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Lost in space and light years away from earth is the Jupiter Mining Ship Red Dwarf. In the late 22nd century, an on-board radiation leak kills all of the crew except for low-ranking technician Dave Lister, who is in suspended animation at the time, and his pregnant cat, Frankenstein, who is safely sealed in the cargo hold.
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- 01
Me²Lister wants Holly to load Kochanski's hologram up as a 2nd hologram, Rimmer decides that another hologram of himself would be much better and hides Kochanski's record tapes. - 02
CamilleKryten, Red Dwarf's on board mechanoid, rescues a female droid - Camille - from a crashed vessel. She's a 4000 series just like him, only a GTi model with realistic toes and a slide-back sunroof head. Kryten finds himself falling in advanced mutual compatibility on the basis of a primary ident (what humans call "love at first sight") only to find that true advanced mutual compatibility never runs in a non-glitch, bug-free way. - 03
Dimension JumpIn a universe almost identical to our own, another Arnold Rimmer exists. A test pilot in the Space Corps, he is charming, popular, brave and modest. After his test craft breaks the speed of reality, he finds himself face to face with his counterpart aboard Red Dwarf.
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Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01
The EndFebruary 15, 1988On board the mining ship Red Dwarf deep in space are Dave Lister and Arnold Rimmer. Two crew members that are the exact opposite of each oth - S01E02
Future EchoesFebruary 22, 1988Rimmer gets upset because Lister is planning on going into stasis for the rest of the trip. While getting ready for stasis strange things st - S01E03
Balance of PowerFebruary 29, 1988It's Saturday night and Lister wants to party while Arnold Rimmer insists on doing a inventory count of the ships supplies. When Lister obje - S01E04
Waiting for GodMarch 7, 1988Rimmer talks Holly into telling him the information that Captain Hollister put into Lister and his personal files. Holly informs Rimmer abou - S01E05
Confidence and ParanoiaMarch 14, 1988Lister goes down to a lower deck that Rimmer was supposed to clear of radiation and ends up sick. Because of the sickness, two personalities - S01E06
Season's bestMe²March 21, 1988Lister wants Holly to load Kochanski's hologram up as a 2nd hologram, Rimmer decides that another hologram of himself would be much better a
Season02
- S02E01
Season's bestKrytenSeptember 6, 1988After picking up a distress call, Lister, Rimmer and Cat get all spiffed up expecting to met the first women they have seen in who knows how - S02E02
Better Than LifeSeptember 13, 1988The crew gets a mail pod from Earth, Rimmer gets bad news. The pod also contains a video game called "Better Than Life" and they try it out. - S02E03
Thanks for the MemorySeptember 20, 1988The crew goes on a bender on a small moon, after they return Rimmer gets depressed about his love life. Lister then shares one of his memori - S02E04
Stasis LeakSeptember 27, 1988The guys find a stasis leak on level 16, Rimmer uses it to try and warn his earlier self about the crew dying so he will not become a hologr - S02E05
QueegOctober 4, 1988Right as things are getting extremely boring and monotonous Holly announces that he is being replaced by another computer hologram operating - S02E06
Parallel UniverseOctober 11, 1988Holly invents the Holly Hop drive that is supposed to take them back to Earth and instead they end up in a parallel universe on a parallel R
Season03
- S03E01
BackwardsNovember 14, 1989Rimmer is giving Kryten a driving lesson in Red Dwarfs Starbug and they end up going through a time hole in space. Kryten and Rimmer then la - S03E02
MaroonedNovember 21, 1989When Holly believes a disaster is about to occur, she calls a "Abandon Ship". Lister and Rimmer end up crashing one of the Starbugs on a ice - S03E03
PolymorphNovember 28, 1989A genetically engineered shape changing creature comes on board and starts sucking the crews emotions out of them one by one. - S03E04
BodyswapDecember 5, 1989A skutter goes berserk and rewires all the ship's circuitry. So when Lister orders a chocolate bar from one of the snack dispensers, he acci - S03E05
TimeslidesDecember 12, 1989The crew of the Red Dwarf run amok through history, blithely ignoring the consequences of causality. When Kryten discovers some mutated deve - S03E06
Season's bestThe Last DayDecember 19, 1989Kryten discovers his built-in expiry date is almost up and he has less than twenty-four hours to live. The crew are determined to give the m
Season04
- S04E01
Season's bestCamilleFebruary 14, 1991Kryten, Red Dwarf's on board mechanoid, rescues a female droid - Camille - from a crashed vessel. She's a 4000 series just like him, only a - S04E02
D.N.A.February 21, 1991The crew lock on to an unidentified craft containing the ultimate genetic engineering technology - a machine that can transform any living t - S04E03
JusticeFebruary 28, 1991Innate justice does not exist anywhere in the known universe except, that is, for Justice World, an abandoned penal colony equipped with a " - S04E04
White HoleMarch 7, 1991Holly regains her genius level IQ and for reasons best known to herself powers down the ship, leaving the crew drifting helplessly towards a - S04E05
