Red Dwarf: Thanks For the Memory [1988]

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 20 September 1988
Running Time: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Paul Jackson Productions
Executive Producer: Paul Jackson
Producer: Ed Bye
Production Manager: Mike Agnew
Unit Manager: Kelvin Jones

SCRIPT
Script: Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

DIRECTION
Director: Ed Bye

PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting Director: John Pomphrey
Camera Supervisor: Melvyn Cross
OB Lighting: David Parker, Gordon White
OB Camera: Rocket
Vision Supervisor: Len Greenhalgh

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Vision Mixer: Jill Dornan
Videotape Editor: Ed Wooden

MUSIC
Music: Howard Goodall

SOUND
Sound Supervisor: Tony Worthington

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Designer: Bethan Jones
Costume Designer: Jacki Pinks

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Designer: Peter Wragg

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Paul Montague
Prop Buyer: Mike Fallon
Graphic Designer: Mark Allen

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Team: Helen Campbell, Kate Preston
Technical Co-Ordinator: Andrew Cowley
Assistant Floor Manager: Dona DiStefano
Production Assistant: Ann Zahl

CAST
Craig Charles [Dave Lister]
Chris Barrie [Arnold Rimmer]
Danny John Jules [Cat]
Norman Lovett [Holly]
Sabra Williams [Lise Yates]

The crew celebrate Rimmer's birthday but he embarrasses Lister by admitting that he's only had sex once. The next day the crew wake up to find a jigsaw puzzle has been mysteriously completed, Lister and Cat's feet broken and four days missing from Holly's databanks. Clearly something has gone horribly wrong, but what caused it - aliens, or Rimmer's sexual inadequacy?

The unraveling of the mystery of the missing four days is the highlight of this lightweight but fun episode. It's cleverly handled and the denouement at least makes some sort of sense. The makers of Star Trek: The Next Generation [1987 - 1994] clearly though it was a great idea as they reused it for the episode Clues [1990].

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC

1988
September
20: UK - television broadcast [on BBC2]

2001
August
4: UK - television broadcast [on UK Gold]

BOOKS

Red Dwarf Programme Guide [3rd edition] pp.78-81
review, synopsis

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

spaceships; cryogenics; cats; holograms; computers; memory implants; false memories