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Waiting for god - The complete series
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While there is certainly much of a sense of humour to recognize and celebrate
in this sort of material, I do want to make a note that I find some of it a bit unpleasant
and unneccessary to display - I'm referring for example to Season 3 Episode 4
titled "Harvey's fiancee" In this particular episode for example, a women of the greatest
Germanic beauty and spirit and intelligence - the best of what is British I believe is
assaulted with a pie in the face by the witch like persona of the woman playing "Jane"
who also calls her some horribly nasty names simply because she knows that its competition she
cannot keep up with due to her obviously grossly inferior spirit and countenance among other things
I suspect. I never want to see one of our best gals treated this way, even if its in some display of
sick humour as the wrong mentalities are appealed to I believe and its something we
should want to see out of our world instead.
Enjoy the sarcastic wit and humour of a couple in late stage of life doing their best
to get along and be nice to everyone whenever they can. I do enjoy the show myself
at times and I hope you will too as we just cant get enough of British programming
around the planet for my liking.
Speaking of which we will soon have both season 1 and 2 of the British Series "Indian Summers"
(from Masterpiece theater on PBS here) along with a Special Edition of Yes Minister
from the UK at high resolution and much higher bitrate than we have posted here
for the present time, along with a superior quality version of Yes Prime Minister too
and we also have the 40th anniversary special edition of Upstairs Downstairs coming
to you at a nicer bitrate so as to offer a superior picture to what we have had before
posted for you over the year from when we first started with this kind of British programming
offerings for you to enjoy and cherish.
thanks for your patience and for your seeding support - we have much more material
including great movies in bluray disc converted H.256 offerings.
Michael Rizzo Chessman
britishcanada.org founder - moviesbyrizzo .
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Episode Listings: (Waiting for God - Complete Series)
S1, Ep1
28 Jun. 1990
Welcome to Bayview
Tom Ballard is put in Bayview retirement home by
drunken daughter Marion and her weak husband Geoffrey.
Many of the residents are very passive but not
retired journalist Diana Trent,whose mission in life
is to annoy 'the idiot Baines' - Harvey Baines,the
home's manager. Initially she thinks Tom is rather
dotty but when he tries to organize the residents
into action against the home's poor food she knows
she has found an ally.
A Trip to Brighton
S1, Ep2
5 Jul. 1990
A Trip to Brighton
Diana rows with chief carer Jane for calling her a
senior citizen and Tom does his best to ignore Marion
and Geoffrey. Diana's niece Sarah has left her
Porsche at the home so Diana drives Tom to Brighton
in it. Harvey Baines reports it missing and the
couple are stopped by the police but explain that
Diana has her niece's permission to use it and Harvey
is threatened with arrest for wasting police time.
Cheering Up Tom
S1, Ep3
12 Jul. 1990
Cheering Up Tom
Tom really thinks that he won't have to wait for God
much longer when he says he is dying and is rushed
to hospital. He is discovered to have had a heart
attack but he becomes very depressed and talks about
suicide, writing 'die on Thursday' in his diary.
In order to talk him out of what she believes to be
his plan to end it all Diana threatens to join him.
The Christening
S1, Ep4
19 Jul. 1990
The Christening
Tom is going to the christening of his nephew and
wants Diana to accompany him but she is not keen
because her arthritis is playing her up. Because
she failed to declare it on her application form
Baines tries to get her evicted from the home.
Tom doctors a 'naughty' photo of Baines to blackmail
him into changing his mind but Diana uses her old
press contacts to 'persuade' the committee to let
her stay.
S1, Ep5
26 Jul. 1990
Fraulein Mueller
Jane wants to become a nun so Baines sacks her and
brings in stern German matron Greta Mueller,who is
a tyrant and tells Sarah where Diana hid the Porsche.
Tom cons Baines into making him the head of the
Residents' Association and gets up a petition,which
Baines thinks is to get rid of Diana,so he signs it.
Actually it's to get rid of Greta,so he is forced to
fire her and reinstate Jane.
The Psychiatrist
S1, Ep6
2 Aug. 1990
The Psychiatrist
Baines decides that if Diana and Tom are seen to be
mentally incompetent it will give him power of
attorney over them and end all his troubles,
particularly as the home is in financial difficulties.
