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The Best Episodes of Red Dwarf

Every episode of Red Dwarf ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Red Dwarf!

The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
Genres:ComedySci-Fi & Fantasy
Networks:BBC TwoU&Dave
Episodes
73
Avg. Rating
7.8
S1
S2
S3
S4
E1
E2
E3
7.9
8.0
8.5
7.8
8.0
8.4
8.4
8.1
7.6
8.3
8.8
8.5

Best Episodes Summary

"Back to Reality" is the best rated episode of "Red Dwarf". It scored 9.3/10 based on 1238 votes. Directed by Doug Naylor, Rob Grant, Juliet May and written by Doug Naylor, Rob Grant, it aired on 3/26/1992. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Quarantine".

  • Back to Reality
    9.3/10(1,238)
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    #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, Rob Grant, Juliet May

    Writer: Doug Naylor, Rob Grant

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  • Quarantine
    8.9/10(1,117)
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    #2 - 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, Rob Grant

    Writer: Doug Naylor, Rob Grant

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  • Polymorph
    8.8/10(1,128)
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    #3 - 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, Rob Grant

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  • Queeg
    8.7/10(1,100)
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    #4 - 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, Rob Grant

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  • Legion
    8.7/10(1,012)
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    #5 - Legion

    Season 6 Episode 2

    Aired 10/14/1993

    With the Starbug running low on supplies, the crew goes hunting for rations and finds an abandoned spaceship with a wish-granting being on board.

    Director: Andy de Emmony

    Writer: Doug Naylor, Rob Grant

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  • Dimension Jump
    8.6/10(989)
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    #6 - 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, Rob Grant

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  • Gunmen of the Apocalypse
    8.6/10(1,073)
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    #7 - Gunmen of the Apocalypse

    Season 6 Episode 3

    Aired 10/21/1993

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

    Director: Andy de Emmony

    Writer: Doug Naylor, Rob Grant

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  • Backwards
    8.5/10(1,202)
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    #8 - 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, Rob Grant

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  • Justice
    8.5/10(971)
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    #9 - 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, Rob Grant

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  • Better Than Life
    8.4/10(1,115)
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    #10 - Better Than Life

    Season 2 Episode 2

    Aired 9/13/1988

    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

    Writer: Doug Naylor, Rob Grant

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  • Marooned
    8.4/10(1,073)
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    #11 - 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, Rob Grant

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    0
  • White Hole
    8.4/10(970)
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    #12 - 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, Rob Grant

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  • Thanks for the Memory
    8.3/10(1,044)
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    #13 - 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, Rob Grant

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  • Out of Time
    8.3/10(917)
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    #14 - Out of Time

    Season 6 Episode 6

    Aired 11/11/1993

    After experimenting with an abandoned time drive, the crew of the Red Dwarf comes face-to-face with an exact replica of the ship.

    Director: Andy de Emmony

    Writer: Doug Naylor, Rob Grant

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  • Skipper
    8.3/10(468)
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    #15 - 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

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  • Timeslides
    8.2/10(1,028)
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    #16 - 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, Rob Grant

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  • Holoship
    8.2/10(996)
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    #17 - Holoship

    Season 5 Episode 1

    Aired 2/20/1992

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

    Director: Juliet May

    Writer: Doug Naylor, Rob Grant

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  • The Inquisitor
    8.2/10(974)
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    #18 - 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, Rob Grant

    Writer: Doug Naylor, Rob Grant

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  • Rimmerworld
    8.2/10(908)
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    #19 - Rimmerworld

    Season 6 Episode 5

    Aired 11/4/1993

    Rimmer finds himself on a strange planet where the only other inhabitants are the clones he's made of himself.

    Director: Andy de Emmony

    Writer: Doug Naylor, Rob Grant

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  • Stasis Leak
    8.1/10(1,016)
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    #20 - 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, Rob Grant

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  • Parallel Universe
    8.1/10(1,040)
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    #21 - 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, Rob Grant

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  • The Last Day
    8.1/10(987)
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    #22 - The Last Day

    Season 3 Episode 6

    Aired 12/19/1989

    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: Doug Naylor, Rob Grant

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  • D.N.A.
    8.1/10(962)
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    #23 - 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, Rob Grant

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  • Psirens
    8.1/10(962)
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    #24 - Psirens

    Season 6 Episode 1

    Aired 10/7/1993

    After realizing that the Red Dwarf has been stolen, Lister, Rimmer, Kryten and Cat go looking for the missing ship.

    Director: Andy de Emmony

    Writer: Doug Naylor, Rob Grant

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  • Trojan
    8.1/10(1,092)
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    #25 - 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

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