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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 0 Episode 3 - Bottom Live 3: Hooligans' Island
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Bottom Live 3: Hooligans' Island

    S0:E3

    Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson are back - even bigger and more Bottomly than ever - with Bottom Live 3 Hooligan's Island. Filmed during their sell-out 1997 tour we find Richie and Eddie marooned on a desert island in the middle of the Pacific. Will they build a raft and escape? Grasp the opportunity to embrace the earthly paradise around them? Or will they simply bicker and fart, fight, puke, poke and masturbate their way through 100 minutes of the most hilariously outrageous live situation comedy on offer in Britain today?

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  2. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - Gas
    9.0/10(4 votes)

    #2 - Gas

    S1:E2

    The gasman calls to read Eddie and Ritchie's meter. Not a problem? It is when you are getting your gas from an illegal connection to your next-door neighbors gas. Can the boys persuade the meter reader that they don't use gas and stall him until they can disconnect their supply from next door?

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  3. undefined Season 1 Episode 6 - Accident
    8.8/10(5 votes)

    #3 - Accident

    S1:E6

    It's Richie's birthday and he has a big party planned, Eddie's friends and all the birds' Richie knows are coming. As he prepares for the party, putting up the decorations, Richie falls and horribly breaks his leg. Will having his leg in plaster and being in a wheelchair ruin his party, will it heck as like!

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  4. undefined Season 2 Episode 1 - Digger
    8.8/10(4 votes)

    #4 - Digger

    S2:E1

    Eddie and Richie join Mrs. Lineker's Love Bureau hoping to find their perfect women. Richies video tells the viewers that he is, in fact, a Duke and this gets him a date with a countess from Moldavia. He invites her to his place and arranges for Eddie to pretend to be his butler for the evening.

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  5. undefined Season 2 Episode 2 - Culture
    8.8/10(4 votes)

    #5 - Culture

    S2:E2

    The boys' television has been repossessed and they are at a complete loss, they cannot find anything to keep them occupied, they have tried to do the crossword. Richie decides to challenge Eddie to a game of chess, even though they don't have all the pieces in their set! They decide to improvise and use various odd items to replace the missing pieces.

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  6. undefined Season 2 Episode 5 - Holy
    8.8/10(5 votes)

    #6 - Holy

    S2:E5

    Eddie and Richie celebrate Christmas by inviting Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog around for Christmas dinner and a day of fun and games. After a knock at the door Richie finds a baby left on their doorstep. Due to a few misperceptions Richie believes the baby is the Second Coming of Jesus.

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  7. undefined Season 1 Episode 4 - Apocalypse
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #7 - Apocalypse

    S1:E4

    After inheriting £600 from Richie's Auntie Olga, the two decide to spend it down the Funfair, where Richie learns that he is destined to die in three nights time. He goes to the lengths of kicking Eddie out to escape his fate, but can't do anything when the Grim Reaper comes knocking!!!

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  8. undefined Season 1 Episode 5 - Bottom's Up
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #8 - Bottom's Up

    S1:E5

    When Richie and Eddie's landlord has to leave to attend his mother's funeral, he leaves the two in charge of their shop, but something like this isn't going to stop Richie and Eddie from relaxing on Sunday, as the two decide to watch some cricket.

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  9. undefined Season 2 Episode 5 - Queeg
    8.4/10(14 votes)

    #9 - Queeg

    S2:E5

    With Holly on the fritz, the ship's backup computer, Queeg 500, steps in to command the Red Dwarf and its crew of misfits.

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  10. undefined Season 4 Episode 3 - Justice
    8.4/10(14 votes)

    #10 - Justice

    S4:E3

    Not knowing if the stasis pod they've found contains a security guard or a homicidal criminal, the crew heads to the capsule's initial destination.

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  11. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - Smells
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #11 - Smells

    S1:E1

    Richie and Eddie return home after another depressing night down the pub trying to pick up women and failing miserably. Richie is beginning to think that he is never going to get the chance to do it' until Eddie suggests that he puts an ad in the local paper. This idea revitalizes Richie and he begins to read through the dating pages of the local rag. There he spots an ad for a pheromone spray that women are unable to resist, this is something that appeals to him even more and the two of them decide that they are going to have to try this out!