So he refers them to psychiatrist Dr.Darrow,for whom
they act out a well-rehearsed pantomine of odd
behaviour, leading the doctor to conclude that they are not mad,just a touch eccentric,with unexpected help coming from Sarah.
The Helicopter
S1, Ep7
9 Aug. 1990
The Helicopter
With upcoming by-elections Councillor Ferguson is
courting the grey vote and comes to the home. At the
same time Diana,once a photo-journalist,takes
Tom up in a helicopter to take aerial shots of local
houses to sell to their owners. Among her shots is
one of Ferguson and the Swedish nanny being very
naughty on the lawn. This comes in very handy at
scuppering Ferguson's plan to support a Japanese
spare parts factory being built next to Bayview.
S2, Ep1
5 Sep. 1991
Counselling for the Dying
Following the death,alone, of a resident,Tom puts
himself forward as a counsellor to aid and comfort
the terminally ill. A new female resident arrives
and has afternoon delight with old Basil. Some time
later Basil seems to be dying and Tom rushers to
counsel him but he is merely suffering from exertion
after sex with the lady. However the lady dies and
Tom organizes a splendid send-off for her.
S2, Ep2
12 Sep. 1991
The Partition
Tom is depressed because he is missing his late wife
but Marion and Geoffrey are not keen to have him home
on respite. He turns his attentions to Diana and
suggests that they shack up together, a proposition
that offends her so much that she has a partition
built between their two rooms. Her mood is not helped
by the arrival of new resident Daisy,who has a strong
personality like herself and with whom she soon
clashes,though Tom gets on well with her.
S2, Ep3
19 Sep. 1991
Daisy Takes Charge
Baines threatens Diana with expulsion unless she
removes the partition but they both have more
pressing matters to consider as Daisy becomes
completely domineering,taking over the home with
her ideas and threatening to get current staff
sacked. Finally Tom organizes a revolt against her,
causing her to leave . . . and Diana to remove the
partition.
S2, Ep4
26 Sep. 1991
The Thief
Resident Betty claims that her sewing basket has
gone missing and Tom and Diana decide to investigate.
Not fully believing Betty's story they follow her and
Tom intervenes when they see her apparently
shop-lifting. Tom is arrested and conducts his own
court case,being found Not guilty of theft but guilty
of contempt of court. Later Diana recalls that she
had the sewing basket all along,having borrowed it
from Betty and forgetting she still had it.
S2, Ep5
3 Oct. 1991
Tell the Truth
Tom 's belief that one should always tell the truth
offends Jane,who has made herself look glamorous to
appeal to Baines and Tom says she looks hideous.
He also upsets Marion by telling her what he thinks
of her,leading to a big row. Sarah introduces her
boy-friend Sam,who is looking for investors for his
proposed beauty salon franchise but Diana and Tom
suspect he is a con-man and Tom - to make his peace
with Marion - 'persuades' Sam to let his daughter
run her own beauty salon for free.
The Hip Operation
S2, Ep6
10 Oct. 1991
The Hip Operation
Diana falls and breaks her hip whilst throwing a
brick at the home's incompetent South American
gardener. She is taken to hospital where she rows
with the Welsh doctor over a hip replacement
operation and Sarah,about to marry Sam,comes to visit.
Sarah knows that Diana dislikes Sam and wonders if
she will try to stop the wedding..or even attend.
In the end Diana turns up for her niece's big day,
using a Zimmer frame. Marion,meanwhile,is not making
a success of the beauty shop and Tom suggests Sam
take back the franchise.
S2, Ep7
17 Oct. 1991
Glamorous Grannies
Tom has a bet with Diana that she can't be nice to
people for a work. Such untypical actions only lead
to confusion. Baines wants to organize a glamorous
grandmother contest for the old ladies in the home,
the prize being a cruise for two. Since Basil wants
to marry Betty,Tom approaches his son-in-law Geoffrey,
whose firm are sponsoring the contest to let Betty
win, but when Betty gets cold feet and refuses to
enter,Diana,having made sure a journalist friend is
present to expose any 'fixing' the contest,replaces
her and wins. She lets Betty and Basil have the prize.
