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8. DOOMSDAY MINUS ONE
At an army base in Utah, Major Rick Graves worries about an upcoming nuclear test. Graves's friend, Charles Spence, believes that a three-month-old crater, supposedly caused by a meteor, was in reality created by an alien spaceship. He also believes that Carl Wyeth, an engineer on the base, has met with the aliens. Spence has Graves call in David Vincent to investigate. Meanwhile, Graves voices his fears to his superior, General Beaumont. But Beaumont is colluding with the aliens, who have plans to explode an anti-matter bomb that will kill millions of people.

 

9. QUANTITY: UNKNOWN
A private plane crashes, but the investigators can't find a record of the flight, nor can they find a body - even though it was a crash no one could have walked away from. What they do find is a cylinder made of some strange metal they can't identify. They have it sent to Sperrick Laboratories. It arrives, but not without incident. Someone tried to hijack the mail truck, and two security guards were killed. David Vincent arrives at Sperrick to investigate. He is certain that the aliens were behind the attempted hijacking and that what they wanted was that strange cylinder. He is also certain that they will try again. Vincent finds allies in a security guard and a woman scientist. But as always, he never knows which of his friends are real and which are enemies in disguise.

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10. THE INNOCENT
In the file room of a U.S. government base, an air force captain is forced to shoot and kill an airman who pulls a gun on him. The airman glows and disintegrates. Meanwhile, David Vincent is in Maine, trying to find a fisherman who is in possession of an alien disk. After his bizarre experience, Captain Mitchell Ross wants David to testify with him before a committee. But David knows that talk will do no good: he needs that alien disk. Later, the aliens abduct David and take him on a trip into their space ship. Incredibly, they want to convince him that they have only peaceful intentions. To prove it, they show him how they've revived and replenished a dying desert valley. But all is not what it seems.

 

 

11. THE IVY CURTAIN
A pilot for chartered planes learns too much about the aliens when he sees one of them get injured on a flight. The man's arm is torn up, but he doesn't bleed. The passengers abduct the pilot and take him to Midlands Academy in New Mexico, a school that is really a front for an alien indoctrination center. The alien running the academy decides to let the pilot live - if he'll go on smuggling in "foreigners" to the academy. The money they offer him is a great temptation, especially since he has a wife half his age who is bored with him. Meanwhile, David Vincent learns of this academy, and uncovers the truth about it.

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12. THE BETRAYED
David Vincent gets a job for Carver Oil in Houston as a designer; but his reason for taking the job is to find proof of alien activity. After many nights of vigil in the Carver railroad yard, he finally sees a spaceship land and discovers that an old rusted oil tanker contains alien machinery. He steals a computer tape from the tanker, and then goes immediately to Simon Carver's mansion in order to bring the old oil tycoon to the field. Unfortunately, the aliens have gotten rid of all evidence before he gets there. But David still has that computer tape. He enlists Neal Taft, a disgraced cryptographer, to find out what's on it. Meanwhile, Carver's daughter, Susan, finds herself torn between preventing a scandal for her father and betraying David, the man she loves.

 

13. STORM
A mysterious hurricane strikes, sparing only a small Florida town. That draws David's attention, and he soon discovers a nest of aliens there, determined to use the weather against humanity. Their boat creates and controls the storm, but what controls the boat? David must find that control center before the aliens use their storm to wreck the entire eastern seaboard. He's hampered by an injury, and a clever alien who turns his benefactor Father Corelli against him.

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14. PANIC
Nick Baxter's an invader, and his touch proves lethal: he's developed an illness which promises a slow death for him, but a very rapid death by freezing for any organism he touches. David tracks him down, but others of his kind are also interested in finding him. Baxter wants to reach a ship so he can get medical help, but he's convinced those hunting him want him dead. David's success may depend on convincing someone who's turned his back on humanity, to find in himself the desire to help others.

