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15. Polymorph.
A shape shifting creature boards Red Dwarf, it can change it absolutely anything, the crew discover when Lister's kebab leaps off the plate to attack him. The creature feeds by removing emotions from its victims. Lister loses his fear, Rimmer his anger, The Cat his cool and Kryten the mechanoid his loyalty.

 

16. Bodyswap.
The personality of the dead second in command is recorded on a disc, that personality in an emergency has to be planted into Lister's body to cancel the self destruct mechanism destroying the ship, which was activated by accident.
Rimmer seeing this is possible suggests he and Lister temporarily swap bodies, he goes into Lister's body and Lister temporarily becomes a hologram. In this way fitness fanatic Rimmer can get Lister fit and on a proper diet without Lister having to actually do the work. Lister agrees , but disaster as Rimmer now in a body again gets to like it and absconds with Lister's body in Starbug and threatens to shoot himself, killing both his mind and Lister's body if they come after him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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17. Timeslides.
Mutated photographic developing fluid means the crew's photo slides have become portals to the past. You can walk into the past so long as you have a photo of the scene. Lister goes to visit himself aged 17 and persuades him to go to the patent office and patent an invention as his before the established inventor ever got round to inventing it. This is of course immoral but the 17 year old Lister does this.
The invention is the Tension Sheet, plastic packing paper painted red, a calming therapy for anxiety, you pop the plastic sheet to calm down. Lister changes history and becomes a millionaire, subsequently he never joined Red Dwarf, the Cat race was never born, and Rimmer is left on Red Dwarf for eternity alone. It is Rimmer's duty as a complete and utter b astard to reverse this.

 

  

  

 

 18. The Last Day.
Kryten gets a message from Devadroid International the company that made him. His warranty is running out and in the morning he will be terminated and replaced by the latest model mechanoid on its way now. But after chasing Red Dwarf for centuries the new mechanoid Hudzen is insane and wants everyone on board terminated.

 

Edited April 23 by HawkMan

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Series 4.
19. Camille.
The Red Dwarf crew rescue Camille , a female survivor of a crashed ship. Strangely Lister sees her as Liverpudlian, Rimmer think she's a hologram, Kryten says she's a mechanoid, the same model as himself. Truth is she's something else altogether. This episode has plenty of references to the film Casablanca.

20. DNA
On an abandoned ship the team find a three headed corpse and a machine that can change DNA. Kryten becomes human, and struggles with what it is to be organic life rather than mechanical. Love is an emotion he does not understand, he has erotic thoughts about vacuum cleaners. Kryten wants to be a mechanoid again, but the DNA changing machine isn't reliable, so to test it they try to change Lister's chicken curry to a lamb one, and inadvertently create the mutton vindaloo beast.

21. Justice.
The crew come upon a pod in space, it comes from a prison planet and either contains a warder or a dangerous criminal.
They take it justice world where it can be safely opened, but on arrival a mind scan reveals Rimmer's guilt in causing the accident that killed all on Red Dwarf 3 million years ago, and is sentenced to imprisonment for hundreds of years given his hologramatic status. Kryten has to act as defence attorney to save him.

 

 

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22. White Hole.
Holly the senile computer wants to regain her IQ of 6000, so with Kryten's help goes through a process of reducing her remaining run time to increase her cleverness. Unfortunately the plan backfires when in return for being a genius again her run time is now just 3 minutes, so she switches herself off. Not good news as the ship approaches a White Hole, the opposite of a black hole but still as deadly.

 

 

23. Dimension Jump.
From another dimension comes Ace Rimmer, another Arnold Rimmer but one who is a hero, brave, manly, and ...what a guy!! Ace has dimension jumped into our dimension and meets our Rimmer , and what a disappointment Ace finds him. After crashing on an ocean planet, the Red Dwarf crew rescued by Ace really want Ace to stay. But no, Ace is on a mission to dimension jump to explore different realities, somewhere he might find a Rimmer who is more of a pain in the butt than our Rimmer.....but it's doubtful.

