Red Dwarf

The Best Episodes of Red Dwarf

Genres:ComedySci-Fi & Fantasy
Networks:BBC TwoU&Dave

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.
Episodes
73
Avg. Rating
7.8
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S3
S4
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E2
E3
7.9
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8.5
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8.4
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8.1
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  1. 9.3/10(1.2k votes)

    #1 - Back to Reality

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    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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  2. 8.9/10(1.1k votes)

    #2 - Quarantine

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    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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  3. 8.8/10(1.1k votes)

    #3 - Polymorph

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    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
  4. 8.7/10(1.1k votes)

    #4 - Queeg

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    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
  5. 8.7/10(1.0k votes)

    #5 - Legion

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    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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  6. 8.6/10(994 votes)

    #6 - Dimension Jump

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    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
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  8. 8.6/10(1.1k votes)

    #7 - Gunmen of the Apocalypse

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    S6:E3

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

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  9. 8.5/10(1.2k votes)

    #8 - Backwards

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    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
  10. 8.5/10(978 votes)

    #9 - Justice

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    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
  11. 8.4/10(1.1k votes)

    #10 - Better Than Life

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    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.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  12. 8.4/10(1.1k votes)

    #11 - Marooned

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    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
  13. 8.4/10(975 votes)

    #12 - White Hole

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    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
  14. 8.3/10(1.1k votes)

    #13 - Thanks for the Memory

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    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
  15. 8.3/10(922 votes)

    #14 - Out of Time

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    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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  16. 8.3/10(473 votes)

    #15 - Skipper

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    S12:E6

    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.

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    Director:Doug Naylor
  17. 8.2/10(1.0k votes)

    #16 - Timeslides

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    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
  18. 8.2/10(1.0k votes)

    #17 - Holoship

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    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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  19. 8.2/10(980 votes)

    #18 - The Inquisitor

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    S5:E2

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

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  20. 8.2/10(914 votes)

    #19 - Rimmerworld

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    S6:E5

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

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  21. 8.1/10(1.0k votes)

    #20 - Stasis Leak

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    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
  22. 8.1/10(1.0k votes)

    #21 - Parallel Universe

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    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
  23. 8.1/10(990 votes)

    #22 - The Last Day

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    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.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  24. 8.1/10(966 votes)

    #23 - D.N.A.

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    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
  25. 8.1/10(967 votes)

    #24 - Psirens

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    S6:E1

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

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  26. 8.1/10(1.1k votes)

    #25 - Trojan

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    S10:E1

    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.

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    Director:Doug Naylor

Best Episodes Summary

"Back to Reality" is the best rated episode of "Red Dwarf". It scored 9.3/10 based on 1247 votes. Directed by Rob Grant, Juliet May, Doug Naylor and written by Rob Grant, Doug Naylor, it aired on 3/26/1992. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Quarantine".