 3. The nanobots have rebuilt Red Dwarf not only in its entirety, but to its better, original design plans. In effect, the fresh new Red Dwarf is better than the old version of the ship the nanobots deconstructed in the first place - faster, more streamlined, containing more advanced technology, and with a prison which wasn't included the first time round due to budget cutbacks. After crashing Starbug in the docking bay, the Dwarfers discover the nanobots have also resurrected the original crew compliment of Red Dwarf who were all killed in the radioactive disaster three million years previously, and who now have no memory of the incident or events following it.
	"Back in the Red: Part II"	25 February 1999	2	46
	Part 2 of 3. Lister, the Cat, and Kochanski are in big trouble aboard the resurrected Red Dwarf with the freshly-resurrected Captain Hollister, when they find themselves standing trial for stealing and crashing a Starbug. Kryten is reprogrammed and has his factory settings restored. Lister tries to persuade the newly resurrected Arnold Rimmer to help him to escape so that he can track down the nanobots to corroborate his story. However the only way for Lister to convince Rimmer is by helping Rimmer find the luck virus and sexual magnestism virus in the crashed wreckage of Starbug.
	"Back in the Red: Part III"	4 March 1999	3	47
	Part 3 of 3. After discovering the sexual magnetism virus Lister told him about in the wreckage of Starbug, Rimmer finds he has become irresistibly attractive to every female crew member aboard Red Dwarf. The confidential reports he also finds (which Lister didn't intend for him to find) give Rimmer access to information he uses as part of a scheme to get promoted, and he begins to impress Captain Hollister. His plans are, of course, doomed to failure: it is revealed Rimmer is in an artificial reality program along with his bunkmate, where they are being observed by Captain Hollister as part of the trial.
	"Cassandra"	7 March 1999*	4	48
	Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Kryten and Kochanski have all been sentenced to two years in 'The Tank' on secretive Floor 13, for stealing a Blue Midget and abusing confidential information during their trial in virtual reality. Lister signs up the gang for the 'Canaries', thinking it is the prison choir and enticed by the list of privileges that go with it. Lister is unaware the 'Canaries' is actually a convict army utilised for reconnaissance on uncharted planets. Their first assignment is to investigate an abandoned spaceship on an ocean planet, where they discover Cassandra, a computer that can predict the future. But it spells bad news for Rimmer, when Cassandra predicts that he is going to die.
	"Krytie TV"	7 March 1999*	5	49
	Kryten has been placed in the Women's Wing of The Tank, due to his lack of genitalia. After making the mistake of revealing that he showers with the female convicts, Kill Crazy reprograms Kryten, making him a ruthless and amoral entrepreneur. Kryten soon puts on "Krytie TV", a pirate entertainment show for the convicts, where he goes into the women's shower room and films the exposed naked bodies of the female convicts, including Kochanski. Rimmer and Lister have been given a retrial, and Kryten endangers their only chance of freedom, when he sets up Lister by messing up governor Ackerman's sleeping quarters.
	"Pete: Part I"	7 March 1999*	6	50
	Part 1 of 2. Rimmer and Lister are not having a good time, frequently in and out of the captain's office for various offences, each of which annoy Hollister more and more until he snaps and has them thrown in "the hole", a sparse prison cell inhabited only by an insane Welshman called Birdman and his pet sparrow, Pete. Meanwhile, the others return from a canary mission with a "time wand", a device that can manipulate time, and promptly freeze the crew in time.
	"Pete: Part II"	7 March 1999*	7	51
	Part 2 of 2. Lister and Rimmer drive Captain Hollister ever closer to a nervous breakdown. Kryten discovers the Time Wand can regress a living creature back into something it evolved from, and turns Baxter and Kill Crazy into apes. He also accidentally regresses Pete, Birdman's pet sparrow, into a Tyrannosaurus Rex which then goes on a rampage around Red Dwarf and eats the Birdman along with the Time Wand. With the rest of the crew frozen in time, Rimmer, Lister, Kryten, Kochanski, The Cat and Holly attempt to find a solution before the freeze wears off.
	"Only the Good..."	7 March 1999*	8	52
	An escape pod containing a genetically-engineered virus that eats metal has arrives on Red Dwarf and begins to eat away at the ship. Left on Red Dwarf to die, Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Kryten, Kochanski and Holly find their only chance at finding an antidote is in a mirror universe where everything is opposite, and Rimmer is sent into the mirror universe to find the antidote before Red Dwarf is destroyed. In the mirror universe, Rimmer finds what he has always wanted - he is no longer a lowly technician but the captain of the ship.

• The last five episodes of series 8 were all broadcast in the United States before they were aired in the UK.

[edit] Lost episodes

[edit] Bodysnatcher

This episode was originally to be the second episode of Series I, and would have involved Rimmer going insane trying to deal with his intangibility and attempting to build himself a new body by stealing parts of Lister's. It was dropped in favour of Me².

[edit] Dad

This episode would have been the opening to Series III. It was to be a direct continuation of the earlier episode Parellel Universe (the last episode of the second series), and would deal primarily with Lister's pregnancy. The idea was ultimately 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] The Red Dwarf A-Z

This was a half-hour documentary special that chose a different aspect of the show to focus on for each letter of the alphabet. Talking heads on the episode included Stephen Hawking, Terry Pratchett, original producer Paul Jackson, and Dwarf fan Patrick Stewart, in addition to an appearance from two (officially-licensed) Daleks. Finally, the night ended with a showing of the Emmy award-winning episode from 1993, Gunmen of the Apocalypse. The Red Dwarf A-Z is available for viewing on the Series II DVD.

[edit] 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.) This special is available for viewing on the Series IV DVD.

[edit] Universe Challenge

The cast competed 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. This special has not been released on DVD yet due to copyright complications.