 

 

 

24. Meltdown.
Kryten finds a matter transmitter in one of Red Dwarfs science labs, something that was being developed when the ship suffered the disaster that wiped everyone out..except Lister of course. The matter "paddle" transports the team to a world inhabited by waxdroids, wax robots of famous people, abandoned here in Waxworld Theme Park. The droids are having a civil war, good vs evil, droids of Marilyn Munroe, Stan Laurel, Elvis , and more versus Hitler, Caligula, Rasputin droids. Good are losing.....Rimmer to the rescue hopefully.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Series 5.
25. Holoship.
A hologram ship , made out of pure light, staffed by holograms all with incredible IQs arrives, Rimmer desperately wants to join. He dangerously uses a mental enhancing technique to boost his IQ to pass the entrance test. He passes, he's on his way, says goodbye to Lister, Cat and Kryten , but he hadn't reckoned on one thing....Will love ruin it for Rimmer, the man that no one has ever loved.

 

 

26. The Inquisitor.
Bad news, The Inquisitor, the insane time travelling android who's mission is to judge everyone in the universe, and delete those who led worthless lives, meets the Red Dwarf team. How will slobby Lister, vain Cat, cowardly Rimmer and subservient Kryten justify their lives.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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27. Terrorform.
Rimmer is stranded on a planet that has terraformed to bring all the emotions and qualities inside Rimmer's head to life. Lister and the others have to rescue him and face Rimmer's self loathing personified as a slobbering beast.

 

 

28. Quarantine.
A hologram of a scientist is in suspension in an abandoned scientific research centre, the Red Dwarf team inadvertently release the hologram, Professor Langstrom who has a hologram virus turning her into a maniac. Before she dies the virus is transmitted to Rimmer, who is unaware of this, and he takes over Red Dwarf and puts the others in quarantine to protect himself. But it's too late, he has the virus, and a homicidal Rimmer is not a pretty sight.

 

 

 

 

 

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29. Demons And Angels.
The matter transmitter previously seen is adapted by Kryten to transmit and replicate matter, hopefully to boost their food supply. However a slight miscalculation means Red Dwarf blows up and is destroyed. But two new Red Dwarfs are created, along with duplicate crews. On one ship is angelic versions of Lister, Rimmer, The Cat and Kryten, the other demonic evil counterparts. They must be faced in order to get the original ship back.

 

30. Back To Reality.

Red Dwarf isn't real of course, the characters are fictional. So after being killed by a giant squid, our 4 heroes awake to discover it was all a virtual reality game called Red Dwarf. So who are they really? Fugitives in a fascist world and Lister and Rimmer are half brothers....or are they? The Cat is really a goofy toothed loser who lives in a Salvation Army hostel. They aren't who they thought they were.

 

 

 

 

 

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Series 6.
31. Psirens.
Red Dwarf the ship is gone, stolen! The crew are confined to Starbug mini craft, and must find Red Dwarf. After 200 years following the Red Dwarf vapour trail Lister and the Cat are revived from cryogenic hibernation, Rimmer reactivated, and the search continues. On an asteroid they encounter hallucination inducing mind sucking insectoid life.

 

 

32. Legion.
The crew in pursuit of Red Dwarf meet Legion, an entity that needs other minds to become active from its dormant state. Legion was created by 4 scientists and shared their minds and personalities. Now its mind is made up of thoughts and emotions of Lister and Co. A bit of a comedown.

 

 

 

 

 

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33. Gunmen Of The Apocalypse.
Simulants are killer androids who despise humans, they attack Starbug, but our heroes win. Before the Simulants ship is destroyed they transmit an electronic virus to Starbug's engines. To combat this Kryten must plug himself into the ship and combat the virus. His battle is translated in his mind as a battle for power in a Wild West town, Lister and Co enter this dream Wild West town to help out.

 

 

 

 

34. Emohawk- Polymorph 2
Second encounter with the shape shifting polymorph creature. The crew need to trade with a tribe to get an engine part, unfortunately the price is Lister's hand in marriage to the chief's daughter, who is not exactly a looker. When the team steal the part the Chief's pet emohawk polymorph creature is set on them. The polymorph gets on board Starbug on shape shifts and attacks the crew, as before feeding on an emotion removed from our heroes.

 

 

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35. Rimmerworld.
The team are on an abandoned ship, belonging to Simulants, killer androids. They're there to help themselves to any valuable gear they can get. However an injured Simulant is on board who is going to kill them all. Rimmer in act of bravery, and not because he was trying to escape, jumps in an escape capsule and ..er escapes. But this act , as the capsule blasts off, sends ripples through the infrastructure of the damaged ship, in the confusion our heroes escape. Well done Rimmer, a hero at last. Unfortunately the capsule he's in goes through a wormhole before he can be pulled off. Rimmer ends up on a world alone, and the Starbug crew arrive 500 years later in Rimmer's timeframe, almost immediately from Lister , Cat and Kryten's timeframe. What has Rimmer been up to for 500 years. Why does everyone on this planet look like Rimmer? It's too horrible to contemplate.

