9.2/101,228 votesLoading...#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
8.9/101,109 votesLoading...#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
8.8/101,114 votesLoading...#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
8.7/101,092 votesLoading...#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
8.7/101,001 votesLoading...#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
8.6/10980 votesLoading...#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
8.6/101,061 votesLoading...#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
8.5/101,192 votesLoading...#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
8.5/10962 votesLoading...#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
8.4/101,107 votesLoading...#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
8.4/101,063 votesLoading...#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
8.4/10962 votesLoading...#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
8.3/101,037 votesLoading...#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
8.3/10906 votesLoading...#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
8.3/10461 votesLoading...#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
8.2/101,015 votesLoading...#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
8.2/10989 votesLoading...#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
8.2/10967 votesLoading...#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
8.2/10898 votesLoading...#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
8.1/101,008 votesLoading...#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
8.1/101,031 votesLoading...#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
8.1/10976 votesLoading...#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
8.1/10953 votesLoading...#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
8.1/10952 votesLoading...#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
8.1/101,082 votesLoading...#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
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
Best Episodes Summary
"Back to Reality" is the best rated episode of "Red Dwarf". It scored 9.2/10 based on 1228 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 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Quarantine".