
Welcome to our best Red Dwarf episodes guide, a brilliant look at one of the greatest-ever British sitcoms.
Everyone shouts about the longevity of Doctor Who and Star Trek but Red Dwarf needs to be muttered in the same breath as it's also a sci-fi institution that is still going strong after some 12 series and 30-something years.
It’s particularly impressive that the whole of the space-set sitcom’s run has featured the same core cast (Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules and, from series 3 onwards, Robert Llewellyn), with co-creator Doug Naylor having a hand in every one of the show’s 74 episodes.
Following a lengthy hiatus between 1999 and 2009, the show found new life – and massive success – courtesy of Dave, and a new feature-length special that landed in 2020.
With all Red Dwarf episodes now available on BBC iPlayer in the UK, RImmer, Lister, Kryten and the Cat are firing up Starbug’s engines once again, ShortList goes all the way back to “The End” to list the best smegging episodes in Red Dwarf’s long history.
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