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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 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.
  1. Background image for Lemons
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Lemons

    S10:E3

    The posse find themselves marooned in 23 AD where they rescue a famous historical figure with a beard.

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    Director:Doug Naylor
  2. Background image for The Beginning
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - The Beginning

    S10:E6

    The series final episode finds the boys surrounded by a Simulant War Cruiser and its fleet of attack ships. Armed with only two forks and a pencil sharpener, the Dwarfers begin to wonder whether this is the beginning of the end. Only one man can save them. Unfortunately that man is Arnold J Rimmer.

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    Director:Doug Naylor
  3. Background image for Dimension Jump
    8.7/10(9 votes)

    #3 - 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.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  4. Background image for Back to Reality
    8.7/10(7 votes)

    #4 - Back to Reality

    S5:E6

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

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  5. Background image for Polymorph
    8.5/10(11 votes)

    #5 - 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.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  6. Background image for Tikka to Ride
    8.5/10(8 votes)

    #6 - 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.

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    Director:Ed Bye
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  8. Background image for Entangled
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #7 - Entangled

    S10:E4

    Kryten and Cat become quantum entangled forcing them to do everything in unison.

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    Director:Doug Naylor
  9. Background image for Thanks for the Memory
    8.4/10(9 votes)

    #8 - 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.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  10. Background image for Queeg
    8.4/10(10 votes)

    #9 - 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.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  11. Background image for Justice
    8.4/10(10 votes)

    #10 - 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.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  12. Background image for Holoship
    8.4/10(11 votes)

    #11 - Holoship

    S5:E1

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

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    8.4/10(11 votes)

    #12 - Gunmen of the Apocalypse

    S6:E3

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

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    8.3/10(10 votes)

    #13 - 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.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  15. Background image for Demons & Angels
    8.3/10(7 votes)

    #14 - Demons & Angels

    S5:E5

    Lister and Kryten inadvertently blow up the Red Dwarf with a new invention that makes two copies of any object.

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    8.2/10(10 votes)

    #15 - 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.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  17. Background image for The Inquisitor
    8.2/10(8 votes)

    #16 - The Inquisitor

    S5:E2

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

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  18. Background image for Quarantine
    8.2/10(8 votes)

    #17 - Quarantine

    S5:E4

    When the crew goes exploring on a snowy planet, they cross paths with a hologram scientist infected with a nasty virus.

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    8.2/10(5 votes)

    #18 - Back in the Red (3)

    S8:E3

    After being slapped with a two-year prison sentence for committing crimes against the Space Corps, the Red Dwarfers are desperate to escape.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  20. Background image for Stasis Leak
    8.1/10(10 votes)

    #19 - 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.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  21. Background image for Parallel Universe
    8.1/10(9 votes)

    #20 - 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.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  22. Background image for Backwards
    8.1/10(15 votes)

    #21 - 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.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  23. Background image for Marooned
    8.1/10(10 votes)

    #22 - 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.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  24. Background image for Timeslides
    8.1/10(12 votes)

    #23 - 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.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  25. Background image for Legion
    8.1/10(9 votes)

    #24 - Legion

    S6:E2

    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.

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  26. Background image for Out of Time
    8.1/10(8 votes)

    #25 - Out of Time

    S6:E6

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

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Best Episodes Summary

"Lemons" is the best rated episode of "Red Dwarf". It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Doug Naylor and written by Doug Naylor, it aired on 10/18/2012. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Beginning".