S2, Ep8
24 Oct. 1991
Foreign Workers
In order to cut costs Baines decides to employ
illegal immigrant workers at Bayview. To Diana one
incompetent foreigner,the gardener,is enough and,
after the residents have staged a protest,order is
restored. Tom has been overdoing physical exercise
in his efforts to get as fit as Linford Christie
and his collapse leads Diana to persuade him to slow
down.
S2, Ep9
31 Oct. 1991
Young People
A group of students comes to Bayview and Baines
bribes Bob, one of them, into being seen in a
compromising situation with Diana. This will enable
him,under an old church covenant from the 1600s
which was bestowed upon the home,to have her thrown
out for immoral actions. As it happens Bob much
prefers Marion and goes off with her instead.
S2, Ep10
7 Nov. 1991
The Boring Son
In addition to her alcoholism Marion's fling with
Bob becomes the last straw for Geoffrey,who finally
decides to leave her. But where can he go? Answer,
move in with his father at Bayview but Geoffrey is
so boring that before long Diana and Tom are planning
to get him back with Marion.
S3, Ep1
10 Sep. 1992
The Funeral
Depressed vicar Dennis Sparrow is conducting the
funeral of ex-Bayview resident Jimmy but is making
heavy weather of the eulogy and later he tells Tom
and Diana that he is losing his faith. Geoffrey is
back with Marion but their life is far from being a
bed of roses and it's suggested Dennis tries to help
them sort out their marriage. Not long afterwards
Geoffrey announces that Marion and the vicar are now
living together in Wales. Baines,meanwhile,is looking
for a wife - a plan which involves Jane,though,sadly
for her,not as a possible candidate but as a helper.
S3, Ep2
17 Sep. 1992
Two Nasty Children
Blaming Tom for introducing Marion to Dennis Sparrow,
Geoffrey asks him to baby-sit his two children Skye
and Tarquin, but they are little monsters who run
rings round them. Fortunately Diana is on hand to
put them in their place. Baines decides to try
computer dating to find his wife but Jane decides to
put her oar in.
S3, Ep3
24 Sep. 1992
Looking for Work
It's April and yet it's still very cold so the
residents do not appreciate it when Baines turns
off the central heating and suggest the residents
go jogging to keep warm. Tom and Diana decide to
get jobs to get out of the icy-cold home. Tom gets
a job working with Geoffrey but he is such a pain
that ,in order to get rid of him, Geoffrey pays
Baines to put the heating back on.
S3, Ep4
1 Oct. 1992
Harvey's Fiancee
Baines meets a girl-friend, Lucy Maitland,at the
hunt ball. His mother is coming to visit before
going to stay with his sister so Jane poses as Lucy
Maitland to put Mother off Harvey's new fiancee
whilst Tom and Diana ham it up mercilessly
pretending to be Baines' parents talking to Lucy.
The result is that Lucy does not stay around and
Jane has got her Baines back all to herself.
S3, Ep5
8 Oct. 1992
The Estate Agent
After she has been accused of selfishness Diana goes
to work as a volunteer at a charity for elderly
people and takes up the cause of an old lady about
to be evicted by unscrupulous estate agent Janet
Follett. Diana learns that Ms. Follett is Baines'
new girl-friend and she has plans for Bayview which
will not go down well with the residents. With a
little help from Tom and her media background Diana
sets out to expose Ms. Follett.
S3, Ep6
15 Oct. 1992
Scandal
Resident Dave Cartwright has died and at the wake
the drink flows freely amongst the inhabitants of
Bayview. Tom and Diana certainly have knocked it
back and next morning wake up in bed together.
Jane is shocked but Tom suddenly becomes very
popular with the ladies in the home's bowling team.
S3, Ep7
22 Oct. 1992
Sabotage
Whilst Baines is ecstatic about his new car Tom and
Diana plan a little holiday and start a vacation fund.
Unfortunately Geoffrey decides to invest the money in
the new intensive care wing that Baines is having
built for Bayview. When Tom finds out he and Basil
show how creative they can be when somebody
conveniently leaves a bulldozer lying around and
the holiday is on.
