This is the second episode page, again there is a list and short description of the RD episodes from series 5 to 8. To return to the first page of episodes click here."

Series 5.

Episode 1 - Holoship

Starbug stumbles across a Holoship, populated by super intelligent Holograms, they beam Rimmer on board. He decides that everything he's ever wanted is on the ship and plots to cheat his way onto the ship. He succeed's but when he finds out that the woman he has fallen in love with has been deleted so that he could come aboard he makes the ultimate sacrifice and returns to Red Dwarf.

Episode 2 - The Inquisitor

The Inquisitor is a time travelling self repairing android who survive's to the end of time and at discovering that there is no afterlife, decides that the only purpose in existence is to have lead a worthwhile life. He gives those who never had a chance of life a chance to live.....ie. The sperms that didn't make it and the unfertilized eggs. He arrives aboard Red Dwarf and make's the crew justify themselves and their existence. Lister and Kryten are judged of not having lived worthwhile lives and are placed in limbo. They have to destroy the Inquisitor before he erase's them from History for ever.

Episode 3 - Terrorform

Starbug, carrying Rimmer and Kryten, crashes on a Psi Moon which 'Terrorforms' into the landscape of Rimmer's sick mind. Kryten sends an unusual distress call to Lister and Cat who arrive to save him. Then they have to go in search of Rimmer who has been captured by the demon's of his own mind and has been brought infront of the unspeakable one....his own self-loathing monster.

Episode 4 - Quarantine

Lister, Rimmer, Kryten and the Cat investigate an abandoned genetic research centre. While they are looking around they discover a number of stasis pods. When one of them aopen's on it's own, it releases the hologramatic Doctor Hildegarde Lanstrome who has been infected with a holovirus. The virus gives her tremendous Psi powers but has driven her totally insane. After she kills herself, the crew attempt to return to Red Dwarf. Arriving back on the ship Rimmer puts the rest of the crew in quarantine, but unknown to him and the crew he has already been infected with the virus.

Episode 5 - Demons And Angels

The Series 4000 Sanitation Droid Kryten creates a duplicator, capable of making two copies of anything. They test it out with the last strawberry in the universe. From the two duplicate's one is divine and the other one is as rancid as Lister's underpant's. They are curious to see what happens if they throw the machine into reverse, the RED ALERT signs start flashing and the crew are forced to evacuate Red Dwarf in Starbug. Lister is sure that it is just precaution and that the ship will not blow up, that is until it does. The crew seem doomed until they find that just before Red Dwarf blew up it had created two identical ships.

Episode 6 - Back To Reality

The crew discover a crashed vessel at the bottom of an ocean moon, the Esperanto. They discover that the whole crew, including a creature resembling an earth Haddock have committed suicide brought on by ink from a 'Dispair Squid'. The crew race back to Starbug where they are chased by the squid and are apparently killed. They wake up and find out that they have been playing the total immersion game 'Red Dwarf' for the past 4 years.

Series 6.

Episode 1 - Psirens

Lister, Cat and Rimmer have been brought out of Stasis after 200 years after Lister had forgotten which planet he'd parked Red Dwarf behind. Starbug has been chasing the ship through space after an unknown lifeform had stolen it. Kryten, has been alone in that time has detected the Mining Ships vapour trail. The crew decide to take a detour through an asteroid field. Doing so the crew encounter genetically created life forms which project false images to try and lure people onto an asteroid to their death.

Episode 2 - Legion

A tractor beam captures Starbug and beams it on board a space station. On board the crew meet a life form called Legion who is is technologically advanced and is able to give Rimmer a Hard Light body, enabling him to touch and basically making him a human again. The crew try to make Legion join the crew, but what they don't know is that he want's them to stay....forever.

Episode 3 - Gunmen Of The Apocalypse

The ship encounters a ship of psychotic killer simulants. Hopelessly over matched, the crew try to bluff their way out but when their plan fails the ship is boarded and the crew are rendered unconscious. When they come round they find that the simulants have upgraded Starbug, so that the 'bug can be some sport and put up a fight. A lucky shot blows up the simulent ship, but not before the simulants can transmit the Armageddon computer virus into Starbug's Navicomp. Kryten has no option but to link himself into the system in order to produce a "dove" vaccine program. Using Virtual reality suits, the crew link themselves into his dream state where Kryten is a drunken sheriff who is going up against the Armageddon Brothers.

Episode 4 - Emohawk Polymorth ll

Starbug is attacked by a space police enforcement drone. The only way to escape them is to head into Gelf space, an area so deadly and dangerous that the drone will not follow them in . Checking the damage, they manage to fix everything on the ship except the Oxygen unit. Arriving on one of the Gelf planets, the crew manage to arrange a trade, the oxygen unit for Lister's marriage to the chief's daughter. After the marriage the crew do a runner, but they are soon pursued by an Emohawk, another form of Polymorph. Due to attacks by this creature, Cat is turned into Duane Dibbley and Rimmer is turned into what he hates most, Ace Rimmer.

