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The Best Episodes of 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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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Red Dwarf Season 2 Episode 3 - Thanks for the Memory
    8.2/10(11 votes)

    #1 - 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
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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  2. Red Dwarf Season 2 Episode 5 - Queeg
    8.2/10(12 votes)

    #2 - 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
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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  3. Red Dwarf Season 3 Episode 3 - Polymorph
    8.2/10(13 votes)

    #3 - 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
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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  4. Red Dwarf Season 4 Episode 3 - Justice
    8.2/10(12 votes)

    #4 - 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
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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  5. Red Dwarf Season 4 Episode 2 - D.N.A.
    8.0/10(12 votes)

    #5 - 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
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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  6. Red Dwarf Season 4 Episode 5 - Dimension Jump
    8.0/10(12 votes)

    #6 - 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
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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  7. Red Dwarf Season 2 Episode 4 - Stasis Leak
    7.9/10(12 votes)

    #7 - 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
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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  8. Red Dwarf Season 2 Episode 6 - Parallel Universe
    7.9/10(11 votes)

    #8 - 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
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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  9. Red Dwarf Season 3 Episode 1 - Backwards
    7.9/10(17 votes)

    #9 - 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
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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  10. Red Dwarf Season 3 Episode 2 - Marooned
    7.9/10(12 votes)

    #10 - 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
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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  11. Red Dwarf Season 3 Episode 5 - Timeslides
    7.9/10(14 votes)

    #11 - 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
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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  12. Red Dwarf Season 2 Episode 2 - Better Than Life
    7.8/10(12 votes)

    #12 - Better Than Life

    S2:E2

    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.

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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  13. Red Dwarf Season 3 Episode 6 - The Last Day
    7.8/10(13 votes)

    #13 - 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
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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  14. Red Dwarf Season 5 Episode 1 - Holoship
    7.8/10(14 votes)

    #14 - Holoship

    S5:E1

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

    Director:Juliet May
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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  15. Red Dwarf Season 2 Episode 1 - Kryten
    7.7/10(7 votes)

    #15 - Kryten

    S2:E1

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

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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  16. Red Dwarf Season 4 Episode 4 - White Hole
    7.7/10(13 votes)

    #16 - 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
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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  17. Red Dwarf Season 5 Episode 6 - Back to Reality
    7.7/10(10 votes)

    #17 - Back to Reality

    S5:E6

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

    Directors:Rob Grant, Juliet May, Doug Naylor
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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  18. Red Dwarf Season 6 Episode 3 - Gunmen of the Apocalypse
    7.7/10(14 votes)

    #18 - Gunmen of the Apocalypse

    S6:E3

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

    Director:Andy de Emmony
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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  19. Red Dwarf Season 7 Episode 1 - Tikka to Ride
    7.7/10(11 votes)

    #19 - 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
    Writer:Doug Naylor

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  20. Red Dwarf Season 1 Episode 1 - The End
    7.6/10(14 votes)

    #20 - The End

    S1:E1

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

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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  21. Red Dwarf Season 1 Episode 6 - Me²
    7.6/10(8 votes)

    #21 - Me²

    S1:E6

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

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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  22. Red Dwarf Season 3 Episode 4 - Bodyswap
    7.6/10(13 votes)

    #22 - Bodyswap

    S3:E4

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

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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  23. Red Dwarf Season 1 Episode 5 - Confidence & Paranoia
    7.5/10(13 votes)

    #23 - Confidence & Paranoia

    S1:E5

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

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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  24. Red Dwarf Season 4 Episode 1 - Camille
    7.5/10(12 votes)

    #24 - Camille

    S4:E1

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

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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  25. Red Dwarf Season 5 Episode 2 - The Inquisitor
    7.5/10(11 votes)

    #25 - The Inquisitor

    S5:E2

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

    Directors:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor
    Writers:Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

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Best Episodes Summary

"Thanks for the Memory" is the best rated episode of "Red Dwarf". It scored 8.2/10 based on 11 votes. Directed by Ed Bye and written by Rob Grant, Doug Naylor, it aired on 9/20/1988. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Queeg".