Thanks for the Memory

"Thanks for the Memory" is the third episode of science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf series two and the ninth in the series run. It premiered on BBC2 on 20 September 1988. Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, and directed by Ed Bye, the episode has the Red Dwarf crew investigating how, and why, they lost four days from their memory. There was some controversy for sharing similar plot to a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode that aired a couple of... more

"Thanks for the Memory" is the third episode of science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf series two and the ninth in the series run. It premiered on BBC2 on 20 September 1988. Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, and directed by Ed Bye, the episode has the Red Dwarf crew investigating how, and why, they lost four days from their memory. There was some controversy for sharing similar plot to a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode that aired a couple of years later. The episode was re-mastered, along with the rest of the first three series, in 1998. It is Saturday night and Rimmer's (Chris Barrie) death-day, and a party is arranged for him on a planetoid they encountered with a breathable atmosphere. Back on Red Dwarf, Rimmer drunkenly confides to Lister (Craig Charles) about his one single solitary sexual encounter with Yvonne McGruder, the ship's female boxing champion, and tells Lister that, although it's entirely his own fault for deciding to put his career over his personal life: "I... less