About this season
The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
Episodes (6)
1. Kryten
7.7Aired 6 September 1988 • 28 min
A distress signal draws the ship's crew to the site of a space shuttle crash.
2. Better Than Life
7.8Aired 13 September 1988 • 29 min
Rimmer learns that his father has passed away but isn't sure which is sadder: his father's death or that he is now encumbered with an £8,500 tax bill.
3. Thanks for the Memory
8.2Aired 20 September 1988 • 28 min
When Lister awakens after a night of revelry, he's at a loss to explain how he and Cat broke their legs.
4. Stasis Leak
7.9Aired 27 September 1988 • 30 min
A wrinkle in time takes the crew 3 million years into the past, before the radiation leak killed everyone aboard except Lister.
5. Queeg
8.2Aired 4 October 1988 • 30 min
With Holly on the fritz, the ship's backup computer, Queeg 500, steps in to command the Red Dwarf and its crew of misfits.
6. Parallel Universe
7.9Aired 11 October 1988 • 28 min
After testing Holly's latest invention, the crew ends up in a parallel universe where they encounter opposite versions of themselves.