The 52nd episode of the science fiction comedy Red Dwarf airs on BBC 2. This is the end of the series’ eighth season, and was intended to be the end of its television run, though a much-mooted movie version of Red Dwarf never materializes, despite the efforts of the show’s creators. This is the last Red Dwarf episode to air on the BBC; the series will resurface, rather surprisingly, on the UK cable comedy channel Dave over a decade later. 
Red Dwarf rescues a life pod with a sole survivor and an unwelcome visitor – a shapeshifting, corrosive microscopic life form which begins eating away at the ship, though no one realizes this just yet. After Lister tricks him into embarassing Kochanski, Kryten vows revenge, planting a fellow prisoner’s secret stash of home-brewed booze in Lister and Rimmer’s cell. But that prisoner’s response – basically a death threat – requires a new escape attempt. En route to steal a ship, they see the corroded life pod, and Lister decides that Captain Hollister must be informed of the imminent danger. Hollister rewards the prisoners by thanking them for giving Red Dwarf’s officers and crew time to escape…and then announces that all prisoners will be left behind to die.
written by Doug Naylor
directed by Ed Bye
music by Howard GoodallCast: Chris Barrie (Rimmer), Craig Charles (Lister), Chloe Annett (Kochanski), Danny John-Jules (Cat), Robert Llewellyn (Kryten), Norman Lovett (Holly), Mac MacDonald (Captain Hollister), Graham McTavish (Ackerman), Heidi Monsen (Talia), Tony Slattery (Dispensing Machine), Ricky Glover (Baxter), David Verrey (Big Meat)
Original title: Every Dog…
LogBook entry by Earl Green