Best worst Red Dwarf viewing order

[Warbodog]

A good game that rewards bad Red Dwarf viewing, as compensation for those people never really being able to grasp this extremely serialised show.

Score 1 point per episode number of the first episode you saw in each respective series (1-8 points).

Score an extra series bonus point for the number of the series you saw first (1-13).

Unseen bonus points of 2 points per episode you never watched, to reward stubbornness/principles, however misguided.

(The Promised Land counts as a series (officially) and an episode 1 of 1).

Me:

Waiting for God 4

Kryten 1

Timeslides 5

Justice 3

Quarantine 4

Legion 2

All disappointing 1s from there

Series bonus: 4

Total: 26

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[tombow]

I’ve said it before but Out of Time was the first episode I saw as a kid (must have been on its premiere broadcast). It really disturbed me. Then somehow I saw Queeg, Marooned and then the rest of the series from Polymorph on. I read the novels but I didn’t see the first 2 series until the remastered videos.

[Warbodog]

I read the first two books before I saw the episodes  they adapted. But I had seen plenty of other Red Dwarf, I don’t get to be that cool.

[Rushy]

I’m extremely boring and just watched the entire show in order. Then read the books in order. 

[Warbodog]

Yeah, this is unapologetically biased in favour of being old, poor (not having satellite TV/videos) and/or stupid (not realising you can rent videos; missing your bonus points from your total score).

[Technopeasant]

I honestly can’t remember what I first watched when I was six. I can say I saw V and II last of the bubble, but otherwise…

[clem]

The first episode I ever saw was Parallel Universe, repeated on BBC2 in 1994. I continued watching the rest of that run, with changed episode orders for IV and V and Psirens missed out. I’m pretty certain that when I eventually saw Series 1 I saw The End first, and everything after the bubble I saw on original broadcast.

So 1+6+1+5+6+2+1+1+1+1+1+1+1 = 28

Plus a Series Bonus of 2 even though I only saw the last episode before moving on to III, and of course I’ve seen every episode, so no Unseen Bonus.

Final score: 30

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