Red Dwarf Episode Guide

Series 1

Regulars:
Chris Barrie as Arnold J. Rimmer
Craig Charles as Dave Lister
Danny John-Jules as Cat
Norman Lovett as Holly
Written by: Rob Grant and Doug Naylor

"The End" (First broadcasted: 15 February 1988)
Guest Stars: Robert Bathurst (Frank Todhunter), Paul Bradley (Chen), David Gillespie (Selby), Mac McDonald (Captain Hollister), Robert McCulley (George McIntyre), Mark Williams (Olaf Petersen), C.P. Grogan (Kristine Kochanski).
A radiation leak wipes out the crew of the Jupiter Mining ship "Red Dwarf", leaving only one survivor, third technician Dave Lister, who was at the time of the accident in stasis for bring aboard an unquarantined cat. The ship's computer, Holly, lets Lister out of stasis once the background radiation has reached a safe level, unfortunately this is after a mere 3 million years. Lister emerges from stasis to find he is probably the last human in the whole universe. Lister soon finds his life is not going to be entirely lonesome as Holly has brought back one of the crew as a Hologram to keep Lister sane, unfortunately for Lister the hologram is a simulation of Arnold Rimmer, his bunk mate and just about the most annoying person in the universe and also the person who failed to seal the drive plate correctly leading to the accident. As well as sharing the ship with Rimmer, Lister discovers that there's also a life form on board that has evolved from his pet cat. The new crew sets course for Earth.

"Future Echoes" (First broadcasted: 22 February 1988)
Guest Stars: John Lenahan (Toaster), Tony Hawks (Dispensing Machine).
After turning around the ship and setting course to Earth, Lister and Cat want to go into stasis for the trip back, but then Red Dwarf breaks through the light barrier. Echoes of the future start to occur and the crew begin to see images of their future selves leading to some truly strange situations and the worse case of deja-vu in the whole of history or should that be future. Lister sees himself as a 171 year old man, and also meets his two future twin sons and Rimmer witnesses the death of Lister in the drive room.

"Balance Of Power" (First broadcasted: 29 February 1988)
Guest Stars: Rupert Bates (Trout la Cr�me and Chef), Paul Bradley (Chen), David Gillespie (Selby), Mark Williams (Olaf Petersen), C.P. Grogan (Kristine Kochanski).
Desperate to see Kristine Kochanski once more, Lister pleads with Rimmer to allow him to bring her back as a hologram. Rimmer refuses as he is sure Lister won't turn him back on again. Lister then decides to take the Chef's exam in an attempt to outrank Rimmer, so he can order him to hand over Kochanski's disc. Rimmer tries everything he can to persuade Lister to stop his attempt to become a officer.

"Waiting For God" (First broadcasted: 7 March 1988)
Guest Stars: Noel Coleman (Cat Priest), John Lenahan (Toaster).
Holly finds a pod which Rimmer believes contains the body of a 'Quagaar' warrior, a species with green hair and 6 breasts. Lister concentrates on learning about the Cat people and their history over the three million years during which he was in stasis. Lister soon discovers that the Cat people as well as writing books about Big red balls and chasing them, they also wrote about the god-like Cloister the Stupid. Lister embarks on a quest to find out who Cloister was by studying the ancient book, and makes an amazing discovery which leads to God in one form or another. Meanwhile the pod that Holly brought on board to keep Rimmer amused is soon to reveal it true origin as well.

"Confidence And Paranoia" (First broadcasted: 14 March 1988)
Guest Stars: Lee Cornes (Paranoia), Craig Ferguson (Confidence).
As Lister begins to explore the ship, or more precisely Kochanski's quarters, he contracts a mutated form of pneumonia. The mutated pneumonia causes Rimmer to witness fish rain in Lister's quarters and the spontaneously combusting of the Mayor of Warsaw as well as the creation of two truely weird people: personifications of Lister's confidence and his paranoia. Lister with the help of Confidence tries to find Kochanski's hologram disc with disastrous results.

"Me�" (First broadcasted: 21 March 1988)
Guest Stars: Mac McDonald (Captain Hollister).
Rimmer tricks Lister into bringing him back as another hologram. If you thought one Rimmer was bad, having Rimmer in stereo is hell. Rimmer decides to "room" with himself, leaving Lister alone. However soon afterward the two Rimmers find themselves locked into such a fierce argument that they decide one of them must be switched off which leads to a 'Souper' finish.

