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Best episode

“Mechocracy” (12.04): the machine revolution, Red Dwarf-style, complete with bonkers election campaign, Lister getting promoted and demoted, and Rimmer’s Yellow Alert love-fest.

Best image

The mechanoid versions of Cat, Rimmer and Lister in “Siliconia” (12.02) – even if Craig Charles does look a bit like a turtle that’s withdrawing into its shell.

Best guest star

Ryan (The Hobbit) Gage’s camp-as-Butlins faux-Hitler accompanying Lister on guitar for “The Happy Wanderer” in “Cured” (12.01) will never leave your mind.

trivia

Filming in mechanoid masks for “Siliconia” was hard on the cast: Chris Barrie was so ill he had to go to bed for three days, while Craig Charles says the sweat was “coming out of my eyelids”.

Best moment

Rimmer and the dry-asever Holly putting a new spin on the “They’re all dead, Dave” gag from the very first episode in “Skipper” (12.06).