 

 

 

36. Out Of Time.
Still no sign of the lost Red Dwarf ship, so the Starbug crew need cheering up, so Rimmer has an idea for their personal betterment. Thankfully before that can happen they make an amazing discovery, on an abandoned ship , they get a time machine. They plug it into Starbug's engines and they can time travel. Unfortunately not space travel any quicker so they're still out in deep space 3 million years from Earth. Then they recieve a signal from.....Starbug...from the future, It's them!!
Future Lister, Rimmer, Kryten and Cat have travelled back in time to meet them to get a component to repair their time drive.
But they've changed, not for the better. Kryten wears a wig, and all of them traverse time tasting the best life has to offer, throughout history. They love socialising, the Hitlers being there favourite hosts. What the hell has happened to our heroes, integrity gone, good taste gone, they've become freeloading parasites. A showdown is inevitable, current against future Red Dwarfers, who'll win ?

 

 

 

 

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Series 7.
37. Tikka To Ride.
After defeating their future selves , you'll have to watch to find out how, the Starbug vessel that our heroes are confined to until they locate Red Dwarf , has undergone changes as the timelines adjusted themselves. Disaster! All the Indian curry provisions have been destroyed. Lister can't function without vindaloo. They still have the time drive, Lister suggests they go back to Earth and buy years and years supply of curry. By chance they end up in Dallas 1963, overlooking the parade where JFK will attend. Unfortunately their arrival in a book repository has forced JFK's assassin to miss. Unfortunately because, JFK a womaniser and possibly under Mafia influence doesn't die and therefore history is altered. Our heroes time jump forward and discover America has been compromised as a result of JFK's continuing Presidency. Russia has a missile base in Cuba. The only way to rectify this is to assassinate JFK in 1963 as was meant.

 

 

38. Stoke Me A Clipper.
Super hero Ace Rimmer is back, the dimension jumping all round handsome, brave, fearless.....what a guy!!
Ace comes on board Starbug, but is injured, dying, yes a hologram can die, his " light bee" that buzzes inside him projecting his image is damaged. But this ISN'T the Ace Rimmer they met before. As each Ace dies he dimension jumps to the next reality to pass the baton so to speak to the next Rimmer. Each Arnold Rimmer turns into the next Ace. And now it's our Rimmer's turn. Lister can't help but laugh, Rimmer a hero!!, no chance. Ace trains our Arnie to be the new Ace, then Ace expires. In a moving scene Lister reassures Rimmer he can do it, Rimmer accepts and leaves the crew. He's gone! Out into the black yonder to be the next Ace Rimmer. As he leaves he says the traditional Ace farewell,
" smoke me a kipper I'll be back for breakfast " Our Rimmer gets it a bit wrong, see bottom photo for what he says.

 

 

  

 

 

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39. Ouroboros.
Starbug comes to a tear in the fabric of space, a rip, where two dimensions meet. On the other side of rip is another Starbug and crew, Kryten, Cat, a hologram of Lister, OF LISTER?! Yes he died in this reality, so who went into stasis? Christine Kochanski that's who, Lister's girl.
She briefly crosses into our Starbug to ask Dave to donate sperm, she obviously can't have a kid with her hologram Lister. But an attack by GELFS, genetically engineerd life forms, means the rip between dimensions closes. Kochanski is here to stay, replacing Rimmer as the Dwarfers 4th member. If this wasn't enough, there's a startling revelation that the sperm in the invitro tube becomes Lister! 

 

40. Duct Soup.
Kochanski is struggling to settle in this reality. Being bunked near creaking rattling pipes in her quarters doesn't help. Lister offers to swap rooms with her and Kryten realises Kochanski is special to Dave, and he is jealous. Kryten accidentally while doing the laundry overpowers the electrics and the ship powers down. With the doors sealed everyone has to crawl miles through the air ducts to reach the engine room. We discover Lister is claustrophobic, which Kryten didn't realise, if he did he wouldn't have DELIBERATELY blown the power !!

