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.
Lister starts seeing bits of the future, and Rimmer tells him he will die in a hideous explosion can Lister cheat fate?
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.
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.
Lister contracts a mutated virus. The hallucinations of his feverish brain materialize in solid form.
Rimmer creates his perfect companion - an identical duplicate of himself. At first things are blissful, but it quickly becomes a living nightmare.
The Red Dwarf crew intercepts a distress call requesting medical aid. Upon arrival they find the only survivor is Kryten, the android butler.
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.
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?
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.
Red Dwarf's back-up computer takes command of the ship after Holly allows a meteorite to damage the ship and Rimmer to malfunction.
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.
Rimmer and Kryten are trapped on a Earth where everything is Backwards.
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.
The crew encounter the Polymorph, a genetically engineered space mutant.
Lister and Rimmer trade bodies to help Lister lose weight
Kryten discovers some mutated developing fluid, which prints photographs the crew can walk into.
Kryten discovers his expiration date is almost up and he has less than twenty-four hours to live.
The crew find out that the entire five years have really been on a virtual reality game and they only scored 4%!
Starbug flys through a bunge of unreality pockets, and eventually find another Starbug from 15 years into the future.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...