This is going to be SO obscure, and forgive me. And yes. I am probably the biggest TV nerd ever.
I don't think the people working in TV is really that clever, so this is really just one of those (wonderful? amazing?) esoteric co-incidences that sometimes happens and pops up while a big chunk of my days are spent pouring of TV schedules of a multitude of channels, looking for clues, building puzzles and putting disparate information together.
So here's a cool thing. BBC America - a channel we don't get in South Africa - shows an episode a day of Star Trek The Next Generation (don't even ask why I check that channel's daily schedule, I just do. Along with many, many others).
Today's episode happens to be the ST:TNG episode entitled ''Remember Me'' in which dr Beverly Crusher gets a visit from her dear friend and mentor, dr Dalen Quaice, who as the episode progress, disappears and only she seems to remember.
Here's the kicker, and part of the crazy ever-present TV arcana in my head: The prolific actor Bill Erwin who was in The Waltons and appeared in this one episode of ST:TNG as dr Galen Quaice just died; aged 96. How remarkable then that an episode goes out today in which Bill Erwin appears, that's not planned as a tribute (and yet is) and above all has such a fitting episode title such as ''Remember Me''. Bill Erwin is indeed remembered.
