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	The remastering of Series I to III was carried out during the late 1990s.<ref name="Remasters of the Universe">{{cite web \| url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck01/dvd_remasters_of_the_universe_221206.html \| title =Remasters of the Universe \| publisher =reddwarf.co.uk \|access-date =28 January 2008}}</ref> Changes throughout the series included replacement of the opening credits,<ref name="Red Dwarf Series I Remastering">{{cite web \| url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_1/remastering.html \| title =Red Dwarf Series I Remastering \| publisher =reddwarf.co.uk \|access-date =30 January 2008}}</ref> giving the picture a colour grade and [[filmising]],<ref name="The End Re-Mastered Commentary">{{cite video \| people =Remastering Crew \| title =The End Re-Mastered DVD Commentary \| medium =DVD \| publisher =BBC \| location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset Red disc \| date =2007 }}</ref> [[Computer-generated imagery\|computer generated]] [[~~special~~ effects]] of ''Red Dwarf''<ref name="Re-Dwarf">{{cite video \| people =Remastering Crew \| title ='Re-Dwarf' Documentary \| medium =DVD \| publisher =BBC \| location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset Red disc \| date =2007 }}</ref> and many more visual and audio enhancements.<ref name="Re-Dwarf"/>		The remastering of Series I to III was carried out during the late 1990s.<ref name="Remasters of the Universe">{{cite web \| url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck01/dvd_remasters_of_the_universe_221206.html \| title =Remasters of the Universe \| publisher =reddwarf.co.uk \|access-date =28 January 2008}}</ref> Changes throughout the series included replacement of the opening credits,<ref name="Red Dwarf Series I Remastering">{{cite web \| url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_1/remastering.html \| title =Red Dwarf Series I Remastering \| publisher =reddwarf.co.uk \|access-date =30 January 2008}}</ref> giving the picture a colour grade and [[filmising]],<ref name="The End Re-Mastered Commentary">{{cite video \| people =Remastering Crew \| title =The End Re-Mastered DVD Commentary \| medium =DVD \| publisher =BBC \| location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset Red disc \| date =2007 }}</ref> [[Computer-generated imagery\|computer generated]] [[visual effects]] of ''Red Dwarf''<ref name="Re-Dwarf">{{cite video \| people =Remastering Crew \| title ='Re-Dwarf' Documentary \| medium =DVD \| publisher =BBC \| location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset Red disc \| date =2007 }}</ref> and many more visual and audio enhancements.<ref name="Re-Dwarf"/>

	Changes made specific to "Thanks for the Memory" include a new opening shot with the new ''Blue Midget'' CGI design has been added, along with the CGI ''Red Dwarf'', to original live-action footage. Scenes of ''Blue Midget'' staggering back to ''Red Dwarf'' have been replaced with new CGI footage. All flashback shots have been given a faded tint and blurred edge. Rimmer's Spanish television joke referring to the quality of the viewscreen monitor has been removed. A [[Felicity Kendal]] reference, has been replaced with [[Marilyn Monroe]], on the basis that it felt dated. It was intended for a [[Jimmy Osmond]] joke to be removed for similar reasons, but this was not done.<ref name="Thanks for the Memory text commentary">{{cite video \| people =Remastering Crew \| title =Thanks for the Memory text commentary \| medium =DVD \| publisher =BBC \| location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset, Blue disc \| date =2007 }}</ref>		Changes made specific to "Thanks for the Memory" include a new opening shot with the new ''Blue Midget'' CGI design has been added, along with the CGI ''Red Dwarf'', to original live-action footage. Scenes of ''Blue Midget'' staggering back to ''Red Dwarf'' have been replaced with new CGI footage. All flashback shots have been given a faded tint and blurred edge. Rimmer's Spanish television joke referring to the quality of the viewscreen monitor has been removed. A [[Felicity Kendal]] reference, has been replaced with [[Marilyn Monroe]], on the basis that it felt dated. It was intended for a [[Jimmy Osmond]] joke to be removed for similar reasons, but this was not done.<ref name="Thanks for the Memory text commentary">{{cite video \| people =Remastering Crew \| title =Thanks for the Memory text commentary \| medium =DVD \| publisher =BBC \| location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset, Blue disc \| date =2007 }}</ref>