15. MOONSHOT
David is drawn into the space program by a series of coincidences that convince him of alien involvement. But why do the aliens want to put one of their own on a manned mission? Surely they can get to space whenever they need to. The answer may lie in the meaning of some photographs taken by an unmanned probe. Photographs that reveal some disturbingly regular objects on the moon's surface.

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16. WALL OF CRYSTAL
Newly married Bill and his new bride lose control of the car. They run a truck off the road, and its driver staggers from the vehicle, falls, glows red and vanishes! Then the young couple suffocates. It's all part of a scheme run by the alien Taugus, and it draws in David's brother Bob, Bob's wife Grace, and crusading newsman Theodore Booth. David's finally managed to convince his brother and someone able to get the word out that he may be telling the truth about the aliens - but is it just in time to see the entire human population choking for air on their own planet?

17. THE CONDEMNED
Pressed for cash, Morgan Tate leased a large portion of his plant to Lewis Dunn a year earlier. Now, Tate has discovered that Dunn is not what he appears to be, and that the plant is now a front for a communications center. Tate has managed to seize and hide a file named "Command Roster One" and the aliens are desperate to recover it. They bring in Tate's estranged daughter Carol to pressure the man, but with David Vincent's help, Tate may manage to save his daughter and recover the hidden file. If he can, it would be a terrible setback for the invaders.

Edited April 20 by HawkMan

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SERIES 2

1. CONDITION RED
Major Dan Keller works as a computer programmer for NORAD. The aliens need a window to bring in a great many saucers, so they can establish a base. They place one of their own as Dan Keller's new wife Laurie. She hypnotises Dan into replacing a crucial programming tape with one the aliens have prepared - one which will instruct NORAD's systems to ignore certain images.

2. THE SAUCER
John Carter has summoned the local sheriff to a site where he claims saucers have landed, not once but several times. Each time, the saucers are gone when the sheriff finally arrives. Now David Vincent has come, lured by Carter's claim that he can predict the time of the next landing. When Carter's prediction proves true, he and David Vincent manage to commandeer the saucer - at last, proof of the invasion! But one alien escapes to warn his people. And further complications arise from a couple fleeing the country, whose plane the saucer inadvertently downed.

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3. THE WATCHERS
Paul Cook's an electronics expert with an aversion to people. Beings from an alien planet would also like a look at the defences, and they've a planto take advantage of Cook's reclusiveness. If David Vincent can't stop the invaders, they'll get the information, and use it to advance their planned invasion.

 

4. VALLEY OF THE SHADOW
A series of mischances leads an alien to kill a human doctor, and get arrested in the small town of Carterville, Wyoming. His alien friends bungle his rescue, and the entire town sees him go up in red flames! Now, the entire town understands that aliens have come to Earth. And the aliens are desperate to keep that knowledge from spreading - so desperate that when David Vincent finds out what they plan to do, he desperately tries to strike a deal with them to stop it. If he fails, the town of Carterville may find itself under water - a lot of water.

 

Edited April 20 by HawkMan

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5. THE ENEMY
An alien saucer crashes in the Utah foothills. Reports of its fiery demise draw David Vincent, even after flyovers by Air Force jets failed to locate the site of the mysterious fireball. Vincent soon discovers Gale Frazer, who has helped the craft's only survivor, Blake. Frazer, sick of war after serving in Vietnam, believes Blake's people are peaceful. David must gain her trust and convince her that Blake's mission is not peaceful. That is complicated by the arrival of Sawyer and Lavin, who have come to collect the box Blake's craft brought to Earth.

6. THE TRIAL
David's friend Charlie Gilman stands accused of murdering Fred Wilk, and district attorney Slater's determined to convict. But David knows Wilk's was an invader - and if necessary, he'll use that to help his defence. David sets a man to research Slater's background, and the man turns up evidence that part of the background was faked - and Slater's an invader as well.

 

Edited April 21 by HawkMan

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7. THE SPORES

Tom Jessup's an invader, who's transporting a briefcase containing something vital: spores. These organisms will grow into aliens able to withstand Earth's atmosphere. As Jessup desperately tries to find the briefcase, the spores inside of it continue to develop.

