The Best Episodes Written By Rob Grant

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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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3. 

   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(13 votes)

   #9 - 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)

    #10 - 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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11. 

    8.1/10(16 votes)

    #11 - 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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    7.9/10(15 votes)

    #12 - 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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13. 

    7.9/10(12 votes)

    #13 - 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)

    #14 - 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)

    #15 - 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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16. 

    7.9/10(18 votes)

    #16 - 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(14 votes)

    #17 - 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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    7.9/10(14 votes)

    #18 - 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)

    #19 - 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)

    #20 - 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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    7.8/10(13 votes)

    #21 - Quarantine

    S5:E43/12/1992

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

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    7.8/10(8 votes)

    #22 - Kryten

    S2:E19/6/1988

    A distress signal draws the ship's crew to the site of a space shuttle crash.

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    7.7/10(13 votes)

    #23 - Better Than Life

    S2:E29/13/1988

    Rimmer learns that his father has passed away but isn't sure which is sadder: his father's death or that he is now encumbered with an £8,500 tax bill.

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    7.7/10(13 votes)

    #24 - Out of Time

    S6:E611/11/1993

    After experimenting with an abandoned time drive, the crew of the Red Dwarf comes face-to-face with an exact replica of the ship.

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    7.7/10(13 votes)

    #25 - The Inquisitor

    S5:E22/27/1992

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

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