Episode 5 - Rimmerworld

Rimmer is suffering from stress, a situation which is not helped by the fact that Starbug is quickly running out of supplies. The crew's only hope is to try and salvage what they can from the a simulant ship. On board they discover a teleport device which they use to load up Starbug with supplies. Encountering the last surviving simulant, Rimmer escapes in an escape pod but is soondrawn into a space vortex and has to spend 600 years on a planet surrounded by his own backstabbing clones.

Episode 6 - Out Of Time

Encountering an "unreality" mine field, the crew are subjected to a series of disorientating events. Kryten mistakes Lister for a 3000 series mechanoid whilst Cat is temporarily erased from the memories of the crew. Deciding that the mine field is to keep people away from a ship with a prototype drive, Kryten puts both Lister and the Cat into stasis for 3 days. They are revived at the centre of the field, where they discover a ship which has a time drive. Installing the drive in Starbug's engine bay, the crew are distressed when they receive an SOS distress call from themselves from 15 years into the future. Their future selves attack Starbug in an attempt to stop themselves becoming who they are in 15 years time. It ends in a cliffhanger........

Series 7.

Episode 1 - Tikka to Ride

During a fight with their future selves the crew were killed, but by killing their present selves the future crew could not exist, thus the present crew came back to life at the time before they found the time drive. All the ship's Curry and Lager supplie's have been destroyed but there was no wreckage or debris in the Food Bay. The crew use the time drive to go back in time to order 500 Vindaloo's to go, but find themselve's in Dallas 1963, interfering with the assination of President Kennedy.

Episode 2 - "Stoke Me A Clipper....."

Ace Rimmer has been fatally wounded. He has to Dimension Jump to an alternate Dimension to pass on the flame, and guess which one he end's up in? It is not the same Ace which was last on board, he's now dead and is a Hard Light Hologram just like Rimmer. Lister has to try and persuade Rimmer to be Ace, after he had turned the opportunity down because he was busy cataloguing his shoe collection. This is the episode when Rimmer leaves.

Episode 3 - Ouroboros

Starbug comes across a rip in the space/time continuum. Flying into it creates a time rip in the cargo hold which leads to an alternate dimension. Whilst travelling through it the crew meet up with an alternate version of themselves. The only difference is is that Lister is a Hologram and they have a woman on board, Kristine Kochanski, Lister's old girlfriend. A Gelf ship infiltrates non-space and blows the time rip in two, with Kochanski on the crew's side of the tare. Neither Kochanski or Kryten find this to be a good situation and they begin to devise a way to get Miss Kochanski back to her own reality.

Episode 4 - Duct Soup

Kochanski tries to come to terms that she is missing the Dave Lister from 'her' dimension. Life on board is getting her down and she's tried to fit in by learning what 'Offside' was. The heating system has gone berserk and Kryten is jealous that Kochanski is going to have a bath in Lister's quarters. The Generator and it's back up goes down which means the crew have to crawl around the service ducts to try and restart the engines. The crew find out a few secret's about Lister and when they find out that they have been knocked off course and are heading straight into a sun, Kryten has to to make a confession.

Episode 5 - Blue

The tension between Kochanski and the Crew is rising, and the fact that she keeps moving the Salad Cream from the Fridge into the cupboard isn't helping herself and Kryten get along any better. Lister finds that he is missing Rimmer and he start's dreaming about him, but instead of him being a complete 'Smeg Head' he's a fun, care free Rimmer. Lister just can't bear throwing anything of Rimmer's away because they remind him of the good times they had together (The Cat "You had fun with goal post head!! I must have blinked and missed them"). Kryten create's 'The Rimmer Experience' for anyone who is missing him.

Episode 6 - Beyond A Joke

Kryten make's a surprise dinner for the crew to celebrate the anniversary of Kryten's rescue from the Nova 5 but Kochanski has set up Pride and Prejudice World in the AI suite. Kryten is outraged and goe's into the game equipped with a blowpipe with poisonous darts and a World War II tank. When Lister tell's Kryten that the meal he's made need's a pep up the 'noid literally blows his top.

Episode 7 - Epideme - Part 1

The crew discover a ship (the Leviathan) buried deep inside an ice moon. They go on board, everyone seem's dead but they are picking up a life source from a a body frozen inside a block of ice. The person is called Caroline Carmen and was once a member of the Red Dwarf crew. She is taken aboard Starbug to be thawed. In the middle of the night she thaws and goes looking for Lister, she is a zombie controlled by a deadly virus. She attacks Lister and he contracts the Epideme virus. Kryten informs him that there is no cure and the only way to talk to the 'Intelligent' virus is to talk it out of killing him. He link's up to the ship's Universal Translator, but is unsuccessful. The only way now to save his life is to draw the virus into his arm and then have it cut off....

