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The last man alive is a total idiot. And the rest of the 'crew' aren't much better. Under the guidance of a senile computer, what could go wrong? The universe's favourite sitcom.

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Channel Episode Time
Upcoming Release
Holoship
1. Holoship
Rimmer is transmitted from Red Dwarf to the advanced holoship Enlightenment, which contains the cream of the space corps.
⏱ 28 mins
Your Time
Thu 13 Aug · 21:00
UK
Thu 13 Aug · 21:00
Channel
BBC Two
Upcoming Release
Episode
Holoship
1. Holoship
Rimmer is transmitted from Red Dwarf to the advanced holoship Enlightenment, which contains the cream of the space corps.
⏱ 28 mins
Time
Your Time
Thu 13 Aug · 21:00
UK
Thu 13 Aug · 21:00

Available for Streaming

Episodes 1. The End

I: 1. The End

The cult space comedy series by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. 168 of mining ship Red Dwarf's crew complement of 169 are about to die.
Duration: 30 mins First broadcast: 15 Feb 1988
Availability: Available for over a year (until 20 Jun 2028)
Episodes 2. Future Echoes

I: 2. Future Echoes

Cult space comedy series. Having accelerated for three million years, Red Dwarf breaks the light barrier and Rimmer sees a death in the future.
Duration: 29 mins First broadcast: 22 Feb 1988
Availability: Available for over a year (until 20 Jun 2028)
Episodes 3. Balance of Power

I: 3. Balance of Power

Cult space comedy series. Lister wants to go on a date with dead console officer Kochanski, and Rimmer wakes up with someone else's arm.
Duration: 30 mins First broadcast: 29 Feb 1988
Availability: Available for over a year (until 20 Jun 2028)
Episodes 4. Waiting for God

I: 4. Waiting for God

Cult space comedy series following the escapades of the crew of the interstellar mining ship Red Dwarf. Lister 'learns' cat writing and discovers some amazing facts.
Duration: 28 mins First broadcast: 7 Mar 1988
Availability: Available for over a year (until 20 Jun 2028)
Episodes 5. Confidence and Paranoia

I: 5. Confidence and Paranoia

Lister contracts a mutated form of pneumonia - and his hallucinations turn solid.
Duration: 30 mins First broadcast: 14 Mar 1988
Availability: Available for over a year (until 20 Jun 2028)
Episodes 6. Me Squared

I: 6. Me Squared

Cult space comedy series. Rimmer has discovered how to duplicate himself, and leaves the quarters he shares with Lister to move in with himself.
Duration: 29 mins First broadcast: 21 Mar 1988
Availability: Available for over a year (until 20 Jun 2028)
Episodes 1. Kryten

II: 1. Kryten

Things are fine aboard crashed spaceship Nova 5 until Red Dwarf answers its distress call.
Duration: 28 mins First broadcast: 6 Sep 1988
Availability: Available for over a year (until 20 Jun 2028)
Episodes 2. Better than Life

II: 2. Better than Life

Rimmer and Lister find a computer game which plugs directly into the brain, allowing them to experience their fantasies. But not everyone can control their own imagination...
Duration: 29 mins First broadcast: 13 Sep 1988
Availability: Available for over a year (until 20 Jun 2028)
Episodes 3. Thanks for the Memory

II: 3. Thanks for the Memory

Someone has erased the last four days of the crew's memory, broken Lister's leg and completed the jigsaw. Who? How? Why?
Duration: 28 mins First broadcast: 20 Sep 1988
Availability: Available for over a year (until 20 Jun 2028)
Episodes 4. Stasis Leak

II: 4. Stasis Leak

A leak from the suspended animation chamber has created a doorway to the past. When the crew investigate Lister discover 'his' wedding photograph, but isn't he single?
Duration: 30 mins First broadcast: 27 Sep 1988
Availability: Available for over a year (until 20 Jun 2028)
Episodes 5. Queeg

II: 5. Queeg

Holly's increasingly odd behaviour begins to endanger the ship so he is replaced by the Red Dwarf back-up computer, Queeg 500.
Duration: 30 mins First broadcast: 4 Oct 1988
Availability: Available for over a year (until 20 Jun 2028)
Episodes 6. Parallel Universe

II: 6. Parallel Universe

Holly devises a faster-than-light drive that immediately goes wrong, sending the crew into a parallel universe.
Duration: 28 mins First broadcast: 11 Oct 1988
Availability: Available for over a year (until 20 Jun 2028)
Episodes 1. Backwards

III: 1. Backwards

Lister and Rimmer finally arrive back on earth only to discover time is behaving rather strangely.
Duration: 27 mins First broadcast: 14 Nov 1989
Availability: Available for over a year (until 20 Jun 2028)
Episodes 2. Marooned

III: 2. Marooned

The crew of Red Dwarf are forced to abandon ship, so Lister and Rimmer find themselves stranded on a freezing arctic moon with only a pot noodle and a tin of dog food.
Duration: 29 mins First broadcast: 21 Nov 1989
Availability: Available for over a year (until 20 Jun 2028)
Episodes 3. Polymorph

III: 3. Polymorph

A genetic mutant gets loose aboard the ship, subjecting Rimmer, Lister, Cat and Kryten to 24 hours of non-stop, gruesome horror.
Duration: 27 mins First broadcast: 28 Nov 1989
Availability: Available for over a year (until 20 Jun 2028)
Episodes 4. Bodyswap

III: 4. Bodyswap

Rimmer convinces Lister that they should swap bodies for a fortnight.
Duration: 27 mins First broadcast: 5 Dec 1989
Availability: Available for over a year (until 20 Jun 2028)
Episodes 5. Timeslides

III: 5. Timeslides

Kryten discovers some developing fluid which prints photographs the crew can walk into.
Duration: 28 mins First broadcast: 12 Dec 1989
Availability: Available for over a year (until 20 Jun 2028)
Episodes 6. The Last Day

III: 6. The Last Day

When Kryten discovers his in-built expiry date is only 24 hours away the rest of the crew determine to give him the best night of his life.
Duration: 27 mins First broadcast: 19 Dec 1989
Availability: Available for over a year (until 20 Jun 2028)
Episodes 1. Camille

IV: 1. Camille

Kryten falls in love with Camille who turns out not to be a mechanoid like himself, but a blob. His heart is broken but he persuades Camille to return to her blob partner.
Duration: 27 mins First broadcast: 14 Feb 1991
Availability: Available for over a year (until 20 Jun 2028)
Episodes 2. D.N.A.

IV: 2. D.N.A.

The crew encounter the ultimate in genetic engineering technology.
Duration: 28 mins First broadcast: 21 Feb 1991
Availability: Available for over a year (until 20 Jun 2028)

Red Dwarf FAQs

When is Red Dwarf next on?

The next broadcast of Red Dwarf airs at Thu 13 Aug · 21:00(UK: Thu 13 Aug · 21:00) on BBC Two.

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