8.7/109 votes#1 - Dimension Jump
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 3/14/1991
After Rimmer comes face-to-face with his alter ego, the craven hologram decides he can't stand the sight of his counterpart.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.7/107 votes#2 - Back to Reality
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 3/26/1992
While exploring an ocean planet, Lister, Kryten, Rimmer and Cat discover an abandoned ship whose entire crew committed suicide.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.5/1011 votes#3 - Polymorph
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 11/28/1989
Terror reigns on the Red Dwarf when a shape-shifting genetic mutant climbs aboard and subjects the crew to its menacing slobber.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.5/108 votes#4 - Tikka to Ride
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 1/17/1997
The crew goes back in time to get food but inadvertently lands in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, the day President Kennedy was assassinated.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.4/109 votes#5 - Thanks for the Memory
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/20/1988
When Lister awakens after a night of revelry, he's at a loss to explain how he and Cat broke their legs.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.4/1010 votes#6 - Queeg
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/4/1988
With Holly on the fritz, the ship's backup computer, Queeg 500, steps in to command the Red Dwarf and its crew of misfits.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.4/1010 votes#7 - Justice
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 2/28/1991
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.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.4/1011 votes#8 - Holoship
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 2/20/1992
Rimmer is beamed aboard the computer-generated ship Enlightenment and finds that all his wildest dreams have come true.
Director: Juliet May
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.4/1011 votes#9 - Gunmen of the Apocalypse
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/1993
The crew heads to the Wild West when Kryten contracts a deadly computer virus.
Director: Andy de Emmony
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.3/1010 votes#10 - White Hole
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 3/7/1991
Kryten's attempts to restore Holly's IQ to genius level inadvertently cause the Red Dwarf to shut down its support systems.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.3/107 votes#11 - Demons & Angels
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 3/19/1992
Lister and Kryten inadvertently blow up the Red Dwarf with a new invention that makes two copies of any object.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.2/1010 votes#12 - D.N.A.
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 2/21/1991
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.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.2/108 votes#13 - The Inquisitor
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 2/27/1992
The crew crosses paths with a dark figure who calls himself the Inquisitor.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.2/108 votes#14 - Quarantine
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 3/12/1992
When the crew goes exploring on a snowy planet, they cross paths with a hologram scientist infected with a nasty virus.
Director: Doug Naylor
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.2/105 votes#15 - 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
8.1/1010 votes#16 - Stasis Leak
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/27/1988
A wrinkle in time takes the crew 3 million years into the past, before the radiation leak killed everyone aboard except Lister.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.1/109 votes#17 - Parallel Universe
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/11/1988
After testing Holly's latest invention, the crew ends up in a parallel universe where they encounter opposite versions of themselves.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.1/1015 votes#18 - Backwards
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 11/14/1989
The crew undergoes some major changes in the season opener as Lister prepares to give birth to twins.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.1/1010 votes#19 - Marooned
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 11/21/1989
As the Red Dwarf approaches a minefield of black holes, the crew must evacuate, throwing Lister and Rimmer together on a frozen planet.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.1/1012 votes#20 - Timeslides
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 12/12/1989
Kryten's discovery of a liquid that transforms photographs into interactive portals sends the Red Dwarf crew on a series of misadventures.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.1/109 votes#21 - Legion
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/1993
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.
Director: Andy de Emmony
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.1/108 votes#22 - Out of Time
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/1993
After experimenting with an abandoned time drive, the crew of the Red Dwarf comes face-to-face with an exact replica of the ship.
Director: Andy de Emmony
Writer: Doug Naylor
8.1/108 votes#23 - 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
8.1/108 votes#24 - 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
8.0/105 votes#25 - Kryten
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/6/1988
A distress signal draws the ship's crew to the site of a space shuttle crash.
Director: Ed Bye
Writer: Doug Naylor
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"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".