The Best Episodes of Red Dwarf Season 8

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.5/10(848 votes)

   #1 - Back in the Red (1)

   S8:E12/18/1999

   Thanks to the nanobots, the Red Dwarf is back in business with its original crew on board, which means Rimmer is alive and well.

   Director:Ed Bye

   Writer:Doug Naylor

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   Director:Ed Bye

   Writer:Doug Naylor
2. 

   7.5/10(824 votes)

   #2 - Back in the Red (2)

   S8:E22/25/1999

   Armed with a stash of confidential files, Rimmer proceeds to brown-nose Capt. Hollister in hopes of receiving officer status.

   Director:Ed Bye

   Writer:Doug Naylor

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   Director:Ed Bye

   Writer:Doug Naylor
3. 

   7.2/10(822 votes)

   #3 - Back in the Red (3)

   S8:E33/4/1999

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

   Director:Ed Bye

   Writer:Doug Naylor

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   Director:Ed Bye

   Writer:Doug Naylor
4. 

   8.0/10(862 votes)

   #4 - Cassandra

   S8:E43/11/1999

   Lister thinks he's signing the gang up to sing in a prison choir but learns that he's enlisted them in an army of convicts used for suicide missions.

   Director:Ed Bye

   Writer:Doug Naylor

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   Director:Ed Bye

   Writer:Doug Naylor
5. 

   7.4/10(895 votes)

   #5 - Krytie TV

   S8:E53/18/1999

   After being cornered and reprogrammed by restless, sex-starved prisoners, Kryten launches his own television station called Krytie TV.

   Director:Ed Bye

   Writers:Doug Naylor, Paul Alexander

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   Director:Ed Bye

   Writers:Doug Naylor, Paul Alexander
6. 

   7.0/10(817 votes)

   #6 - Pete (1)

   S8:E63/25/1999

   After infecting the prison guards' basketball team with a sexual-enhancement virus, Lister and Rimmer are sent to the hole.

   Director:Ed Bye

   Writers:Doug Naylor, Paul Alexander

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   Director:Ed Bye

   Writers:Doug Naylor, Paul Alexander
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   6.9/10(817 votes)

   #7 - Pete (2)

   S8:E74/1/1999

   In an attempt to bring Pete the sparrow back to life, the Red Dwarfers inadvertently cause him to devolve into a tyrannosaur that stalks the ship.

   Director:Ed Bye

   Writers:Doug Naylor, Paul Alexander

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   Director:Ed Bye

   Writers:Doug Naylor, Paul Alexander
8. 

   7.3/10(829 votes)

   #8 - Only the Good...

   S8:E84/5/1999

   The series concludes as a mysterious life form invades the Red Dwarf courtesy of an escape pod and starts eating away at the ship.

   Director:Ed Bye

   Writer:Doug Naylor

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   Writer:Doug Naylor