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41. Blue.
Rimmer is back he enters Lister's room, Dave has missed him, they snog, lovingly, then Lister WAKES UP......just a dream.
Lister is feeling a bit down, he misses Rimmer. Kochanski shares some of her wisdom, a bit of psychotherapy, and Lister feels a bit better. This enrages the increasingly jealous Kryten, who counters with psychotherapy of his own.
Rimmer kept diaries of every adventure on Red Dwarf, but his written entries twist everything to make it appear that he always saved the day. Kryten creates a virtual reality experience using holograms to recreate a number of previous encounters the crew experienced as Rimmer said they happened. 

 

42. Beyond A Joke.
Kochanski wanting to educate her crew members takes them to Jane Austen World, a virtual reality hologram experience. This annoys Kryten who has spent hours preparing a lobster gourmet meal. Kryten borrows a WW2 tank from another virtual reality game and appears in Austen World, fires , blows everything up, thus forcing everyone to the dinner table. Lister mistakenly asks for ketchup, this blows Kryten's mind, literally his head explodes. The crew have to find someone to repair him. Meanwhile a rogue Simulant alone on a ship raids Starbug and kidnaps the remains of Kryten, and gets his mechanoid, Able, to repair him.
It seems Kryten and Able are brothers, same model, but Able is a junkie, abusing his mechanical body with Otrazone a toxic substance. 

 

 

 

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43. Epideme.
A corpse frozen in a block of ice is discovered on a crashed ship. Inside is the body of a long long dead Red Dwarf officer Carolyn Carmen. Taken aboard Starbug, the ice begins to thaw suspiciously quickly, the corpse is alive. It gets into bed with Lister and kisses him, then dies. The corpse was contaminated by the Epideme virus, an intelligent deadly virus that kills its host quickly, then freezes the body until it can hunt for the next victim. Lister doesn't have long to live. 

 

 

44. Nanarchy.
Lister has a false arm made by Kryten, operated by mental powers by the wearer, but it's a struggle to use. Kochanski wonders why the nanobots inside Kryten can't make Lister a new arm from exsisting tissue. Kryten's nanobots, tiny microscopic robots that repair Kryten's systems. But they apparently left Kryten's body a long time ago, about the same time as Red Dwarf mother ship disappeared. Detection device discovers them, they are inside Starbug in a MINIATURISED Red Dwarf. They stole Red Dwarf, miniaturised it, and have been flying around in Starbug, from their perspective, a macro sized universe, that's why the Dwarfers could never catch up with it. A sandstorm swept planetoid is located, and the reading says it's comprised of Red Dwarf matter, the original ship the rest of it the nanobots didn't need, reduced to constituent atoms, sand, on this planet. To show penitence and hoping for forgiveness the nanobots agree to recreate the ship, and give Dave a new arm by being injected into his body to create new arm tissue. For series 8 we have Red Dwarf back, better than ever.

 

 

 

 

 

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Series 8.
45./46/47.- Back In The Red (parts 1,2,+3)
1.The nanobots have rebuilt Red Dwarf and Lister, Kochansi, Kryten and Cat find that the nanobots have not only rebuilt the ship, the nanobots have resurrected the crew and they find themselves in big trouble, as they find themselves standing trial for a series of crimes. Among the revived crew is Rimmer, alive , a different Arnie, with no knowledge of the adventures of the Dwarfers. All the crew and officers alive again and wondering where they are. Lister tries to persuade Rimmer to allow him to escape and to track down the nanobots, the only way for Lister to convince Rimmer is by helping Rimmer gain promotion by sharing the confidential info on the Red Dwarf officers he acquired during these last years.
2.
Rimmer begins his scheme to get promoted, and he begins to impress Captain Hoillister , Kryten is reprogrammed and has his factory settings restored. And Lister , Kochanski and Cat set out to escape and search for the Nano Bots.
3.
We discover the Dwarfers are in a hallucinogenic unreal situation. They were all unknowingly given drugs to believe they are awake and attempting to escape, including Rimmer, he was given a drug too when Captain Hollister became suspicious of his new found personal knowledge that he was using to get up the ladder of promotion. By observing how the Dwarfers react thinking the situation is real, Hollister concludes that the guys were being truthful about everyone's reincarnation by nanobots, but nevertheless they are sentenced to two years in the ship's brig for misuse of confidential information. Kryten mentally clings on to all he has learnt from being a crew member of Red Dwarf and rejects the attempt to restore factory settings. He too is in the brig, and reclassified as a woman.