Episode 8 - Nanarchy - Part 2

After loosing his favorite right arm, Lister is depressed, and the unsuccessful artificial arm has got him down even more. The crew go insearch of Kryten's self repairing Nanobots. The last repair they made on Kryten was back on the SS Esperanto. But they come across something even more amazing. They find Red Dwarf in a most unusual place and the ship's senile computer, Holly. The nano's give Lister a helping hand by recreating his arm.

Series 8.

Episode 1 - Back In The Red - Part 1

The Nanobots have recreated Red Dwarf together with it's original crew, this is very good news indeed for Rimmer. The Nano's have recreated the ship 10 time's bigger and the Starbug is the size of a fly compared to the ship. Starbug is sucked into a vent and Red Dwarf start's shrinking. They crash and are arrested. Lister, Kochanski, Kryten and the Cat face 2 year's in the Brig, unless they can collaborate their story that the crew were wiped out and were resurrected by the microscopic robots. Lister asks for Rimmer's help, but he's soon up to his old trick's by finding the Luck and Sexual magnetism Virus' in Starbug's wreckage, now he's irresistible to the female crew.

Episode 2 - Back In The Red - Part 2

Rimmer now has the confidential file's of everyone on board. He start's acting all knowledgeable infront of the Captain and is asked to lick an envelope, which is addressed to him. Meanwhile Lister, Kryten, Kris and the Cat are called infront of the ships officers to hear about how they will stand trial, after which Kryten is classified as a woman. Rimmer has been invited to dinner with the Captain, and he douses himself with the 'Sexual Magnetism' virus to make the night go with a swing. He find's out that the others are in an AR Suite, they have been knocked out by the drug on the envelopes they had to lick at their trial hearing, they think they are escaping but they are being observed to see what they do. This is extremely bad news for Rimmer.

Episode 3 - Back In The Red - Part 3

The Dwarfer's face two years in the Brig. They plan to escape to prove their innocence, but before they can leave the Cat has to do a dance for the ground controller with the Blue Midget as his dancing partner. It also turn's out that Rimmer is in AR and they are soon revived from the dream state. Will the Dwarfers walk free? or will they be sentenced to two years in the Brig?

Episode 4 - Cassandra

The crew have been sentenced to 2 year's in the Brig, so Lister decide's to join the 'Canaries' believing them to be the Prison Choir, but Rimmer soon tell's him that they are a battle hardened army who go on suicide missions. The smile is soon wiped of Rimmer's face when he finds out Lister's signed him up too, together with Kryten, Kris and the Cat. Their first mission is to go aboard a ship at the bottom of an ocean moon and find out why it has no crew, what they find instead is a computer that can see the future.

Episode 5 - Krytie TV

Kryten tell's the male inmates that he has been classified as a woman and has to shower monotonously with the girls. Kill Crazy kidnaps Kryten and reprogram's him. The 'noid start's up his own Pirate TV station and replaces the Wednesday night film with Girl's Shower Night.

Episode 6 - Pete - Part 1

The crew go in search of a missing Canarie battalion. They have been frozen in time by a Time Wand which Kryten smuggle's on board. It can freeze anyone or erase their memories. Lister and Rimmer keep being called infront of the ship's Captain and are ordered to take on the Prison Guards with a team of their choice for a basketball match. They sabotage the Guards half-time juice with 'Boing' the virility enhancement drug. They also find out that birds descend from dinosaurs when they try to bring a bird back to life, but accidently de-evolve it a few million years and instead of a bird, there's a T-Rex roaming the food decks!

Episode 7 - Pete - Part 2

The Dwarfer's have already found out that Bird's descend from Dinosaurs as they try to lure the T-Rex towards a huge Cow Vindaloo, if it doesn't eat it, Lister will scoff it. The ships crew are awoke from their frozen state, and the Captain finds out why it's not a good idea to sneak up from behind on a Dinosaur after it's just had a curry.

Episode 8 - "Only The Good..."

Red Dwarf is being devoured from within by a chameleonic microbe. The Dwarfers get set to cross into a mirror universe, but before they do the machine that create's it breaks down, and only Rimmer has successfully crossed through. He has to get an antidote to the virus, but by the time he crosses back into the normal universe, everyone else has crossed into the mirror universe. The machine then blows up and Rimmer is left alone on Red Dwarf, the ship is engulfed in flames......

THE END.......OR IS IT??