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The Best Episodes Directed By Doug Naylor

Every TV Episode Directed by Doug Naylor Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 5 Episode 6 - Back to Reality
    8.1/10(13 votes)

    S5:E6

    While exploring an ocean planet, Lister, Kryten, Rimmer and Cat discover an abandoned ship whose entire crew committed suicide.

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  2. undefined Season 10 Episode 6 - The Beginning
    8.1/10(6 votes)

    S10:E6

    The series final episode finds the boys surrounded by a Simulant War Cruiser and its fleet of attack ships. Armed with only two forks and a pencil sharpener, the Dwarfers begin to wonder whether this is the beginning of the end. Only one man can save them. Unfortunately that man is Arnold J Rimmer.

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  3. undefined Season 0 Episode 18 - Back to Earth: The Director's Cut
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    S0:E18

    The Director's Cut of Back to Earth is not an extended version with new scenes, but rather a re-edited, condensed feature that improves pacing by removing filler and structural elements designed for television. It adds no new scenes or dialogue but rather removes what is considered inconsequential material to create a tighter narrative. A key cut is Rimmer's line complaining that the story is a "three-parter," despite other references to such remaining in. The only addition is at the very end: after the extended credits, the words "The End" are typed on a typewriter, reinforcing the meta-fictional theme.

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  4. undefined Season 10 Episode 1 - Trojan
    7.9/10(8 votes)

    S10:E1

    The Dwarfers' mining ship is still creaking through the wastelands of unchartered deep space, but the posse soon stumble upon the mysteriously abandoned SS Trojan. As they inspect the ship Rimmer receives an SOS distress call from an old foe, and is suddenly faced with the dilemma of his life.

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  5. undefined Season 10 Episode 3 - Lemons
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    S10:E3

    The posse find themselves marooned in 23 AD where they encounter a famous historical figure with a beard.

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  6. undefined Season 5 Episode 4 - Quarantine
    7.8/10(13 votes)

    S5:E4

    When the crew goes exploring on a snowy planet, they cross paths with a hologram scientist infected with a nasty virus.

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  7. undefined Season 10 Episode 4 - Entangled
    7.8/10(6 votes)

    S10:E4

    Kryten and Cat become quantum entangled, forcing them to do everything in unison.

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  8. undefined Season 5 Episode 2 - The Inquisitor
    7.7/10(13 votes)

    S5:E2

    The crew crosses paths with a dark figure who calls himself the Inquisitor.

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  9. undefined Season 10 Episode 2 - Fathers & Suns
    7.7/10(6 votes)

    S10:E2

    Lister grapples with the problem of being his own father.

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  10. undefined Season 11 Episode 3 - Give & Take
    7.5/10(10 votes)

    S11:E3

    After an altercation with a deranged droid, Lister has his kidneys organ-napped. The only solution is to ask Cat, the most self-absorbed creature in the universe, to donate one of his.

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  11. undefined Season 11 Episode 2 - Samsara
    7.4/10(10 votes)

    S11:E2

    When the Dwarfers investigate a crashed ship at the bottom of an ocean moon, Lister and Cat become trapped together and Lister's nightmare begins. Meantime Rimmer and Kryten discover the ship is controlled by a dark force.

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  12. undefined Season 5 Episode 5 - Demons & Angels
    7.4/10(12 votes)

    S5:E5

    Lister and Kryten inadvertently blow up the Red Dwarf with a new invention that makes two copies of any object.

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  13. undefined Season 11 Episode 4 - Officer Rimmer
    7.3/10(10 votes)

    S11:E4

    After a scandalous piece of good fortune, Rimmer saves the life of a bio-printed captain and is promoted, fulfilling his life-long dream of becoming an officer. He immediately opens an officers' club, which is out of bounds to the lower orders, and uses the bio-printer to fill it with versions of himself.

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  14. undefined Season 12 Episode 2 - Siliconia
    7.2/10(11 votes)

    S12:E2

    A ship full of rogue androids that broke their programming want to help Kryten do the same. The MILF can only spell trouble for the remainder of the crew.

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  15. undefined Season 12 Episode 6 - Skipper
    7.1/10(8 votes)

    S12:E6

    With the aid of a Quantum Skipper, Rimmer leaves the Red Dwarf to travel the multiverse in search of a dimension where he isn't such a loser.

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  16. undefined Season 11 Episode 6 - Can of Worms
    7.1/10(10 votes)

    S11:E6

    Cat takes time off from being in love with himself to fall head-over-heels in love with a female cat with a big secret.

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  17. undefined Season 10 Episode 5 - Dear Dave
    7.0/10(6 votes)

    S10:E5

    Lister gets involved in a love triangle with snack dispensers 23 and 34.

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  18. undefined Season 12 Episode 5 - M-Corp
    6.9/10(9 votes)

    S12:E5

    A long-overdue software update spells trouble for the crew when they discover that the Jupiter Mining Corp has been sold!

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  19. undefined Season 12 Episode 4 - Mechocracy
    6.9/10(9 votes)

    S12:E4

    The machines of Red Dwarf go on strike. Kryten and Rimmer campaign against each other for their votes in an election to represent them.

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  20. undefined Season 11 Episode 5 - Krysis
    6.9/10(9 votes)

    S11:E5

    Kryten has a mid-life crisis and changes his body cover from mech grey to Ferrari red. The posse try to show him how much he's achieved in life by taking him to visit a mechanoid from his old fleet.

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  21. undefined Season 12 Episode 1 - Cured
    6.7/10(11 votes)

    S12:E1

    The crew stumble upon a science centre where vile historical figures have been 'cured' of evil.

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  22. undefined Season 11 Episode 1 - Twentica
    6.5/10(10 votes)

    S11:E1

    The Dwarfers find themselves in an alternative version of America where modern technology is prohibited, making Rimmer and Kryten illegal. The Dwarfers infiltrate the tech-savvy underground and try to bring down the authoritarian regime.

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  23. undefined Season 9 Episode 1 - Back to Earth (1)
    6.3/10(9 votes)

    S9:E1

    Nine years later the Red Dwarf crew are older but still none the wiser. Lister's busy day of annoying Rimmer is interrupted by the discovery of a dimension-hopping leviathan in the ship's mile-deep water tank.

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  24. undefined Season 9 Episode 2 - Back to Earth (2)
    6.1/10(5 votes)

    S9:E2

    Rimmer's replacement, Katerina, is determined to guide Lister back to his home planet. But Earth in 2009 is not everything the boys had expected, and Rimmer has no intention of being replaced.

    Director:Doug Naylor
    Writer:N/A

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  25. undefined Season 9 Episode 3 - Back to Earth (3)
    6.1/10(5 votes)

    S9:E3

    When Lister's busy day of annoying Rimmer was interrupted by the discovery of a dimension-hopping leviathan in the ship's mile-deep water tank, transporting the crew back to Earth, all Lister's dreams appear to be coming true.

    Director:Doug Naylor
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Doug Naylor Ratings Summary

"Back to Reality" is the best rated episode directed by Doug Naylor. It scored 8.115/10 based on 13 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 3/26/1992 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Beginning".