Series 2

Regulars:
Chris Barrie as Arnold J. Rimmer
Craig Charles as Dave Lister
Danny John-Jules as Cat
Norman Lovett as Holly
Written by: Rob Grant and Doug Naylor

"Kryten" (First broadcasted: 6 September 1988)
Guest Stars: David Ross (Kryten), Johanna Hargreaves (The Esperanto Woman), Tony Slattery (Android Actor).
Holly intercepts an SOS from a crashed ship. Rimmer immediately has Holly deck him out with his best dress uniform, Lister puts on his smelly orange moon boots, and even Holly starts wearing an electronic toupee. The reason is the crashed ship's crew, three lonely damsels in distress and a slightly deranged series 400 mechanoid named Kryten.
Kryten the mechanoid is introduced to the Dwarfers, although he leaves at the end of this episode, the character was popular enough for him to return as a member of the crew from the third season onwards, (although in later episodes he is played by Robert Llewellyn).

"Better Than Life" (First broadcasted: 13 September 1988)
Guest Stars: John Abineri (Rimmer's Dad), Debbie Ash (Marilyn Monroe), Jeremy Austin (Rathbone), Nigel Carrivick (The Captain), Tony Hawks (The Guide), Judy Hawkins (Yvonne McGruder), Tina Jenkins (The Newsreader), Ron Pember (The Taxman), Gordon Salkilld (Gordon).
A mail pod catches up with Red Dwarf after only 3 million years. Among the items in the post is a letter for Rimmer and a set of Virtual Reality games. After Rimmer finds the letter is from his Mother telling him his father has died, the team all enter "Better Than Life", one of the new games. According to the sales blurb, "Better Than Life" is so advanced it will bring your dreams to life, unless you have a mind like Rimmers that is. After a short time Rimmer's Mind starts to exact revenge on Rimmer in many horribly ways.

"Thanks For The Memory" (First broadcasted: 20 September 1988)
Guest Stars: Sabra Williams (Lisa Yates).
The crew celebrate the anniversary of Rimmers death and get drunk. Rimmer in a drunken state tastes his first triple fried egg butty with chili sauce and chutney. They wake up to find 4 missing days, both Lister and Cat with legs in Plaster and the black box recorder missing. The Crew go in search of the missing Black box which turns out to be buried in a shallow grave with Footprints the size of a surfboard leading to it, there is also a gravestone with "To the memory of Lisa Yates" written on it, the only problem is that Lisa Yates was Lister girlfriend over 3 million years ago. After unearthing the black box it reveals all...

"Stasis Leak" (First broadcasted: 27 September 1988)
Guest Stars: Morwenna Banks (The Lift Hostess), Sophie Doherty (Kochanski's Room Mate), C.P. Grogan (Kristine Kochanski), Richard Hainsworth (The Medical Orderly), Tony Hawks (The Suitcase), Mac McDonald (Captain Hollister), Mark Williams (Olaf Petersen).
Reading Rimmers diary, Lister finds an entry that leads him to find a stasis leak. Passing through the leak, Lister, the Cat and Rimmer are all able to travel back in time to a point before the crew were wiped out (3 weeks before). As one of the stasis booths was unoccupied at this time, they can save one member of the crew if they can convince them to go into stasis. Lister tries to convince Kochanski but receives a shock when he finds she has married a familiar looking face, meanwhile Rimmer is trying to convince himself to go into stasis so that he doesn't have to be dead anymore.

"Queeg" (First broadcasted: 4 October 1988)
Guest Stars: Charles Augins (Queeg).
Holly causes yet another accident, this time endangering Lister. As Red Dwarf's back up computer "Queeg 500" takes over the ship, Holly is reduced to a night watchman roaming the ship shouting "who goes there". Now that the crew have to work for a living again, they talk Holly into taking Queeg on. Unfortunately Queeg chooses chess with the looser facing deletion. Does Holly know something the crew don't, or are they doomed to clean the corridor floors forever?

"Parallel Universe" (First broadcasted: 11 October 1988)
Guest Stars: Suzanne Bertish (Ms Rimmer), Angela Bruce (Ms Lister), Matthew Devitt (The Dog), Hattie Hayridge (Hilly).
Holly devises a new drive, the "Holly Hop Drive". A device so amazingly powerful that it can transport Red Dwarf anywhere in the universe in a microsecond. Lister is less than hopeful when he sees the device is a box with "Start" and "Stop" on it. Activating the drive, the ship and its crew are propelled into a parallel universe where the ship and crew are duplicated, but with differences, as Lister and Rimmer find out when their duplicates chat them up.

