Red Dwarf
On board the mining ship Red Dwarf, the slovenly and lazy Third Technician Dave Lister is sentenced to eighteen months in stasis for smuggling an unquarantined cat on board. Three million years later, he is revived to discover he is the sole surviving crew member on board the ship following a nuclear disaster, and very probably the last human being alive in the universe. But he is not alone. Also on board is HOLLY, the senile computer powering the ship; an intangible hologrammatic version of Second Technician Arnold Rimmer, his pompous and cowardly immediate superior; The Cat, a humanoid evolved from Lister's pet cat; and Kryten, a neurotic android. And so this motley crew goes where no one has gone before, in search of adventure, women, and a really good vindaloo... Written by Scott Nisbet
[Source: IMDB]
Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: The End
Original Air Date—15 February 1988
Liverpudlian caretaker Dave Lister is sentenced to 18-months in suspended animation for smuggling his pregnant cat Frankenstine on-board. But Dave awakes from Suspended animation, only to find he's been frozen for 3 million years and the crew have been wiped out in a radioactive disaster.
Season 1, Episode 2: Future Echoes
Original Air Date—22 February 1988
Holly navigates Red Dwarf during light speed. But when Red Dwarf goes through light speed 24-hours early, the crew witnesses strange events and they find they are witnessing "Future Echoes" images of events that will happen in the future.
Season 1, Episode 3: Balance of Power
Original Air Date—29 February 1988
Lister wants to go on a date with the hologram of navigation officer Kristine Kochanski, much to Rimmer's disapproval. Lister decides to do a cooking exam so he can outrank Rimmer. But Rimmer has a cunning plan.
Season 1, Episode 4: Waiting for God
Original Air Date—7 March 1988
Lister learns he is the mythical god of Cat's people known as "Cloister the stupid" and Red Dwarf stumbles upon a Red Dwarf garbage capsule and Rimmer thinks it's a stasis capsule carrying a dormant alien woman.
Season 1, Episode 5: Confidence & Paranoia
Original Air Date—14 March 1988
Lister falls ill after entering a contaminated area of Red Dwarf trying to find Kochanski's hologram disc which Rimmer has hidden. But Red Dwarf has two unwelcome guests on-board, Lister's Confidence and Paranoia.
Season 1, Episode 6: Me²
Original Air Date—21 March 1988
Rimmer moves into his new sleeping quarters with his holographic duplicate. Lister watches Rimmer's video containing footage of Rimmer's death, the two Rimmers start getting into a fight and Lister decides one of them has to be switched off.
Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: Kryten
Original Air Date—6 September 1988
The Red Dwarf crew intercepts a SOS distress call from the American Space cruiser "Nova 5", that has crashed on a moon. They find the only survivor is Kryten, a android butler, whose favorite TV show is 'Androids'.
Season 2, Episode 2: Better Than Life
Original Air Date—13 September 1988
A post pod carrying a 3 million year old bag of mail arrives and Rimmer becomes depressed when he learns his father is dead. The crew play an artificial game called "Better than life" which makes the players' wishes come true, but Rimmer's brain begins to rebel.
Season 2, Episode 3: Thanks for the Memory
Original Air Date—20 September 1988
The Red Dwarf crew wake up four days after celebrating the anniversary of Rimmer's death, only to find they've got no memories of the previous four days, but when they find the black box on a moon they learn Lister gave Rimmer his memories of former girlfriend Lise Yates as a birthday present.
Season 2, Episode 4: Stasis Leak
Original Air Date—27 September 1988
Rimmer, Lister and Cat find a time barrier called "Stasis Leak" on Floor 16 and it takes them back in time on Red Dwarf 3 million years earlier. Rimmer and Lister try to change the past, which puts either Rimmer or Kochanski into suspended animation so one of them doesn't die in the radioactive disaster.
