Red Dwarf

1988

4.8

170 reviews

Eligible

Season 3 episodes (6)

1 Backwards

11/14/89

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

11/21/89

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

11/28/89

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

12/5/89

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

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

12/19/89

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

170 reviews

Mike Wish

April 15, 2015

Season X is up there with the best of them. While the story lines are acceptable, the laughs are as good as ever, and you can see how comfortable the dwarfers are with their middle age. Kryten even has a few wrinkles under his eyes ! This season is great, from Dave's love triangle with the vending machines, to the dwarfers performing surgery on Jesus. I have been watching all six episodes over and over. Strong rewatchability !

Jayme Reynolds

April 9, 2016

My favourite show of all time anytime, anywhere. This is the answer to the stupid question what would you watch for the rest of your life if you only had one thing to watch. I have a major crush on Craig Barry. He has my favourite English accent. All the shows characters were so well thought out, and I thought the story was just brilliant! *tears of humble joy searing down my cheeks* I love this show with everything that I am. Thank you.

DrunkPauloCosta

September 10, 2016

Either i'm mentally ill or this show has more Replay Value than anything i'e ever watched. Like a great album its not the jazziest or hardest to play. But the timing and the way the band feed off each others talents just makes for a timeless classic no matter how many times you play it. 10/10 really pulls its weight

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