The crew find Dallas deserted. Wandering the streets, they find a man who has been trampled to death, indicating people left in a hurry. Reading a nearby newspaper, Kryten finds out what has happened President Kennedy was impeached in 1. Mafia boss, Sam Giancana. It was the biggest scandal in American history. Kennedy was sentenced to three years in an open prison in July, 6. J. Edgar Hoover became president he was forced to run by the mob, who had pictures of him at a transvestite orgy. Soon after his election, the USSR were allowed to install a nuclear base in Cuba in return for Mafia cocaine trafficking between Cuba and the States. With a Soviet nuclear base 3. US mainland, people fled from all the major cities. The crew attempt to correct the situation by returning to the day of the shooting and driving Oswald to a higher floor in the building, but this plan still fails to lead to Kennedys death by sending Oswald up another floor, they made the shots trajectory so steep that Kennedy was merely wounded. Lister suggests getting a second gunman to shoot from behind a nearby grassy knoll. With none of the crew willing to shoot the President themselves, Lister travels to Idlewild Airport in 1. Kennedy to travel back to 1. The plan works Kennedy shoots his past self and the timeline is restored. Kennedy grimly thanks the gang for the chance to restore himself to his proper place in history, and fades away as a result of the resetting timeline. Lister, too late, realises he forgot to ask Kennedy for the name of a good Indian take away. Having seen that Lister has learned absolutely nothing from the experience, the other members of the crew give him a well deserved beating in return for all hes put them through. Extended EditionAlternate EndingeditShown as an option on the Series 7 DVD, the Extended Edition of Tikka To Ride continues after Cat, Rimmer and Kryten take out their frustrations on Lister. After managing to correctly use the time drive and steal the Indian food supplies from Starbug before the events of the episode began thus showing an example of a predestination paradox and allowing Lister to re stock on curry, papadums and lager, the crew end up storing the food in one of Starbugs cargo holds ostensibly the same cargo hold it was stolen from in the first place B deck. Rimmer leaves with Kryten in tow but remarks as he does I mustve passed this thing a million times. What the hells it for in regards to a lever by the door. It doesnt take long for Lister to give into the curiosity planted by Rimmer and pull the lever. The lever, in fact, activates the separation sequence for Starbug, jettisoning the rear section of the ship into space while allowing the front half to fly away an ace Rimmer had had up his sleeve for months. Lister notes that hes stranded alone in deep space with nothing but three and a half tons of curry, and couldnt be happier before eagerly digging into the crates. ProductioneditEven though the previous series had ended on a cliffhanger, fans had been forced to wait three years for the resolution. This was due to a number of factors, which included Craig Charles being imprisoned before being cleared of a charge of rape,2Chris Barrie making no secret of his desire to leave the show,3 and most notably Rob Grant deciding to leave the series, ending his and Doug Naylors long standing writing partnership. Naylor was left with the choice of either ending or continuing the series. Although tempted to end it, he later agreed to write two more eight episode series of the show, as this would allow the episode count to reach 5. Tikka To Ride ushered in new production values. The cinematic quality and filming of the new episodes meant that the studio audience was no longer viable however the show was shown to an audience at a later date and their laughter was added. Also the special effects were increasing every series and the majority of the episodes were pre recorded. One of Naylors desires for a seventh series was the prospect of international syndication and a movie. This vision was helped with the return of Ed Bye to the directors chair, having previously left due to a scheduling clash with directing his wife Ruby Waxs new TV show at the time. He agreed to return to helm the seventh series, his first Red Dwarf episode since Series IVs Meltdown. The arrival of the seventh series was also promoted by the show making its first appearance of the front cover of the Radio Times. Guest stars included Michael J. Shannon who played John F. Kennedy, Toby Aspin as Lee Harvey Oswald, Peter Gaitens as FBI Agent and Robert Ashe as Cop. The deserted Dallas scenes were filmed at Farnborough Airport. The expanded Starbug cargo deck scenes were filmed inside the former Royal Aircraft Establishment wind tunnels at Farnborough. The motorcade scenes were filmed at the Chobham test track, with additional crowd shots filmed around buildings at Shepperton Studios. Cultural and historical referenceseditThe title of this episode is a piece of word play based on the name of the song Ticket to Ride by the Beatles, in accordance with the theme of curry on which the storyline focuses, tikka being an Indian spice marinade. The Seventh Dwarf Movie Dvd Quality