8. DARK OUTPOST
David sneaks aboard a saucer, and is knocked unconscious by the force of takeoff. When he awakens, he finds he's not alone; there's a professor and several students, and they're heading towards the invaders medical base. Vincent steals an important piece of machinery, and goes on the run.

Edited April 21 by HawkMan

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9./10. SUMMIT MEETING
Part 1
Industrialist Michael Tressider all but kidnaps David from a job site. Tressider has learned of an upcoming summit that many world leaders will attend. They'll discuss rising levels of radiation that threaten all life on earth. There is only one place where the radiation is normal - the site of the summit, Premier Thor Halvorsen's country. David soon finds himself up to his neck in invaders, including one who informs him what the real purpose of the summit is - and promises to help him!
Part 2
David's learned from an alien that the purpose of the summit's to murder all of Earth's leaders. But he can't convince Thor Halvorsen. Halvorsen knows the aliens are here, but believes their mission's peaceful. They've offered him a solution to help stop the rising radiation levels. David and Michael Tressider steal an alien timetable which details their plans once the summit attendees are dead - but the aliens want it back, and there are quite a few of them between David and Halvorsen.

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11. THE PROPHET
Brother Avery has seen the light of a heavenly host. They are coming, and they will bring peace. At the end of each of his services, the red glow that surrounds him reveals the divinity that inspires him! But David Vincent knows that this glow actually signifies that Avery is an alien who needs to regenerate. David's trouble is figuring out how to prove it when Avery is surrounded at all times by fanatics - not all of whom are human. The key may lie in Now magazine writer Bill Shay, if David can trust him with the truth.

12. LABYRINTH
David manages to subdue an alien and takes him to a doctor. The x-rays reveal that internally he's not human. This is proof that David can take to a project that investigates the possibility of extraterrestrial contact. He offers the x-rays to the project director, Dr Crowell, but the wife of the doctor who took them recants, claiming the x-rays David offered are fakes. It's clear someone's pressured her, and that someone close to the project, Crowell's daughter, is acting strangely suspicious.

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13. THE CAPTIVE

Wesley Sanders breaks into the embassy of a foreign power to steal troop movement data. But he fails to disarm the security and gets caught. Examining him, Dr. Serret notices some strange signs, and recalls reading about David Vincent, who might be able to answer her questions. David is interested, but clever misdirection allow Sanders and his allies to pit David and the United States interests against those of the foreign power. The aliens are willing to destroy the embassy to keep Sanders from talking, even knowing that this may precipitate an atomic war! David finds himself forced to help the aliens.

 

14. THE BELIEVERS
David Vincent has finally connected with several others who know the invaders are here, including industrialist Edgar Scoville. But immediately following a meeting, David and three of the Believers are ambushed. David is captured and his friends killed. But when he proves invulnerable to hypnosis, the aliens devise a new scheme to enlist David's unwitting aid in tracking down and murdering the rest of the Believers.

 

 

Edited April 21 by HawkMan

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15. THE RANSOM
David and Edgar intercept an alien en route to a regeneration station, and discover that he is a leader, a powerful figure in the alien hierarchy! But without regeneration he will not last the length of a trip to Washington. And, his people manage to surround David and trap him in a small cabin, the home of poet Cyrus Stone and his niece Claudia. Claudia resents that David has dragged her family into this, even after she sees an alien die the fiery death of his kind when on Earth. David tries to figure out how to get word to a nearby military base, while the aliens strive to recover their leader.

 

16. TASK FORCE
David and the Believers are trying to get a powerful publisher, William Mace, on their side. They have competition in Eric Lund, who heads the task force seeking to purchase a controlling interest in Mace's publishing empire. If David and Edgar Scoville cannot persuade Mace to their cause, Lund will gain control - a disaster, since Lund is an alien. Just when they think they have Mace in their corner, he dies and his dissolute nephew Jeremy gains control. And Jeremy is very, very afraid of something. Could it have to do with the real cause of his uncle's death? Jeremy will need a crash course in the responsibilities of manhood in order to overcome the latest alien plot.