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	\| image = Thanks for the Memory (Red Dwarf).jpg		\| image = Thanks for the Memory (Red Dwarf).jpg
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	\| caption = Rimmer looks out into space solemnly from the Observation Dome after learning his memories of Lise Yates were never truly his own		\| caption = Rimmer looks out into space solemnly from the Observation Dome after learning his memories of Lise Yates were never truly his own
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	==External links==		==External links==
	~~{{Wikiquote\|Red_Dwarf#.22Thanks_for_the_Memory.22\|Thanks for the Memory}}~~
	*{{BBC episode\|p00bp2jm\|Thanks for the Memory}}		*{{BBC episode\|p00bp2jm\|Thanks for the Memory}}
	*{{IMDb episode\|0684180\|Thanks for the Memory}}		*{{IMDb episode\|0684180\|Thanks for the Memory}}

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	==Plot==		==Plot==
	~~[[File:Sabra Williams Picture.jpg\|thumb\|right\|[[Sabra Williams]] appeared as Lise Yates in this episode]]~~
	On a Saturday night, while the ''Red Dwarf'' group hold a party for him on the anniversary of his death, [[Arnold Rimmer]] drunkenly confides in [[Dave Lister]] about his time with the ship's female boxing champion, Yvonne McGruder, and how it was the only sexual encounter he ever had. Rimmer admits that, while he opted to put his career over his personal life, he would trade it all in just "to be loved, and to have been in love."<ref name="prog guide p54">Howarth & Lyons (1993) p. 54.</ref> When he, Lister and [[Cat (Red Dwarf)\|Cat]] wake up after the party, they find it to be Thursday rather than Sunday. The group quickly find several odd things – Lister's jigsaw puzzle he had been working on is solved; several pages from Lister's diary are missing; both Lister and Cat have broken a leg each; [[Holly (Red Dwarf)\|Holly]]'s [[star chart]]s he was mapping have been messed with, and the ship's [[flight recorder\|black box]] is missing. To solve the mystery, the group trace the black box by its signal on a barren moon, buried in a shallow grave next to a giant footprint and marked by a headstone that reads "To the memory of the memory of Lise Yates".<ref name="prog guide p55">Howarth & Lyons (1993) p. 55.</ref>		On a Saturday night, while the ''Red Dwarf'' group hold a party for him on the anniversary of his death, [[Arnold Rimmer]] drunkenly confides in [[Dave Lister]] about his time with the ship's female boxing champion, Yvonne McGruder, and how it was the only sexual encounter he ever had. Rimmer admits that, while he opted to put his career over his personal life, he would trade it all in just "to be loved, and to have been in love."<ref name="prog guide p54">Howarth & Lyons (1993) p. 54.</ref> When he, Lister and [[Cat (Red Dwarf)\|Cat]] wake up after the party, they find it to be Thursday rather than Sunday. The group quickly find several odd things – Lister's jigsaw puzzle he had been working on is solved; several pages from Lister's diary are missing; both Lister and Cat have broken a leg each; [[Holly (Red Dwarf)\|Holly]]'s [[star chart]]s he was mapping have been messed with, and the ship's [[flight recorder\|black box]] is missing. To solve the mystery, the group trace the black box by its signal on a barren moon, buried in a shallow grave next to a giant footprint and marked by a headstone that reads "To the memory of the memory of Lise Yates".<ref name="prog guide p55">Howarth & Lyons (1993) p. 55.</ref>

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{{Infobox television episode
| series = [[Red Dwarf]]
| image = Thanks for the Memory (Red Dwarf).jpg
| image_size = 250px
| caption = Rimmer looks out into space solemnly from the Observation Dome after learning his memories of Lise Yates were never truly his own
| series_no = 2
| episode = 3
| director = [[Ed Bye]]
| writer = [[Rob Grant]] & [[Doug Naylor]]
| airdate = {{Start date|1988|09|20|df=yes}}
| guests = [[Sabra Williams]] as Lise Yates
| prev = [[Better Than Life (Red Dwarf episode)|Better Than Life]]
| next = [[Stasis Leak]]
| episode_list = List of Red Dwarf episodes
}}
"'''Thanks for the Memory'''" is the third episode of [[science fiction]] [[sitcom]] ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' series two<ref name="British Sitcom Guide — Red Dwarf — Series 2">{{cite web | url=http://www.sitcom.co.uk/red_dwarf/series2.shtml | title=British Sitcom Guide — Red Dwarf — Series 2 | publisher=sitcom.co.uk |access-date=24 January 2008}}</ref> and the ninth in the series run.<ref name="TV.com — Thanks for the Memory summary">{{cite web | url =http://www.tv.com/red-dwarf/thanks-for-the-memory/episode/10953/summary.html | title =TV.com — Thanks for the Memory summary | publisher =tv.com |access-date =23 January 2008}}</ref> 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. The episode was re-mastered, along with the rest of the first three series, in 1998.

