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Red Dwarf: Season 2

6 episodes Premiered Sep 6, 1988
Previously on Red Dwarf

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Red Dwarf Season 1.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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S2·E1 Mytharc

Kryten

Sep 6, 1988

A distress signal draws the ship's crew to the site of a space shuttle crash.

S2·E2 Core

Better Than Life

Sep 13, 1988

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.

S2·E3 Core

Thanks for the Memory

Sep 20, 1988

When Lister awakens after a night of revelry, he's at a loss to explain how he and Cat broke their legs.

S2·E4 Core

Stasis Leak

Sep 27, 1988

A wrinkle in time takes the crew 3 million years into the past, before the radiation leak killed everyone aboard except Lister.

S2·E5 Mytharc

Queeg

Oct 4, 1988

With Holly on the fritz, the ship's backup computer, Queeg 500, steps in to command the Red Dwarf and its crew of misfits.

S2·E6 Mytharc

Parallel Universe

Oct 11, 1988

After testing Holly's latest invention, the crew ends up in a parallel universe where they encounter opposite versions of themselves.