Season 2, Episode 5: Queeg
Original Air Date—4 October 1988
Red Dwarf's back-up computer Queeg 500 takes command of Red Dwarf when Holly allows a meteorite to damage the ship and Rimmer to malfunction. The crew encourages Holly to challenge Queeg to a game of chess, where the loser gets erased from the system.
Season 2, Episode 6: Parallel Universe
Original Air Date—11 October 1988
Holly creates a new star drive called "Holly Hop Drive" that will warp Red Dwarf from one part of space to another within a matter of seconds. It all goes wrong when Red Dwarf enters a alternate dimension; The crew encounter female versions of themselves and Cat encounters another version of himself, a dog with a southern accent.
Season 3
Season 3, Episode 1: Backwards
Original Air Date—14 November 1989
As Rimmer is taking Kryten for a driving lesson in Starbug they find themselves being whisked away through a time hole and end up on Earth, where time is running backwards.
Season 3, Episode 2: Marooned
Original Air Date—21 November 1989
The Red Dwarf crew abandons ship as Red Dwarf approaches black holes. Rimmer and Lister finds themselves marooned on a ice planet, when Starbug is struck by a meteorite, where the only firewood is Rimmer's possessions and the only food they have is dog food and a pot noodle.
Season 3, Episode 3: Polymorph
Original Air Date—28 November 1989
The Red Dwarf crew encounter the Polymorph, a genetically engineered space mutant that drains the emotions from humans, that has arrived on-board Red Dwarf.
Season 3, Episode 4: Body Swap
Original Air Date—5 December 1989
Red Dwarf becomes a booby-trap when Lister activates the self-destruct, which turns out to be the vending machine and Lister is implanted with the mind of one of the dead crew members and Rimmer believes it's the perfect way to help Lister get fit.
Season 3, Episode 5: Timeslides
Original Air Date—12 December 1989
The developing fluid that Krytern uses to process old photographs mutates and the photographs come alive. The Red Dwarf crew find they can go into the photograph, and Lister finds that the photographs allows them to go back in time and he plans on changing history so that he doesn't end up marooned in deep space.
Season 3, Episode 6: The Last Day
Original Air Date—19 December 1989
Lister receives a message from Jim Repear, head of Diva-Droid international, the company that created Kryten. Where they learn Kryten is to be dismantled within 24 hours and replaced by Hudzen 10, a super-strong android. Lister, Cat, Rimmer and Holly decided to throw Krytern a leaving-party, and give Kryten one last night to remember.
Season 4
Season 4, Episode 1: Camille
Original Air Date—14 February 1991
Rimmer and Kryten rescues Camille, a female android from a passenger ship that has crash landed. Kryten falls in love in Camille, only to learn Camille is not who she appears to be and finds she can shape-shift into Kochanski, a female Rimmer and the Cat.
Season 4, Episode 2: D.N.A.
Original Air Date—21 February 1991
The Red Dwarf crew investigates a alien spaceship that is drifting in deep space. Where they discover a D.N.A modifier, a genetic altering machine that alters all organic life. But all havoc breaks loose, when Lister gets turned into a chicken, a hamster, Kryten becomes a human male and they create a curry monster from Lister's curry.
Season 4, Episode 3: Justice
Original Air Date—28 February 1991
The Red Dwarf crew transport a defrosting stasis capsule to 'Justice World', a remote penal space station, where they believe the person in the capsule maybe one of the convicts or one of the guards. And Rimmer is convicted of the radioactive disaster that wiped out the entire crew of Red Dwarf.
Season 4, Episode 4: White Hole
Original Air Date—7 March 1991
The Red Dwarf crew set out to restore Holly's IQ with the use of Talkie-Toaster, who Lister dismantled because Talkie-Talk winds him up with his obsession of serving toast. But something goes wrong and Red Dwarf looses power and the crew find themselves heading towards a white hole, that is spewing time back into the universe.