 

 

 

 

   

 

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48. Cassandra.
Lister, Kochanski, Rimmer, Kryten and Cat begin their two year sentences in The Tank, the ship's jail. Lister volunteers the group for The Canaries without realising they're a squad of prisoners who lead any ground force into dangerous situations. On a crashed ship with no survivors they meet Cassandra a computer that can predict the future. She predicts Rimmer's death. But Rimmer surmises that Cassandra can only know who is Rimmer by the name on their Canary jackets. So if he can swap jackets he should be okay. If only it was that simple.

 

49. Krytie TV.
Kryten lets slip that as he is now classified as a woman he has to endure the boredom of girls shower night. Watching the girls sud themselves in the showers. A group of unscrupulous crew members kidnap him, alter his program and turn him into a sort of television boss. In the cinema of the ship it's, " Shower Night Special- a pay per view event." Kryten in the girls showers will stare at the floor, until the cinema goers fill up collection buckets. Then he'll stare at the showering girls , his optics relaying the image to the cinema. Krytie TV grows and in a you've been framed type show Lister and Rimmer are conned into vandalising a senior officer's room 5 minutes before he returns with a date.

 

 

 

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50/51. Pete ( parts 1+2)
1.
After playing a practical joke on Warden Ackerman, Lister and Rimmer along with Kochanski, Kryten and the Cat are forced to take on the guards led by Warden Ackerman in a game of basketball. When they spike the guards' juice with a drug which gives them erections for 7 hours, Lister's and Rimmer's punishment is to peel all the potatoes for 2 weeks. Kryten, Kochanski and Cat investigate a derelict spacecraft, where they discover "The time Wand" a time device.
2.
Lister and Rimmer are in a special part of The Tank, punishment for using a bacteria to help them peel spuds. The bacteria eats the potato skins rapidly, unfortunately it is quick spreading and ended up eating their clothes, and when appearing before Captain Hoillister naked the bacteria jumped onto Hollister and attacked him, leaving him bald. Meanwhile the time wand the others discovered on a ship has been brought on board and accidentally freezes the crew. This wand can speed up time and and is proposed by the Dwarfers that it can speed up their 2 year prison sentence. The wand sends out a time reversal field and a pet bird belonging to The Birdman, a prisoner in the Tank, is engulfed in this time field and turns into a dinosaur. So a T Rex is loose on board, not exactly something that'll help getting their sentence reduced.

 

 

 

52. Only The Good.
A escape pod containing a "Microbe", a genetically-engineered virus that eats metal and programmed not to harm glass, has arrived on-board "Red Dwarf" and begins to eat away at the ship. Left aboard to die, Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Kryten, Kochanski and Holly believe their only chance at finding an antidote is in a mirror universe where everything is opposite. Rimmer is sent in, hoping for success before Red Dwarf is destroyed by the Microbe. Rimmer gets the antidote, but on returning to Red Dwarf everyone is gone , escaped into the mirror universe, leaving Rimmer on a disintegrating ship, alone, about to die. He receives a visit from a cowled figure carrying a scythe, Death is here to collect him.....until Rimmer knees him in the bollux.

 

 

 

How did this situation resolve itself. To this day we don't know. From series 9 onwards the hologram Rimmer is back, is it the original Rimmer back from being Ace, or the series 8 human Rimmer now a hologram ? It is an in- joke , a tease by writer Doug Naylor that we don't know how the situation is resolved.

 

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Ten years after series 8, channel DAVE stepped in and produced/backed this three part story, after the BBC showed no interest in making more Red Dwarf.
Series 9.
53/54/55. Back To Earth (parts 1,2,+3)
"Part One" begins on Red Dwarf nine years after the events of Series 8, Kochanski is apparently dead, and Holly is out of commission because Lister left a bath running in the officers' quarters for nearly nine years and the Skutters still have not finished drying him out. The original hologram Rimmer has re-joined the crew after temporarily leaving to become the new Ace Rimmer in series 7 with no explanation of what became of the Series 8 human Rimmer. This has become in running in- joke for series 10 onwards, how did the non hologram Rimmer in series 8 save the day, or did he die and is the Rimmer here a hologram of that Rimmer, with the original still out there somewhere dimension hopping.