Series 3

Regulars:
Chris Barrie as Arnold J. Rimmer
Craig Charles as Dave Lister
Danny John-Jules as Cat
Hattie Hayridge as Holly
Robert Llewellyn as Kryten
Written by: Rob Grant and Doug Naylor

The following message can be read in very speedy Star Wars-style at the beginning of episode 1, "Backwards":
RED DWARF III: THE SAGA CONTINUUMS. THE STORY SO FAR...
Three million years in the future, Dave Lister, the last human being alive discovers he is pregnant after a liaison with his female self in a parallel universe. His pregnancy concludes with the successful delivery of twin boys, Jim and Bexley. However, because the twins were conceived in another universe, with different physical laws, they suffer from highly accelerated growth rates, and are both eighteen years old within three days of being born. In order to save their lives, Lister returns them to the universe of their origin, where they are reunited with their father (a woman), and are able to lead comparatively normal lives. Well, as normal as you can be if you've been born in a parallel universe and your father's a woman and your mother's a man and you're eighteen years three days after your birth. Shortly afterwards, Kryten, the service mechanoid who had left the ship after being rescued from his own crashed vessel, the Nova 5, is found in pieces after his space bike crash lands onto an asteroid. Lister rebuilds the 'noid, but is unable to recapture his former personality. Meanwhile, Holly, the increasingly erratic Red Dwarf computer, performs a head sex change operation on himself. He bases his new face on Hilly, a female computer with whom he'd once fallen madly in love. And now the saga continuums.
AND NOW THE SAGA CONTINUUMS.... RED DWARF III: THE SAME GENERATION. - NEARLY -

"Backwards" (First broadcasted: 14 November 1989)
Guest Stars: Maria Friedman (Waitress), Tony Hawks (Comp�re), Anna Palmer (Customer in Caf�), Arthur Smith (Pub Manager).
Whilst taking his driving test in Starbug, Kryten pilots the ship and Rimmer through a time hole and onto an alternate 20th century Earth, but an alternate 20th century Earth where time is running backwards.

"Marooned" (First broadcasted: 21 November 1989)
Guest Stars: None.
Holly picks up a minefield of Black Holes on the scanner scope. Abandoning Red Dwarf until Holly can pilot it around them, Starbug is hit by a flaming meteorite, crash-landing on an ice moon. Marooned with only Rimmer for company and a dwindling fire, Lister has to face an not so agonising decision: Should he eat the can of dog food or the pot noodle last?

"Polymorph" (First broadcasted: 28 November 1989)
Guest Stars: Frances Barber (Genny), Simon Gaffney (Young Rimmer), Kalli Greenwood (Mrs Rimmer).
A Genetic mutant with the power to transform into any shape or form finds its way onto the ship. Now the crew are subjected to 24 hours of non stop horror as the beast feeds on the crews negative emotions. During this time Lister is attacked by a very hot kebab, the Cat looses his Vanity, Kryten trys to use the rest of the Crew to bargain for his life, and Rimmer discovers something about his Mum and Lister.

"Body Swap" (First broadcasted: 5 December 1989)
Guest Stars: None.
A Skutter goes berserk and rewires the ship's circuitry. When Lister orders a milkshake and a crispy bar from one of the ships snack dispensers, he inadvertently starts the self destruct sequence. The only way to stop the countdown is to allow Kryten to try a "mind swap" technique, this involves implanting the mind of one of the dead female officers in Lister's body. After the crisis is over Rimmer uses the technique to his advantage, ie. Rimmer's mind in Lister's body, and Lister's mind in Rimmer's body. When Lister wants his body back Rimmer is unhappy to return it and hatches a plan to high-jack it.

"Timeslides" (First broadcasted: 12 December 1989)
Guest Stars: Robert Addie (Gilbert), Rupert Bates and Richard Hainsworth (Bodyguards), Emile Charles (Young Lister), Simon Gaffney (Young Rimmer), Stephen McKintosh (Thicky Holden), Louisa Ruthven (Ski Woman), Koo Stark (Lady Sabrina Mulholland-Jjones), Mark Steel (Ski Man), Ruby Wax (American Presenter). With special guest star Adolf Hitler as Himself.
After discovering a mutated film developing fluid, the crew discover they can travel to any place or time that they have a photograph of. Running amok through history and blindly ignoring the consequences of causality, Lister changes history so that he never joined Red Dwarf and is indecently wealthy. With Lister gone, the Cat and Kryten disappear from reality. Faced with the prospect of travelling with only Holly and the skutters for company, Rimmer decides that he must save Lister from his new, and successful, life as it is his duty as a complete and utter bastard!