Dimension JumpMarch 14, 1991In a universe almost identical to our own, another Arnold Rimmer exists. A test pilot in the Space Corps, he is charming, popular, brave and - S04E06
MeltdownMarch 21, 1991A matter transporter whisks the crew to Waxworld - a giant theme park, where the waxdroids have broken their programming, and are running am
Season05Best season
- S05E01
HoloshipFebruary 20, 1992Rimmer is transmitted from Red Dwarf to the advanced Holoship "Enlightenment" which contains the cream of the Space Corps. Everything he has - S05E02
The InquisitorFebruary 27, 1992The Inquisitor roams through Time weeding out life's wastrels and deleting the worthless - the Red Dwarf crew are in big, big trouble. - S05E03
Season's bestTerrorformMarch 5, 1992Rimmer is taken prisoner inside his own mind and ends up being stripped, oiled, manacled, licked, chained, taunted, humiliated and nearly ha - S05E04
QuarantineMarch 12, 1992After an encounter at a viral research centre, Rimmer forces the crew to spend twelve weeks in quarantine. But who's watching the watcher? - S05E05
Demons & AngelsMarch 19, 1992Who knows what evil lurks within the hearts of men? The Red Dwarf crew find out when they encounter their dark sides - four evil "doppelgang - S05E06
Back to RealityMarch 26, 1992The crew of Red Dwarf discover an abandoned space ship on an ocean bed but suddenly the salvage operation doesn't sound quite so sexy when t
Season06
- S06E01
PsirensOctober 7, 1993In pursuit of the stolen Red Dwarf, Lister and Co are attacked by Psirens - creatures who lure space-farers to their deaths with a lethal co - S06E02
LegionOctober 14, 1993Supplies are low. The water has been recycled so often, it's beginning to taste like Dutch lager. Then a malfunctioning guidance beam drags - S06E03
Gunmen of the ApocalypseOctober 21, 1993Kryten contracts a deadly computer virus, and Rimmer and Co are forced to enter his electronic mindscape. They find themselves in a wild wes - S06E04
Emohawk - Polymorph IIOctober 28, 1993The Dwarfers need replacement engine parts from the fearsome stomach-churningly ugly "Kinitawowi". But the GELF tribe are interested in only - S06E05
Season's bestRimmerworldNovember 4, 1993Trapped aboard a disintegrating ship, Rimmer abandons his crewmates, taking the only remaining escape pod. As he accelerates towards a nearb - S06E06
Out of TimeNovember 11, 1993When an identical ship materialises alongside Starbug, the crew are alarmed to receive an SOS call from themselves fifteen years into the fu
Season07
- S07E01
Tikka to RideJanuary 17, 1997The crew are dead, slain by their future selves in the cliff-hanger that ended series six. But coming back from the dead is a piece of cake - S07E02
Season's bestStoke Me a ClipperJanuary 24, 1997Rimmer's much more dashing alter ego, Ace Rimmer, arrives on Starbug terminally wounded. He asks Rimmer to take his place as the swashbuckli - S07E03
OuroborosJanuary 31, 1997When two realities converge, the Dwarfers undergo their most terrifying ordeal yet - they bump into a real, live, human woman who's attracti - S07E04
Duct SoupFebruary 7, 1997When the generator and its back-up go down in the middle of the night, the crew have to crawl through the mile long labyrinth of service duc - S07E05
BlueFebruary 14, 1997Lister finds himself missing Rimmer - until Kryten takes him on "The Rimmer Experience", a virtual reality ride featuring highlights of the - S07E06
Beyond a JokeFebruary 21, 1997Kochanski takes the crew into the Artificial Reality suite and transports them to Pride and Prejudice World hoping to educate them in the su - S07E07
EpidemeFebruary 28, 1997A strange, intelligent virus has impregnated Lister. He tries to set up a communication link with the disease to sweet-talk it into not kill - S07E08
NanarchyMarch 7, 1997The crew searches for nanobots in a laundry hamper to restore Lister to his pre-viral state. What they find is the answer to who stole their
Season08
- S08E01
Season's bestBack in the Red, Part 1February 18, 1999Not only have the nanobots recreated Red Dwarf, they've also populated the ship with its original crew. This is extremely good news for Rimm - S08E02
Back in the Red, Part 2February 25, 1999Rimmer is invited to dinner with the Captain and to make the evening go with a swing douses himself with the "Sexual Magnetism Virus" making - S08E03
Back in the Red, Part 3March 4, 1999The Dwarfers face two years in the brig for crimes against the Space Corps. Realising their defence has more holes than Lister's underpants - S08E04
CassandraMarch 11, 1999Taking Holly's advice Lister joins the "Canaries" - a battle hardened convict army trained to go on suicide missions, and not, as he thought - S08E05
Krytie TVMarch 18, 1999Kryten starts his own pirate TV station to entertain the prisoners. - S08E06
Pete, Part 1March 25, 1999When Rimmer and Lister are forced to take on the guards in a basketball game they sabotage the opposition's half-time juice with 'Boing' - t - S08E07
Pete, Part 2April 1, 1999The Dwarfers discover birds are descended from dinosaurs when they de-evolve a sparrow into a T-Rex! - S08E08
Only the Good...April 5, 1999Rimmer crosses into a mirror universe where he discovers another version of himself captaining the ship.
