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Red Dwarf Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - The End

First aired: Feb/15/1988
Writer: Rob Grant, Doug Naylor
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Clare Grogan (Kristine Kochanski), David Gillespie (Selby), Robert McCulley (George McIntyre), Paul Bradley (Chen), Robert Bathurst (Frank Todhunter), Mark Williams (Olaf Petersen), Mac McDonald (Captain Frank Hollister)

A radiation leak wipes out the crew of the mining ship Red Dwarf, leaving only one survivor - chicken soup machine repair man, Dave Lister. After three million years in suspended animation, Lister emerges to find he is the last human being in the universe. But he is not alone.



2 :01x02 - Future Echoes

First aired: Feb/22/1988
Writer: Doug Naylor, Rob Grant
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: John Lenahan (Talkie Toaster), Tony Hawks (Dispensing Machine)

Lister starts seeing bits of the future, and Rimmer tells him he will die in a hideous explosion can Lister cheat fate?



3 :01x03 - Balance of Power

First aired: Feb/29/1988
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: David Gillespie (Selby), Mark Williams (Olaf Petersen), Paul Bradley (Chen), Rupert Bates (Trout a la Creme, Chef), Clare Grogan (Kristine Kochanski)

Rimmer encounters his most dangerous challenge ever - Lister is taking the chef's exam. If Lister passes he will hold sufficient rank to have Rimmer replaced as the ship's hologram.



4 :01x04 - Waiting For God

First aired: Mar/07/1988
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Noel Coleman (Cat Priest), John Lenahan (Talkie Toaster)

Holly recovers a strange, unidentified pod floating in space. Rimmer is convinced it contains the remains of an alien and begins a scientific investigation of the pod's hieroglyphics.



5 :01x05 - Confidence and Paranoia

First aired: Mar/14/1988
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Lee Cornes (Paranoia), Craig Ferguson (Confidence)

Lister contracts a mutated virus. The hallucinations of his feverish brain materialize in solid form.



6 :01x06 - Me2

First aired: Mar/21/1988
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Mac McDonald (Captain Frank Hollister)

Rimmer creates his perfect companion - an identical duplicate of himself. At first things are blissful, but it quickly becomes a living nightmare.



7 :02x01 - Kryten

First aired: Sep/06/1988
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: David Ross (Kryten), Johanna Hargreaves (Esperanto Woman), Tony Slattery (Android Actor)

The Red Dwarf crew intercepts a distress call requesting medical aid. Upon arrival they find the only survivor is Kryten, the android butler.



8 :02x02 - Better Than Life

First aired: Sep/13/1988
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Jeremy Austin (Rathbone), Ron Pember (The Taxman), Nigel Carrivick (The Captain), Debbie Ash (Marilyn Monrow), John Abineri (Rimmer's Dad), Tony Hawks (Host)

A post pod carrying a 3 million year old bag of mail arrives and Rimmer becomes depressed when he learns his father is dead. In the mail the crew find a game called "Better than Life" which makes the player's wishes come true.



9 :02x03 - Thanks For The Memory

First aired: Sep/20/1988
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Sabra Williams (Lise Yates)

Its the celebration of Rimmers death day the gang stagger back to Red Dwarf and when they all go to sleep and wake up they find they have lost the last four, what happened on the four days and why can't they remember it?



10 :02x04 - Stasis Leak

First aired: Sep/27/1988
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Mark Williams (Olaf Petersen), Morwenna Banks (Lift Hostess), Clare Grogan (Kristine Kochanski), Richard Hainsworth (The Medical Orderly), Tony Hawks (Suitcase), Mac McDonald (Captain Frank Hollister), Glynis Barber (Woman Returning from Leave)

The gang find a leak in time that takes them back to when the crew was alive Rimmer has a plan, to get himself into stasis to make sure he doesn't die.



11 :02x05 - Queeg

First aired: Oct/04/1988
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Charles Augins (Queeg 500)

Red Dwarf's back-up computer takes command of the ship after Holly allows a meteorite to damage the ship and Rimmer to malfunction.



