High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Back to Reality" is the sixth, and final, episode of science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf Series V and the 30th in the series run. It was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 26 March 1992, written by Rob Grant & Doug Naylor and directed by Juliet May & Grant Naylor. The episode often tops polls or surveys as the best in the series runs. The plot features the crew waking up from a crash to discover that the last four years of their lives has been spent in a `Red Dwarf Total Immersion Video Game`.