TV Show

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.

TV Show Stats +8%

12 seasons

73 episodes total

Status

Ended

First Aired

1988

Rating

TV Show

8.0/10

408 votes • HD

Season 1

6 episodes
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The End
Episode 1

The End

Episode 1 • Feb 15, 1988

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

7.5
30m
Future Echoes
Episode 2

Future Echoes

Episode 2 • Feb 22, 1988

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.

7.1
29m
Balance of Power
Episode 3

Balance of Power

Episode 3 • Feb 29, 1988

Fed up with Rimmer always pulling rank, Lister decides to take the chef's exam to become his superior -- which doesn't sit well with Rimmer.

7.1
30m
Waiting for God
Episode 4

Waiting for God

Episode 4 • Mar 07, 1988

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

6.9
28m
Confidence & Paranoia
Episode 5

Confidence & Paranoia

Episode 5 • Mar 14, 1988

Plagued by a nasty case of space pneumonia, Lister begins to hallucinate.

7.3
30m
Me²
Episode 6

Me²

Episode 6 • Mar 21, 1988

Tired of sharing space with Lister, Rimmer begins a blissful new relationship with the ultimate roommate: a holographic replica of himself.

7.3
29m

Season 2

6 episodes
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Kryten
Episode 1

Kryten

Episode 1 • Sep 06, 1988

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

7.3
28m
Better Than Life
Episode 2

Better Than Life

Episode 2 • Sep 13, 1988

Rimmer learns that his father has passed away but isn't sure which is sadder: his father's death or that he is now encumbered with an £8,500 tax bill.

7.5
29m
Thanks for the Memory
Episode 3

Thanks for the Memory

Episode 3 • Sep 20, 1988

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

8.0
28m
Stasis Leak
Episode 4

Stasis Leak

Episode 4 • Sep 27, 1988

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

7.7
30m
Queeg
Episode 5

Queeg

Episode 5 • Oct 04, 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.

8.0
30m
Parallel Universe
Episode 6

Parallel Universe

Episode 6 • Oct 11, 1988

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

7.7
28m

Season 3

6 episodes
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Backwards
Episode 1

Backwards

Episode 1 • Nov 14, 1989

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.

7.8
27m
Marooned
Episode 2

Marooned

Episode 2 • Nov 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.

7.7
29m
Polymorph
Episode 3

Polymorph

Episode 3 • Nov 28, 1989

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

8.1
27m
Bodyswap
Episode 4

Bodyswap

Episode 4 • Dec 05, 1989

When a haywire scutter meddles with the circuitry on the Red Dwarf, Lister accidentally throws the ship into self-destruct mode.

7.4
27m
Timeslides
Episode 5

Timeslides

Episode 5 • Dec 12, 1989

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

7.8
28m
The Last Day
Episode 6

The Last Day

Episode 6 • Dec 19, 1989

When the Red Dwarf crew learns that Kryten has only 24 hours left to live, they band together to give the android the best night of his life.

7.6
27m

Season 4

6 episodes
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Camille
Episode 1

Camille

Episode 1 • Feb 14, 1991

After bucking an order, Kryten meets his match while investigating a distress call from Camille -- a female version of himself.

7.3
27m
D.N.A.
Episode 2

D.N.A.

Episode 2 • Feb 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.

7.8
28m
Justice
Episode 3

Justice

Episode 3 • Feb 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.

8.0
28m
White Hole
Episode 4

White Hole

Episode 4 • Mar 07, 1991

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

7.5
28m
Dimension Jump
Episode 5

Dimension Jump

Episode 5 • Mar 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.

7.8
29m
Meltdown
Episode 6

Meltdown

Episode 6 • Mar 21, 1991

When a matter transporter sends the crew to a theme park populated by wax androids that have overridden their programming, they get ensnared in a war.

7.1
26m

Season 5

6 episodes
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Holoship
Episode 1

Holoship

Episode 1 • Feb 20, 1992

Rimmer is beamed aboard the computer-generated ship Enlightenment and finds that all his wildest dreams have come true.

7.6
28m
The Inquisitor
Episode 2

The Inquisitor

Episode 2 • Feb 27, 1992

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

7.2
28m
Terrorform
Episode 3

Terrorform

Episode 3 • Mar 05, 1992

After being captured by a "psy-moon," Rimmer becomes a prisoner of his own thoughts.

7.0
27m
Quarantine
Episode 4

Quarantine

Episode 4 • Mar 12, 1992

When the crew goes exploring on a snowy planet, they cross paths with a hologram scientist infected with a nasty virus.

7.1
28m
Demons & Angels
Episode 5

Demons & Angels

Episode 5 • Mar 19, 1992

Lister and Kryten inadvertently blow up the Red Dwarf with a new invention that makes two copies of any object.

7.1
27m
Back to Reality
Episode 6

Back to Reality

Episode 6 • Mar 26, 1992

While exploring an ocean planet, Lister, Kryten, Rimmer and Cat discover an abandoned ship whose entire crew committed suicide.

7.4
27m

Season 6

6 episodes
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Psirens
Episode 1

Psirens

Episode 1 • Oct 07, 1993

After realizing that the Red Dwarf has been stolen, Lister, Rimmer, Kryten and Cat go looking for the missing ship.

6.9
29m
Legion
Episode 2

Legion

Episode 2 • Oct 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.

7.3
28m
Gunmen of the Apocalypse
Episode 3

Gunmen of the Apocalypse

Episode 3 • Oct 21, 1993

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

7.5
29m
Emohawk: Polymorph II
Episode 4

Emohawk: Polymorph II

Episode 4 • Oct 28, 1993

When the Starbug crashes on a planet inhabited by a devastatingly ugly GELF tribe, Lister is forced to marry the chief's homely daughter.

