Red Dwarf Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Red Dwarf: Season 9 (2009)

• Season 9 Episode 3: Back to Earth - Part Three

  Part three of three. The hapless crew members are forced to track down their creators and beg for their lives after discovering they are destined to die. Last in the series

• Season 9 Episode 2: Back to Earth - Part Two

  Part two of three. Katerina guides Lister back to his home planet, but the Earth does not live up to the crew's expectations. Guest starring Sophie Winkleman

• Season 9 Episode 1: Back to Earth - Part One

  The first episode in a new three-part series of the cult sci-fi comedy. Lister, Cat, Rimmer and Kryten are up to their old tricks, but the discovery of a dimension-hopping leviathan in the ship's water tank threatens to change everything. Guest starring Sophie Winkleman, with Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Chris Barrie and Robert Llewellyn

Red Dwarf: Season 8 (1999)

• Season 8 Episode 8: Only the Good

  Kryten takes revenge for Lister's dodgy advice on female biology by hiding a stash of illegal hooch in the Dwarfers' cell just before an inspection. Meanwhile, a genetically engineered life-form begins to devour the ship. Sci-fi comedy, starring Chris Barrie and Craig Charles

• Season 8 Episode 7: Pete - Part Two

  Part two of two. Pete the Sparrow is turned into a dinosaur and, having eaten the time wand needed to reverse the process, rampages through the cargo decks devouring the ship's food stocks. In desperation Rimmer and Lister prepare a cow vindaloo recipe, hoping its effects allow them to recover the wand

• Season 8 Episode 6: Pete - Part One

  Part one of two. Rimmer and Lister are forced to play a bizarre game of basketball with the guards, but at half-time they spike the opposition's drink with a virility enhancement drug. Sci-fi comedy, guest starring Ricky Grover, with Chris Barrie and Craig Charles

• Season 8 Episode 5: Krytie TV

  Kryten sets up his own pirate TV station to entertain the prisoners, while Lister's guitar is found among Starbug's debris - much to Rimmer's horror. Robert Llewellyn, Craig Charles and Chris Barrie star

• Season 8 Episode 4: Cassandra

  Lister mistakenly joins the Canaries on the understanding that they are a prison choir - but soon discovers them to be an army of battle-hardened convicts. Comedy, starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles and Geraldine McEwan

• Season 8 Episode 3: Back in the Red - Part Three

  Part three of three. The Dwarfers escape from their captors to try to prove their innocence, unaware the authorities are hot on their trail. Cat finally falls in love with someone other than himself, and trips the light fantastic to impress the girl of his dreams

• Season 8 Episode 2: Back in the Red - Part Two

  Part two of three. Rimmer is invited to dinner by the captain, and plans to make himself irresistible to the female crew - thanks to an aphrodisiac virus. Comedy, starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Robert Llewellyn and Chloe Annett

• Season 8 Episode 1: Back in the Red - Part One

  Part one of three. The nanobots recreate Red Dwarf and populate the ship with the original crew - meaning Lister and Rimmer are reunited with the colleagues killed way back in the first episode of the sci-fi comedy. Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Chloe Annett, Robert Llewellyn and Danny John-Jules star

Red Dwarf: Season 7 (1997)

• Season 7 Episode 8: Nanarchy

  The crew catches up with Red Dwarf and encounters an old friend - but the reunion proves far from idyllic. Comedy series, starring Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules and Robert Llewellyn

• Season 7 Episode 7: Epideme

  Lister is impregnated with an intelligent but potentially fatal virus. Undaunted by the grim prognosis, he attempts to sweet-talk it into letting him live. Comedy, starring Craig Charles and Danny John-Jules

• Season 7 Episode 6: Beyond a Joke

  Kochanski transports the crew to Pride and Prejudice world, but Kryten's anger at being ignored by his shipmates prompts him to go on the rampage. Sci-fi comedy, starring Craig Charles, Chloe Annett, Robert Llewellyn and Don Henderson

• Season 7 Episode 5: Blue

  Lister is surprised to find that for some inexplicable reason he is starting to miss Rimmer and promptly resolves to have his head examined. Outer-space shenanigans, starring Craig Charles, Robert Llewellyn and Chris Barrie

• Season 7 Episode 4: Duct Soup

  The ship's generator breaks down, sending the crew members into a blind panic as they try to locate the engine room. Their eventful journey along a labyrinth of ducts reveals a few surprises, and sees Lister get up to unusual antics on top of a crate of canned pilchards. Comedy, starring Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules and Robert Llewellyn

• Season 7 Episode 3: Ouroboros

  Lister meets old flame Kristine Kochanski thanks to a strange overlap of dimensions - an encounter which sends Kryten into a jealous rage and leaves him plotting her sudden disappearance. Comedy, starring Craig Charles, Robert Llewellyn and Chloe Annett