Season 4, Episode 5: Dimension Jump
Original Air Date—14 March 1991
Arnold "Ace" Rimmer is a daredevil test pilot for the space corps, and he has been assigned to test-pilot a ship that can travel through dimensions, so he can meet many different versions of himself. He enters our dimension to meet our Rimmer, who has gone on a fishing holiday with the crew.
Season 4, Episode 6: Meltdown
Original Air Date—21 March 1991
The Red Dwarf crew travels to "Waxworld" an android theme park, when Kryten discovers a matter transmission device. Lister and Cat are taken prisoner by Adolf Hitler, whilst Rimmer and Kryten leads a resistance group led by Albert Einstein and Elvis Presley against them.
Season 5
Season 5, Episode 1: Holoship
Original Air Date—20 February 1992
Rimmer is abducted by the holographic crew of a Holographic space vessel, and he finds the vessel is perfect and the holographic crew members have super intelligence and Rimmer decides to join the crew, when he falls in love with crew member Nirvana Crane.
Season 5, Episode 2: The Inquisitor
Original Air Date—27 February 1992
The Inquistor, a cybernetic judge, jury and executioner travels through time, erasing worthless losers who have wasted their lives out of existence. The Red Dwarf crew are the next to be judge and it doesn't sound good for Lister and Kryten.
Season 5, Episode 3: Terrorform
Original Air Date—5 March 1992
Lister, Kryten, Cat and Holly head for a artificial moon, where Rimmer has been kidnapped and only to find the artificial moon is Rimmer's mind.
Season 5, Episode 4: Quarantine
Original Air Date—12 March 1992
After investigating a abandoned research complex on a ice planet. Lister, Cat and Kryten returns to Red Dwarf only to find Rimmer has been infected with a electronic virus and he has taken over Red Dwarf and Lister, Cat and Kryten have been sentenced to Quarantine for three months.
Season 5, Episode 5: Demons and Angels
Original Air Date—19 March 1992
An experiment with a machine that can make duplicates of a object goes wrong and Red Dwarf explodes. Where the Red Dwarf crew find the machine has made two copies of Red Dwarf, both ships contains their good and evil selves.
Season 5, Episode 6: Back to Reality
Original Air Date—26 March 1992
The Red Dwarf investigates a ocean ship, The Esperanto, where they find the ship's crew have all committed suicide and they are attacked by a sea monster called The Dispair squid. Only to wake up and find they are not who they are and they've been playing a artificial computer game for four years.
Season 6
Season 6, Episode 1: Psirens
Original Air Date—7 October 1993
200 years after investigating the Esperato, the Red Dwarf crew awakes from suspended animation, as they set out to find Red Dwarf, which has vanished without a trace, on-board Starbug. Where they stumble upon a asteroid field containing lost spaceships. Where they find the asteroid field is inhabited by "Psirens" genetic engineered alien creatures that telepathically lure the ship's crew on the asteroids and suck out their brains.
Season 6, Episode 2: Legion
Original Air Date—14 October 1993
Starbug is taken over by a tractor beam which takes them to a deep space space station, where the crew discover Legion, a life form conceived from a experiment by famous scientists. Only to learn Legion is composed from the minds of each member of the crew and he won't allow to leave and continue the search for Red Dwarf.
Season 6, Episode 3: Gunmen of the Apocalypse
Original Air Date—21 October 1993
Starbug stumbles upon a battleship carrying on-board murderous cyborgs called "Simulants". When the "Simulants" infect Starbug with a virus and Starbug heads on a collision course with a volcanic planet. Lister, Cat and Rimmer connect Kryten to a Artifical Reality game set and Lister, Cat and Rimmer enters Kryten's dream of the wild-west, as they set out to help Kryten to fight the virus.