12 :02x06 - Parallel Universe

First aired: Oct/11/1988
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Hattie Hayridge (Hilly), Angela Bruce (Debbie Lister), Suzanne Bertish (Arlene Rimmer), Matthew Devitt (Dog)

Holly creates a new star drive called "Holly Hop Drive" that will warp the ship from one part of space to another within a matter of seconds. But all goes wrong and they enter an alternate dimension where the crew encounter female versions of themselves and Cat encounters another version of himself, a dog.



13 :03x01 - Backwards

First aired: Nov/14/1989
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Tony Hawks (Compere), Arthur Smith (Pub Manager)

Rimmer and Kryten are trapped on a Earth where everything is Backwards.



14 :03x02 - Marooned

First aired: Nov/21/1989
Director: Ed Bye

Lister and Rimmer crash land on a iccy planet, the supplys are low there is no food and no heat, they will have to wait for rescue.



15 :03x03 - Polymorph

First aired: Nov/28/1989
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Kalli Greenwood (Mrs. Rimmer), Simon Gaffney (Young Rimmer), Frances Barber (Genny)

The crew encounter the Polymorph, a genetically engineered space mutant.



16 :03x04 - Bodyswap

First aired: Dec/05/1989
Director: Ed Bye

Lister and Rimmer trade bodies to help Lister lose weight



17 :03x05 - Timeslides

First aired: Dec/12/1989
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Simon Gaffney (Young Rimmer), Ruby Wax (American Presenter), Koo Stark (Lady Sabrina Mulholland-Jjones), Richard Hainsworth (Bodyguard), Rupert Bates (Bodyguard), Robert Addie (Gilbert)

Kryten discovers some mutated developing fluid, which prints photographs the crew can walk into.



18 :03x06 - The Last Day

First aired: Dec/19/1989
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Robert Llewellyn (Jim Reaper), Julie Higginson (Girl Androis), Gordon Kennedy (Hudzen)

Kryten discovers his expiration date is almost up and he has less than twenty-four hours to live.



19 :04x01 - Camille

First aired: Feb/14/1991
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Rupert Bates (Hector Blob)



20 :04x02 - D.N.A.

First aired: Feb/21/1991
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Richard Ridings (D.N.A Computer)



21 :04x03 - Justice

First aired: Feb/28/1991
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Nicholas Ball (The Simulant), James Smillie (Justice Computer)



22 :04x04 - White Hole

First aired: Mar/07/1991
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: David Ross (Talkie Toaster)



23 :04x05 - Dimension Jump

First aired: Mar/14/1991
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Kalli Greenwood (Mrs. Rimmer), Simon Gaffney (Young Rimmer), Hetty Baynes (Cockpit Computer), Chris Barrie (Ace Rimmer), Danny John-Jules (Padre), Craig Charles (Spanners), Robert Llewellyn (Bongo)



24 :04x06 - Meltdown

First aired: Mar/21/1991
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Pauline Bailey (Marilyn Monroe), Roger Blake (Noel Coward), Jack Klaff (Abraham Lincoln), Tony Hawks (Caligula), Michael Burrell (Pope Gregory), Forbes Masson (Stan Laurel), Stephen Tiller (Pythagoras), Martin Friend (Einstein), Kenneth Hadley (Hitler), Clayton Mark (Elvis)



25 :05x01 - Holoship

First aired: Feb/20/1992
Director: Juliet May
Guest star: Simon Day (Number Two), Lucy Briers (Harrison), Don Warrington (Commander Binks), Matthew Marsh (Captain Platini), Jane Horrocks (Nirvanah Crane), Jane Montgomery (Number One)



26 :05x02 - The Inquisitor

First aired: Feb/27/1992
Guest star: James Cormack (Thomas Allman), Jack Docherty (The inquisitor), Jake Abraham (Second Lister)



27 :05x03 - Terrorform

First aired: Mar/05/1992
Director: Juliet May
Guest star: Francine Walker-Lee (Handmaiden), Sara Stockbridge (Handmaiden)



28 :05x04 - Quarantine

First aired: Mar/12/1992
Director: Grant Naylor
Guest star: Maggie Steed (Dr. Hildegarde Lanstrom)



29 :05x05 - Demons & Angels

First aired: Mar/19/1992



30 :05x06 - Back To Reality

First aired: Mar/26/1992
Guest star: Robert Llewellyn (Jake Bullet), Danny John-Jules (Duane Dibbley), Craig Charles (Sebastian Doyle), John Sharian (New Lister), Lenny Von Dohlen (Cop), Timothy Spall (Andy), Chris Barrie (Billy Doyle)

The crew find out that the entire five years have really been on a virtual reality game and they only scored 4%!



