Information Red Dwarf Episode Guide and Gallery series 4-6

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Series 4.
19. Camille.
The Red Dwarf crew rescue Camille , a female survivor of a crashed ship. Strangely Lister sees her as Liverpudlian, Rimmer think she's a hologram, Kryten says she's a mechanoid, the same model as himself. Truth is she's something else altogether. This episode has plenty of references to the film Casablanca.

 

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20. DNA
On an abandoned ship the team find a three headed corpse and a machine that can change DNA. Kryten becomes human, and struggles with what it is to be organic life rather than mechanical. Love is an emotion he does not understand, he has erotic thoughts about vacuum cleaners. Kryten wants to be a mechanoid again, but the DNA changing machine isn't reliable, so to test it they try to change Lister's chicken curry to a lamb one, and inadvertently create the mutton vindaloo beast.

 

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21. Justice.
The crew come upon a pod in space, it comes from a prison planet and either contains a warder or a dangerous criminal.
They take it justice world where it can be safely opened, but on arrival a mind scan reveals Rimmer's guilt in causing the accident that killed all on Red Dwarf 3 million years ago, and is sentenced to imprisonment for hundreds of years given his hologramatic status. Kryten has to act as defence attorney to save him.

 

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22. White Hole.
Holly the senile computer wants to regain her IQ of 6000, so with Kryten's help goes through a process of reducing her remaining run time to increase her cleverness. Unfortunately the plan backfires when in return for being a genius again her run time is now just 3 minutes, so she switches herself off. Not good news as the ship approaches a White Hole, the opposite of a black hole but still as deadly.

 

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23. Dimension Jump.
From another dimension comes Ace Rimmer, another Arnold Rimmer but one who is a hero, brave, manly, and ...what a guy!! Ace has dimension jumped into our dimension and meets our Rimmer , and what a disappointment Ace finds him. After crashing on an ocean planet, the Red Dwarf crew rescued by Ace really want Ace to stay. But no, Ace is on a mission to dimension jump to explore different realities, somewhere he might find a Rimmer who is more of a pain in the butt than our Rimmer.....but it's doubtful.

 

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24. Meltdown.
Kryten finds a matter transmitter in one of Red Dwarfs science labs, something that was being developed when the ship suffered the disaster that wiped everyone out..except Lister of course. The matter "paddle" transports the team to a world inhabited by waxdroids, wax robots of famous people, abandoned here in Waxworld Theme Park. The droids are having a civil war, good vs evil, droids of Marilyn Munroe, Stan Laurel, Elvis , and more versus Hitler, Caligula, Rasputin droids. Good are losing.....Rimmer to the rescue hopefully.

 

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Series 5.
25. Holoship.
A hologram ship , made out of pure light, staffed by holograms all with incredible IQs arrives, Rimmer desperately wants to join. He dangerously uses a mental enhancing technique to boost his IQ to pass the entrance test. He passes, he's on his way, says goodbye to Lister, Cat and Kryten , but he hadn't reckoned on one thing....Will love ruin it for Rimmer, the man that no one has ever loved.

 

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26. The Inquisitor.
Bad news, The Inquisitor, the insane time travelling android who's mission is to judge everyone in the universe, and delete those who led worthless lives, meets the Red Dwarf team. How will slobby Lister, vain Cat, cowardly Rimmer and subservient Kryten justify their lives.

 

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27.Terrorform.
Rimmer is stranded on a planet that has terraformed to bring all the emotions and qualities inside Rimmer's head to life. Lister and the others have to rescue him and face Rimmer's self loathing personified as a slobbering beast.

 

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28. Quarantine.
A hologram of a scientist is in suspension in an abandoned scientific research centre, the Red Dwarf team inadvertently release the hologram, Professor Langstrom who has a hologram virus turning her into a maniac. Before she dies the virus is transmitted to Rimmer, who is unaware of this, and he takes over Red Dwarf and puts the others in quarantine to protect himself. But it's too late, he has the virus, and a homicidal Rimmer is not a pretty sight.