Season 6, Episode 4: Emohawk: Polymorph II
Original Air Date—28 October 1993
Starbug is attacked by a Space Corp enforcement probe, for looting from derelict ships. Starbug crash lands on a Gelf moon, where Lister must marry the Gelf leader's daughter in exchange for a oxygen breathing unit. Only to find a Polymorph has gotten on-board Starbug, when Lister refuses to spend his honeymoon with the Gelf Bride.
Season 6, Episode 5: Rimmerworld
Original Air Date—4 November 1993
The Starbug crew returns to the Simulant's battleship to salvage for food-supplies. But Rimmer, who has been diagnosed of a tense nervous disorder, escapes on-board a escape pod which has no steering. And is whisked away through a time-hole, only to find himself on a planet inhabited by clones of his own self.
Season 6, Episode 6: Out of Time
Original Air Date—11 November 1993
Starbug enters a fog in space containing devices that create false realities, where the crew find a time machine, where they meet themselves 15 years in the future and engage in a space battle, when they learn their future selves are corrupt time travelers who are experiencing the very best of history.
Season 7
Season 7, Episode 1: Tikka to Ride
Original Air Date—17 January 1997
In the aftermath of the battle with their future selves, the crew, resurrected from the dead, due to time paradox's and Lister is depressed when he learns the curry supplies were destroyed in the battle. But all hell breaks loose yet again, when Lister uses Kryten's spare-head "Spare Head 2" to take them back into time to get some curries from Earth. Only to change the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and create a alternate dimension.
Season 7, Episode 2: Stoke Me a Clipper
Original Air Date—24 January 1997
Daredevil pilot Ace Rimmer, seriously wounded, after rescuing Princess Bonjella from the Nazis, arrives on-board Starbug, to recruit Rimmer to take his place as the next Ace Rimmer. Will Rimmer continue the legacy of Ace Rimmer?
Season 7, Episode 3: Ouroboros
Original Air Date—31 January 1997
Lister, Cat and Krytern stumble upon a doorway that leads to another dimension. Where Lister learns he died in the nuclear disaster on-board Red Dwarf and has been brought back as a hologram and Lister's former girlfriend, Console officer Kristine Kochanski was in stasis and survived and Lister discovers the truth about himself.
Season 7, Episode 4: Duct Soup
Original Air Date—7 February 1997
Kryten thinks Lister likes Konchanski better than him and is making a fuss about it. When the primary power goes off and they all get stuck in a room they have no choice but to climb into the ventilation ducts and try to escape. While inside the ducts they discover Lister is claustrophobic! After hours of scurrying around they end up back out in the same room.
Season 7, Episode 5: Blue
Original Air Date—14 February 1997
Lister, missing Rimmer, tries to recall the good times they had together, and fantasizes about Rimmer's return (which leads to Lister's hottest kiss yet). Meanwhile, Kryten's rivalry with Kochanski reaches new heights as the salad cream keeps winding up in the cupboard and pants are found in her socks drawer. The crew are taken on a ride called "The Rimmer Experience," which recounts many outrageously fictionalized events from Rimmer's life on Red Dwarf.
Season 7, Episode 6: Beyond a Joke
Original Air Date—21 February 1997
Searching for a new head for Kryten (which exploded due to an incident involving ketchup and lobster), the crew encounter a rogue simulant on a deserted ship. The simulant kidnaps Kryten and commissions one of his own droids, Able, to fix him up. But Kryten and Able discover they're brothers, the same model, and Able helps Kryten escape. But not before Kryten discovers a disturbing secret about his creation...
Season 7, Episode 7: Epideme
Original Air Date—28 February 1997
The crew come across an abandoned ship with one survivor: Caroline Carmen, one of Lister's former crushes. She revives in the middle of the night and infects Lister with the dreaded Epideme virus, which threatens to kill him unless something is done. He tries talking with Epideme directly through a communication link, but nothing doing. He ends up losing an arm to the virus before Kochanski comes up with another solution.