31 :06x01 - Psirens

First aired: Oct/07/1993
Director: Andy DeEmmony
Guest star: Zoe Hilson (Temptress), Richard Ridings (Crazed Astro), Anita Dobson (Captain Tau), Jenny Agutter (Dr. Mamet), Samantha Robson (Pete Tranter's Sister)



32 :06x02 - Legion

First aired: Oct/14/1993
Director: Andy DeEmmony
Guest star: Nigel Williams (Legion)



33 :06x03 - Gunmen of the Apocalypse

First aired: Oct/21/1993
Director: Andy DeEmmony
Guest star: Stephen Marcus (Bear Strangler McGee), Jeremy Peters (Pestilence), Imogen Bain (Lola), Elizabeth Hickling (Simulant Lieutenant), Denis Lill (Simulant Captain/Death), Jennifer Calvert (Loretta), Dinny Powell (Famine), Robert Inch (War), Steve Devereaux (Jimmy)



34 :06x04 - Emohawk - Polymorph II

First aired: Oct/28/1993
Director: Andy DeEmmony
Guest star: Danny John-Jules (Duane Dibbley), Martin Sims (GELF), Hugh Quarshie (Computer), Steven Wickham (GELF Bride), Ainsley Harriott (GELF Chief), Chris Barrie ('Ace' Rimmer)



35 :06x05 - Rimmerworld

First aired: Nov/04/1993
Director: Andy DeEmmony
Guest star: Elizabeth Hickling (Rogue Simulant)



36 :06x06 - Out Of Time

First aired: Nov/11/1993
Director: Andy DeEmmony

Starbug flys through a bunge of unreality pockets, and eventually find another Starbug from 15 years into the future.



Red Dwarf Night

First aired: Feb/15/1998



Children In Need

First aired: Nov/13/1998



37 :07x01 - Tikka To Ride

First aired: Jan/17/1997
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Derek Howard ( FBI Agent), Robert Ashe (Cop), Toby Aspin (Lee Harvey Oswald), Michael Shannon (John F. Kennedy), Steve Edwards (FBI Agent), Robert Coleman (Policeman Driver), Howard Whitson (FBI Agent), Peter Gaitens (FBI Agent)

Disaster strikes Lister's curry supplies have been destroyed by the battle with their future selves, Lister has a good solution: go back in time and order 500 curries, but they end up in Dallas in the year 1963.



38 :07x02 - Stoke Me A Clipper

First aired: Jan/24/1997
Writer: Paul Alexander
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Brian Cox (The King)

Ace Rimmer turns up much to the annoyance of Arnold Rimmer, it turns out Ace is dieing and he wants Rimmer to take his place.



39 :07x03 - Ouroboros

First aired: Jan/31/1997
Director: Ed Bye



40 :07x04 - Duct Soup

First aired: Feb/07/1997
Director: Ed Bye



41 :07x05 - Blue

First aired: Feb/14/1997
Director: Ed Bye



42 :07x06 - Beyond a Joke

First aired: Feb/21/1997
Writer: Robert Llewellyn
Director: Ed Bye



43 :07x07 - Epideme

First aired: Feb/28/1997
Writer: Paul Alexander
Director: Ed Bye



44 :07x08 - Nanarchy

First aired: Mar/07/1997
Writer: Paul Alexander
Director: Ed Bye



45 :08x01 - Back in the Red (1)

First aired: Feb/18/1999
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Andy Taylor (Dr. Lucas McClaren), Kika Mirylees (Doc Newton), Graham McTavish (Warden Ackerman), David Gillespie (Selby), Paul Bradley (Chen), Jason A. Buck (Guard), Karl Glenn Stimpson (MP Thornton), Mac McDonald (Captain Frank Hollister)

Starbug crashes on Red Dwarf, the crew escape to find the crew have been ressurrected, Lister is formally charged for stealing Starbug, and Kryten is to be restored to factory settings.



