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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.
  1. Background image for Back to Earth (1)
    6.3/10(1.7k votes)

    #1 - Back to Earth (1)

    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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    Director:Doug Naylor
  2. Background image for Back to Earth (2)
    6.3/10(973 votes)

    #2 - Back to Earth (2)

    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
  3. Background image for Timewave
    6.4/10(487 votes)

    #3 - Timewave

    S12:E3

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

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    Director:Doug Naylor
  4. Background image for Back to Earth (3)
    6.6/10(973 votes)

    #4 - Back to Earth (3)

    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
  5. Background image for Duct Soup
    6.9/10(870 votes)

    #5 - Duct Soup

    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
  6. Background image for Pete (2)
    6.9/10(801 votes)

    #6 - Pete (2)

    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. Background image for Beyond a Joke
    7.0/10(836 votes)

    #7 - Beyond a Joke

    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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  9. Background image for Pete (1)
    7.0/10(800 votes)

    #8 - Pete (1)

    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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  10. Background image for Back in the Red (3)
    7.2/10(808 votes)

    #9 - Back in the Red (3)

    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
  11. Background image for Only the Good...
    7.2/10(814 votes)

    #10 - Only the Good...

    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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    Director:Ed Bye
  12. Background image for Siliconia
    7.2/10(490 votes)

    #11 - Siliconia

    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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    Director:Doug Naylor
  13. Background image for Ouroboros
    7.3/10(883 votes)

    #12 - Ouroboros

    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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    Director:Ed Bye
  14. Background image for Epideme
    7.3/10(826 votes)

    #13 - Epideme

    S7:E7

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

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  15. Background image for Nanarchy
    7.3/10(815 votes)

    #14 - Nanarchy

    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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  16. Background image for Krytie TV
    7.3/10(878 votes)

    #15 - Krytie TV

    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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  17. Background image for Entangled
    7.4/10(748 votes)

    #16 - Entangled

    S10:E4

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

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    Director:Doug Naylor
  18. Background image for Twentica
    7.4/10(624 votes)

    #17 - Twentica

    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
  19. Background image for Mechocracy
    7.4/10(449 votes)

    #18 - Mechocracy

    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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    Director:Doug Naylor
  20. Background image for Waiting for God
    7.5/10(1.1k votes)

    #19 - Waiting for God

    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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    Director:Ed Bye
  21. Background image for Back in the Red (1)
    7.5/10(835 votes)

    #20 - Back in the Red (1)

    S8:E1

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

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    Director:Ed Bye
  22. Background image for Back in the Red (2)
    7.5/10(812 votes)

    #21 - Back in the Red (2)

    S8:E2

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

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    Director:Ed Bye
  23. Background image for Dear Dave
    7.5/10(735 votes)

    #22 - Dear Dave

    S10:E5

    Lister gets involved in a love triangle with snack dispensers 23 and 34.

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    Director:Doug Naylor
  24. Background image for Krysis
    7.5/10(497 votes)

    #23 - Krysis

    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
  25. Background image for Cured
    7.5/10(563 votes)

    #24 - Cured

    S12:E1

    The crew stumble on a science centre where vile historical figures have been 'cured' of evil.

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    Director:Doug Naylor
  26. Background image for M-Corp
    7.5/10(445 votes)

    #25 - M-Corp

    S12:E5

    A long overdue software update spells trouble for the crew when they discover that the Jupiter Mining Corp has been sold!

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    Director:Doug Naylor

Worst Episodes Summary

"Back to Earth (1)" is the worst rated episode of "Red Dwarf". It scored 6.3/10 based on 1723 votes. Directed by Doug Naylor and written by Doug Naylor, it aired on 4/10/2009. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Back to Earth (2)".