8.7/107 votes#1 - Back to Reality
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 3/26/1992
While exploring an ocean planet, Lister, Kryten, Rimmer and Cat discover an abandoned ship whose entire crew committed suicide.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.3/107 votes#2 - Demons & Angels
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 3/19/1992
Lister and Kryten inadvertently blow up the Red Dwarf with a new invention that makes two copies of any object.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.2/108 votes#3 - The Inquisitor
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 2/27/1992
The crew crosses paths with a dark figure who calls himself the Inquisitor.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.2/108 votes#4 - Quarantine
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 3/12/1992
When the crew goes exploring on a snowy planet, they cross paths with a hologram scientist infected with a nasty virus.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
7.8/104 votes#5 - Siliconia
Season 12 Episode 2 - Aired 10/19/2017
A ship full of rogue androids who broke their programming want to help Kryten do the same. The M.I.L.F can only spell trouble for the remainder of the crew.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
7.7/103 votes#6 - Give and Take
Season 11 Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/2016
After an altercation with a deranged droid Lister has his kidneys organ-napped. The only solution is to ask Cat, the most selfish creature in the universe, to give him one of his.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
7.2/104 votes#7 - Mechocracy
Season 12 Episode 4 - Aired 11/2/2017
The machines of Red Dwarf go on strike. Kryten and Rimmer campaign against each other for their votes in an election to represent them.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
7.0/101 votes#8 - Back to Earth (1)
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 4/10/2009
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.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
7.0/101 votes#9 - Trojan
Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/2012
The Dwarfers' mining ship is still creaking though 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.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
7.0/103 votes#10 - Samsara
Season 11 Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/2016
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.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
7.0/103 votes#11 - Officer Rimmer
Season 11 Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/2016
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 Officer's club, which is out of bounds to the lower orders, and uses the bio-printer to fill it with versions of himself.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
6.8/105 votes#12 - Cured
Season 12 Episode 1 - Aired 10/12/2017
The crew stumble on a science centre where vile historical figures have been 'cured' of evil.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
6.8/104 votes#13 - Skipper
Season 12 Episode 6 - Aired 11/16/2017
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.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
6.7/103 votes#14 - Can of Worms
Season 11 Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/2016
Cat takes time off from being in love with himself to fall head over heels in love with a lady Cat with a big secret.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
6.5/104 votes#15 - M-Corp
Season 12 Episode 5 - Aired 11/9/2017
A long overdue software update spells trouble for the crew when they discover that the Jupiter Mining Corp has been sold!
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
6.3/103 votes#16 - Krysis
Season 11 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/2016
Kryten 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 life by taking him to visit a mechanoid from his old fleet.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
5.7/103 votes#17 - Twentica
Season 11 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/2016
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.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
5.5/104 votes#18 - Timewave
Season 12 Episode 3 - Aired 10/26/2017
The boys from the Dwarf discover a ship where all forms of criticism are illegal.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
N/A/101 votes#19 - Entangled
Season 10 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/2012
Kryten and Cat become quantum entangled forcing them to do everything in unison.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
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"Back to Reality" is the best rated episode directed by Doug Naylor. It scored 8.7/10 based on 7 votes. It was written by Doug Naylor. It aired on 3/26/1992 and is rated 0.4 points higher than their second-best episode, "Demons & Angels".