"The Last Day" (First broadcasted: 19 December 1989)
Guest Stars: Julie Higginson (Girl Android), Gordon Kennedy (Hudzen).
Lister receives a letter in a mail pod telling him that Kryten's built in expiry date is nearly up. With Kryten using his last 24 hours to tidy up his affairs, the crew are determined to give the mechanoid the best night of his life. For the first time Kryten enjoys himself and wants to delay his ascent to Silicone Heaven, (the final resting place for all electrical appliances, the bad ones come here to Silicon Hell). Matters are further complicated when his replacement shows up determined to retire him and the rest of the crew for good. The crew face the 'Replacement' in the landing bay and met with Limited success, after weapons fails Kryten uses 'Silicon Hell' to stop the android forever.

Series 4

Regulars:
Chris Barrie as Arnold J. Rimmer
Craig Charles as Dave Lister
Danny John-Jules as Cat
Hattie Hayridge as Holly
Robert Llewellyn as Kryten
Written by: Rob Grant and Doug Naylor

"Camille" (First broadcasted: 14 February 1991)
Guest Stars: Judy Pascoe (Mechanoid Camille), Francesca Folan (Hologram Camille), Suzanne Rhatigan (Kochanski Camille), Rupert Bates (Hector Blob).
Whilst planet hopping, Rimmer and Kryten pick up a distress call. Disobeying Rimmers orders to ignore it, Kryten lands to rescue the crew of a crashed space liner. The only survivor seems to be a series 400 Mechanoid named Camille. Returning to Red Dwarf, the crew discover she is a pleasure gelf and appears in whatever form people want her to be. Her natural appearance is a large green blob, not that this seems to stop Kryten. However, it seems Kryten's plans for their future are not to be as Camille's "husband" arrives onboard looking for her.

"DNA" (First broadcasted: 21 February 1991)
Guest Stars: Richard Ridings (DNA Computer Voice).
Red Dwarf links onto an alien spacecraft, investigating its contents, the crew find a machine capable of changing DNA coding. After accidentally changing Lister into a chicken and back again, Kryten is transformed into a human. Deciding he does not want to remain human, Kryten asks to become a mechanoid again. However, before he will let Holly transform him back again, he tests the machine with one of Listers curries. Things get out of hand though, and the experiment produces a monster, half man, half Indian take away. The only solution is for Lister to use the machine and become super human, an experiment that is only partly successful.

"Justice" (First broadcasted: 28 February 1991)
Guest Stars: Nicholas Ball (Simulant), James Smillie (Justice Computer Voice).
The crew discovers a prison ship escape pod floating in space. According to its onboard flight recorder its occupant is either a beautiful female prison warden or a homicidal replicant. After the pod's thaw process is started by Cat, they decide they need to open the pod in a secure place. Tracing the course that the prison ship was on, they travel to a prison satellite. There the crew has to pass through a mind probe to gain entry. Cat, Lister and Kryten all pass through, but Rimmer is sentenced to several thousand years imprisonment for the murder of the Red Dwarf crew.

"White Hole" (First broadcasted: 7 March 1991)
Guest Stars: David Ross (Talkie Toaster).
Whilst trying to restore Holly's mind using a new technique called intelligence compression, the crew encounters a white hole in space. Succeeding in their experiment, Holly now has an IQ of 12,000, the problem is in doing so the crew has reduced her life expectancy to under three minutes. After battling their way through numerous locked electric doors using Kryten as a battering ram, the team asks Holly how to plug up the white hole. Unfortunately, it seems that the only way to seal the white hole and fix Holly seems to be a game of galactic pool using planets as pool balls.

"Dimension Jump" (First broadcasted: 14 March 1991)
Guest Stars: Kalli Greenwood (Mrs Rimmer), Simon Gaffney (Young Rimmer), Hetty Baynes (Cockpit Computer).
In another dimension Rimmer is a test pilot for the Space Corps, and, perhaps more surprisingly, he's a nice guy. Testing the latest drive system, an engine capable of breaking the dimensional barrier, he crashes into Starbug which crash lands on an ocean moon. Coming aboard to help repair the ship, "Ace" Rimmer meets up with Arnold Rimmer and discovers he doesn't like himself very much.

"Meltdown" (First broadcasted: 21 March 1991)
Guest Stars: Clayton Mark (Elvis), Kenneth Hadley (Hitler), Martin Friend (Einstein), Stephen Tiller (Pythagoras), Jack Klaff (Abraham Lincoln), Tony Hawks (Caligula), Michael Burrell (Pope Gregory), Forbes Masson (Stan Laurel), Roger Blake (Noel Coward), Pauline Bailey (Marilyn Monroe).
Kryten discovers a matter-panel, a small device that is capable of transporting them anywhere in space. Testing the panel, the crew are transported to a planet full of Waxdroids, intelligent waxworks which have broken their programming and are now at war with each other. On one side are the good people from history including real historical figures and fictional ones, and on the other side are the evil characters. Rimmer seizes this opportunity to act out his Napoleon complex and leads the good guys in their fight.

