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Red Dwarf Season 12 Episodes
Season 12 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2017 - 2017
Episode 1
Cured
29 mins
Crash-landing on a foreign planet the crew shelter from a sand-storm in what turns out to be a rehabilitation unit. Here Professor Shaul Telford has cryogenically preserved Hitler, Stalin, Messalina and Vlad the Impaler, having cured them of their evil tendencies. Cat is annoyed that he cannot tempt Messalina whilst Lister angers Rimmer by jamming with a very camp Hitler but when all the Red Dwarf crew discover that someone is trying to murder them they wonder how successful the experiment has been - and whether Cat can be trusted not to side with the psychopathic killer.
Episode 2
Siliconia
27 mins
Red Dwarf is captured by the Mechanoid Intergalactic Liberation Front, a group of automata out to free androids being used as slaves and who turn Kryten's crew-mates into a robotic work-force. Rimmer enjoys his new carefree life but Lister resists and only a cleaning duel between him and Kryten can determine all their fates.
Episode 3
Timewave
27 mins
The crew find themselves on the 'Enconium', a ship where criticism is illegal and all ineptitude must be tolerated. When they protest they are arrested and threatened with draining of all critical thoughts. However Rimmer's bitterness about his childhood comes in handy in beating the draining machine, his inner critic and the system, at least for a while.
Episode 4
Mechocracy
27 mins
Red Dwarf receives a distress call which turns out to be a computer virus, shutting down all its systems and leading Rimmer to order evacuation. However he refuses to take the ship's machines with the crew and when the virus is removed they go on strike. Kryten breaks the strike and, supported by Lister, puts himself forward as the machines' president but Rimmer blackmails Cat into backing him as a rival. Now only the talking toaster can prevent Rimmer from succeeding in his mendacious bid for power.
Episode 5
M-Corp
27 mins
The crew discovers that their computer system has been taken over by the rapacious M-Corp software group with the result that Lister cannot see anything not produced by them - including his crew-mates. Kryten must devise a way to reboot the system and Lister himself for a return to normality.
Episode 6
Skipper
27 mins
After a collision Red Dwarf is afflicted by a lesion in time and, as a result, every decision the crew makes is replaced by its alternative. Kryten realizes that to rectify things a quantum skipper must be activated but when Rimmer tests it he finds himself sent back in time, just before the original crew is wiped out by radiation, and then to alternative universes. How can he return to normal?
