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  1. 8.7/10(9 votes)

    #1 - Dimension Jump

    S4:E5

    After Rimmer comes face-to-face with his alter ego, the craven hologram decides he can't stand the sight of his counterpart.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  2. 8.7/10(7 votes)

    #2 - 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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    Director:Rob Grant
  3. 8.5/10(11 votes)

    #3 - Polymorph

    S3:E3

    Terror reigns on the Red Dwarf when a shape-shifting genetic mutant climbs aboard and subjects the crew to its menacing slobber.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  4. 8.5/10(8 votes)

    #4 - Tikka to Ride

    S7:E1

    The crew goes back in time to get food but inadvertently lands in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, the day President Kennedy was assassinated.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  5. 8.4/10(9 votes)

    #5 - Thanks for the Memory

    S2:E3

    When Lister awakens after a night of revelry, he's at a loss to explain how he and Cat broke their legs.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  6. 8.4/10(10 votes)

    #6 - Queeg

    S2:E5

    With Holly on the fritz, the ship's backup computer, Queeg 500, steps in to command the Red Dwarf and its crew of misfits.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  7. 8.4/10(10 votes)

    #7 - Justice

    S4:E3

    Not knowing if the stasis pod they've found contains a security guard or a homicidal criminal, the crew heads to the capsule's initial destination.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  8. 8.4/10(11 votes)

    #8 - 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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    Director:Juliet May
  9. 8.4/10(11 votes)

    #9 - Gunmen of the Apocalypse

    S6:E3

    The crew heads to the Wild West when Kryten contracts a deadly computer virus.

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  10. 8.3/10(10 votes)

    #10 - White Hole

    S4:E4

    Kryten's attempts to restore Holly's IQ to genius level inadvertently cause the Red Dwarf to shut down its support systems.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  11. 8.3/10(7 votes)

    #11 - 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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    Director:Rob Grant
  12. 8.2/10(10 votes)

    #12 - D.N.A.

    S4:E2

    While investigating an abandoned alien vessel adrift in space, the crew discovers a device that can change organic life by altering an object's DNA.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  13. 8.2/10(8 votes)

    #13 - The Inquisitor

    S5:E2

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

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    Director:Rob Grant
  14. 8.2/10(8 votes)

    #14 - 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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    Director:Rob Grant
  15. 8.2/10(5 votes)

    #15 - 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
  16. 8.1/10(10 votes)

    #16 - Stasis Leak

    S2:E4

    A wrinkle in time takes the crew 3 million years into the past, before the radiation leak killed everyone aboard except Lister.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  17. 8.1/10(9 votes)

    #17 - Parallel Universe

    S2:E6

    After testing Holly's latest invention, the crew ends up in a parallel universe where they encounter opposite versions of themselves.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  18. 8.1/10(15 votes)

    #18 - Backwards

    S3:E1

    Under Rimmer’s supervision, Kryten takes a driving lesson at the wheel of Starbug, Red Dwarf's newly-revealed scout ship. A chance meeting with a wormhole, however, sends student and teacher to a world that literally has everything backwards.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  19. 8.1/10(10 votes)

    #19 - Marooned

    S3:E2

    As the Red Dwarf approaches a minefield of black holes, the crew must evacuate, throwing Lister and Rimmer together on a frozen planet.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  20. 8.1/10(12 votes)

    #20 - Timeslides

    S3:E5

    Kryten's discovery of a liquid that transforms photographs into interactive portals sends the Red Dwarf crew on a series of misadventures.

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    Director:Ed Bye
  21. 8.1/10(9 votes)

    #21 - Legion

    S6:E2

    With the Starbug running low on supplies, the crew goes hunting for rations and finds an abandoned spaceship with a wish-granting being on board.

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  22. 8.1/10(8 votes)

    #22 - Out of Time

    S6:E6

    After experimenting with an abandoned time drive, the crew of the Red Dwarf comes face-to-face with an exact replica of the ship.

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  23. 8.1/10(8 votes)

    #23 - 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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    Director:Ed Bye
  24. 8.1/10(8 votes)

    #24 - 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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    Director:Ed Bye
  25. 8.0/10(5 votes)

    #25 - Kryten

    S2:E1

    A distress signal draws the ship's crew to the site of a space shuttle crash.

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    Director:Ed Bye

Doug Naylor Ratings Summary

"Dimension Jump" is the best rated episode written by Doug Naylor. It scored 8.7/10 based on 9 votes. It was directed by Ed Bye. It aired on 3/14/1991 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Back to Reality".