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17. THE POSSESSED
David's friend Ted Willard has written to him for help, but the letter followed David around the country. He has finally arrived at Willard's clinic, only to discover that the doctor has suffered an accident and been under the psychiatric care of his brother Martin for several weeks. And Ted seems not to remember writing David at all! The answer to this mystery may rest with Adam Lane, and the special research he is doing at the Willard Clinic. Research that could pave the way for a nearly bloodless takeover of the Earth!

 

18. COUNTER-ATTACK
Professor Eliot Kramer has completed work which will allow the Believers to create an automated jamming station that will cause navigational malfunctions aboard incoming saucers. But unfortunately, he used the university's computers to do the work, instead of Edgar Scoville's secure machines. That has led to his discovery by the aliens. In the scuffle, Kramer dies and David has to go on the run with the key data.David does the only thing he can; he sells out to the aliens, offering them details of the jamming process in exchange for an important place in the invaders new leadership of humanity.

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19. THE PIT
Julian Reed has apparently gone barking mad. He's seeing aliens everywhere, and finally has a public breakdown resulting in confinement to a psychiatric facility. David Vincent comes to investigate, and must decide whether Reed is really mad, or if the Invaders actually have infiltrated Reed's place of employment, the highly secret Slaton Research Center. When Julian Reed accuses David himself of being an alien, and when David's wife Pat seems reluctant to even see her own husband, David doesn't know how to proceed. Until a chance encounter between a dog and one of the guards at Slaton reveals that at least one alien has found his way into the organization.

20. THE ORGANIZATION
David and Mike Calvin board a ship in search of several crates that contain "wreckage" that rained down from the sky - the pieces of a crashed saucer! But the crates are gone; the aliens got to them first. The aliens also took a large shipment of heroin destined for "The Organization" - an organized crime ring run by Peter Kalter. Kalter wants his shipment back and he's willing to kill to get it. But if David can convince him that the Invaders are here, he might gain a powerful, if ruthless and unpredictable, ally. On the other hand, others in the Organization simply want their drugs back, even if they have to sell out the human race to get them.

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21. THE PEACEMAKER
David Vincent and Archie Harmon manage to capture an alien, and bring him to General Concannon as proof. But another alien manages to slip him a suicide capsule, and soon there is nothing but ashes. Concannon sees the second alien blaze up, and is convinced. But he wants to meet with the alien leaders to see if a peaceful solution is possible. He sends David and several generals to an isolated farmhouse, and David arranges for several alien leaders to attend. But Concannon solves problems with violence, and he's going to solve this one by dropping a large bomb on the aliens, David, and his own men! The alien retaliation is likely to be ferocious, and the loss of life high, unless David can stop Concannon.

 

22. THE VISE
David and Edgar intercept an alien data drop and recover the partially burned contents of a briefcase. A picture inside convinces them that Arnold Warren is an alien. Warren is seeking confirmation to a post supervising a space tracking project. He would be one of the few black men to hold such a high post. Standing between him and that goal is Jim Baxter, a Senate investigator who also happens to be black. Baxter's wife Celia wants black heroes for her son, so she's pressuring her husband to recommend Warren. Against that, David Vincent only has a wildly implausible story: that Warren is a man from outer space! Convincing Baxter to look further means appealing to his policeman's instincts.

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23. THE MIRACLE
Near a Catholic shrine in New Mexico, a teenage girl sees an alien die and disintegrate after he's bitten by a snake. Before he dies, he hands her a crystal, which she assumes both the alien and the crystal are signs from her god. Knowing the crystal's actually a part of an alien apparatus, David tries to buy it from her, but she's unwilling, and her uncle wants more money. David tries to explain that the aliens will kill to get it back.

