Red Dwarf, Ranked
My ranking of the sci-fi comedy that follows the last human alive, and various other beings on a mining ship, 3 million years into deep space...
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- DirectorRob GrantJuliet MayDoug NaylorStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesWhen investigating an ocean ship, The Esperanto, the crew are attacked by a Despair Squid and awake to find they are entirely different people who have been playing the game "Red Dwarf" for the last four years. Is this truly their reality?9/10
- DirectorRob GrantDoug NaylorStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesThe red dwarf crew encounter the inquisitor, a mechanical lifeform who has made himself judge, jury and executioner of all of humanity throughout history. If he decides your life hasn't been worthy enough you are erased and replaced. Bad luck for the dwarfers.8.5/10
- DirectorEd ByeStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesRimmer catches the crew going on a fishing trip without him, forcing them to reluctantly bring him along. However, Starbug collides with the ship of Ace Rimmer, a more popular and successful version of Rimmer from an alternate universe.8.5/10
- DirectorEd ByeStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesThe Red Dwarf crew abandons ship as Red Dwarf approaches black holes. Rimmer and Lister find themselves marooned on a ice planet, when Starbug is struck by a meteorite, where the only firewood is Rimmer's possessions and the only food they have is dog food and a pot noodle.8.5/10
- DirectorEd ByeStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesAs Rimmer is taking Kryten for a driving lesson in Starbug they find themselves being whisked away through a time hole and end up on Earth, where time is running backwards.8.5/10
- DirectorRob GrantDoug NaylorStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesAt a research complex on an ice planet, the crew find the hologram of Dr. Lanstrom who has been infected with a holo virus that turned her mad. Back on the Red Dwarf the crew are subjected to quarantine by Rimmer who's also been infected.8/10
- DirectorAndy De EmmonyStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesKryten diagnoses Rimmer with a stress-related condition, as a surviving Simulant attacks the crew. Fleeing in an escape pod, Rimmer enters a wormhole and must spend the next 600 years on a deserted planet with only his clones for company.8/10
- DirectorDoug NaylorStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesAfter a botched installation of a rejuvenation shower, the Dwarfers are transported to Earth in the year 23 AD.8/10
- DirectorAndy De EmmonyStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesWhen Lister is revealed to be a Mechanoid and Cat disappears from existence, the crew realise that they are flying through reality-changing unreality bubbles. The only way they can escape this mess? With the help of their future selves.8/10
- DirectorEd ByeStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesThe Red Dwarf crew encounter the Polymorph, a genetically engineered space mutant that drains the emotions from humans, that has arrived on-board Red Dwarf.8/10
- DirectorAndy De EmmonyStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesLister awakens on Starbug and learns that 200 years have passed and the Red Dwarf has gone missing. While navigating an asteroid field, the crew are tempted by Psirens, shape-shifting creatures that wish to suck out their brains.8/10
- DirectorJuliet MayStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesRimmer is abducted by the high IQ crew of the holoship Enlightenment, who have abandoned love in favour of daily sex. Wishing to join the crew and leave the Red Dwarf behind, Rimmer must engage in a battle of wits to earn his place.8/10
- DirectorEd ByeStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesRed Dwarf's back-up computer Queeg 500 takes command of Red Dwarf when Holly allows a meteorite to damage the ship and Rimmer to malfunction. The crew encourages Holly to challenge Queeg to a game of chess, where the loser gets erased from the system.8/10
- DirectorDoug NaylorStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesRimmer attempts to masquerade as a heroic Space Corps captain after receiving a sudden SOS distress call from the hologram of his successful brother, Howard.8/10
- DirectorEd ByeStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesDaredevil pilot Ace Rimmer, seriously wounded, after rescuing Princess Bonjella from the Nazis, arrives on-board Starbug, to recruit Rimmer to take his place as the next Ace Rimmer. Will Rimmer continue the legacy of Ace Rimmer?8/10
- DirectorEd ByeStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesFollowing the encounter with their future selves, Kryten forbids the use of time travel but Lister wishes to go back in time to get some curry. However, the crew instead end up in Dallas, 1963 on the day John F. Kennedy is assassinated.8/10
- DirectorEd ByeStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesHolly navigates Red Dwarf during light speed. But when Red Dwarf goes through light speed 24-hours early, the crew witnesses strange events and they find they are witnessing "Future Echoes" images of events that will happen in the future.8/10
- DirectorEd ByeStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesA post pod carrying a 3 million year old bag of mail arrives and Rimmer becomes depressed when he learns his father is dead. The crew play an artificial game called "Better than life" which makes the players' wishes come true, but Rimmer's brain begins to rebel.8/10
- DirectorEd ByeStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesThe developing fluid that Kryten uses to process old photographs mutates and the photographs come alive. The Red Dwarf crew find they can go into the photograph, and Lister finds that the photographs allows them to go back in time and he plans on changing history so that he doesn't end up marooned in deep space.8/10
- DirectorDoug NaylorStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesThe crew uncover an abandoned research facility where several infamous historical figures have been rehabilitated of their evil ways.8/10
- DirectorAndy De EmmonyStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesAs the crew contend with Starbug's dwindling supplies, they find themselves being pulled towards a deserted space station where they meet the brilliant but mysterious Legion. Legion wishes only to fulfill their every need, but to what end?8/10
- DirectorEd ByeStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesWhen Kryten finds a matter paddle on the Red Dwarf, the crew decide to test it out and end up on Waxworld, an enormous waxdroid theme park where waxdroids modelled after history's most famous heroes and villains are at war with each other.8/10
- DirectorEd ByeStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesRimmer, Lister and Cat find a time barrier called "Stasis Leak" on Floor 16 and it takes them back in time on Red Dwarf 3 million years earlier. Rimmer and Lister try to change the past, which puts either Rimmer or Kochanski into suspended animation so one of them doesn't die in the radioactive disaster.8/10
- DirectorEd ByeStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesThe Red Dwarf crew pick up an escape pod containing either prison guard Barbra Bellini or a dangerous Simulant convict. They transport the pod back to Justice World where Rimmer finds himself put on trial for past crimes long forgotten.8/10
- DirectorRob GrantJuliet MayDoug NaylorStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesAn experiment with a machine that can make duplicates of an object goes wrong and Red Dwarf explodes. Where the Red Dwarf crew find the machine has made two copies of Red Dwarf, both ships contains their good and evil selves.8/10