Rodney Trotter a supportive partner in Cassandra, whom he met at a computer training course in "Yuppy Love", and married in 1989. Her father Alan employed Rodney at his company, Parry Print Ltd. (at least until Rodney accidentally quit that job), and, with some financial assistance from Del, he was able to buy a flat and finally move out of Nelson Mandela House. Their marriage suffered when Rodney punched Cassandra's boss, and broke his nose, when returning from Margate in "The Jolly Boys' Outing". They split up in the 1990 Christmas special "Rodney Come Home" (having split up three times in the
Cassandra (Red Dwarf) five. Doug Naylor claimed this episode was to play into the fans' beliefs that Rimmer was going to die and come back as a hologram. Mac McDonald appeared as Captain Hollister, Graham McTavish as Governor Ackerman, Geraldine McEwan as Cassandra, Jake Wood as Kill Crazy, Ian Soundy as Guard. In the DVD commentary to this episode, Danny John-Jules claims the name and appearance of Cassandra were homaged in the ""Doctor Who"" episode "The End of the World", as a joke. Cassandra herself is named after the figure from Greek mythology who could see the future and predicted her own death.