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SERIES 5 (Season V) - First broadcast 1992

1. Holoship

Rimmer is sent from Red Dwarf to Holoship "Enlightenment" which has the highest of the high working there. Everything he ever wanted seems to be on board this ship, but unfortunately the path of success never did run smooth for Rimmer!

Best Quote: Rimmer is taken by the Holoship.

Kryten - "They've taken Mr. Rimmer!"
Cat - "Quick, let's get out of here before they bring him back!"

First broadcast: 20th Feb 1992


2. The Inquisitor

When The Inquisitor beams down into Red Dwarf, the crew have to justify their existence to him and prove that they are worthy of life. The ones that aren't are erased from time. Unfortunately, and rather surprisingly, it is Lister and Kryten that are deemed unworthy of life. Just as they are about to be erased, the pair come up with a plan to stop it...

Best Quote: The Cat justifies his existence with a rather vain reason.

Cat - "I have given pleasure to the world because I have such a beautiful ass."
Inquisitor - "That's true"
Cat - "Can I go now?"
Inquisitor - "That's your case?"
Cat - "You need more?!"

First broadcast: 27th Feb 1992


3. Terrorform

When Rimmer and Kryten go moon hopping, Kryten ends up getting injured. When Lister and Cat rescue him, he explains to them that the planet they are on is made up of Rimmer's mind. A psi-moon. The terrain of the moon is made up of characteristics of Rimmer. Scary for the crew, especially when they have to go out there and rescue Rimmer from his own self-loathing!

Best Quote: Kryten explaining to Lister about a psi-moon.

Kryten - "Well, each person's mindscape is unique but we could well encounter, say, Mr. Rimmer's lust personified as some kind of slobbering, rampaging beast."
Lister - "Rimmer's lust monster?! Urrgh."

First broadcast: 5th March 1992


4. Quarantine

On encountering another ship, the crew go into rescue the female hologram on board. Much to their horror, they discover that she has contracted a holo virus, and has gone completely insane. When back on board, Rimmer cruelly puts Lister, Cat and Kryten into quarantine for a long time and watches with glee as they go mad in the captivity. Unfortunately, none of them could have known that Rimmer himself would contract the holo virus.

Best Quote: Rimmer appears on the screen looking rather crazed after contracting the holo-virus.

Rimmer - "You don't think there's anything amiss? I'm sitting here wearing a red and white checked gingham dress and army boots and you think that's un-amiss?"
Cat - "No, of course not. It's just that we thought you had gone nuts! We were trying to humour you."

First broadcast: 12th March 1992


5. Demons and Angels

Using Kryten's matter paddle, the crew manage to figure out how to triplicate things. First a strawberry...and then Red Dwarf! They accidentally transport the beam outwards by mistake, which blows up the original Red Dwarf and ends up making a divine copy of the ship and a low and grimy one. Going on board both, they attempt to recover the matter paddle from one of them and recover the first Red Dwarf. Of course, their alter-egos are also on board both. Fancy meeting a saintly Lister and a Rocky Horror version of Rimmer?!

Best Quote: Lister and Cat are in the lap of luxury when they taste a nice Pot Noodle!

Lister - "I tell you one thing: I've been to a parallel universe, I've seen time running backwards, I've played pool with planets, and I've given birth to twins, but I never thought in my entire life I'd taste an edible Pot Noodle."

First broadcast: 19th March 1992


6. Back To Reality

The Dwarfers start to explore an abandoned space ship on the ocean bed, and slowly they start to realise that the bodies they are finding are all victims of suicide. They were forced to suicide by a creature called a despair squid which emits a kind of ink and makes them hallucinate. Unfortunately, the same happens to the Dwarfers and before long, they believe they are in an artificial reality game where the Cat is a dork called Dwane Dibbley and Lister is a dangerous mass murderer working for the CGI!

Best Quote: The cat has been turned into a complete geek.

Cat - "What the hell's happened to my teeth?! I can open beer bottles with my overbite!"

First broadcast: 26th March 1992


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