Information Red Dwarf Episodes +Gallery series 1-3

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Series 1.
1. The End.
On board the Jupiter Mining Vessel Red Dwarf is among the 100's of souls Dave Lister, Liverpudlian , a slob, and a lowly grease monkey. Lister smuggles aboard a pet cat, and hides it away. The Captain finds out and Lister is given the choice; either hand the cat over or spend the 18 months left of the voyage in suspended animation without pay. He chooses the latter. When the ship's computer Holly releases him from suspension he tells him a sorry tale. While suspended the ship suffered a Cadmium radiation leak, all are dead, EVERYONE. That was 3 MILLION years ago, The radiation is gone and Lister was released, but now he is 3 million years from Earth and all alone. Well not quite alone, Holly has the capability to revive one crew member as a hologram, it chose Arnold Rimmer, Lister's bunk mate. Rimmer is one step up the rung of superiority than Lister, but is basically a d***head , officious, obnoxious, cowardly and full of himself. Holly reasoned the perfect person to keep Lister sane in the years ahead. But there's another person here too , Homo Feline, a walking talking smart dressed cocky self centred CAT. Lister's cat 3 million years ago was locked in the hold and survived the radiation, and bred, generation after generation after generations of cats, until we have the Cat creature here now.
Lister wants to return to Earth no matter what state the human race is in now, even if the ants have taken over and the humans are in the humanbeingatarium. The journey begins.

 

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2. Future Echoes
Lister is going into suspended animation again for the journey home, much to Rimmer's annoyance. Then before that can happen Rimmer sees Lister blown apart in an explosion in the drive room. It's a future echo , a vision of the future because of the ship's approach to light speed. Also seen is a photo of a future Lister holding two babies. How can he get kids without a woman on board?

 

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3. Balance Of Power
Christine Kochanski love interest of Lister is now dead of course, but Lister would like Holly to bring her back as a hologram. That means turning Rimmer off! No chance as Rimmer is his superior officer, even though they're 3 million years in the future , Rimmer is holding on to that. Lister decides to try and become an officer by becoming a qualified chef, thus becoming superior in rank to Rimmer.

 

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4. Waiting For God.
What became of all the other Cat people?
There is an old cat man still alive in the hold, and Lister discovers he was seen as their God and they all left after a war about donut hats. Meanwhile a Space pod found drifting is taken aboard. Does it contain an alien ,can they give Rimmer a new body?

 

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5. Confidence And Paranoia.
Lister is struck down with a virus, that makes his dreams solid and real. Two characters appear created by the virus, Lister's confidence and paranoia. Who will he listen to? " Confidence " urges Lister to find the hologram disc of Kochanski that Rimmer has hidden and usurp his authority.

 

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6. Me 2
OMG there are two hologram versions of Rimmer now. Rimmer 1 moves in Rimmer 2, and leaves Lister to his own bunk and sloppiness while Rimmer is in heaven living with himself. But the two Rimmers fall out.
Lister is fed up with their constant bickering and gets Holly to erase one of them but which one? Lister will erase Rimmer 2 and let Rimmer1 the original stay if he reveals why his dying word recorded for posterity was " Gespatcho Soup"

 

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Series 2.
7. Kryten
First alien contact and it turns out to be the android version of Norman Bates. An android serving his crew on a crashed ship, but the crew are all dead, as Rimmer says, there's less meat on them than a chicken McNugget. Kryten the android , or mechanoid as he terms himself has to come to terms with his crew's demise, and then he joins Red Dwarf to become the 4th member of the team.

 

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8. Better Than Life.
The Red Dwarf crew enter virtual reality to play the game , Better Than Life, where you can live out your dreams. Unfortunately Rimmer's mind is in a state and contaminates the game.

 

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9. Thanks For The Memory.
The crew wake up and have lost a few days memory and the Cat and Lister have plaster casts on broken feet. Why? The black box recorder reveals the truth, a party to celebrate Rimmer's death day went wrong .

 

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10. Stasis Leak.
Lister is reading Rimmer's diary written 3 million years ago before his death and is puzzled by an entry. Rimmer wrote that after recovering from eating magic mushrooms he saw a version of himself talking about coming from the future to rescue him from impending disaster. Could that have been hologram Rimmer going back in time ? Yes! A stasis leak on the ship enables the crew to go back to before the initial accident. Can they prevent it, or ar least can Lister persuade Chrissy Kochanski his girl to go into suspension to avoid death or will Rimmer get there first to get his earlier self to go into suspension instead?

