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I) - First broadcast 1988 |
1. The End
The crew of the mining space ship, Red Dwarf, are wiped out
by a radiation leak and Dave Lister, who was concealed in
suspended animation during the accident, emerges 3 million
years later to discover that he's the last human being alive.
However, he's not entirely alone. Rimmer, an arrogant technician
he shared sleeping quarters with, has been brought back as
a hologram. Cat, a creature who has evolved from Lister's
pet cat Frankenstein was sleeping in the hold, and Holly,
the ship's mentally challenged computer has the job of guiding
them home!
Best Quote: Lister
explaining his future plans about his farm on Fiji to
Rimmer.
Lister - "I'm gonna get
a sheep and a cow and breed horses."
Rimmer - "With a sheep and a cow?"
Lister - "No, with horses and horses!" |
First broadcast: 15th Feb 1988
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2. Future Echoes
The Dwarfers are starting their journey back to earth and
are travelling at light speed. Lister plans to go back into
suspended animation for the duration of the journey. As they
start going at the speed of light, time dilates and the crew
end up seeing pockets of their future in their own time. Rimmer
mistakenly sees Lister being blown up in the drive room when,
in fact, it is actually Lister's son being killed in the future!
Best Quote: Lister
explaining to the Cat that there's no room for all his
clothes.
Lister - "You can take two suits and that's
it."
Cat - "Two suits?! Then I'm staying."
Lister - "You can't stay. By the time I
come out, you'll be dead."
Cat - "Two suits is dead!"
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First broadcast: 22nd Feb 1988
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3. Balance of Power
When Rimmer refuses to bring back Kochanski's hologram, Lister
decides to get his revenge by taking a Chef's exam so he can
be Rimmer's superior. Knowing that Rimmer respects and follows
commands from people of a higher rank than him, Lister proceeds
to take the exam. To try and divert him from completing it,
Rimmer turns himself into Kochanski in hologram form and tries
to change Lister's mind by telling him she never loved him.
Lister, obviously, sees through this though, and completes
the exam anyway. At the end of the episode, we presume Lister
has passed, but it's later revealed that he was kidding.
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Best Quote: Rimmer and Lister having an argument
about bringing Kochanski's hologram back
Rimmer - "You don't know when to stop,
do you, Lister? I'm your superior!"
Lister - "Technician was the lowest rank
on this ship. The man who changed the bog rolls was
higher than us!"
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First broadcast: 29th Feb 1988
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4. Waiting For God
Cat shows Lister a book all about his catty past, and Lister
discovers that he is the Cat God. Meanwhile, Rimmer believes
that a recovered Red Dwarf garbage pod holds the remains of
a dead alien. Holly and Lister knew all along, but as Holly
says: "It's a laugh isn't it?"
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Best Quote: Lister explaining to Cat why
he's the Cat God!
Lister - "No! What I'm saying is that over
those three million years, your entire race of people
evolved from my pet cat."
Cat - "Ah, I gotta go now, man. But let's
do lunch sometime. I'll put it in my diary: 12:30, lunch
with God. And, ah, formal dress, you know what I'm saying?"
Lister - "It is true, you know."
Cat - "Yeah? Then I gotta ask you the ultimate
question. If you're God, why that face?"
Lister - "What's wrong with me face?"
Cat - "What's wrong with your face? It's
upside down and inside out, that's what's wrong with
it." |
First broadcast: 7th March 1988
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5. Confidence & Paranoia
Lister goes up to the Officer's Quarters before it's de-contaminated
and ends up contacting a mutated pneumonia virus. His fevered
hallucinations appear in solid form including fish raining,
the Major of Warsaw spontaneously combusting and Lister's
confidence and paranoia sitting in the drive room! Rimmer
points out to Lister that Confidence and Paranoia are only
side effects of his virus, and when Confidence smashes up
the medical unit, trouble begins to brew. At the end of the
episode, Rimmer tricks Lister into thinking he's bringing
back Kochanski's hologram disk, but in fact it's a duplicate
copy of himself!
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Best Quote: Lister wondering why Confidence
has picked up his cigarette end.
Lister - "What are you doing with that
cigarette butt?"
Confidence - "Oh, you've embarrassed me
now. It's just that your lips have touched it. Your
lips! The King's kissing lips! |
First broadcast: 14th March 1988
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6. Me2
Rimmer's duplicate hologram brings nothing but trouble to
Red Dwarf. The original Rimmer moves out of his and Lister's
quarters and starts sharing a room with his double. Things
go well at first, but of course even Rimmer can't stand himself
for that amount of time and before long they begin to argue.
Only one of them can stay once this starts and it's just a
case of who should leave. Oh, and not before Lister tricks
Rimmer into telling him about his Gazpacho Soup incident....
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Best Quote: The Cat roams around Red Dwarf
with a megaphone, calling for his mate!
Cat - "Hello, hello! Testing, testing!
One, one, one. Me, me, me! Attention, all lady cats!
I am feeling very, very sexy! Can you hear me, lady
cats?! My body is available! Please form a queue! No
squabbling! This is your lucky day!" |
First broadcast: 21st March 1988
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