Season guide

Red Dwarf: Season 5

6 episodes Premiered Feb 20, 1992

Previously on Red Dwarf

Season 5 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 4.
⚡ 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 5 Episodes

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S5·E1 Mytharc

Feb 20, 1992

Rimmer is beamed aboard the computer-generated ship Enlightenment and finds that all his wildest dreams have come true.

S5·E2 Core

Feb 27, 1992

The crew crosses paths with a dark figure who calls himself the Inquisitor.

S5·E3 Core

Mar 5, 1992

After being captured by a "psy-moon," Rimmer becomes a prisoner of his own thoughts.

S5·E4 Core

Mar 12, 1992

When the crew goes exploring on a snowy planet, they cross paths with a hologram scientist infected with a nasty virus.

S5·E5 Mytharc

Mar 19, 1992

Lister and Kryten inadvertently blow up the Red Dwarf with a new invention that makes two copies of any object.

S5·E6 Mytharc

Mar 26, 1992

While exploring an ocean planet, Lister, Kryten, Rimmer and Cat discover an abandoned ship whose entire crew committed suicide.