• Season 7 Episode 2: Stoke Me a Clipper

  Rimmer's swashbuckling alter ego returns to the Starbug suffering from fatal injuries and asks his cowardly lookalike to replace him as guardian of the universe. Comedy, starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles and Danny John-Jules

• Season 7 Episode 1: Tikka to Ride

  As the crew struggle to make an improbable comeback from the dead, Lister embarks on an intergalactic quest for vindaloo, eventually winding up in Dallas in 1963, where he accidentally pushes a gun-man out of a window. Craig Charles and Chris Barrie star

Red Dwarf: Season 6 (1993)

• Season 6 Episode 6: Out of Time

  An identical ship materialises alongside Starbug - and the crew members are alarmed to receive an SOS call from their future selves. Sci-fi comedy, starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Robert Llewellyn and Danny John-Jules

• Season 6 Episode 5: Rimmerworld

  Cowardly Rimmer abandons his crewmates on a disintegrating spaceship, and ends up marooned on a barren planet for 600 years. After decades of boredom, he uses the escape pod's cloning equipment to populate his new home - with duplicates of himself. Sci-fi comedy, starring Chris Barrie

• Season 6 Episode 4: Emohawk : Polymorph II

  The crew members need urgent replacement engine parts - which can only be obtained if Lister marries the hideous daughter of an alien tribal chief. Sci-fi comedy, starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles and Danny John-Jules

• Season 6 Episode 3: Gunmen of the Apocalypse

  Starbug's navigational computer contracts a lethal computer virus, forcing Kryten to transfer it into his CPU in an attempt to destroy it - only to find himself in the midst of a virtual reality Wild West shoot-out. Sci-fi comedy, starring Chris Barrie, Robert Llewellyn and Craig Charles

• Season 6 Episode 2: Legion

  Lister and the crew are drawn to a desolate space station where they meet a bizarre alien life-form combining aspects of all their personalities. Spaced-out sci-fi comedy, starring Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Danny John-Jules and Robert Llewellyn

• Season 6 Episode 1: Psirens

  The crew members emerge from suspended animation to find they have lost their spaceship, and the search takes them into a region infested with Psirens - telepathic predators who take the form of their victims' greatest desire. Craig Charles, Chris Barrie and Jenny Agutter star

Red Dwarf: Season 5 (1992)

• Season 5 Episode 6: Back to Reality

  Lister and the crew are attacked by a giant sea monster while trying to salvage an abandoned spaceship from an ocean bed - but escape turns out to be harder than they imagined. Spaced-out sci-fi comedy, starring Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Danny John-Jules and Robert Llewellyn, with guest star Timothy Spall

• Season 5 Episode 5: Demons and Angels

  The crew members are understandably aghast to encounter their own evil doubles. Spaced-out comedy, starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles and Danny John-Jules

• Season 5 Episode 4: Quarantine

  Rimmer finally tires of being embarrassed by his fellow crewmen, and decides to take his revenge by forcing them to spend 12 weeks in strict quarantine after they are exposed to a deadly virus. Sci-fi comedy, starring Craig Charles and Chris Barrie

• Season 5 Episode 3: Terrorform

  Rimmer is taken prisoner in his own mind and subjected to a series of gruesome tortures devised by his imagination, leaving the rest of the crew to come up with a way to rescue him. Starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules and Robert Llewellyn

• Season 5 Episode 2: Inquisitor

  An Inquisitor's quest to eliminate worthless beings brings him aboard the Red Dwarf, where he has no shortage of candidates to choose from. Sci-fi comedy, starring Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Robert Llewellyn and Danny John-Jules

• Season 5 Episode 1: Holoship

  Rimmer tries desperately to earn a commission and qualify for transfer from Red Dwarf to an advanced holoship containing the cream of the Space Corps. Starring Chris Barrie and Craig Charles

Red Dwarf: Season 4 (1991)

• Season 4 Episode 6: Meltdown

  Lister and the crew invent a new way of travelling through space, and find themselves transported to a giant theme park whose inhabitants - waxwork droids - are fighting among themselves. Sci-fi comedy, starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles and Danny John-Jules

• Season 4 Episode 5: Dimension Jump

  Rimmer comes face to face with his double from another dimension - but soon finds the uncanny resemblance is purely physical. Sci-fi comedy, starring Chris Barrie and Craig Charles

• Season 4 Episode 4: White Hole

  Lister and Rimmer unwittingly put their lives in danger and end up in a white hole while attempting to boost Holly's IQ. Starring Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Hattie Hayridge and Danny John-Jules

• Season 4 Episode 3: Justice

  The space-bums land on a planet where crime is prevented by a 'Justice Field' which makes the crew reflect on their past transgressions. Sci-fi comedy, starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles and Danny John-Jules

• Season 4 Episode 2: DNA

  The crew find a machine capable of transforming the shape of any living thing by altering its genetic make-up - a discovery resulting in a desperate fight for survival. Starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles and Danny John-Jules