 

24. THE LIFE SEEKERS
A police officer's shot and wounded by an alien, who he shoots and sees disintegrate. A roadblock's set up for the other 2 in the car which got away.,David's brought to the 2 aliens, who claim to disagree with the' plan to invade earth, and other aliens want to destroy them before they can get back to their planet and make the case against invasion. They persuade David to help them evade the police roadblock and get them to their spaceship safely.

 

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25. THE PURSUED
David is contacted by Anne Gibbs, an alien who is on the run from both her fellow aliens and humans. She is the undesired result of an attempt to mimic human behavior by creating emotion. It's been successful in part, as she now values her own life as well as those of humans, but in the process she frequently now loses control and becomes violent when even mildly angered, and has killed a woman in one of her outbursts. Still, she tells David she will come with him to Washington to tell officials everything she knows about the aliens' plans. But the aliens plan to kill her to stop her, and the husband of the woman she killed is also after her seeking revenge.

FINAL EPISODE

26. INQUISITION
In Washington, a senator is killed by a bomb blast just after David and Edgar try unsuccessfully to convince him that a security advisor is an alien. A zealous and politically ambitious prosecuting attorney then plans to make a name for himself by indicting the members of the Believers for the murder, just as they are discovering that the aliens' grand plan to take over the earth and wipe out humanity is imminent.

Edited April 22 by HawkMan

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RED DWARF

Series 1.
1. The End.
On board the Jupiter Mining Vessel Red Dwarf is among the 100's of souls Dave Lister, Liverpudlian , a slob, and a lowly grease monkey. Lister smuggles aboard a pet cat, and hides it away. The Captain finds out and Lister is given the choice; either hand the cat over or spend the 18 months left of the voyage in suspended animation without pay. He chooses the latter. When the ship's computer Holly releases him from suspension he tells him a sorry tale. While suspended the ship suffered a Cadmium radiation leak, all are dead, EVERYONE. That was 3 MILLION years ago, The radiation is gone and Lister was released, but now he is 3 million years from Earth and all alone. Well not quite alone, Holly has the capability to revive one crew member as a hologram, it chose Arnold Rimmer, Lister's bunk mate. Rimmer is one step up the rung of superiority than Lister, but is basically a d***head , officious, obnoxious, cowardly and full of himself. Holly reasoned the perfect person to keep Lister sane in the years ahead. But there's another person here too , Homo Feline, a walking talking smart dressed cocky self centred CAT. Lister's cat 3 million years ago was locked in the hold and survived the radiation, and bred, generation after generation after generations of cats, until we have the Cat creature here now.
Lister wants to return to Earth no matter what state the human race is in now, even if the ants have taken over and the humans are in the humanbeingatarium. The journey begins.
 

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2. Future Echoes
Lister is going into suspended animation again for the journey home, much to Rimmer's annoyance. Then before that can happen Rimmer sees Lister blown apart in an explosion in the drive room. It's a future echo , a vision of the future because of the ship's approach to light speed. Also seen is a photo of a future Lister holding two babies. How can he get kids without a woman on board?

 

 

3. Balance Of Power
Christine Kochanski love interest of Lister is now dead of course, but Lister would like Holly to bring her back as a hologram. That means turning Rimmer off! No chance as Rimmer is his superior officer, even though they're 3 million years in the future , Rimmer is holding on to that. Lister decides to try and become an officer by becoming a qualified chef, thus becoming superior in rank to Rimmer.

 

 

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4. Waiting For God.
What became of all the other Cat people?
There is an old cat man still alive in the hold, and Lister discovers he was seen as their God and they all left after a war about donut hats. Meanwhile a Space pod found drifting is taken aboard. Does it contain an alien ,can they give Rimmer a new body?

 

5. Confidence And Paranoia.
Lister is struck down with a virus, that makes his dreams solid and real. Two characters appear created by the virus, Lister's confidence and paranoia. Who will he listen to? " Confidence " urges Lister to find the hologram disc of Kochanski that Rimmer has hidden and usurp his authority.

