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Red Dwarf

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The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.

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Episodes

12 seasons · 73 episodes
Series I6 ep. · 1988
  1. Episode 1: The End

    Feb 15, 1988 · 30 min

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

  2. Episode 2: Future Echoes

    Feb 22, 1988 · 29 min

    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.

  3. Episode 3: Balance of Power

    Feb 29, 1988 · 30 min

    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.

  4. Episode 4: Waiting for God

    Mar 7, 1988 · 28 min

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

  5. Episode 5: Confidence & Paranoia

    Mar 14, 1988 · 30 min

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

  6. Episode 6: Me²

    Mar 21, 1988 · 29 min

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

Series II6 ep. · 1988
  1. Episode 1: Kryten

    Sep 6, 1988 · 28 min

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

  2. Episode 2: Better Than Life

    Sep 13, 1988 · 29 min

    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.

  3. Episode 3: Thanks for the Memory

    Sep 20, 1988 · 28 min

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

  4. Episode 4: Stasis Leak

    Sep 27, 1988 · 30 min

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

  5. Episode 5: Queeg

    Oct 4, 1988 · 30 min

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

  6. Episode 6: Parallel Universe

    Oct 11, 1988 · 28 min

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

Series III6 ep. · 1989
  1. Episode 1: Backwards

    Nov 14, 1989 · 27 min

    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.

  2. Episode 2: Marooned

    Nov 21, 1989 · 29 min

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

  3. Episode 3: Polymorph

    Nov 28, 1989 · 27 min

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

  4. Episode 4: Bodyswap

    Dec 5, 1989 · 27 min

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

  5. Episode 5: Timeslides

    Dec 12, 1989 · 28 min

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

  6. Episode 6: The Last Day

    Dec 19, 1989 · 27 min

    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.

Series IV6 ep. · 1991
  1. Episode 1: Camille

    Feb 14, 1991 · 27 min

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

  2. Episode 2: D.N.A.

    Feb 21, 1991 · 28 min

    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.

  3. Episode 3: Justice

    Feb 28, 1991 · 28 min

    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.

  4. Episode 4: White Hole

    Mar 7, 1991 · 28 min

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

  5. Episode 5: Dimension Jump

    Mar 14, 1991 · 29 min

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

  6. Episode 6: Meltdown

    Mar 21, 1991 · 26 min

    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.

Series V6 ep. · 1992
  1. Episode 1: Holoship

    Feb 20, 1992 · 28 min

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

  2. Episode 2: The Inquisitor

    Feb 27, 1992 · 28 min

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

  3. Episode 3: Terrorform

    Mar 5, 1992 · 27 min

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

  4. Episode 4: Quarantine

    Mar 12, 1992 · 28 min

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

  5. Episode 5: Demons & Angels

    Mar 19, 1992 · 27 min

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

  6. Episode 6: Back to Reality

    Mar 26, 1992 · 27 min

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

Series VI6 ep. · 1993
  1. Episode 1: Psirens

    Oct 7, 1993 · 29 min

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

  2. Episode 2: Legion

    Oct 14, 1993 · 28 min

    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.

  3. Episode 3: Gunmen of the Apocalypse

    Oct 21, 1993 · 29 min

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

  4. Episode 4: Emohawk: Polymorph II

    Oct 28, 1993 · 28 min

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

  5. Episode 5: Rimmerworld

    Nov 4, 1993 · 28 min

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

  6. Episode 6: Out of Time

    Nov 11, 1993 · 29 min

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

Series VII8 ep. · 1997
  1. Episode 1: Tikka to Ride

    Jan 17, 1997 · 29 min

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

  2. Episode 2: Stoke Me a Clipper

    Jan 24, 1997 · 29 min

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

  3. Episode 3: Ouroboros

    Jan 31, 1997 · 30 min

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

  4. Episode 4: Duct Soup

    Feb 7, 1997 · 29 min

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

  5. Episode 5: Blue

    Feb 14, 1997 · 27 min

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

  6. Episode 6: Beyond a Joke

    Feb 21, 1997 · 29 min

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

  7. Episode 7: Epideme

    Feb 28, 1997 · 29 min

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

  8. Episode 8: Nanarchy

    Mar 7, 1997 · 29 min

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

Series VIII8 ep. · 1999
  1. Episode 1: Back in the Red (1)

    Feb 18, 1999 · 28 min

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

  2. Episode 2: Back in the Red (2)

    Feb 25, 1999 · 28 min

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

  3. Episode 3: Back in the Red (3)

    Mar 4, 1999 · 29 min

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

  4. Episode 4: Cassandra

    Mar 11, 1999 · 29 min

    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.

  5. Episode 5: Krytie TV

    Mar 18, 1999 · 29 min

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

  6. Episode 6: Pete (1)

    Mar 25, 1999 · 28 min

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

  7. Episode 7: Pete (2)

    Apr 1, 1999 · 27 min

    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.

  8. Episode 8: Only the Good...

    Apr 5, 1999 · 30 min

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

Back to Earth3 ep. · 2009
  1. Episode 1: Back to Earth (1)

    Apr 10, 2009 · 23 min

    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.

  2. Episode 2: Back to Earth (2)

    Apr 11, 2009 · 25 min

    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.

  3. Episode 3: Back to Earth (3)

    Apr 12, 2009 · 24 min

    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.

Series X6 ep. · 2012
  1. Episode 1: Trojan

    Oct 4, 2012 · 30 min

    The Dwarfers' mining ship is still creaking through 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.

  2. Episode 2: Fathers & Suns

    Oct 11, 2012 · 30 min

    Lister grapples with the problem of being his own father.

  3. Episode 3: Lemons

    Oct 18, 2012 · 30 min

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

  4. Episode 4: Entangled

    Oct 25, 2012 · 30 min

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

  5. Episode 5: Dear Dave

    Nov 1, 2012 · 29 min

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

  6. Episode 6: The Beginning

    Nov 8, 2012 · 30 min

    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.

Series XI6 ep. · 2016
  1. Episode 1: Twentica

    Sep 22, 2016 · 28 min

    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.

  2. Episode 2: Samsara

    Sep 29, 2016 · 30 min

    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.

  3. Episode 3: Give & Take

    Oct 6, 2016 · 29 min

    After an altercation with a deranged droid, Lister has his kidneys organ-napped. The only solution is to ask Cat, the most self-absorbed creature in the universe, to donate one of his.

  4. Episode 4: Officer Rimmer

    Oct 13, 2016 · 28 min

    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 officers' club, which is out of bounds to the lower orders, and uses the bio-printer to fill it with versions of himself.

  5. Episode 5: Krysis

    Oct 20, 2016 · 27 min

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

  6. Episode 6: Can of Worms

    Oct 27, 2016 · 29 min

    Cat takes time off from being in love with himself to fall head-over-heels in love with a female cat with a big secret.

Series XII6 ep. · 2017
  1. Episode 1: Cured

    Oct 12, 2017 · 29 min

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

  2. Episode 2: Siliconia

    Oct 19, 2017 · 27 min

    A ship full of rogue androids that broke their programming want to help Kryten do the same. The MILF can only spell trouble for the remainder of the crew.

  3. Episode 3: Timewave

    Oct 26, 2017 · 27 min

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

  4. Episode 4: Mechocracy

    Nov 2, 2017 · 28 min

    The machines of Red Dwarf go on strike. Kryten and Rimmer campaign against each other for their votes in an election to represent them.

  5. Episode 5: M-Corp

    Nov 9, 2017 · 27 min

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

  6. Episode 6: Skipper

    Nov 16, 2017 · 28 min

    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.