Red Dwarf/Season Seven

Season Seven
Red Dwarf
Season Premiere	January 17, 1997
Season Finale	March 7, 1997
Episode Count	8
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Season Seven of Red Dwarf premiered on January 17, 1997.

Season seven sees many significant changes. Rimmer enters training and becomes the next Ace Rimmer, leaving the show (due to scheduling conflicts with actor Chris Barrie). In his place the show gets a new regular: Kristine Kochanski as Lister's ex-girlfriend from a parallel universe.

Kryten develops an intense, effeminate jealousy of Miss Kochanski. He feels that she and Lister will pair off leaving him alone for centuries on end, just like when the crew of the Nova 5 died.

In a bizarre twist we learn that Lister is his own father ... and that Kochanski is his biological mother (via artificial insemination).

Lister loses an arm in the episode Epideme only to have it reconstructed in the next episode, Nanarchy. Nanarchy also sees the return of Holly (as a male) and the reconstruction of Red Dwarf, setting the stage for season eight.

Episodes

#	#	Title			Airdate
37	1	Tikka to Ride			January 17, 1997
38	2	Stoke Me a Clipper			January 24, 1997
39	3	Ouroboros			January 31, 1997
40	4	Duct Soup			February 7, 1997
41	5	Blue			February 14, 1997
42	6	Beyond a Joke			February 21, 1997
43	7	Epideme			February 28, 1997
44	8	Nanarchy			March 7, 1997