 

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29. Demons And Angels.
The matter transmitter previously seen is adapted by Kryten to transmit and replicate matter, hopefully to boost their food supply. However a slight miscalculation means Red Dwarf blows up and is destroyed. But two new Red Dwarfs are created, along with duplicate crews. On one ship is angelic versions of Lister, Rimmer, The Cat and Kryten, the other demonic evil counterparts. They must be faced in order to get the original ship back.

 

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30. Back To Reality.
Red Dwarf isn't real of course, the characters are fictional. So after being killed by a giant squid, our 4 heroes awake to discover it was all a virtual reality game called Red Dwarf. So who are they really? Fugitives in a fascist world and Lister and Rimmer are half brothers....or are they? The Cat is really a goofy toothed loser who lives in a Salvation Army hostel. They aren't who they thought they were.

 

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Series 6.
31. Psirens.
Red Dwarf the ship is gone, stolen! The crew are confined to Starbug mini craft, and must find Red Dwarf. After 200 years following the Red Dwarf vapour trail Lister and the Cat are revived from cryogenic hibernation, Rimmer reactivated, and the search continues. On an asteroid they encounter hallucination inducing mind sucking insectoid life.

 

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32. Legion.
The crew in pursuit of Red Dwarf meet Legion, an entity that needs other minds to become active from its dormant state. Legion was created by 4 scientists and shared their minds and personalities. Now its mind is made up of thoughts and emotions of Lister and Co. A bit of a comedown.

 

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33. Gunmen Of The Apocalypse.
Simulants are killer androids who despise humans, they attack Starbug, but our heroes win. Before the Simulants ship is destroyed they transmit an electronic virus to Starbug's engines. To combat this Kryten must plug himself into the ship and combat the virus. His battle is translated in his mind as a battle for power in a Wild West town, Lister and Co enter this dream Wild West town to help out.

 

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34. Emohawk- Polymorph 2
Second encounter with the shape shifting polymorph creature. The crew need to trade with a tribe to get an engine part, unfortunately the price is Lister's hand in marriage to the chief's daughter, who is not exactly a looker. When the team steal the part the Chief's pet emohawk polymorph creature is set on them. The polymorph gets on board Starbug on shape shifts and attacks the crew, as before feeding on an emotion removed from our heroes.

35. Rimmerworld.
The team are on an abandoned ship, belonging to Simulants, killer androids. They're there to help themselves to any valuable gear they can get. However an injured Simulant is on board who is going to kill them all. Rimmer in act of bravery, and not because he was trying to escape, jumps in an escape capsule and ..er escapes. But this act , as the capsule blasts off, sends ripples through the infrastructure of the damaged ship, in the confusion our heroes escape. Well done Rimmer, a hero at last. Unfortunately the capsule he's in goes through a timewarp before he can be pulled off. Rimmer ends up on a world alone, and the Starbug crew arrive 500 years later in Rimmer's timeframe, almost immediately from Lister , Cat and Kryten's timeframe. What has Rimmer been up to for 500 years. Why does everyone on this planet look like Rimmer? It's too horrible to contemplate.

 

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36. Out Of Time.
Still no sign of the lost Red Dwarf ship, so the Starbug crew need cheering up, so Rimmer has an idea for their personal betterment. Thankfully before that can happen they make an amazing discovery, on an abandoned ship , they get a time machine. They plug it into Starbug's engines and they can time travel. Unfortunately not space travel any quicker so they're still out in deep space 3 million years from Earth. Then they recieve a signal from.....Starbug...from the future, It's them!!
Future Lister, Rimmer, Kryten and Cat have travelled back in time to meet them to get a component to repair their time drive.
But they've changed, not for the better. Kryten wears a wig, and all of them traverse time tasting the best life throughout history has to offer. They love socialising, the Hitlers being there favourite hosts. What the hell has happened to our heroes, integrity gone, good taste gone, they've become freeloading parasites. A showdown is inevitable, current against future Red Dwarfers, who'll win ?

 

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