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SERIES 7 (Season VII) - First broadcast 1997

1. Tikka To Ride

When the crew are recreated after their future selves killed them, Lister has bigger worries to consider such as Red Dwarf having run out of curry and lager! Going against the crew's advice, he uses the time drive to take them to a curry house in Liverpool, but accidentally they get taken to Dallas, the day that Kennedy was shot. The problems don't end there, as they knock the gunman out of a window and then end up having to sort things out so that the President still gets shot!

Best Quote: The Dwarfers are stuck in time, and Kryten has just cooked them a meal.

Cat - "Chicken's good."
Lister - "Yeah, really good."
Kryten - "That's not chicken, sir."
Cat - "Oh, what is it?"
Kryten - "It's that man we found."

First broadcast: 17th Jan 1997


2. Stoke Me A Clipper

'Ace Rimmer', Rimmer's better looking alternate being, arrives on Red Dwarf dying and tries to train Rimmer into being the next Ace. Millions of alternate Rimmers had done it before him, so he believed that even the arrogant, slimy Rimmer must be able to do it. Deciding to go ahead, Rimmer pretends to leave as Ace and jets off to save the universe. Unfortunately, he doesn't quite get the catchprase right: "Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back for Christmas!"

Best Quote: The crew are all delighted to see Ace again...apart from Rimmer!

Kryten - "So, what have you been up to, sir?"
Ace - "Nothing special. Saved a couple of universes, overthrown a few dictatorships, turned down a heapful of marriage proposals and had my highlights done!"
Cat - "What a guy!"

First broadcast: 24th Jan 1997


3. Ouroboros

When two Red Dwarf realities collide, the Dwarfers encounter a alternate universe with a Cat, Kryten and a hologramatic version of Lister. And, of course, a Kochanski. Lister's delighted to see her again, and when the realities get separated and she's stranded on the wrong side, Kryten starts to get jealous that she'll take Lister away from him. Quickly, he goes about trying to find ways to send her back.

Best Quote: Rimmer and Lister having another argument in a flashback.

Rimmer - "Oh ha, ha!
Lister - "Rimmer, people who say 'ha, ha' have no sense of humour, they can't think of a witty retort."
Rimmer - (pause) "Oh ha, ha!"

First broadcast: 31st Jan 1997


4. Duct Soup

Kochanski's finding life on the Dwarf with the boys a bit tough. No baths, pipes in her sleeping quarters that squeak and moan all night and chilled trainers in the fridge! When the ship takes a wrong turning, the crew end up crawling through the ducts all night. For some, it wasn't all a waste seeing as they found out some interesting things about each other!

Best Quote: Kochanski finds life aboard Red Dwarf with the guys hard work.

Kochanski - "I can't live like this, I need a bath. I hate showers, I've always hated showers. Ask anyone who knows me what I hate, and do you know what they'll say??"
Kryten - "Erm, you hate showers?"
Kochanski - "You see! Even you know, and you hardly know me!"

First broadcast: 7th Feb 1997


5. Blue

Much to the surprise of the crew, Lister finds himself actually missing Rimmer now that he's left Red Dwarf! Kryten comes up with an idea to help by making a virtual tour of the life of Arnold Rimmer called "The Rimmer Experience". Afterwards, Lister will never miss Rimmer again....

Best Quote: The Cat gets sick of Lister talking about Rimmer.

Cat - "He won't throw anything away because it reminds him of the good times he had with Rimmer! I must have blinked and missed them."

First broadcast: 14th Feb 1997


6. Beyond A Joke

Kryten is fed up. He cooks the crew a delicious lobster meal, and they'd rather go in the artificial reality suite with Kochanski and play the 'Pride & Prejudice' game. He gets so angry, his head gets blown off and the crew have to venture into Simulant territory to try and get him another one. Big mistake!

Best Quote: Kryten drives a World War 2 tank into the Pride & Prejudice world.

Kryten - "Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. I said supper is ready!"
[ Then he blows up the gazebo.]

First broadcast: 21st Feb 1997


7. Epideme

The crew discover a giant spacecraft in which they find the frozen body of Caroline Carmen, a former member of the Red Dwarf crew. They take the body back to Starbug, only to find out that it's a zombie that is being animated by an especially nasty virus called 'Epideme'. After a short while Lister becomes infected with Epideme and has only a short time to live. Kryten hooks up the Universal Language Translator and manages to establish communication with the virus. He tries to talk the virus out of killing Lister, but fails. As a last desperate measure, they force the virus into moving into Lister's arm, which is then amputated.

Best Quote: Epideme talking to Lister

Epideme - Davey, come oooon. You ve got a virus, it's fatal, it happens. It doesn't mean we can't be friends!

First broadcast: 28th Feb 1997


8. Nanarchy

Lister is finding it very difficult to get used to life with only one arm and Kryten's attempt to provide a acceptable artificial substitute fails, they decide Lister's only hope is if they can find some nanobots. The crew take Starbug back to the planet where they found the 'Esperanto' (see episode: 'Back To Reality'). They find some nanobots on board the ship and Kryten gets the tiny robots to build a new arm for Lister.

Best Quote: Cat talking to Lister after he has lost his arm

Cat - You're probably thinking is this gonna affect my life? And i've been thinking about this and the answer is... Yes it is.

First broadcast: 7th March 1997


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