The crew have noted water supplies are low, and discover the cause—a giant squid in their water tank—after they go to investigate. After they barely escape from the encounter with their lives, the squid proceeds to vanish, and Katerina Bartikovsky a former Red Dwarf science officer, materialises. Informing Rimmer he is to be switched off in twenty-four hours, she uses the ship's equipment to analyse the leviathan's DNA and manages to turn a mining laser into a dimension cutter, in the hope of opening up a portal so that Lister can find a mate and restart the human race.

"Part Two" begins with the discovery that the Red Dwarf crew inhabit an "invalid dimension". Zeroing in on the nearest valid reality, the portal sucks the crew to Earth in 2009, only to find that in this world, their adventures have been turned into a fictional television show called Red Dwarf. As a result of the discovery they quickly accept that they themselves are merely fictional characters, and find a DVD of the "Back To Earth" special. They are alarmed to discover that they are to die at the end of the final part. They resolve to track down their creators and plead for more life. While on a bus, Lister meets two kids who are fans of the show and who reassure him that, despite all of his faults, he is a heroic and cool character to them. They also share a theory about Kochanski's fate - since Kryten was the only person who actually witnessed her supposed 'death', it seems likely that Kochanski simply tired of Lister and left Red Dwarf with Kryten telling Lister she had died to spare his feelings. Lister later confronts Kryten about this and Kryten admits that the children are correct. Bartikovsky informs Rimmer that it is not wrong to kill a hologram, so he pushes her under a bus.

 

In "Part Three", the crew track down actor Craig  Charles on the set of CORONATION STREET ask him to reveal the location of their creator. After they locate him, the Creator reveals that he intends to kill off the crew, having tired of them, but he is himself killed by a now-keen-to-remain-alive Lister. Shortly afterwards, the crew discover that they are in a shared hallucination caused by a female relative of the despair squid seen in s05e06 ,that uses joy, rather than despair, to subdue victims. Kochanski appears before Lister, tempting him to remain behind, but having discovered his Kochanski may still be alive in his own reality, he chooses to wake up and return with the others. As the crew head back to their sleeping quarters, Cat admits that he brought the female despair squid to Red Dwarf with the intention of eating it, and they reflect on the ridiculous idea that anyone could consider them fictional characters.

 

 

Lister meets er..Craig Charles on the CORONATION STREET set.

 

The creator of Red Dwarf tires of his creation and decides " it's time to die fellas"

DAVE the satellite channel have continued to make Red Dwarf, series 10 onwards.

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Series 10.
56. Trojan.
The crew discover the pristine,empty spaceship Trojan and use it to travel to the aid of Columbus III,to answer a distress call from Rimmer's brother Howard,who used to bully him. However Rimmer is too proud to help until he can equal Howard in rank and become an officer. He thus has fifteen hours to sit the Astro-Nav promotion exam which he has failed on ten previous occasions. The others work out that Rimmer's head is too full of past resentment to clear a space for exam data but when the Trojan eventually rides to the rescue Rimmer discovers that Howard is not what he claims to be.

 

 

57. Fathers And Suns.
Whilst Lister writes himself a father's day card the others give Pree,the ship's computer,a glamorous upgrade. However she is soon putting the ship in danger and setting it on a collision course with the sun while it fills with laughing gas. Her excuse is that Rimmer has programmed her to imitate his own incompetence. Fortunately Lister takes advantage of the fact that he is his own father and,in that capacity, not a crew member to shut down Pree and save the day.

 

 

 

 

 

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58. Lemons.
Whilst attempting to construct a Swedish flat-pack rejuvenation shower the crew accidentally transport themselves back to the year A.D. 23. In order to power their returner remote they need lemons to make a battery and ,in a Middle Eastern market,meet a friendly young man called Jesus. When Jesus complains of demons on his back the crew successfully teleport him and themselves back to 'Red Dwarf'. On board Jesus accidently reads about how his life will dramatically change and the religion he creates. Jesus returns to Earth and behaves in a very unchristian manner. The team go after him and learn that Jesus is a commoner name than they had thought.

 

 

 

 

59. Entangled.
Whilst Cat and Kryten find themselves doing everything in unison due to 'quantum entanglement' Lister loses the shuttle craft 'Starbug' and Rimmer to a group of hairy genetically engineered life forms in a poker game. To ensure he keeps his side of the bargain within twenty-four hours they have attached an explosive device to his groin due to go off when the time is up. Having unsuccessfully tried to bargain with them with the 'spoon of destiny' the crew have to locate Professor Edgington,the inventor of the groinal exploder,to save the day - which she does,though Rimmer's chances of romance are cruelly dashed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[HawkMan]

60. Dear Dave.
Lister finds himself in a bizarre love triangle with two talking vending machines - sweet-voiced coffee maker number 23 and the more vengeful chocolate bar dispenser number 34 - and ends up literally getting his leg over with 34. The mail arrives from earth and Lister gets a letter from a pregnant ex-lover of whose child he may be the father. He and Rimmer hunt through piles of old mail for proof but ultimately Lister is disappointed to learn that he is not the one.

