The Best Episodes Written By Doug Naylor

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.4/10(14 votes)

   #1 - Queeg

   S2:E510/4/1988

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

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   #2 - Justice

   S4:E32/28/1991

   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.

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   8.3/10(13 votes)

   #3 - Thanks for the Memory

   S2:E39/20/1988

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

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   8.3/10(14 votes)

   #4 - Polymorph

   S3:E311/28/1989

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

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   8.1/10(14 votes)

   #5 - Stasis Leak

   S2:E49/27/1988

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

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   8.1/10(14 votes)

   #6 - Marooned

   S3:E211/21/1989

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

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   8.1/10(14 votes)

   #7 - D.N.A.

   S4:E22/21/1991

   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.

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   8.1/10(13 votes)

   #8 - Back to Reality

   S5:E63/26/1992

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

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   8.1/10(6 votes)

   #9 - The Beginning

   S10:E611/8/2012

   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.

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    8.1/10(13 votes)

    #10 - Dimension Jump

    S4:E53/14/1991

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

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    8.1/10(15 votes)

    #11 - The Last Day

    S3:E612/19/1989

    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.

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    8.1/10(16 votes)

    #12 - Holoship

    S5:E12/20/1992

    Rimmer is beamed aboard the computer-generated ship Enlightenment and finds that all his wildest dreams have come true.

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Back to Earth: The Director's Cut

    S0:E184/12/2009

    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.

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    7.9/10(8 votes)

    #14 - Trojan

    S10:E110/4/2012

    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.

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    7.9/10(15 votes)

    #15 - Bodyswap

    S3:E412/5/1989

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

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    7.9/10(12 votes)

    #16 - Parallel Universe

    S2:E610/11/1988

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

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    7.9/10(15 votes)

    #17 - Timeslides

    S3:E512/12/1989

    Kryten's discovery of a liquid that transforms photographs into interactive portals sends the Red Dwarf crew on a series of misadventures.

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    7.9/10(10 votes)

    #18 - Me²

    S1:E63/21/1988

    Tired of sharing space with Lister, Rimmer begins a blissful new relationship with the ultimate roommate: a holographic replica of himself.

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    7.9/10(14 votes)

    #19 - Epideme

    S7:E72/28/1997

    After being seduced by a 3-million-year-old corpse, Lister discovers he's contracted a deadly STD.

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    7.9/10(18 votes)

    #20 - Backwards

    S3:E111/14/1989

    Under Rimmer’s supervision, Kryten takes a driving lesson at the wheel of Starbug, Red Dwarf's newly-revealed scout ship. A chance meeting with a wormhole, however, sends student and teacher to a world that literally has everything backwards.

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    7.9/10(13 votes)

    #21 - Tikka to Ride

    S7:E11/17/1997

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

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    7.9/10(14 votes)

    #22 - Legion

    S6:E210/14/1993

    With the Starbug running low on supplies, the crew goes hunting for rations and finds an abandoned spaceship with a wish-granting being on board.

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    #23 - White Hole

    S4:E43/7/1991

    Kryten's attempts to restore Holly's IQ to genius level inadvertently cause the Red Dwarf to shut down its support systems.

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    7.8/10(18 votes)

    #24 - The End

    S1:E12/15/1988

    Dave Lister emerges from 3 million years of suspended animation to find that he's the only surviving crew member of the Red Dwarf.

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    7.8/10(16 votes)

    #25 - Gunmen of the Apocalypse

    S6:E310/21/1993

    The crew heads to the Wild West when Kryten contracts a deadly computer virus.

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