==Plot==
[[File:Sabra Williams Picture.jpg|thumb|right|[[Sabra Williams]] appeared as Lise Yates in this episode]]
On a Saturday night, while the ''Red Dwarf'' group hold a party for him on the anniversary of his death, [[Arnold Rimmer]] drunkenly confides in [[Dave Lister]] about his time with the ship's female boxing champion, Yvonne McGruder, and how it was the only sexual encounter he ever had. Rimmer admits that, while he opted to put his career over his personal life, he would trade it all in just "to be loved, and to have been in love."<ref name="prog guide p54">Howarth & Lyons (1993) p. 54.</ref> When he, Lister and [[Cat (Red Dwarf)|Cat]] wake up after the party, they find it to be Thursday rather than Sunday. The group quickly find several odd things – Lister's jigsaw puzzle he had been working on is solved; several pages from Lister's diary are missing; both Lister and Cat have broken a leg each; [[Holly (Red Dwarf)|Holly]]'s [[star chart]]s he was mapping have been messed with, and the ship's [[flight recorder|black box]] is missing. To solve the mystery, the group trace the black box by its signal on a barren moon, buried in a shallow grave next to a giant footprint and marked by a headstone that reads "To the memory of the memory of Lise Yates".<ref name="prog guide p55">Howarth & Lyons (1993) p. 55.</ref>

Returning to the ship with the black box, the group review its footage and discover what happened over the past few days. After feeling sorry for Rimmer, Lister visited the Hologram Suite intending to give him a present, uploading a memory of his own recounting his eight months with Lise Yates ([[Sabra Williams]]), an old girlfriend, and making it one of Rimmer's. The following morning, Rimmer woke in a jubilant mood but questioned elements of his new memories he now had. His happiness was soon broken when he found Lise's letters to Lister and assumed she was dating them both,<ref name="prog guide p55"/> forcing Lister to reveal what he did. Seeing him distraught and hurt from the truth, despite his best efforts to comfort him, Lister decided the group should erase all traces of the past few days from their memories. After burying the black box with a tombstone Rimmer wanted – the task leading to Lister and Cat breaking their legs in the process and creating the footprint they would find – Lister completed his jigsaw puzzle, removed the pages from his diary, before he and the others went to erase their memories.<ref name="prog guide p56">Howarth & Lyons (1993) p. 56.</ref>

==Production==
A quarry in Wales was used for the location of Rimmer's death-day opening scene for the episode.<ref name="Red Dwarf Series II Sets">{{cite web | url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_2/sets.html | title =Red Dwarf Series II Sets | publisher =reddwarf.co.uk | access-date =7 January 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20061006082614/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_2/sets.html | archive-date =6 October 2006 }}</ref> The live action footage of the scene was merged with model footage of ''Blue Midget'' and ''Red Dwarf'', which was seen in the distant background. During the pre-record filming of the episode, [[Craig Charles]]'s then-wife was giving birth to their son Jack; Craig filmed the scenes where Lister's face was visible as quickly as possible and then rushed away to be at the birth of his son (arriving twenty minutes late). The remainder of location shooting, in which Lister was wearing a space-suit, had production manager Mike Agnew as the double for Lister.<ref name="Programme Guide p9-10">Howarth & Lyons (1993) p. 9-10.</ref> But in fact the plaster cast couldn't fit Agnew's foot as he had bigger feet than Craig Charles – a close look at the episode would reveal that there are several frames in the episode where neither the Cat nor Lister (stood in by Agnew) had casts.<ref name="Agnew's plaster cast">{{cite video | people =Agnew, Mike | title =It's Cold Outside documentary | medium =DVD | publisher =BBC | at =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset disc 1 | date =2007 }}</ref> To film Lister's drunken pilot skills on the flight back to ''Red Dwarf'', wires were used by the model team to give the jerking motion.<ref name="Red Dwarf Series II Effects">{{cite web | url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_2/effects.html | title =Red Dwarf Series II Effects | publisher =reddwarf.co.uk | access-date =7 January 2008 |url-status=dead | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20061006082610/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_2/effects.html | archive-date =6 October 2006 }}</ref> The one guest star was [[Sabra Williams]] who plays Lise Yates.<ref name="Thanks For the Memory cast and crew">{{cite web | url =https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0684180/fullcredits | title =Thanks For the Memory cast and crew | publisher =imdb.com |access-date =24 January 2008}}</ref>

