Red Dwarf

Seventy-three episodes, no series nine, and a cliffhanger that was never resolved.

0%
complete

Where to start with Red Dwarf

Broadcast order: I through VIII, then Back to Earth, then X, XI, XII, then The Promised Land. Three things will otherwise catch you out, and the first one catches almost everybody.

  1. 1
    Series I to VI Red Dwarf

    Thirty-six episodes and the run the show is famous for. Series III opens with a text crawl that quietly resolves the end of series II, so do not skip past it.

  2. 2
    Series VII and VIII Red Dwarf

    Sixteen episodes and a different programme in places. Rimmer leaves early in VII, Kochanski joins, the laughter is added in post, and VIII ends on a cliffhanger.

  3. 3
    Back to Earth Red Dwarf: Back to Earth

    Ten years later, set nine years later, and it does not resolve the series VIII cliffhanger. It ignores it and writes Kochanski out in a line. Knowing that in advance saves a lot of annoyance.

  4. 4
    Series X, XI and XII Red Dwarf

    Eighteen episodes on Dave with the original four back. There is no series IX and there never was.

  5. 5
    The Promised Land Red Dwarf: The Promised Land

    A ninety minute feature from 2020, and so far the last thing made.

Then what? The two American pilots have never aired and exist as disc extras. Skipping series VII and VIII and going straight from VI to Back to Earth is a defensible route, given that Back to Earth ignores series VIII anyway.

A suggested way in, not an official one. The full list is below: tick anything off in either place.

0titles watched
0episodes checked
0left to watch
up next

The BBC Years

  • Red Dwarf 1988, 11 seasons, 70 episodes

The Dave Years

  • Red Dwarf: Back to Earth 2009, 1 season, 3 episodes
  • Red Dwarf: The Promised Land 2020

Never Broadcast

  • Red Dwarf: the first American pilot 1992
  • Red Dwarf: the second American pilot 1992

Sync & backup

Your progress is saved on this device automatically. The code below takes a copy out and puts it back. Moving a whole list onto a device that has nothing on it yet is part of the subscription.

The code holds only this franchise. The link opens the tracker with your progress already filled in, good for showing someone where you're at. The image is a picture you can keep anywhere: scan the code on it with a phone, or drag the file back in below.

Every franchise you have touched, in one code.

Scan it with another device's camera, or paste the code in below. It never leaves your browser.

Drag a SagaList image here, or .

This reads the progress stored inside the picture, so nothing has to be retyped. If the image has been through a messaging app it may have been re-encoded and lost that: scan the code on it instead, or copy the code printed along the bottom.

Takes either kind of code. A single franchise code replaces that franchise, on any device. An everything code merges by default, so nothing you have ticked on this device is lost. Putting a whole list onto a device that has nothing on it yet is the part an account pays for.

Read only. This never changes what you have saved, and nothing leaves your browser. The code has to be their code for this same franchise: codes do not carry a name, so one from somewhere else may not be recognised as wrong.