Series 5

Regulars:
Chris Barrie as Arnold J. Rimmer
Craig Charles as Dave Lister
Danny John-Jules as Cat
Hattie Hayridge as Holly
Robert Llewellyn as Kryten
Written by: Rob Grant and Doug Naylor

"Holoship" (First broadcasted: 20 February 1992)
Guest Stars: Jane Horrocks (Nirvanah Crane), Matthew Marsh (Captain Platini), Don Warrington (Commander Binks), Lucy Briers (Harrison), Simon Day (Number Two), Jane Montgomery (Number One).
Starbug encounters a ship full of super intelligent holograms. Whilst onboard Rimmer can touch, taste, and "interact" with the female crew. Deciding that this is the life for him, Rimmer decides that he's not averse to cheating at the entrance exam to join in the fun. But are there things in life that are more important than success?

"The Inquisitor" (First broadcasted: 27 February 1992)
Guest Stars: John Docherty (Inquisitor), Jake Abraham (Second Lister), James Cormack (Thomas Allman).
The Inquisitor, a time travelling self repairing android who, after surviving to the end of the universe and discovering no afterlife, decides that the only purpose in existence is to lead a worthwhile life. Travelling through time and judging every living being in creation, he arrives on Red Dwarf. Once there he forces the crew to justify their existence. Placed in Limbo, Lister and Kryten must destroy him before they are erased from time forever.

"Terrorform" (First broadcasted: 5 March 1992)
Guest Stars: Sara Stockbridge and Francine Walker-Lee (Handmaidens).
When Starbug, carrying Rimmer and Kryten, arrives on a Psi-moon, the planet rebuilds itself to match the landscape of Rimmers mind. After Kryten sends an unusual messenger to Red Dwarf for help, Lister and Cat arrive to save him. Rescuing Kryten from the twisted wreck, the team go after Rimmer who has been kidnapped by monsters formed from his own negative emotions, and taken to meet the Unspeakable One.

"Quarantine" (First broadcasted: 12 March 1992)
Guest Stars: Maggie Steed (Dr Hildegarde Lanstrom).
The crew are investigating an abandoned genetic research centre. Whilst looking around they discover a nest of stasis pods. When one of them activates itself, it releases the hologramatic Doctor Hildegarde Lanstrom who has been infected with a holovirus. The virus gives her tremendous Psi powers but has driven her totally mad. After she destroys herself, the crew attempt to return to Red Dwarf. Arriving on the ship Rimmer puts them in quarantine, but he has already been infected.

"Demons And Angels" (First broadcasted: 19 March 1992)
Guest Stars: None.
Kryten builds a triplicator, capable of producing two copies of any object. Testing it on the last strawberry in existence, the triplicator produces two duplicate strawberries, one divine and one rancid. Curious to see what happens if the field is reversed, they throw it in reverse. Suddenly Red Dwarf's engines are overloaded and the ship is destroyed. Escaping in Starbug, the crew discovers that just before the ship blew up, two copies were produced...

"Back To Reality" (First broadcasted: 26 March 1992)
Guest Stars: Timothy Spall (Andy), Lenny Von Dohlen (Cop), Anastasia Hille (New Kochanski), Marie McCarthy (Nurse), Jake Sharian (New Lister).
Investigating an ocean planet, the crew discover the Esperanto, an ocean seeding ship. Boarding her they discover the entire crew killed themselves. Discovering this was caused by the ink of a despair squid, they return to Starbug. Lifting off, the ship is attacked by the squid and, apparently, destroyed. The team then wake up to find that they have been playing the total immersion video game "Red Dwarf" for the last four years.

Series 6

Regulars:
Chris Barrie as Arnold J. Rimmer
Craig Charles as Dave Lister
Danny John-Jules as Cat
Robert Llewellyn as Kryten
Written by: Rob Grant and Doug Naylor

"Psirens" (First broadcasted: 7 October 1993)
Guest Stars: Jenny Agutter (Professor Mamet), Samantha Robson (Pete Tranter's Sister), Anita Dobson (Captain Tau), Richard Ridings (Crazed Astro), C.P. Grogan (Kristine Kochanski), Zoe Hilson and Elizabeth Anson (Temptresses). Featuring the hands of Phil Manzanera.
Brought out of suspended animation after 200 years, Lister, Cat and Rimmer rejoin Kryten aboard Starbug. Red Dwarf has been stolen by a person or persons unknown and Kryten has finally managed to trace its vapour trail. Taking a detour through an asteroid field, the crew encounters a group of Psirens, genetically created life forms who can project false mental projections to lure people to their deaths.