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  12. undefined Season 2 Episode 3 - Thanks for the Memory
    8.3/10(13 votes)

    #12 - Thanks for the Memory

    S2:E3

    When Lister awakens after a night of revelry, he's at a loss to explain how he and Cat broke their legs.

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  13. undefined Season 3 Episode 3 - Polymorph
    8.3/10(14 votes)

    #13 - Polymorph

    S3:E3

    Terror reigns on the Red Dwarf when a shape-shifting genetic mutant climbs aboard and subjects the crew to its menacing slobber.

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  14. undefined Season 2 Episode 3 - Burglary
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #14 - Burglary

    S2:E3

    A burglar breaks into Richie and Eddies place and manages to get caught by them. Once they have him tied up they have to decide what to do with him and the loot he has stolen from other houses.

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  15. undefined Season 3 Episode 2 - Marooned
    8.1/10(14 votes)

    #15 - Marooned

    S3:E2

    As the Red Dwarf approaches a minefield of black holes, the crew must evacuate, throwing Lister and Rimmer together on a frozen planet.

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  16. undefined Season 3 Episode 6 - The Last Day
    8.1/10(15 votes)

    #16 - The Last Day

    S3:E6

    When the Red Dwarf crew learns that Kryten has only 24 hours left to live, they band together to give the android the best night of his life.

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  17. undefined Season 4 Episode 2 - D.N.A.
    8.1/10(14 votes)

    #17 - D.N.A.

    S4:E2

    While investigating an abandoned alien vessel adrift in space, the crew discovers a device that can change organic life by altering an object's DNA.

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  18. undefined Season 4 Episode 5 - Dimension Jump
    8.1/10(13 votes)

    #18 - Dimension Jump

    S4:E5

    After Rimmer comes face-to-face with his alter ego, the craven hologram decides he can't stand the sight of his counterpart.

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  19. undefined Season 2 Episode 4 - Stasis Leak
    8.0/10(13 votes)

    #19 - Stasis Leak

    S2:E4

    A wrinkle in time takes the crew 3 million years into the past, before the radiation leak killed everyone aboard except Lister.

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  20. undefined Season 1 Episode 3 - Contest
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #20 - Contest

    S1:E3

    Eddie and Richie have an argument over whether or not to watch the Miss World contest on their TV. An argument started by Eddie having spent most of the £11.80 they had to last them two months on a second hand copy of Parade magazine.

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  21. undefined Season 2 Episode 4 - Parade
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #21 - Parade

    S2:E4

    Richie and Eddie are taken to the Police station to take part in an identity parade and find themselves in an argument with a Falklands war veteran over their participation in the war.

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  22. undefined Season 7 Episode 11 - The Out-takes
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - The Out-takes

    S7:E11

    Lee Mack, Sally Bretton and Katy Wix introduce a compilation of out-takes from across the various series.

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  23. undefined Season 7 Episode 1 - Tikka to Ride
    7.9/10(12 votes)

    #23 - Tikka to Ride

    S7:E1

    The crew goes back in time to get food but inadvertently lands in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, the day President Kennedy was assassinated.

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  24. undefined Season 2 Episode 6 - Parallel Universe
    7.9/10(12 votes)

    #24 - Parallel Universe

    S2:E6

    After testing Holly's latest invention, the crew ends up in a parallel universe where they encounter opposite versions of themselves.

    Director:Ed Bye
    Writer:N/A

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  25. undefined Season 3 Episode 4 - Bodyswap
    7.9/10(15 votes)

    #25 - Bodyswap

    S3:E4

    When a haywire scutter meddles with the circuitry on the Red Dwarf, Lister accidentally throws the ship into self-destruct mode.

    Director:Ed Bye
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Ed Bye Ratings Summary

"Bottom Live 3: Hooligans' Island" is the best rated episode directed by Ed Bye. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 1/1/1997 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Gas".