7.2
28m
Rimmerworld
Episode 5

Rimmerworld

Episode 5 • Nov 04, 1993

Rimmer finds himself on a strange planet where the only other inhabitants are the clones he's made of himself.

7.2
28m
Out of Time
Episode 6

Out of Time

Episode 6 • Nov 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.

7.3
29m

Season 7

8 episodes
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Tikka to Ride
Episode 1

Tikka to Ride

Episode 1 • Jan 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.

7.5
37m
Stoke Me a Clipper
Episode 2

Stoke Me a Clipper

Episode 2 • Jan 24, 1997

Ace Rimmer -- Rimmer's charming alter ego from another reality -- revisits the crew to ask Rimmer an important favor.

7.0
29m
Ouroboros
Episode 3

Ouroboros

Episode 3 • Jan 31, 1997

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

6.3
30m
Duct Soup
Episode 4

Duct Soup

Episode 4 • Feb 07, 1997

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

6.9
29m
Blue
Episode 5

Blue

Episode 5 • Feb 14, 1997

Lister is conflicted when he discovers that he actually misses Rimmer, who's been away protecting the universe for far too long.

6.5
27m
Beyond a Joke
Episode 6

Beyond a Joke

Episode 6 • Feb 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.

6.5
29m
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Season 8

8 episodes
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Back in the Red (1)
Episode 1

Back in the Red (1)

Episode 1 • Feb 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.

6.1
28m
Back in the Red (2)
Episode 2

Back in the Red (2)

Episode 2 • Feb 25, 1999

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

6.5
28m
Back in the Red (3)
Episode 3

Back in the Red (3)

Episode 3 • Mar 04, 1999

After being slapped with a two-year prison sentence for committing crimes against the Space Corps, the Red Dwarfers are desperate to escape.

6.5
29m
Cassandra
Episode 4

Cassandra

Episode 4 • Mar 11, 1999

Lister thinks he's signing the gang up to sing in a prison choir but learns that he's enlisted them in an army of convicts used for suicide missions.

6.8
29m
Krytie TV
Episode 5

Krytie TV

Episode 5 • Mar 18, 1999

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

6.4
29m
Pete (1)
Episode 6

Pete (1)

Episode 6 • Mar 25, 1999

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

6.1
28m
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Season 9

3 episodes
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Back to Earth (1)
Episode 1

Back to Earth (1)

Episode 1 • Apr 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.

4.2
23m
Back to Earth (2)
Episode 2

Back to Earth (2)

Episode 2 • Apr 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.

2.2
25m
Back to Earth (3)
Episode 3

Back to Earth (3)

Episode 3 • Apr 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.

2.2
24m

Season 10

6 episodes
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Trojan
Episode 1

Trojan

Episode 1 • Oct 04, 2012

The Dwarfers' mining ship is still creaking though the wastelands of unchartered deep space, but the posse soon stumble upon the mysteriously abandoned SS Trojan. As they inspect the ship Rimmer receives an SOS distress call from an old foe, and is suddenly faced with the dilemma of his life.

5.7
30m
Fathers and Suns
Episode 2

Fathers and Suns

Episode 2 • Oct 11, 2012

Lister grapples with the problem of being his own father.

6.0
30m
Lemons
Episode 3

Lemons

Episode 3 • Oct 18, 2012

The posse find themselves marooned in 23 AD where they rescue a famous historical figure with a beard.

5.5
30m
Entangled
Episode 4

Entangled

Episode 4 • Oct 25, 2012

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

6.0
30m
Dear Dave
Episode 5

Dear Dave

Episode 5 • Nov 01, 2012

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

5.0
29m
The Beginning
Episode 6

The Beginning

Episode 6 • Nov 08, 2012

The series final episode finds the boys surrounded by a Simulant War Cruiser and its fleet of attack ships. Armed with only two forks and a pencil sharpener, the Dwarfers begin to wonder whether this is the beginning of the end. Only one man can save them. Unfortunately that man is Arnold J Rimmer.

5.5
30m

Season 11

6 episodes
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Twentica
Episode 1

Twentica

Episode 1 • Sep 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.

5.0
28m
Samsara
Episode 2

Samsara

Episode 2 • Sep 29, 2016

When the Dwarfers investigate a crashed ship at the bottom of an ocean moon, Lister and Cat become trapped together and Lister's nightmare begins. Meantime Rimmer and Kryten discover the ship is controlled by a dark force.

6.4
30m
Give and Take
Episode 3

Give and Take

Episode 3 • Oct 06, 2016

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.

6.2
29m
Officer Rimmer
Episode 4

Officer Rimmer

Episode 4 • Oct 13, 2016

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.

5.8
28m
Krysis
Episode 5

Krysis

Episode 5 • Oct 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.

5.6
27m
Can of Worms
Episode 6

Can of Worms

Episode 6 • Oct 27, 2016

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.

6.0
29m

Season 12

6 episodes
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Cured
Episode 1

Cured

Episode 1 • Oct 12, 2017

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

6.3
29m
Siliconia
Episode 2

Siliconia

Episode 2 • Oct 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.

6.3
27m
Timewave
Episode 3

Timewave

Episode 3 • Oct 26, 2017

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

5.0
27m
Mechocracy
Episode 4

Mechocracy

Episode 4 • Nov 02, 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.

6.5
28m
M-Corp
Episode 5

M-Corp

Episode 5 • Nov 09, 2017

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

6.0
27m
Skipper
Episode 6

Skipper

Episode 6 • Nov 16, 2017

With the aid of a Quantum Skipper, Rimmer leaves the Red Dwarf to travel the multiverse in search of a dimension where he isn't such a loser.

5.6
28m