"Legion" (First broadcasted: 14 October 1993)
Guest Stars: Nigel Williams (Legion).
Starbug is seized by a tractor beam and towed to a space station where they meet Legion. A creature who is so technologically advanced that he changes Rimmer's light-bee into a hard light drive effectively giving him a physical body. Trying to entice Legion to join the crew in their attempts to trace Red Dwarf, the crew are rather upset to learn that Legion wants them to stay ... forever.

"Gunmen Of The Apocalypse" (First broadcasted: 21 October 1993)
Guest Stars: Jennifer Calvert (Loretta), Denis Lill (Simulant Captain/Death), Liz Hickling (Simulant Lieutenant), Imogen Bain (Lola), Steve Devereaux (Jimmy), Robert Inch (War), Jeremy Peters (Pestilence), Dinny Powell (Famine), Stephen Marcus (Bear Strangler McGee).
The ship encounters a group of psychotic killer simulants. Hopelessly over matched, they try to bluff their way out, when this fails the ship is boarded and the crew are rendered unconscious. When they recover they find the simulants have updated the 'Bug to be of some sport to them. Rendering the simulant's ship useless with a lucky shot, the team head away from the ship, but not before the simulants can transmit the Armageddon computer virus into Starbugs Navicomp. Kryten now has no option but to link himself into the system in order to produce a "dove" vaccine program. Using Virtual reality suits, the team links into his dream state where Kryten is a drunken sheriff going up against the Armageddon Brothers.

"Emohawk - Polymorph II" (First broadcasted: 28 October 1993)
Guest Stars: Hugh Quarshie (Computer), Martin Sims (GELF), Ainsley Harriott (GELF Chief), Steven Wickham (GELF Bride).
The ship is attacked by a space police enforcement drone. The only way to escape is to head into Gelf space, an area so deadly that the drone will not follow them. Checking the damage, they manage to fix everything but the Oxygen unit. Arriving on one of the Gelf planets, they manage to arrange a trade, the oxygen unit for Listers marriage to the chief's daughter. Backing out of the deal, the team escape but are pursued by an Emohawk, another form of polymorph. Due to attacks by this creature, Cat is turned into Duane Dibbley and Rimmer is turned into Ace Rimmer.

"Rimmerworld" (First broadcasted: 4 November 1993)
Guest Stars: Liz Hickling (Rogue Simulant).
Rimmer is suffering from stress, a situation not helped by the fact that Starbug is running out of supplies. Their only hope is to salvage what they can from the simulant ship. Once on board they discover a teleport device which they use to load up Starbug. Encountering the last surviving simulant, Rimmer escapes in a seeding escape pod but is drawn into a space vortex and has to spend 600 years on a planet surrounded by his own backstabbing clones.

"Out Of Time" (First broadcasted: 11 November 1993)
Guest Stars: None.
Encountering an "unreality" mine field, the crew are subjected to a series of disorientating events. Kryten mistakes Lister for a 300 series mechanoid and Cat is temporarily erased from the crew's memories. Deciding the mine field is to keep people away from a ship with a prototype drive, Kryten puts Lister and Cat into stasis for 3 days. Reviving them at the centre of the field, they discover a ship with a time drive. Installing the drive in Starbug's engine bay, the crew are rather distressed when they receive an SOS from their counterparts from 15 years in the future. This story ends in a cliff-hanger. To be Continued.

Series 7

Regulars:
Chris Barrie as Arnold J. Rimmer (episodes 1-3, 5)
Craig Charles as Dave Lister
Danny John-Jules as Cat
Robert Llewellyn as Kryten
Chloe Annett as Kristine Kochanski (episodes 3-8)

"Tikka To Ride" (First broadcasted: 17 January 1997)
Written by: Doug Naylor
Guest Stars: Michael J Shannon (John F. Kennedy), Toby Aspin (Lee Harvey Oswald), Peter Gaitens (FBI Agent), Robert Ashe (Cop).
During a fight with the Dwarf crew's future selves, the entire supply of curry is destroyed, forcing them to replace it via a trip through time. When Kryten accidentally transports them to the Kennedy Assassination and they change time things begin to get really complicated.

