Red Dwarf

1988
4.8
1.59K reviews
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Season 3 episodes (6)

1 Backwards
14/11/89
Season-only
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
21/11/89
Season-only
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
28/11/89
Season-only
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
5/12/89
Season-only
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
12/12/89
Season-only
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
19/12/89
Season-only
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
1.59K reviews
jonathan roberts
27 November 2014
Best British comedy ever alongside some classic shows from this era such as bread, only fools, blackadder which is a good table to sit at. The irreverent mix of crazy but we'll thought out storylines and the chemistry between the characters makes this a quality low budget cult classic. All the characters stand up in there own right which is a quality often missing on other shows.
63 people found this review helpful
Rob Welham
25 December 2015
Only SD, which is to be expected. Great series, but there have been some minor changes. Most notably the tune played at George McIntyre's funeral in Episode 1 is different. In the original it was "See you later alligator" by Bill Haley & his Comets. This has been replaced by "Here we go, here we go" (artist unknown). This detracts slightly and was probably a licencing issue. Otherwise great.
43 people found this review helpful
Lord Paul Richard Butler
18 October 2017
One of the best TV shows on BBC2 and Dave really funny and I would recommend it to anybody who is looking just thought I'd laugh one of my favourite episodes is on Season 12 Episode 2 is the one where all the crew become mechanoids I first saw this on demand UKTV Play app a day before it's release on Dave why not check it out and just have a great laugh with the crew of Red Dwarf