Reception
The episode was originally broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 4 October 1988 in the 9:00 pm evening slot. Norman Lovett, who played Holly, stated, in the Series II documentary "It's Cold Outside", that the episode was one of his favourites. It also came 9th place in a Red Dwarf Smegazine readers' poll with 4.4% of the overall votes.
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“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
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