"Stoke Me A Clipper" (First broadcasted: 24 January 1997)
Written by: Paul Alexander and Doug Naylor
Guest Stars: Brian Cox (King), Ken Morley (Captain Voorhese), Sarah Alexander (Queen), John Thompson (Good Knight), Alison Senior (Princess Bonjella), Mark Carlisle (Lieutenant), Mark Lingwood (Gestapo Officer), Kai Maurer, Stephen Grothgar and Andy Gell (Soldiers). With special thanks to London Zoo for Alison (Voorhese's crocodile).
A Fatally wounded Ace Rimmer tries to persuade Arnold Rimmer, who is currently occupied with cataloguing his shoe collection, to take over from him as guardian of the universe. The story in which Rimmer leaves, well sort of.

"Ouroboros" (First broadcasted: 31 January 1997)
Written by: Doug Naylor
Guest Stars: Gary Bleasdale (Frank), Juliet Griffiths (Barmaid), Adrienne Posta (Flight Announcer), Alexander John-Jules (Baby Lister).
Starbug comes across a rip in space/time. Travelling directly through it they find a rip in the fabric that separates dimensions in the cargo hold. Travelling into the rip they find themselves in a tunnel between realities and come face to face with alternate versions of themselves. Except in that dimension Rimmer was killed as was Dave Lister however Kochanski was put into stasis for hiding a cat, and Holly brought Dave back as a hologram who is now made up of hard light. When a Gelf ship attacks the corridor, Kochanski is stranded in our dimension - a prospect that neither Kochanski or Kryten finds appealing. Meanwhile the incident answers a question that Lister has been trying to answer all his life, who is he and who are his parents?

"Duct Soup" (First broadcasted: 7 February 1997)
Written by: Doug Naylor
Guest Stars: None.
Whilst Kochanski comes to terms with being marooned without the comforts of "her" Dave Lister or her cottage cheese with pineapple chunks and with the fact that the only thing in the fridge is a pair of training shoes, a malfunction in the heating and ventilation system causes Starbug's generator to break down. The crew have no choice but to crawl along the ships heating and water vents in order to reach the engine room. Along the way they learn something interesting about Lister and when they realise the ship is heading into a nearby star, Kryten has to make a very embarrassing confession.

"Blue" (First broadcasted: 14 February 1997)
Written by: Kim Fuller and Doug Naylor
Guest Stars: None.
As tensions between Kochanski and the crew begin to rise and Kryten tries to hold himself back whilst Kochanski keeps moving the Salad cream from the fridge to the cupboard, Lister is extremely disturbed to find that he misses Rimmer. Soon Rimmer even invades his dreams and it's up to Kryten and the AI suite to bring him back to normality.

"Beyond A Joke" (First broadcasted: 21 February 1997)
Written by: Robert Llewellyn and Doug Naylor
Guest Stars: Don Henderson (Simulant), Vicky Ogden (Mrs Bennet), Alina Proctor (Jane Bennet), Catherine Harvey (Kitty Bennet), Sophia Thierens (Lydia Bennet), Rebecca Katz (Mary Bennet), Julia Lloyd (Elizabeth Bennet).
Whilst Kryten goes to the trouble of preparing a special meal to celebrate the anniversary of his rescue from the Nova 5, Kristine Kochanski tries to educate the crew by taking them to a Pride and Prejudice VR world. Unfortunately Kryten snaps and after intruding into their VR simulation armed with a blowpipe, (complete with poisened darts), and a Russian tank - he blows his top ... literally.

"Epideme" (First broadcasted: 28 February 1997)
Written by: Paul Alexander and Doug Naylor
Guest Stars: Nicky Leatherbarrow (Caroline Carmen), Gary Martin (Epideme).
Whilst scanning a frozen mass in space, the crew discover the Leviathan, a huge spacecraft buried deep in the ice. Docking Starbug with the massive derelict the crew go aboard and Kryten discovers life signs. Tracking them to their source they discover the frozen body of Caroline Carmen, a former member of the Red Dwarf crew, and take her back to Starbug to thaw out. Unfortunately when she does she is revealed to be a zombie, animated by a deadly virus within her. Seeking out a new host she attacks Lister and infects him with the Epideme virus. After being examined by Kryten, Lister is told that there is no cure for the virus and the only way to save his life would seem to be to talk to it. Linking himself to the ship's Universal Translator, the crew tries to talk Epideme out of killing Lister. Unfortunately for Lister, when this fails the only way to save him seems to be to drive Epideme into taking refuge in Lister's arm, and then cut it off!

