The Best Episodes Directed By Ed Bye
Every TV Episode Directed by Ed Bye Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Ed Bye Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Ed Bye is "Accident", rated 8.8/10 from 4 user votes. It was "written by Rik Mayall". "Accident" aired on 10/29/1991 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Dimension Jump".
8.8/10 4 votes#1 - Accident
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1991
It's Richie's birthday and he has a big party planned, Eddie's friends and all the birds' Richie knows are coming. As he prepares for the party, putting up the decorations, Richie falls and horribly breaks his leg. Will having his leg in plaster and being in a wheelchair ruin his party, will it heck as like!
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Rik Mayall
8.7/10 9 votes#2 - Dimension Jump
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 3/14/1991
After Rimmer comes face-to-face with his alter ego, the craven hologram decides he can't stand the sight of his counterpart.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.7/10 3 votes#3 - Smells
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1991
Richie and Eddie return home after another depressing night down the pub trying to pick up women and failing miserably. Richie is beginning to think that he is never going to get the chance to do it' until Eddie suggests that he puts an ad in the local paper. This idea revitalizes Richie and he begins to read through the dating pages of the local rag. There he spots an ad for a pheromone spray that women are unable to resist, this is something that appeals to him even more and the two of them decide that they are going to have to try this out!
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Rik Mayall
8.7/10 3 votes#4 - Gas
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1991
The gasman calls to read Eddie and Ritchie's meter. Not a problem? It is when you are getting your gas from an illegal connection to your next-door neighbors gas. Can the boys persuade the meter reader that they don't use gas and stall him until they can disconnect their supply from next door?
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Rik Mayall
8.5/10 11 votes#5 - Polymorph
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 11/28/1989
Terror reigns on the Red Dwarf when a shape-shifting genetic mutant climbs aboard and subjects the crew to its menacing slobber.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.5/10 8 votes#6 - Tikka to Ride
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 1/17/1997
The crew goes back in time to get food but inadvertently lands in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, the day President Kennedy was assassinated.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.5/10 4 votes#7 - Holy
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1992
Eddie and Richie celebrate Christmas by inviting Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog around for Christmas dinner and a day of fun and games. After a knock at the door Richie finds a baby left on their doorstep. Due to a few misperceptions Richie believes the baby is the Second Coming of Jesus.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Rik Mayall
8.4/10 9 votes#8 - Thanks for the Memory
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/20/1988
When Lister awakens after a night of revelry, he's at a loss to explain how he and Cat broke their legs.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.4/10 10 votes#9 - Queeg
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/4/1988
With Holly on the fritz, the ship's backup computer, Queeg 500, steps in to command the Red Dwarf and its crew of misfits.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.4/10 10 votes#10 - Justice
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 2/28/1991
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.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.3/10 10 votes#11 - White Hole
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 3/7/1991
Kryten's attempts to restore Holly's IQ to genius level inadvertently cause the Red Dwarf to shut down its support systems.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.3/10 3 votes#12 - Apocalypse
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1991
After inheriting £600 from Richie's Auntie Olga, the two decide to spend it down the Funfair, where Richie learns that he is destined to die in three nights time. He goes to the lengths of kicking Eddie out to escape his fate, but can't do anything when the Grim Reaper comes knocking!!!
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Rik Mayall
8.3/10 3 votes#13 - Digger
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1992
Eddie and Richie join Mrs. Lineker's Love Bureau hoping to find their perfect women. Richies video tells the viewers that he is, in fact, a Duke and this gets him a date with a countess from Moldavia. He invites her to his place and arranges for Eddie to pretend to be his butler for the evening.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Rik Mayall
8.3/10 3 votes#14 - Culture
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1992
The boys' television has been repossessed and they are at a complete loss, they cannot find anything to keep them occupied, they have tried to do the crossword. Richie decides to challenge Eddie to a game of chess, even though they don't have all the pieces in their set! They decide to improvise and use various odd items to replace the missing pieces.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Rik Mayall
8.2/10 10 votes#15 - D.N.A.
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 2/21/1991
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.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.2/10 5 votes#16 - Back in the Red (3)
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 3/4/1999
After being slapped with a two-year prison sentence for committing crimes against the Space Corps, the Red Dwarfers are desperate to escape.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.1/10 10 votes#17 - Stasis Leak
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/27/1988
A wrinkle in time takes the crew 3 million years into the past, before the radiation leak killed everyone aboard except Lister.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.1/10 9 votes#18 - Parallel Universe
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/11/1988
After testing Holly's latest invention, the crew ends up in a parallel universe where they encounter opposite versions of themselves.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.1/10 15 votes#19 - Backwards
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 11/14/1989
The crew undergoes some major changes in the season opener as Lister prepares to give birth to twins.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.1/10 10 votes#20 - Marooned
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 11/21/1989
As the Red Dwarf approaches a minefield of black holes, the crew must evacuate, throwing Lister and Rimmer together on a frozen planet.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.1/10 12 votes#21 - Timeslides
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 12/12/1989
Kryten's discovery of a liquid that transforms photographs into interactive portals sends the Red Dwarf crew on a series of misadventures.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.1/10 8 votes#22 - Epideme
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 2/28/1997
After being seduced by a 3-million-year-old corpse, Lister discovers he's contracted a deadly STD.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.1/10 8 votes#23 - Nanarchy
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 3/7/1997
After losing his arm in a battle with the Epideme virus, Lister enlists the help of nanobots to reconstruct his mangled body.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.0/10 5 votes#24 - Kryten
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/6/1988
A distress signal draws the ship's crew to the site of a space shuttle crash.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.0/10 8 votes#25 - Stoke Me a Clipper
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 1/24/1997
Ace Rimmer -- Rimmer's charming alter ego from another reality -- revisits the crew to ask Rimmer an important favor.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor