The Worst Episodes of Red Dwarf
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The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Red Dwarf" is "Back to Earth (1)", rated 6.3/10 from 1675 user votes. It was directed by Doug Naylor and written by Doug Naylor. "Back to Earth (1)" aired on 4/10/2009 and is rated 0.0 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Back to Earth (2)".
6.3/10 1,675 votes#1 - Back to Earth (1)
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 4/10/2009
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.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
6.3/10 933 votes#2 - Back to Earth (2)
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 4/11/2009
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.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
6.3/10 451 votes#3 - Timewave
Season 12 Episode 3 - Aired 10/26/2017
The boys from the Dwarf discover a ship where all forms of criticism are illegal.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
6.5/10 933 votes#4 - Back to Earth (3)
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 4/12/2009
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.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
6.9/10 827 votes#5 - Duct Soup
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 2/7/1997
Fearing he'll someday be replaced by Kristine Kochanski, a jealous Kryten "accidentally" shuts down the Starbug's engine.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
6.9/10 762 votes#6 - Pete (2)
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 4/1/1999
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
Writer: Doug Naylor, Paul Alexander
7.0/10 800 votes#7 - Beyond a Joke
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 2/21/1997
The crew reluctantly explores the works of Jane Austen when Kristine Kochanski takes them on a virtual reality tour of Pride and Prejudice World.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor, Robert Llewellyn
7.0/10 761 votes#8 - Pete (1)
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 3/25/1999
After infecting the prison guards' basketball team with a sexual-enhancement virus, Lister and Rimmer are sent to the hole.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor, Paul Alexander
7.1/10 461 votes#9 - Siliconia
Season 12 Episode 2 - Aired 10/19/2017
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.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
7.2/10 776 votes#10 - Only the Good...
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 4/5/1999
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
7.3/10 838 votes#11 - Ouroboros
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 1/31/1997
The Red Dwarfers pick up a new crew member -- Lister's old flame, Kristine Kochanski -- when they encounter a wormhole.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
7.3/10 789 votes#12 - Epideme
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 2/28/1997
After being seduced by a 3-million-year-old corpse, Lister discovers he's contracted a deadly STD.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor, Paul Alexander
7.3/10 778 votes#13 - Nanarchy
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 3/7/1997
After losing his arm in a battle with the Epideme virus, Lister enlists the help of nanobots to reconstruct his mangled body.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor, Paul Alexander, James Hendrie
7.3/10 769 votes#14 - Back in the Red (3)
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 3/4/1999
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
7.4/10 838 votes#15 - Krytie TV
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 3/18/1999
After being cornered and reprogrammed by restless, sex-starved prisoners, Kryten launches his own television station called Krytie TV.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor, Paul Alexander
7.4/10 714 votes#16 - Entangled
Season 10 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/2012
Kryten and Cat become quantum entangled forcing them to do everything in unison.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
7.4/10 591 votes#17 - Twentica
Season 11 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/2016
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.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
7.4/10 531 votes#18 - Cured
Season 12 Episode 1 - Aired 10/12/2017
The crew stumble on a science centre where vile historical figures have been 'cured' of evil.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
7.4/10 420 votes#19 - Mechocracy
Season 12 Episode 4 - Aired 11/2/2017
The machines of Red Dwarf go on strike. Kryten and Rimmer campaign against each other for their votes in an election to represent them.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
7.5/10 1,078 votes#20 - Waiting for God
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/7/1988
When Holly, the ship's computer, reports a mysterious pod floating in space, Rimmer insists on capturing the capsule.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor, Rob Grant
7.5/10 792 votes#21 - Back in the Red (1)
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 2/18/1999
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
7.5/10 773 votes#22 - Back in the Red (2)
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 2/25/1999
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
7.5/10 700 votes#23 - Dear Dave
Season 10 Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/2012
Lister gets involved in a love triangle with snack dispensers 23 and 34.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
7.5/10 465 votes#24 - Krysis
Season 11 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/2016
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.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
7.5/10 415 votes#25 - M-Corp
Season 12 Episode 5 - Aired 11/9/2017
A long overdue software update spells trouble for the crew when they discover that the Jupiter Mining Corp has been sold!
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor