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Dispensing Machine is a fictional character portrayed by Tony Hawks in the TV series Red Dwarf.
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Future Echoes (season 1), they were 27 years old.
They appear in 8 episodes out of a total of 73 aired

Dispensing Machine

by Tony Hawks

character

Episodes8

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    Future Echoes
    episode S1.E2 february 1988
    Holly navigates Red Dwarf during light speed. But when Red Dwarf goes through light speed 24-hours early, the crew witnesses strange events and they find they are witnessing "Future Echoes" images of events that will happen in the future.
  • 7.6
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    Balance of Power
    episode S1.E3 february 1988
    Lister wants to go on a date with the hologram of navigation officer Kristine Kochanski, much to Rimmer's disapproval. Lister decides to do a cooking exam so he can outrank Rimmer. But Rimmer has a cunning plan.
  • 7.5
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    Waiting for God
    episode S1.E4 march 1988
    Lister learns he is the mythical god of Cat's people known as "Cloister the stupid" and Red Dwarf stumbles upon a Red Dwarf garbage capsule and Rimmer thinks it's a stasis capsule carrying a dormant alien woman.
  • 8
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    Me²
    episode S1.E6 march 1988
    Rimmer moves into his new sleeping quarters with his holographic duplicate. Lister watches Rimmer's video containing footage of Rimmer's death, the two Rimmers start getting into a fight and Lister decides one of them has to be switched off.
  • 8.4
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    Better Than Life
    episode S2.E2 september 1988
    A post pod carrying a 3 million year old bag of mail arrives and Rimmer becomes depressed when he learns his father is dead. The crew play an artificial game called "Better than life" which makes the players' wishes come true, but Rimmer's brain begins to rebel.
  • 8.1
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    Stasis Leak
    episode S2.E4 september 1988
    Rimmer, Lister and Cat find a time barrier called "Stasis Leak" on Floor 16 and it takes them back in time on Red Dwarf 3 million years earlier. Rimmer and Lister try to change the past, which puts either Rimmer or Kochanski into suspended animation so one of them doesn't die in the radioactive disaster.
  • 8.5
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    Backwards
    episode S3.E1 november 1989
    As Rimmer is taking Kryten for a driving lesson in Starbug they find themselves being whisked away through a time hole and end up on Earth, where time is running backwards.
  • 8
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    Meltdown
    episode S4.E6 march 1991
    When Kryten finds a matter paddle on the Red Dwarf, the crew decide to test it out and end up on Waxworld, an enormous waxdroid theme park where waxdroids modelled after history's most famous heroes and villains are at war with each other.