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The Worst Episodes of Red Dwarf

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The Worst 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.

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  1. 6.0/10(4 votes)

    #1 - Twentica

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    S11:E1

    The Dwarfers find themselves in an alternative version of America where modern technology is prohibited, making Rimmer and Kryten illegal. The Dwarfers infiltrate the tech savvy underground and try to bring down the authoritarian regime.

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    Director:Doug Naylor
  2. 6.3/10(1.7k votes)

    #2 - Back to Earth (1)

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    S9:E1

    Nine years later the Red Dwarf crew are older but still none the wiser. Lister's busy day of annoying Rimmer is interrupted by the discovery of a dimension-hopping leviathan in the ship's mile-deep water tank.

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  3. 6.3/10(959 votes)

    #3 - Back to Earth (2)

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    S9:E2

    Rimmer's replacement, Katerina, is determined to guide Lister back to his home planet. But Earth in 2009 is not everything the boys had expected, and Rimmer has no intention of being replaced.

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    Director:Doug Naylor
  4. 6.3/10(475 votes)

    #4 - Timewave

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    S12:E3

    The boys from the Dwarf discover a ship where all forms of criticism are illegal.

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    Director:Doug Naylor
  5. 6.6/10(959 votes)

    #5 - Back to Earth (3)

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    S9:E3

    When Lister's busy day of annoying Rimmer was interrupted by the discovery of a dimension-hopping leviathan in the ship's mile-deep water tank, transporting the crew back to Earth, all Lister's dreams appear to be coming true.

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    Director:Doug Naylor
  6. 6.8/10(787 votes)

    #6 - Pete (2)

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    S8:E7

    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.

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  8. 6.8/10(4 votes)

    #7 - Krysis

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    S11:E5

    Kryten has a mid-life crisis and changes his body cover from Mech grey to Ferrari red. The posse try and show him how much he's achieved in life by taking him to visit a mechanoid from his old fleet.

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    Director:Doug Naylor
  9. 6.9/10(854 votes)

    #8 - Duct Soup

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    S7:E4

    Fearing he'll someday be replaced by Kristine Kochanski, a jealous Kryten "accidentally" shuts down the Starbug's engine.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  10. 7.0/10(824 votes)

    #9 - Beyond a Joke

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    S7:E6

    The crew reluctantly explores the works of Jane Austen when Kristine Kochanski takes them on a virtual reality tour of Pride and Prejudice World.

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  11. 7.0/10(787 votes)

    #10 - Pete (1)

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    S8:E6

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

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  12. 7.0/10(4 votes)

    #11 - Officer Rimmer

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    S11:E4

    After a scandalous piece of good fortune Rimmer saves the life of a bio-printed Captain and is promoted, fulfilling his life-long dream of becoming an Officer. He immediately opens an Officer's club, which is out of bounds to the lower orders, and uses the bio-printer to fill it with versions of himself.

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    Director:Doug Naylor
  13. 7.0/10(4 votes)

    #12 - Can of Worms

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    S11:E6

    Cat takes time off from being in love with himself to fall head over heels in love with a lady Cat with a big secret.

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  14. 7.1/10(480 votes)

    #13 - Siliconia

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    S12:E2

    A ship full of rogue androids who broke their programming want to help Kryten do the same. The M.I.L.F can only spell trouble for the remainder of the crew.

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  15. 7.2/10(796 votes)

    #14 - Back in the Red (3)

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    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
  16. 7.2/10(801 votes)

    #15 - Only the Good...

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    S8:E8

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

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  17. 7.2/10(4 votes)

    #16 - Give and Take

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    S11:E3

    After an altercation with a deranged droid Lister has his kidneys organ-napped. The only solution is to ask Cat, the most selfish creature in the universe, to give him one of his.

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  18. 7.3/10(868 votes)

    #17 - Ouroboros

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    S7:E3

    The Red Dwarfers pick up a new crew member -- Lister's old flame, Kristine Kochanski -- when they encounter a wormhole.

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  19. 7.3/10(814 votes)

    #18 - Epideme

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    S7:E7

    After being seduced by a 3-million-year-old corpse, Lister discovers he's contracted a deadly STD.

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  20. 7.3/10(803 votes)

    #19 - Nanarchy

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    S7:E8

    After losing his arm in a battle with the Epideme virus, Lister enlists the help of nanobots to reconstruct his mangled body.

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  21. 7.3/10(867 votes)

    #20 - Krytie TV

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    S8:E5

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

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  22. 7.4/10(10 votes)

    #21 - Future Echoes

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    S1:E2

    The members of the Red Dwarf crew get a glimpse of their respective futures when the ship goes into light speed, and time begins to dilate.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  23. 7.4/10(7 votes)

    #22 - Waiting for God

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    S1:E4

    When Holly, the ship's computer, reports a mysterious pod floating in space, Rimmer insists on capturing the capsule.

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  24. 7.4/10(737 votes)

    #23 - Entangled

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    S10:E4

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

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  25. 7.4/10(439 votes)

    #24 - Mechocracy

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    S12:E4

    The machines of Red Dwarf go on strike. Kryten and Rimmer campaign against each other for their votes in an election to represent them.

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  26. 7.5/10(11 votes)

    #25 - The End

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    S1:E1

    Dave Lister emerges from 3 million years of suspended animation to find that he's the only surviving crew member of the Red Dwarf.

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    Director:Ed Bye

Worst Episodes Summary

"Twentica" is the worst rated episode of "Red Dwarf". It scored 6/10 based on 4 votes. Directed by Doug Naylor and written by Doug Naylor, it aired on 9/22/2016. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Back to Earth (1)".