Season09
- S09E01
Season's bestBack to Earth, Part 1April 10, 2009Nine 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 - S09E02
Back to Earth, Part 2April 11, 2009Rimmer's replacement, Katerina, is determined to guide Lister back to his home planet. But Earth in 2009 is not everything the boys had expe - S09E03
Back to Earth, Part 3April 12, 2009Knowing they are destined to die, the Dwarfers head to a mysterious address in London to plead for more life.
Season10
- S10E01
TrojanOctober 4, 2012Rimmer receives an SOS Distress Call from a doomed ship commanded by his all-conquering brother, Howard. But Rimmer can't bring himself to s - S10E02
Season's bestFathers and SunsOctober 11, 2012Every year Lister sends himself a Father's Day card to celebrate the fact that he is his own father; but when Rimmer points out he's been a - S10E03
LemonsOctober 18, 2012Marooned in Britain in 23 AD, the Dwarfers need an 8-volt battery to power up their Returner Remote and get home. Remembering a lesson from - S10E04
EntangledOctober 25, 2012Lister loses Rimmer in a game of poker to a group of Biologically Engineered Life Forms and in return gets an unwanted gift: a groinal explo - S10E05
Dear DaveNovember 1, 2012Lister has women trouble when he gets himself in a love triangle with Snack Dispensers 23 and 34; then, to make matter worse, gets a letter - S10E06
The BeginningNovember 8, 2012Hiding in an Asteroid, surrounded by a Simulant Death Ship and a fleet of Annihilators, the Dwarfers begin to wonder whether this is the beg
Season11
- S11E01
TwenticaSeptember 22, 2016The Dwarfers find themselves in an alternative version of America where modern technology is prohibited, making Rimmer and Kryten illegal. T - S11E02
SamsaraSeptember 29, 2016When the Dwarfers investigate a crashed ship at the bottom of an ocean moon, Lister and Cat become trapped together and Lister's nightmare b - S11E03
Season's bestGive & TakeOctober 6, 2016After an altercation with a deranged droid Lister has his kidneys organ-napped. The only solution is to ask Cat, the most selfish creature i - S11E04
Officer RimmerOctober 13, 2016After a scandalous piece of good fortune Rimmer saves the life of a bio-printed Captain and is promoted, fulfilling his life-long dream of b - S11E05
KrysisOctober 20, 2016Kryten has a mid-life crisis and changes his body cover from Mech grey to Ferrari red. The posse try and show him how much he's achieved in - S11E06
Can of WormsOctober 27, 2016Cat takes time off from being in love with himself to fall head over heels in love with a lady Cat with a big secret.
Season12
- S12E01
CuredOctober 12, 2017The Dwarfers come across a space station where the crew have developed a cure for evil. - S12E02
Season's bestSiliconiaOctober 19, 2017Lister, Cat, and Rimmer get a taste of Kryten's life when they are uploaded into mechanoid bodies and forced into slavery. - S12E03
TimewaveOctober 26, 2017The Dwarfers run into a ship where criticism is illegal. How will Rimmer cope? - S12E04
MechocracyNovember 2, 2017When all the machines on Red Dwarf go on strike Rimmer and Kryten hold a Presidential election, while the Cat faces an identity crisis like - S12E05
M-CorpNovember 9, 2017When the Dwarfers upload the latest software update they discover the Jupiter Mining Corporation, owners of Red Dwarf, have been bought by M - S12E06
SkipperNovember 16, 2017Rimmer gets hold of a Quantum skipper and skips his way across the multi-verse looking for a dimension where he's not such a giant loser.
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