Episode Guide (Series 5)
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1: Holoship (20 Feb 92)
Red Dwarf encounters a spacecraft made entirely of light with a crew of super-intelligent holograms. Rimmer somehow manages to become a member of the crew. In the end, however, he decides to stay on Red Dwarf.
Also appearing:
Lucy Briers (Harrison), Simon Day (Number Two), Jane Horrocks (Nirvana Crane), Matthew Marsh (Captain Platini), Jane Montgomery (Number One), Don Warrington (Commander Binks)
2: The Inquisitor (27 Feb 92)
The Inquisitor is a semi-immortal android who travels through time weeding out and deleting anyone who doesn't lead a worthwhile life. He finds Lister and Rimmer guilty of failing to realise their potential and marks them for deletion. Lister and Kryten set out to destroy The Inquisitor before he destroys them.
Also appearing:
Jake Abraham (Second Lister), James Cormick (Thomas Allman), John Docherty (The Inquisitor)
3: Terrorform (5 Mar 92)
Starbug, crewed by Rimmer and Kryten, crashes on a psi-moon and the moon transforms itself using Rimmer's mind as a template. Lister and The Cat have to rescue Rimmer from the horrors of his own subconscious.
Also appearing:
Sara Stockbridge (Handmaiden), Francine Walker-Lee (Handmaiden)
4: Quarantine (12 Mar 92)
Rimmer becomes infected with a holovirus and goes mad. He locks Lister, Kryten and the Cat up in a quarantine suite. They manage to escape with the help of a 'luck virus' and cure Rimmer of his madness.
Also appearing:
Maggie Steed (Dr Hildegarde Lanstrom)
5: Demons And Angels (19 Mar 92)
Kryten builds a triplicator, which can produce two copies of any object. When it's tested on a strawberry, it produces an absolutely wonderful strawberry and one absolutely awful one.
Trying to reverse the effect, the crew manage to destroy Red Dwarf. They escape in Starbug and find that the triplicator has produced two copies of Red Dwarf - one crewed by perfect versions of themselves, the other by vile copies.
The crew manage to combine the two copies to regenerate the original Red Dwarf.
6: Back To Reality (26 Mar 92)
The crew land on an ocean planet and find an ocean seeding ship called the Esperanto. They find that the entire crew committed suicide because of the effects of ink from a giant 'Despair Squid'. As Starbug lifts off, it's apparently destroyed by the Despair Squid.
The crew wake up to find that they've spent the past four years playing a total immersion video game called "Red Dwarf". Finding 'reality' depressing and unbearable, the crew decide to kill themselves. They're rescued by Holly, who explains that they've been suffering from hallucinations caused by the ink from the Despair Squid.
Also appearing:
Anastasia Hille (New Kochanski), Marie McCarthy (Nurse), John Sharian (New Lister), Timothy Spall (Andy), Lenny Van Dohlen (Cop)