 

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11. Queeg.
Holly the senile computer almost kills Dave Lister when he was repairing the hologram simulation suite by wrongly instructing him, and the crew curse his incompetence. The back up computer Queeg 500 comes on-line to take charge. Holly is relieved of duty, but Queeg is a workaholic maniac who makes life hell for the crew. Can they get Holly reinstalled.

 

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12. Parallel Universe.
The Holly Hop Drive instead of getting them home instantly as Holly promised, flips them into a parallel universe. There they meet another Red Dwarf and crew, but are opposite to them gender wise. A female Lister and Rimmer, and a Dog person instead of Cat. Lister and female Lister make out, but it's male Lister who gets pregnant as they're in this opposite universe. As Rimmer says, that's how Lister got those two babies on Red Dwarf without a woman on board.(s01e02). The crew return to our universe and is Lister really going to give birth? YES!

 

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Series 3.
13. Backwards.
Lister does give birth to twins, but the boys cannot physically exist in this universe so are returned to the opposite one. Holly falling in love with the computer in the other universe, Hilly, now changes persona to become a version of that Computer ie.Holly now has a female personality.
Rimmer and Kryten go through a time hole thingy, Lister and The Cat search for them and follow to find themselves in a backwards reality. They're in London in the 1990's but time is running backwards. Rimmer loves this reality, good things happen like, Hitler dismantling the third Reich, liberating Poland and bogging off to Austria. Lister points out that here, Father Christmas climbs down chimneys and steals kids presents. And in this reality with time backwards if they stay he'll end up getting younger and end up as a sperm in someone's testicles. They have to leave!!

 

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14. Marooned.
Lister and Rimmer are marooned on a snow bound planet, with the only food dog food and a pot noodle, so obviously it's the dog food eaten first . Kryten and the Cat search for them as Lister and Rimmer in a desperate situation learn about each other more which isn't necessarily a good thing.
In the crashed Starbug hopper vehicle that the two are in awaiting rescue, Lister realises Rimmer's priceless camphor wood trunk that contains his valuables would make good firewood.

Lister reveals he lost his virginity on a golf course.

 

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15. Polymorph.
A shape shifting creature boards Red Dwarf, it can change it absolutely anything, the crew discover when Lister's kebab leaps off the plate to attack him. The creature feeds by removing emotions from its victims. Lister loses his fear, Rimmer his anger, The Cat his cool and Kryten the mechanoid his loyalty to the crew.

 

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16. Bodyswap.
The personality of the dead second in command is recorded on a disc, that personality in an emergency has to be planted into Lister's body to cancel the self destruct mechanism destroying the ship, which was activated by accident.
Rimmer seeing this is possible suggests he and Lister temporarily swap bodies, he goes into Lister's body and Lister temporarily becomes a hologram. In this way fitness fanatic Rimmer can get Lister fit and on a proper diet without Lister having to actually do the work. Lister agrees , but disaster as Rimmer now in a body again gets to like it and absconds with Lister's body in Starbug and threatens to shoot himself, killing both his mind and Lister's body if they come after him.

 

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17. Timeslides.
Mutated photographic developing fluid means the crew's photo slides have become portals to the past. You can walk into the past so long as you have a photo of the scene. Lister goes to visit himself aged 17 and persuades him to go to the patent office and patent an invention as his before the established inventor ever got round to inventing it. This is of course immoral but the 17 year old Lister does this.
The invention is the Tension Sheet, plastic packing paper painted red, a calming therapy for anxiety, you pop the plastic sheet to calm down. Lister changes history and becomes a millionaire, subsequently he never joined Red Dwarf, the Cat race was never born, and Rimmer is left on Red Dwarf for eternity alone. It is Rimmer's duty as a complete and utter bastard to reverse this.

 

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18. The Last Day.
Kryten gets a message from Devadroid International the company that made him. His warranty is running out and in the morning he will be terminated and replaced by the latest model mechanoid on its way now. But after chasing Red Dwarf for centuries the new mechanoid Hudzen is insane and wants everyone on board terminated.

 

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