 

 

 

61. The Beginning.
The Red Dwarf is surrounded by hostile Annihilators and a Simulant death ship,with only two forks and a pencil sharpener for weapons. The crew flee in the shuttle and hide in an asteroid where Rimmer plays a hologram of his father,only to learn he was not his father after all. Free of paternal scorn at last he concocts a clever plan,which destroys the enemies and Red Dwarf lives to see another day.

 

 

 

  

 

 

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Series 11.
62. Twentica

Forced to relinquish the Casket of Chronos, which allows time travel into the past to alter the future, to the Exponoids the crew pursue them to 1950s America, where technology is banned, thus allowing the Exponoids world domination without any challenge. A dying dissident directs them to Harmony De Gaultier, whose speak-easy is frequented by underground scientists, including Einstein Dave, who helps them redress the balance and regain their ship.

 

 

 

 

63. Samsara.
After receiving a mysterious message the Red Dwarf investigates the Samsara, a spaceship stuck on the ocean bed and full of the skeletons of its crew. With the power out they believe they are stranded until Kryten realizes that the ship carries a Karma Drive, which punishes bad behaviour but rewards virtuous acts. Somehow the machine must have had its programme reversed as Cat and Lister discover when they try to be nice to each other. Nastiness now seems to be the key to survival.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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64. Give And Take.
The team encounters deranged robot Asclepius which knocks out Lister and Cat. Rimmer disables Asclepius and the crew escapes, only to find that the mad droid removed Lister's kidneys. The only suitable donor is Cat and the medi-bot charged with performing the operation turns out to be the snack dispenser. Fortunately Kryten discovers that time travel may be the answer to saving Lister's life.

 

 

 

65. Officer Rimmer.
When the crew comes across an explorer ship Rimmer saves the life of its captain, Edmund Herring, who has had trouble with his bio-copier machine and who promoters Rimmer out of gratitude. Rimmer consequently opens an officers' club, filling it with cloned versions of himself via the bio-copier to the annoyance of the others. However a snarl-up in the machine produces a mutant monster Rimmer who must be destroyed at all costs.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 25 by HawkMan

[HawkMan]

66. Krysis.
Kryten has a mid-life crisis as he is half-way through his life cycle and consoles himself with a new crimson shell complete with sub-woofers. To cheer him up the crew decides to introduce him to Butler, a supposedly less intelligent mech but he is extremely sophisticated, making Kryten feel worse. Salvation arrives when Kryten realizes that the very universe itself is also subject to a mid-life crisis and he can help it.

 

 

 

67. Can Of Worms.
Cat panics when he hears the Red Dwarf may be encountering vampires who only kill virgins so he is relieved and delighted when the crew liberates a glamorous female cat from her abductor. However she is actually a malicious shape shifter who uses Cat as a host for her clones, leading to a stand-off between the crew and their look- alikes before Cat saves the day.

 

 

 

 

Edited April 25 by HawkMan

[HawkMan]

Series 12.
68. Cured.
Crash-landing on a foreign planet the crew shelter from a sand-storm in what turns out to be a rehabilitation unit. Here Professor Shaul Telford has cryogenically preserved Hitler, Stalin, Messalina and Vlad the Impaler, having cured them of their evil tendencies. Cat is annoyed that he cannot tempt Messalina whilst Lister angers Rimmer by jamming with a very camp Hitler but when all the Red Dwarf crew discover that someone is trying to murder them they wonder how successful the experiment has been - and whether Cat can be trusted not to side with the psychopathic killer.

 

 

 

69. Siliconia.
Red Dwarf is captured by the Mechanoid Intergalactic Liberation Front, a group of automata out to free androids being used as slaves and who turn Kryten's crew-mates into a robotic work-force. Rimmer enjoys his new carefree life but Lister resists and only a cleaning duel between him and Kryten can determine all their fates.

 

 

 

Edited April 25 by HawkMan