Season 7, Episode 8: Nanarchy
Original Air Date—7 March 1997
As Lister tries to cope with the loss of his arm, Kryten searches for his nanobots (microscopic robots) to get them to rebuild the arm. In Lister's laundry basket, he finds out who stole Red Dwarf, and the ship is returned in all its glory. Except for one small thing...
Season 8
Season 8, Episode 1: Back in the Red: Part 1
Original Air Date—18 February 1999
The Nano Bots have rebuilt Red Dwarf and Lister, Kochansi, Krytern and Cat find that the Nano Bots have not only rebuilt the ship, the Nano Bots have resurrected the crew and they find themselves in big trouble, as they find themselves standing trial for a series of crimes. Lister tries to persuade Rimmer to allow him to escape and to track down the Nano Bots, the only way for Lister to convince Rimmer is by helping Rimmer find the Luck virus in Starbug's wreckage.
Season 8, Episode 2: Back in the Red: Part 2
Original Air Date—25 February 1999
After discovering the luck virus and the confidential reports in Starbugs wreckage, Rimmer begins his scheme to get promoted, and he begins to impress Captain Hoillister and the sexual virus he has also found in Starbugs wreckage is making him attractive to every female crew member on-board Red Dwarf. Kryten is reprogrammed and has his factory settings restored. And Lister takes some of the luck virus and he Kochanski and Cat set out to escape and search for the Nano Bots.
Season 8, Episode 3: Back in the Red: Part 3
Original Air Date—4 March 1999
Lister, Kochanski, Kryten, Cat and Holly escapes on-board Blue Midget and they begin their search for the Nano Bots. Rimmer discovers Lister, Kochanski, Kryten, Cat and Holly are in a artificial reality program, where they are being observed by Captain Hoillister, as part of their trial.
Season 8, Episode 4: Cassandra
Original Air Date—11 March 1999
Sentenced to 2 years for stealing the confidential reports in 'The Tank' on Floor 13. Lister signs up for the 'Canaries', unaware the 'Canaries' is a convict army and he has also signed up Rimmer, Cat, Kryten and Kochanski. Their first assignment is to investigate a abandoned spaceship on a ocean planet, where they discover Cassandra, a computer that can predict the future. But it spells bad news for Rimmer, when Cassandra predicts that he is going to die.
Season 8, Episode 5: Krytie TV
Original Air Date—18 March 1999
Kill Crazy reprograms Kryten, and Kryten puts on "Krytie TV" a pirate entertain show for the convicts, where Kryten goes into the women's shower room and exposes the naked bodies of the female convicts including Kochanski, after making the mistake of revealing that he showers with the female convicts, after being placed in the Women's wing of the prison. Rimmer and Lister have been given a retrial, and Kryten endangers their only chance of freedom, when he sets up Lister by messing up Mr. Ackerman's sleeping quarters.
Season 8, Episode 6: Pete: Part 1
Original Air Date—25 March 1999
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 and Rimmer's punishment is to peal all the potatoes for 2 weeks. Kryten, Kochanski and Cat investigates a derelict spacecraft, where they discover "The time Wand" a time device.
Season 8, Episode 7: Pete: Part 2
Original Air Date—1 April 1999
Kryten has accidentally turned Birdman's pet bird "Pete" into a T-Rex which has gone on a rampage on-board Red Dwarf. With the crew frozen in time, Rimmer, Lister, Kryten, Kochanski, The Cat and Holly attempt to stop Pete, and get back the Time Wand which Pete has eaten, and restore Pete back to normal before the freeze wears off.
Season 8, Episode 8: Only the Good...
Original Air Date—5 April 1999
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 Red Dwarf. Left on-board "Red Dwarf" to die, Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Kryten, Kochanski and Holly find their own chance at finding a antidote is in a mirror universe where everything is opposite, and Rimmer is sent into the Mirror universe to find the antidote before Red Dwarf is destroyed along with Lister, Kryten, Cat and Holly.
[Source: IMDB]