• Season 4 Episode 1: Camille

  Kryten falls head over heels in love with a female mechanoid - but the object of his desire isn't all she appears to be. Robert Llewellyn, Craig Charles and Chris Barrie star

Red Dwarf: Season 3 (1989)

• Season 3 Episode 6: The Last Day

  Kryten discovers his expiry date is less than 24 hours away, prompting Lister and Rimmer to organise a party he will never forget, but the hapless space cadets are unaware their mechanoid friend's death could spell the end for them all. Sci-fi comedy, starring Craig Charles and Chris Barrie

• Season 3 Episode 5: Timeslides

  Kryten discovers a developing fluid has mutated, causing photographs to come to life - and giving Lister an idea. Sci-fi comedy, starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Robert Llewellyn and Danny John-Jules

• Season 3 Episode 4: Bodyswap

  Rimmer suggests an ingenious new way for Lister to lose weight : by swapping bodies with him. Cult sci-fi comedy, starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles and Danny John-Jules

• Season 3 Episode 3: Polymorph

  A grotesque salivating genetic mutant goes on the rampage aboard the ship, spreading terror and causing major headaches for Lister and Rimmer. Sci-fi comedy, starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles and Frances Barber

• Season 3 Episode 2: Marooned

  Lister finds himself marooned on an arctic moon with only a pack of instant noodles and a tin of dog food to live off - and some cold comfort from Rimmer. Cult comedy, starring Chris Barrie and Craig Charles

• Season 3 Episode 1: Backwards

  Lister and Rimmer finally arrive back on Earth - only to discover they have slipped through a time hole. Cult space comedy, starring Chris Barrie and Craig Charles

Red Dwarf: Season 2 (1988)

• Season 2 Episode 6: Parallel Universe

  Holly's new invention hurls the crew into a parallel universe inhabited by their opposites, confirming Lister's darkest fears, and giving Cat a major shock when he meets his counterpart. Sci-fi comedy, starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules and Norman Lovett, boasting a spectacular song-and-dance routine performed by the cast

• Season 2 Episode 5: Queeg

  Holly is involved in a duel to the death against the Queeg 500 - the super-strict backup computer that replaced him after a series of serious disasters. Sci-fi comedy, starring Norman Lovett, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules and Chris Barrie

• Season 2 Episode 4: Stasis Leak

  A leak from the suspended animation chamber gives the crew a doorway to the past, prompting Lister to race to save lost love Kochanski's life - much to Rimmer's fury. Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Norman Lovett and Clare Grogan star

• Season 2 Episode 3: Thanks for the Memory

  The crew members wake up to the realisation their memories have been erased - and to make matters worse, some fiend has completed the jigsaw. Comedy, starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Norman Lovett and Danny John-Jules

• Season 2 Episode 2: Better Than Life

  The crew plug themselves into a computer game to play in a virtual world and live out their fantasies - but it cannot be long before Rimmer's dark and twisted mind fouls things up for everyone. Sci-fi comedy, starring Chris Barrie

• Season 2 Episode 1: Kryten

  The crew answer a distress call from a trio of foxy ladies on marooned craft the Nova 5 - but their efforts seem wasted when deranged android Kryten turns out to be far more enthusiastic about the arrival of the rescue team than the girls are. Comedy, starring Craig Charles and David Ross

Red Dwarf: Season 1 (1988)

• Season 1 Episode 6: Me (Squared)

  Lister and the Cat are horrified when Rimmer duplicates himself - but their shock turns to hilarity when the identically petty pair move in together, only to find they're not very well matched. Chris Barrie, Craig Charles and Danny John-Jules star

• Season 1 Episode 5: Confidence and Paranoia

  Lister comes down with a mutated strain of pneumonia which makes his feverish hallucinations come to life : but some of them turn out to be very tricky customers indeed, and wage a war over the patient's mind. Sci-fi comedy, starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles and Craig Ferguson

• Season 1 Episode 4: Waiting for God

  Rimmer is sent into a frenzy of scientific research when Holly recovers an unidentified pod floating in the frozen reaches of space, while Lister is thrilled to discover he is a god - until he finds out what has been done in his name. Comedy, starring Chris Barrie, Danny John-Jules, Craig Charles and Norman Lovett

• Season 1 Episode 3: Balance of Power

  Lister yearns for intelligent conversation with people he actually likes - but with only Rimmer for company, he's forced to take desperate action. Comedy, starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles and Norman Lovett

• Season 1 Episode 2: Future Echoes

  The ship exceeds the speed of light, allowing the crew to see echoes of future events - but while Rimmer gets a pleasant surprise, there's a shock in store for Lister. Sci-fi comedy, starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles and Danny John-Jules

• Season 1 Episode 1: The End

  First-ever episode of the sci-fi comedy series. After three million years in suspended animation, Dave Lister awakes to find he's the last surviving member of the human race, with only a mutated cat and a hologram of his least favourite crewmate for company. Craig Charles and Chris Barrie star