==Similarity to ''Star Trek: The Next Generation''==
In their book ''The Red Dwarf Programme Guide'', [[Chris Howarth]] and [[Steve Lyons (writer)|Steve Lyons]] point out the "uncanny similarities" between the ''Red Dwarf'' episode "Thanks for the Memory" and the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "[[Clues (TNG episode)|Clues]]", which aired on American television nearly two and half years later. Howarth and Lyons note that the American show "has the cast waking up to find that time has passed of which they have no memory. Despite the resistance of their mechanical crew member, they attempt to find out what has happened, but learn that they were better off not knowing. One of them even has a broken limb..."<ref>Chris Howarth & Steve Lyons, ''Red Dwarf Programme Guide: Third Revised Edition'' (Virgin Publishing Limited, 2000), pp. 80–81.</ref>

==Reception==
Originally broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 20 September 1988 in the 9:00 pm evening slot,<ref name="BBC Programme Catalogue RED DWARF — THANKS FOR THE MEMORY">{{cite web | url =http://catalogue.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/NMRE802N |title =BBC Programme Catalogue — RED DWARF — THANKS FOR THE MEMORY | publisher =BBC |access-date =10 December 2007}}</ref> the episode was voted by readers of the ''Red Dwarf Smegazine'' in a 1992 poll as the 19th best episode of the 30 then existing, attracting 1.9% of the vote. This made it the fifth-ranked of Series 2's episodes.<ref name="Red Dwarf Smegazine: Survey Results">Red Dwarf Smegazine: Survey Results, Red Dwarf Smegazine, issue 10, December 1992, Fleetway Editions Ltd, {{ISSN|0965-5603}}</ref> However, director Ed Bye stated in the Series II documentary, "It's Cold Outside", that the episode was a standout of the series.<ref name="Ed Bye favourite">{{cite video | people =Bye, Ed | title =It's Cold Outside documentary | medium =DVD | publisher =BBC | at =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset disc 1 | date =2007 }}</ref>

==Remastering==
{{See also|Red Dwarf remastered}}

The remastering of Series I to III was carried out during the late 1990s.<ref name="Remasters of the Universe">{{cite web | url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck01/dvd_remasters_of_the_universe_221206.html | title =Remasters of the Universe | publisher =reddwarf.co.uk |access-date =28 January 2008}}</ref> Changes throughout the series included replacement of the opening credits,<ref name="Red Dwarf Series I Remastering">{{cite web | url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_1/remastering.html | title =Red Dwarf Series I Remastering | publisher =reddwarf.co.uk |access-date =30 January 2008}}</ref> giving the picture a colour grade and [[filmising]],<ref name="The End Re-Mastered Commentary">{{cite video | people =Remastering Crew | title =The End Re-Mastered DVD Commentary | medium =DVD | publisher =BBC | location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset Red disc | date =2007 }}</ref> [[Computer-generated imagery|computer generated]] [[special effects]] of ''Red Dwarf''<ref name="Re-Dwarf">{{cite video | people =Remastering Crew | title ='Re-Dwarf' Documentary | medium =DVD | publisher =BBC | location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset Red disc | date =2007 }}</ref> and many more visual and audio enhancements.<ref name="Re-Dwarf"/>

Changes made specific to "Thanks for the Memory" include a new opening shot with the new ''Blue Midget'' CGI design has been added, along with the CGI ''Red Dwarf'', to original live-action footage. Scenes of ''Blue Midget'' staggering back to ''Red Dwarf'' have been replaced with new CGI footage. All flashback shots have been given a faded tint and blurred edge. Rimmer's Spanish television joke referring to the quality of the viewscreen monitor has been removed. A [[Felicity Kendal]] reference, has been replaced with [[Marilyn Monroe]], on the basis that it felt dated. It was intended for a [[Jimmy Osmond]] joke to be removed for similar reasons, but this was not done.<ref name="Thanks for the Memory text commentary">{{cite video | people =Remastering Crew | title =Thanks for the Memory text commentary | medium =DVD | publisher =BBC | location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset, Blue disc | date =2007 }}</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
{{cite book |last=Howarth |first=Chris |author2=Steve Lyons |title=Red Dwarf Programme Guide |year=1993 |publisher=Virgin Books |isbn=0-86369-682-1 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/reddwarfprogramm0000howa }}

==External links==
{{Wikiquote|Red_Dwarf#.22Thanks_for_the_Memory.22|Thanks for the Memory}}
*{{BBC episode|p00bp2jm|Thanks for the Memory}}
*{{IMDb episode|0684180|Thanks for the Memory}}
*[http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/guide/index.cfm?sectionID=behind-the-scenes&seriesID=2 Episode Guide - Series II at RedDwarf.co.uk]

{{Red Dwarf episodes}}

[[Category:Red Dwarf II episodes]]
[[Category:1988 British television episodes]]