"Nanarchy" (First broadcasted: 7 March 1997)
Written by: Paul Alexander, Jamies Hendrie and Doug Naylor
Guest Stars: Norman Lovett (Holly).
Whilst suffering depression following the loss of his arm, Lister's crew mates try to get him to face his problem and start to live with it whilst Kryten mothers him incessantly. Following an unsuccessful attempt at using an artificial arm, the crew set out to find Kryten's Rogue nanobots, who could construct Lister a new arm from his existing body tissues. When they head back to the planet on which they found the USS Esperanto, they find much more than they expected, the remains of Red Dwarf and Holly, the shipboard computer. The Nano-bots and the Red Dwarf they had been chasing are soon found in an EXTREMELY unusual place.

Series 8

Regulars:
Chris Barrie as Arnold J. Rimmer
Craig Charles as Dave Lister
Danny John-Jules as Cat
Robert Llewellyn as Kryten
Chloe Annett as Kristine Kochanski
Norman Lovett as Holly
Mac McDonald as Captain Hollister (episodes 1-4, 6-8)

"Back In The Red - Part One" (First broadcasted: 18 February 1999)
Written by: Doug Naylor
Guest Stars: Paul Bradley (Chen), David Gillespie (Selby), Karl Glenn Stimpson (M.P. Thornton), Kika Mirylees (Doc Newton), Andy Taylor (Dr McClaren).
Not only have the Nanobots recreated Red Dwarf, they've also populated the ship with its original crew. This is extremely good news for Rimmer.

"Back In The Red - Part Two" (First broadcasted: 25 February 1999)
Written by: Doug Naylor
Guest Stars: Kika Mirylees (Doc Newton), Jemma Churchill (Panel Woman Officer), Andy Taylor (Dr McClaren), Genevieve Swallow (Second Woman Officer), Geoffrey Beevers (Doctor).
Rimmer is invited to dinner with the Captain and to make the evening go with a swing douses himself with the "Sexual Magnetism Virus" making himself irresistible to the female crew.

"Back In The Red - Part Three" (First broadcasted: 4 March 1999)
Written by: Doug Naylor
Guest Stars: Graham McTavish (Ackerman), Yasmin Bannerman (First Ground Controller), Jeillo Edwards (Second Ground Controller), Karl Glenn Stimpson (M.P. Thornton).
The Dwarfers face two years in the brig for crimes against the Space Corps. Realising their defence has more holes than Lister's underpants they escape to prove their innocence.

"Cassandra" (First broadcasted: 7 March 1999, UK: 11 March 1999)
Written by: Doug Naylor
Guest Stars: Geraldine McEwan (Cassandra), Graham McTavish (Ackerman), Jake Wood (Kill Crazy), Shend (Warden Knot), Ian Soundy (Guard), Joseph Crilly (Blood Drinker).
Taking Holly's advice Lister joins the "Canaries" - a battle hardened convict army trained to go on suicide missions, and not as he thought, the prison choir!

"Krytie TV" (First broadcasted: 7 March 1999, UK: 18 March 1999)
Written by: Doug Naylor and Paul Alexander
Guest Stars: Jake Wood (Kill Crazy), Graham McTavish (Ackerman), Mark Caven (Man in Film), Sarah Wateridge (Woman in Film), Clifford Barrie (Guard).
Kryten starts his own pirate TV station to entertain the prisoners.

"Pete - Part One" (First broadcasted: 7 March 1999, UK: 25 March 1999)
Written by: Doug Naylor
Guest Stars: Graham McTavish (Ackerman), Andrew Alston (Mex), Holly Earl (Young Kochanski), Perri Michael (Young Cat), Ricky Grover (Baxter), Ian Masters (Birdman), Shend (Warden Knot).
When Rimmer and Lister are forced to take on the guards in a basketball game they sabotage the opposition's half-time juice with "Boing" - the virility enhancement drug.

"Pete - Part Two" (First broadcasted: 7 March 1999, UK: 1 April 1999)
Written by: Doug Naylor and Paul Alexander
Guest Stars: Ian Masters (Birdman), Jake Wood (Kill Crazy), Ricky Grover (Baxter).
The Dwarfers discover birds are descended from dinosaurs when the de-evolve a sparrow into a T-Rex!

"Only The Good..." (First broadcasted: 7 March 1999, UK: 5 April 1999)
Written by: Doug Naylor
Guest Stars: Heidi Monsen (Talia), Tony Slattery (Dispensing Machine), Ricky Grover (Baxter), David Verrey (Big Meat), Graham McTavish (Ackerman).
The ship is being destroyed by a mutant virus. Rimmer crosses into a mirror universe where he discovers another version of himself captaining the ship.

Source: Red Dwarf Programme Guide and www.reddwarf.nildram.co.uk

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