Red Dwarf

1988
4.8
582 reviews
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Season 3 episodes (6)

1 Backwards
89/11/14
It's the day of Kryten's space-driving test and Rimmer is his examiner. After a somewhat jerky start, he exits Red Dwarf, performs a few less than graceful manoeuvres and is sucked into a time hole. They emerge on Earth, only here time is running backwards. Lister and Cat eventually track them down, to find their shipmates have become a successful speciality act. With some brilliant trick photography and ingenious stunts, see Listen undrink a pint, a bar-room unbrawl and Cat left speechless from an untoilet.
2 Marooned
89/11/21
As Red Dwarf heads on a collision course towards a minefield of Black Holes, the crew is forced to abandon ship. Lister finds himself marooned on an arctic moon with Rimmer, there's only a pot noodle and a tin of dog food between him and starvation.
3 Polymorph
89/11/28
A chameleonic genetic mutant which sucks out human emotions is loose aboard Red Dwarf, and the nightmare begins. The crew are subjected to 24 hours of non-stop horror and the monster faces its own four-course meal of fear, vanity, guilt and anger from each of them.
4 Bodyswap
89/12/05
A skutter goes berserk and rewires all the ship's circuitry. So when Lister orders a chocolate bar from one of the snack dispensers, he accidentally triggers off the ship's self-destruct sequence. There is only one way to diffuse the bomb, but it involves Lister lending his body to a female officer. This gets Rimmer thinking.
5 Timeslides
89/12/12
The crew run amok through history, blithely ignoring the consequences of causality. When Kryten discovers some mutated developing fluid which prints photographs the crew can walk into, they find they are able to change their pasts. When Lister becomes a multi-millionaire, married to supermodel Sabrina Mulholland-Jones, Rimmer decides it is his duty to rescue him.
6 The Last Day
89/12/19
Kryten discovers his built-in expiry date is almost up and he has less than 24 hours to live. The crew are determined to give the mechanoid the best night of his life. For the first time, he experiences true pleasure and wants to delay his ascent into Silicon Heaven, the resting place for all electrical appliances. Then his homicidal replacement shows up.

About this show

Cult sci-fi comedy following a gang of space bums across the galaxy as they face shapeshifting aliens, time holes and even a monster made from mutton vindaloo. When a radiation leak wipes out the entire crew of his ship, Dave Lister wakes up three million years later to find his only companions are a life-form evolved from his cat and Arnold J Rimmer, a hologram simulation of his pedantic dead bunk-mate. Aimlessly roaming the universe, the ramshackle crew encounter danger and disaster at every turn. Can they stay alive long enough to find a way back to Earth?

Ratings and reviews

4.8
582 reviews
Vicki Richardson
04 January 2019
I love this show, stumbled across it in the wee hours of the morning after working 12hr shift at my nursing job. I never laughed so hard in my life. Thinking i must have just been too tired and just rummy, I tooned in the next night. I found myself in tears laughing. I called my brother in MD to tell him. He already found it so we watched it together for many years on the phone, 3000 mls apart. still love the show.
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Daniel Benedon
16 July 2016
I've been watching this show since the late 80's. Just like to Say Thanks to PBS for Making Red Dwarf Possible for Us to watch here in the USA or I would never have known of this show Red Dwarf. I've seen every episode they have ever had so far. And, this show never gets old cause it's just that good. I purchased the full eight seasons on dvd a couple of years ago. And, season 9, and season 10 on dvd. I'm now re-purchasing all seasons on Google Play. I wanted my collection to be digitalized in the Cloud. So, I can watch any episode anytime without messing with any dvd's. And, it is Brilliant. This show "Red Dwarf" Ultimately Rocks.
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TriangleofDeath
18 February 2015
If you love British Comedy, give this underrated Gem a go! Brilliant sci-Fi Satire as only the Brits can do it! Highly recommended episode: "Tikka to Ride", where they go back in time and screw up the Kennedy Assassination. Just remember, thats not chicken!
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