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Red Dwarf is a comedy and sci-fi & fantasy TV series that premiered on U&Dave on February 15, 1988. It has 12 seasons and 73 episodes so far and has ended. The latest episode, Season 12 Episode 6 "Skipper", aired on November 16, 2017.

The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.

  • Comedy
  • Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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Episodes

73 episodes · 12 seasons

Series I

1988 · 6 episodes · Last episode: 38 years ago

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    6. Me²

    Finale

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

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    5. Confidence & Paranoia

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

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    4. Waiting for God

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

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    3. Balance of Power

    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.

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    2. Future Echoes

    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.

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    1. The End

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

Series II

1988 · 6 episodes · Last episode: 38 years ago

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    6. Parallel Universe

    Finale

    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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    5. Queeg

    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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    4. Stasis Leak

    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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    3. Thanks for the Memory

    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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    2. Better Than Life

    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.

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    1. Kryten

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

Series III

1989 · 6 episodes · Last episode: 36 years ago

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    6. The Last Day

    Finale

    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.

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    5. Timeslides

    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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    4. Bodyswap

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

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    3. Polymorph

    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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    2. Marooned

    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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    1. Backwards

    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.

Series IV

1991 · 6 episodes · Last episode: 35 years ago

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    6. Meltdown

    Finale

    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.

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    5. Dimension Jump

    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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    4. White Hole

    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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    3. Justice

    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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    2. D.N.A.

    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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    1. Camille

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

Series V

1992 · 6 episodes · Last episode: 34 years ago

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    6. Back to Reality

    Finale

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

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    5. Demons & Angels

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

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    4. Quarantine

    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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    3. Terrorform

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

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    2. The Inquisitor

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

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    1. Holoship

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

Series VI

1993 · 6 episodes · Last episode: 33 years ago

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    6. Out of Time

    Finale

    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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    5. Rimmerworld

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

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    4. Emohawk: Polymorph II

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

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    3. Gunmen of the Apocalypse

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

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    2. Legion

    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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    1. Psirens

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

Series VII

1997 · 8 episodes · Last episode: 29 years ago

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    8. Nanarchy

    Finale

    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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    7. Epideme

    After being seduced by a 3-million-year-old corpse, Lister discovers he's contracted a deadly STD.

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    6. Beyond a Joke

    The crew reluctantly explores the works of Jane Austen when Kristine Kochanski takes them on a virtual reality tour of Pride and Prejudice World.

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    5. Blue

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

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    4. Duct Soup

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

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    3. Ouroboros

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

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    2. Stoke Me a Clipper

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

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    1. Tikka to Ride

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

Series VIII

1999 · 8 episodes · Last episode: 27 years ago

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    8. Only the Good...

    Finale

    The series concludes as a mysterious life form invades the Red Dwarf courtesy of an escape pod and starts eating away at the ship.

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    7. Pete (2)

    In an attempt to bring Pete the sparrow back to life, the Red Dwarfers inadvertently cause him to devolve into a tyrannosaur that stalks the ship.

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    6. Pete (1)

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

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    5. Krytie TV

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

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    4. Cassandra

    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.

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    3. Back in the Red (3)

    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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    2. Back in the Red (2)

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

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    1. Back in the Red (1)

    Thanks to the nanobots, the Red Dwarf is back in business with its original crew on board, which means Rimmer is alive and well.

Back to Earth

2009 · 3 episodes · Last episode: 17 years ago

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    3. Back to Earth (3)

    Finale

    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.

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    2. Back to Earth (2)

    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.

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    1. Back to Earth (1)

    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.

Series X

2012 · 6 episodes · Last episode: 14 years ago

Red Dwarf X, the tenth series of the British science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf, was broadcast on UK television channel Dave between 4 October 2012 and 8 November 2012. There are six episodes and it is the first full series of Red Dwarf since 1999.

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    6. The Beginning

    Finale

    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.

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    5. Dear Dave

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

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    4. Entangled

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

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    3. Lemons

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

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    2. Fathers & Suns

    Lister grapples with the problem of being his own father.

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    1. Trojan

    The Dwarfers' mining ship is still creaking through 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.

Series XI

2016 · 6 episodes · Last episode: 10 years ago

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    6. Can of Worms

    Finale

    Cat takes time off from being in love with himself to fall head-over-heels in love with a female cat with a big secret.

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    5. Krysis

    Kryten has a mid-life crisis and changes his body cover from mech grey to Ferrari red. The posse try to show him how much he's achieved in life by taking him to visit a mechanoid from his old fleet.

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    4. Officer Rimmer

    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 officers' club, which is out of bounds to the lower orders, and uses the bio-printer to fill it with versions of himself.

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    3. Give & Take

    After an altercation with a deranged droid, Lister has his kidneys organ-napped. The only solution is to ask Cat, the most self-absorbed creature in the universe, to donate one of his.

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    2. Samsara

    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.

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    1. Twentica

    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.

Series XII

2017 · 6 episodes · Last episode: 8 years ago

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    6. Skipper

    Finale

    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.

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    5. M-Corp

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

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    4. Mechocracy

    The machines of Red Dwarf go on strike. Kryten and Rimmer campaign against each other for their votes in an election to represent them.

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    3. Timewave

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

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    2. Siliconia

    A ship full of rogue androids that broke their programming want to help Kryten do the same. The MILF can only spell trouble for the remainder of the crew.

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    1. Cured

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

Cast & crew

Created by Doug Naylor and Rob Grant

  • Chris Barrie

    Chris Barrie

    Arnold Rimmer

  • Norman Lovett

    Norman Lovett

    Holly

  • Chloë Annett

    Chloë Annett

    Kochanski

  • Don Henderson

    Don Henderson

    Rogue Simulant

  • Adrienne Posta

    Adrienne Posta

    Flight Announcer (voice)

  • Ken Morley

    Ken Morley

    Captain Voorhese

  • Gary Martin

    Epideme (voice)

  • Ainsley Harriott

    Ainsley Harriott

    Gelf Chief

  • Denis Lill

    Denis Lill

    Simulant Captain / Death

  • Sabra Williams

    Sabra Williams

    Lise Yates

  • Ron Pember

    Ron Pember

    Taxman

  • Suzanne Bertish

    Suzanne Bertish

    Arlene Rimmer

  • Lia Williams

    Lia Williams

    Carol Brown

  • Julie Higginson

    Marilyn Monroe Android

  • Arthur Smith

    Arthur Smith

    Pub Manager

  • Frances Barber

    Frances Barber

    Genny

Red Dwarf FAQ

Will there be new episodes of Red Dwarf?

Red Dwarf has ended, so no new episodes are scheduled. The final episode aired on November 16, 2017.

When did the latest episode of Red Dwarf come out?

The most recent episode of Red Dwarf, Season 12 Episode 6 "Skipper", aired on November 16, 2017.

How many seasons of Red Dwarf are there?

Red Dwarf has 12 seasons with 73 episodes in total.

When did Red Dwarf first air?

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