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The Best Episodes of Red Dwarf Season 5

Every episode of Red Dwarf Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Red Dwarf Season 5!

The Best Episodes of Red Dwarf Season 5

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 Back to Reality
    9.3/10(1.3k votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Background image for Quarantine
    8.9/10(1.1k votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. Background image for Holoship
    8.2/10(1.0k votes)

    #3 - 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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    8.2/10(987 votes)

    #4 - The Inquisitor

    S5:E2

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

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  5. Background image for Terrorform
    8.0/10(967 votes)

    #5 - Terrorform

    S5:E3

    After being captured by a "psy-moon," Rimmer becomes a prisoner of his own thoughts.

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  6. Background image for Demons & Angels
    8.0/10(969 votes)

    #6 - 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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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Back to Reality" is the best rated episode of "Red Dwarf" season 5. It scored 9.3/10 based on 1257 votes. Directed by Rob Grant, Juliet May, Doug Naylor and written by Rob Grant, Doug Naylor, it aired on 3/26/1992. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Quarantine".