46 :08x02 - Back in the Red (2)

First aired: Feb/25/1999
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Andy Taylor (Dr. Lucas McClaren), Karl Glenn Stimpson (MP Thornton), Kika Mirylees (Doc Newton), Graham McTavish (Warden Ackerman), Mac McDonald (Captain Frank Hollister), Sue Kelvin (Second Woman Officer), Jemma Churchill (First Woman Officer), Geoffrey Beevers (Doctor), Nikki Inwood (Female Dwarfer), Genevieve Swallow (Last Woman Officer)



47 :08x03 - Back in the Red (3)

First aired: Mar/04/1999
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Karl Glenn Stimpson (MP Thornton), Graham McTavish (Warden Ackerman), Mac McDonald (Captain Frank Hollister), Jeillo Edwards (Second Ground Controller), Yasmin Bannerman (First Ground Controller)



48 :08x04 - Cassandra

First aired: Mar/11/1999
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Rupert Regis (Red Dwarfer), Catherine Newell (Canary), Jake Wood (Kill Crazy), Shend (Warden Knot), Graham McTavish (Warden Ackerman), Geraldine McEwan (Cassandra), Mac McDonald (Captain Frank Hollister), Dana Michie (Canary), Joseph Grilly (Blood Drinker), Barry Gay (Guard), Phil Downes (Canary), Gary Briggs (Canary), Matt Ashenden (Canary), Ian Soundy (Guard)



49 :08x05 - Krytie TV

First aired: Mar/18/1999
Writer: Paul Alexander
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Doug Naylor (Man in Film), Jake Wood (Kill Crazy), Graham McTavish (Warden Ackerman), Mark Caven (Man in Film), Cliff Barry (Guard)



50 :08x06 - Pete: Part 1

First aired: Mar/25/1999
Writer: Paul Alexander
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: John Lynch (Nigel), Jake Wood ( Kill Crazy), Shend (Warden Knot), Graham McTavish (Warden Ackerman), Mac McDonald (Captain Frank Hollister), Ricky Grover (Baxter), Holly Earl (Young Kochanski), Andrew Alston (Mex), Ian Masters (Birdman)



51 :08x07 - Pete: Part 2

First aired: Apr/01/1999
Writer: Paul Alexander
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Jake Wood (Kill Crazy), Shend (Warden Knot), Graham McTavish (Warden Ackerman), Mac McDonald (Captain Frank Hollister), Ricky Grover (Baxter)



52 :08x08 - Only The Good...

First aired: Apr/05/1999
Writer: Doug Naylor
Director: Ed Bye
Guest star: Ed Bye (Death), David Verrey (Big Meat), Tony Slattery (Dispensing Machine), Heidi Monsen (Talia), Graham McTavish (Warden Ackerman), Mac McDonald (Captain Frank Hollister), Ricky Grover (Baxter)

A dangerous virus begins to eat through Red Dwarf, forcing the crew to abandon ship, leaving the convicted inhabitants of The Tank to die. The Dwarf crew, with only one chance to save their own necks and secure the ship for themselves, send Rimmer into an alternate universe to collect the antidote formula, but Rimmer finds that in the alternate reality, he is in charge of the ship...



The Making of Back to Earth

First aired: Apr/12/2009



53 :09x01 - Back to Earth (1)

First aired: Apr/10/2009
Writer: Doug Naylor
Guest star: Sophie Winkleman (Katerina)

Kochanski is gone, Holly is on the fritz, a bath's been running for nine years, and Lister's busy day of annoying Rimmer is interrupted by a monstrous attack, it's pretty much business as usual - until a shock development throws Rimmer, Lister, Cat and Kryten back to planet Earth.



54 :09x02 - Back to Earth (2)

First aired: Apr/11/2009

The shock revelation their dimension is invalid catapults the entire Red Dwarf crew to present day Earth, where they find they are little more than fictional characters from a world renowned television series. With their deaths immanent, The 'Dwarfers" enlist the aid of fanboys, coustume designers, and their own actors to track down their creator...



55 :09x03 - Back to Earth (3)

First aired: Apr/12/2009

The 'Dwarfers travel to the home of their creator, where they are given the grim details of their immenent deaths. Faced with a final choice, Lister does the unthinkable...and gets away with it, prompting Lister to think even more dangerously than usual . As all is finally revealed, a final, lingering need for absolution threatens to separate the 'Dwarfers from Lister forever...