The Best Episodes Directed By Ed Bye

Every TV Episode Directed by Ed Bye Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

  1. Background image for Accident
    8.8/10(4 votes)

    #1 - Accident

    S1:E6

    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
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  2. Background image for Gas
    8.7/10(3 votes)

    #2 - Gas

    S1:E2

    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
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  3. Background image for Holy
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #3 - Holy

    S2:E5

    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
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  4. Background image for Apocalypse
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #4 - Apocalypse

    S1:E4

    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
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  5. Background image for Digger
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #5 - Digger

    S2:E1

    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
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  6. Background image for Culture
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #6 - Culture

    S2:E2

    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
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  7. Background image for Dimension Jump
    8.2/10(10 votes)

    #7 - Dimension Jump

    S4:E5

    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:Rob Grant
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  8. Background image for Smells
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #8 - Smells

    S1:E1

    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
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  9. Background image for Polymorph
    8.1/10(12 votes)

    #9 - Polymorph

    S3:E3

    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:Rob Grant
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  10. Background image for Thanks for the Memory
    8.0/10(10 votes)

    #10 - Thanks for the Memory

    S2:E3

    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:Rob Grant
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  11. Background image for Queeg
    8.0/10(11 votes)

    #11 - Queeg

    S2:E5

    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:Rob Grant
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  12. Background image for Justice
    8.0/10(11 votes)

    #12 - Justice

    S4:E3

    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:Rob Grant
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  13. Background image for Tikka to Ride
    8.0/10(9 votes)

    #13 - Tikka to Ride

    S7:E1

    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
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  14. Background image for Contest
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #14 - Contest

    S1:E3

    Eddie and Richie have an argument over whether or not to watch the Miss World contest on their TV. An argument started by Eddie having spent most of the £11.80 they had to last them two months on a second hand copy of Parade magazine.

    Director:Ed Bye
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  15. Background image for Bottom's Up
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #15 - Bottom's Up

    S1:E5

    When Richie and Eddie's landlord has to leave to attend his mother's funeral, he leaves the two in charge of their shop, but something like this isn't going to stop Richie and Eddie from relaxing on Sunday, as the two decide to watch some cricket.

    Director:Ed Bye
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  16. Background image for Burglary
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Burglary

    S2:E3

    A burglar breaks into Richie and Eddies place and manages to get caught by them. Once they have him tied up they have to decide what to do with him and the loot he has stolen from other houses.

    Director:Ed Bye
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  17. Background image for The Out-takes
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - The Out-takes

    S7:E11

    Lee Mack, Sally Bretton and Katy Wix introduce a compilation of out-takes from across the various series.

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:Lee Mack
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  18. Background image for White Hole
    7.9/10(11 votes)

    #18 - White Hole

    S4:E4

    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:Rob Grant
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  19. Background image for Backwards
    7.8/10(16 votes)

    #19 - Backwards

    S3:E1

    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.

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:Rob Grant
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  20. Background image for Timeslides
    7.8/10(13 votes)

    #20 - Timeslides

    S3:E5

    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:Rob Grant
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  21. Background image for D.N.A.
    7.8/10(11 votes)

    #21 - D.N.A.

    S4:E2

    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:Rob Grant
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  22. Background image for Stasis Leak
    7.7/10(11 votes)

    #22 - Stasis Leak

    S2:E4

    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:Rob Grant
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  23. Background image for Parallel Universe
    7.7/10(10 votes)

    #23 - Parallel Universe

    S2:E6

    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:Rob Grant
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  24. Background image for Marooned
    7.7/10(11 votes)

    #24 - Marooned

    S3:E2

    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:Rob Grant
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  25. Background image for The Last Day
    7.6/10(12 votes)

    #25 - The Last Day

    S3:E6

    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.

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:Rob Grant
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Ed Bye Ratings Summary

"Accident" is the best rated episode directed by Ed Bye. It scored 8.8/10 based on 4 votes. It was written by Adrian Edmondson. It aired on 10/29/1991 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "Gas".