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{{Infobox television episode
| series = [[Red Dwarf]]
| image =
| caption =
| series_no = 7
| episode = 8
| director = Ed Bye
| writer = Paul Alexander, James Hendrie and Doug Naylor
| airdate = {{Start date|1997|03|07|df=yes}}
| guests =
| prev = [[Epideme]]
| next = [[Back in the Red]]
| episode_list = List of Red Dwarf episodes
}}

"'''Nanarchy'''" is the eighth, and final, episode of [[science fiction]] [[sitcom]] ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' Series VII and the 44th in the series run. It was first broadcast on the British television channel [[BBC Two|BBC2]] on 7 March 1997.<ref name="BBC - Programme Catalogue - RED DWARF VI - NANARCHY">{{cite web | url =http://catalogue.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/NMYJ418F | title =BBC - Programme Catalogue - RED DWARF VI - NANARCHY | publisher =BBC |access-date =12 December 2007}}</ref> The episode was written by Paul Alexander, James Hendrie and [[Doug Naylor]], and directed by [[Ed Bye]]. After two series of tracking their ship, the crew of Starbug finally discover the location of their missing mining ship ''Red Dwarf'' and its computer [[Holly (Red Dwarf)|Holly]].

== Plot ==
[[Dave Lister|Lister]] ([[Craig Charles]]) is finding it very difficult to get used to life with [[Epideme|only one arm]], but seems to enjoy [[Kryten]] ([[Robert Llewellyn]]) nursing him, and Kryten is absolutely loving it. [[Kristine Kochanski|Kochanski]] ([[Chloë Annett]]) is fed up with seeing Kryten doing things for him that he could easily do with one arm. Tests with a prototype prosthetic arm are unsuccessful, with its two settings resulting either in Lister having to exert great effort to move it or in Lister repeatedly punching Kryten in the head due to subconscious anger. Kryten comes up with a solution - [[nanobots]] from Kryten's self-repair system could conceivably rebuild an arm for Lister. The problem is, Kryten hasn't seen his nanobots since [[Back to Reality (Red Dwarf)|the attack on the crew]] by the [[Red Dwarf characters#Despair Squid|Despair Squid]] hundreds of years earlier, right before they lost ''Red Dwarf''. They therefore decide to retrace their steps all the way back to the ocean planet where they met the Despair Squid and have to go into [[List of Red Dwarf concepts#Stasis and Deep Sleep|Deep Sleep]] for the very long journey.

When they emerge from Deep Sleep near their destination they are surprised to discover a planet which the Navicomp identifies as ''Red Dwarf''. Down on the desert surface they find items from ''Red Dwarf'' including the original [[Holly (Red Dwarf)|Holly]] ([[Norman Lovett]]) who explains that the nanobots restored his core program and then mutinied: they deconstructed ''Red Dwarf'', creating their own miniature version of the ship and turned the rest into a planet for safekeeping, converting the ship's many computerised systems into sand. The crew now realise that it was the nano version of ''Red Dwarf'' that they were chasing all along – the nanobots ended up evading them by coming aboard ''Starbug'' and travelling around their own galaxy inside Lister's clothes hamper and that all along Red Dwarf had been with them.

Kryten captures the nanobots in a glass jar and tortures them by tapping the side with a pencil. He tells them to construct a new arm for Lister and to reconstruct ''Red Dwarf'' out of the sands of the planet below. The nanobots follow Kryten's orders but, perhaps feeling guilty for all the trouble they have caused or fearful of Kryten's wrath, they seemingly overcompensate by giving Lister an upgrade - giving him the body of a muscular bodybuilder. Also, as ''Starbug'' flies into the reconstructed ''Red Dwarf'' landing bay, something feels odd: it seems awfully, awfully big. In the last shot ''Starbug'' flies in like a buzzing fly against a [[Back in the Red|massively enlarged ship]].

== Production ==
The series finale proved to be one of the most problematic scripts. James Hendrie was not available to do any rewrites to the script, so Alexander was asked to do one of his own, before Naylor did a final polish. It is the only episode to date with three credited writers.<ref name="Red Dwarf Series VII Writing">{{cite web | url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_7/writing.html | title =Red Dwarf Series VII Writing | publisher =Red Dwarf.co.uk |access-date =17 December 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071022124350/http://reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_7/writing.html  |archive-date = 22 October 2007}}</ref>

This is the first time since 1988's "[[Parallel Universe (Red Dwarf)|Parallel Universe]]" that Norman Lovett has appeared as Holly, the ship's computer. In between, the character – played by [[Hattie Hayridge]] – was last seen in Series V's "[[Back to Reality (Red Dwarf)|Back to Reality]]".

==Reception==
Viewing figures had reached over 8 million viewers, and the series also gained a Sunday night repeat. These were the highest ratings garnered so far.<ref name="Red Dwarf Series VII Aftermath">{{cite web | url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_7/aftermath.html | title =Red Dwarf Series VII Aftermath | publisher =Red Dwarf.co.uk |access-date =17 December 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071022123639/http://reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_7/aftermath.html  |archive-date = 22 October 2007}}</ref>

Most reviewers noted the return of Norman Lovett as Holly,<ref name="dvda"/><ref name="scifi"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art40890.asp |title=DVD Review--"Red Dwarf Series VII" |publisher=www.bellaonline.com |access-date=2014-03-05}}</ref> although DVDActive disliked the episode's "mercilessly slow first scene".<ref name="dvda">{{cite web |url=http://www.dvdactive.com/reviews/dvd/red-dwarf-vii.html |title=Red Dwarf VII (UK - DVD R2) |publisher=www.dvdactive.com |access-date=2014-03-05}}</ref> Sci-Fi Online thought that Chloë Annett "had evidently settled into role ... and delivers some funny lines."<ref name="scifi">{{cite web |url=http://www.sci-fi-online.com/reviews/dvd/05-11-07_RedDwarf7.htm |title=DVD Red Dwarf Series 7 |publisher=www.sci-fi-online.com |access-date=2014-03-05}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Wikiquote|Red Dwarf#Nanarchy|Nanarchy}}
* {{BBC episode|p00bplz6}}
* {{IMDb episode|0684166}}
* [http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/guide/index.cfm?seriesID=7 Series VII episode guide at www.reddwarf.co.uk]

{{Red Dwarf episodes}}

[[Category:Red Dwarf VII episodes]]
[[Category:1997 British television episodes]]

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