 

  

  

6. Me 2
OMG there are two hologram versions of Rimmer now. Rimmer 1 moves in Rimmer 2, and leaves Lister to his own bunk and sloppiness while Rimmer is in heaven living with himself. But the two Rimmers fall out.
Lister is fed up with their constant bickering and gets Holly to erase one of them but which one? Lister will erase Rimmer 2 and let Rimmer1 the original stay if he reveals why his dying word recorded for posterity was " Gespatcho Soup"

 

 

 

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Series 2.
7. Kryten
First alien contact and it turns out to be the android version of Norman Bates. An android serving his crew on a crashed ship, but the crew are all dead, as Rimmer says, there's less meat on them than a chicken McNugget. Kryten the android , or mechanoid as he terms himself has to come to terms with his crew's demise, and then he joins Red Dwarf to become the 4th member of the team.

 

 

 

 

8. Better Than Life.
The Red Dwarf crew enter virtual reality to play the game , Better Than Life, where you can live out your dreams. Unfortunately Rimmer's mind is in a state and contaminates the game.

 

 

 

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9. Thanks For The Memory.
The crew wake up and have lost a few days memory and the Cat and Lister have plaster casts on broken feet. Why? The black box recorder reveals the truth, a party to celebrate Rimmer's death day went wrong .

 

 

 

  10. Stasis Leak.

Lister is reading Rimmer's diary written 3 million years ago before his death and is puzzled by an entry. Rimmer wrote that after recovering from eating magic mushrooms he saw a version of himself talking about coming from the future to rescue him from impending disaster. Could that have been hologram Rimmer going back in time ? Yes! A stasis leak on the ship enables the crew to go back to before the initial accident. Can they prevent it, or ar least can Lister persuade Chrissy Kochanski his girl to go into suspension to avoid death or will Rimmer get there first to get his earlier self to go into suspension instead?

 

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Edited April 22 by HawkMan

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11. Queeg.
Holly the senile computer almost kills Dave Lister when he was repairing the hologram simulation suite by wrongly instructing him, and the crew curse his incompetence. The back up computer Queeg 500 comes on-line to take charge. Holly is relieved of duty, but Queeg is a workaholic maniac who makes life hell for the crew. Can they get Holly reinstalled.

 

 

  

  

12. Parallel Universe.
The Holly Hop Drive instead of getting them home instantly as Holly promised, flips them into a parallel universe. There they meet another Red Dwarf and crew, but are opposite to them gender wise. A female Lister and Rimmer, and a Dog person instead of Cat. Lister and female Lister make out, but it's male Lister who gets pregnant as they're in this opposite universe. As Rimmer says, that's how Lister got those two babies on Red Dwarf without a woman on board.(s01e02). The crew return to our universe and is Lister really going to give birth? YES!

 

 

 

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Series 3.
13. Backwards.
Lister does give birth to twins, but the boys cannot physically exist in this universe so are returned to the opposite one. Holly falling in love with the computer in the other universe, Hilly, now changes persona to become a version of that Computer ie.Holly now has a female personality.
Rimmer and Kryten go through a time hole thingy, Lister and The Cat search for them and follow to find themselves in a backwards reality. They're in London in the 1990's but time is running backwards. Rimmer loves this reality, good things happen like, Hitler dismantling the third Reich, liberating Poland and bogging off to Austria. Lister points out that here, Father Christmas climbs down chimneys and steals kids presents. And in this reality with time backwards if they stay he'll end up getting younger and end up as a sperm in someone's testicles. They have to leave!!

 

 

14. Marooned.
Lister and Rimmer are marooned on a snow bound planet, with the only food dog food and a pot noodle, so obviously it's the dog food eaten first . Kryten and the Cat search for them as Lister and Rimmer in a desperate situation learn about each other more which isn't necessarily a good thing.
In the crashed Starbug hopper vehicle that the two are in awaiting rescue, Lister realises Rimmer's priceless camphor wood trunk that contains his valuables would make good firewood.

 

 

Edited April 23 by HawkMan