S3, Ep8
29 Oct. 1992
Politics
Diana decides that she would like to enter politics
and stands as an independent candidate for the
Residents' Party. Baines has been asked to stand for
the Tories so Tom decides he will have some fun and
join in the race too. Diana is forced to stand down
when Baines threatens to sack care worker Jenny but
Diana makes sure that this is used against him too
and his political career is a non-starter.
S3, Ep9
5 Nov. 1992
Sleeping Pills
Diana collapses and is rushed to hospital where
Baines tries,unsuccessfully to cop off with the
lady doctor. Diana,wrongly,gets it into her head
that she is dying of cancer and asks Tom to get
her some sleeping pills so that she can end it all quickly. For Tom,however,there are limits as to what he will do for his best friend.
S3, Ep10
12 Nov. 1992
Great Aunt Diana
The residents are getting wet waiting for a bus but
when it arrives the driver claims that they cannot
get on for free for another four minutes as they are
too early,so Diana hauls him off the bus and Tom
hi-jacks it on behalf of the residents. Later this
will come in handy when a very pregnant Sarah arrives,
seeking Diana's reluctant help to deliver her baby.
Ultimately a girl arrives,unsurprisingly Sarah calls
her Diana.
S3, Ep11
23 Dec. 1992
Christmas at Bayview
It's Christmas and unsurprisingly Diana is not in
the Christmassy mood. She's already told off a very
young Santa to whom she took her great-niece and
she's not bothered that there will be no
entertainment, thanks to Baines fiddling the funds
to get a new jacket. When Tom takes over as the
house pianist, ear-plugs are the order of the day
for her. Her dire warnings seem to come true after
Tom has invited Sally and Dave, a young homeless
couple he met in town, to spend the holiday at
Bayview and they run off with some of the residents'
Christmas presents. However, ...
S4, Ep1
9 Sep. 1993
Financial Difficulties
Diana is horrified to find that she is unaccountably
in the red and goes up to London to cause a fuss,only
to discover that all her investments have gone into
receivership. Back in Bayview Tom's room is suffering
from severe rising damp so Tom comes up with a
solution that will sort things out for them both.
They will live together in one large room. Diana
accepts this but draws the line at being carried
over the threshold.
S4, Ep2
16 Sep. 1993
Living Together
To Jane's disapproval Diana and Tom are now living
in sin,or rather together,but already they start
arguing,since they can't decide whose furniture they
should be using. A new resident, Mrs. Kent from
Gwent,arrives. She is withdrawn and nervous so Tom
and Diana put on an act of being very happy together
in order to bring her out of her shell. As it happens
they do get a result - but only when she sees what
they are really like.
S4, Ep3
23 Sep. 1993
Living in Miserable Sin
Living together is not the bed of roses that Tom
and Diana were expecting. He criticizes her
sloppiness and her funny little ways,such as
feeding acorns to squirrels with a sling-shot.
She decides to move out and goes to stay with
Sarah to be a nanny to baby Diana but this is not
her forte. Tom misses her,especially when Geoffrey
decides to move in with him again.
S4, Ep4
30 Sep. 1993
Shelves
Geoffrey is getting on Tom's nerves with his
obsession with shelves,which he keeps putting
up all over the unit and it's a blessing when
he gets a call from Marion,asking him to get back
with her. Tom is not the only resident missing
Diana as she is seen as a source of advice but
Diana herself,a thoroughly incompetent nanny,is
missing Bayview and,after ruining a fashion show
goes 'home' to Tom.
S4, Ep5
7 Oct. 1993
The Seance
Whilst Mr. Kwok demonstrates karate to the Bayview
males,who vie with each other to impress Jane,
Tom is introduced to Jane's psychic,Marjorie Evans,
and asks to be put in touch with his dead wife.
A seance is duly organized but Marion has bribed
the medium to give a fake message,saying that
Tom's wife disapproves of his relationship with
Diana. Diana,however, exposes the plot.
S4, Ep6
14 Oct. 1993
The Promotional Video
A promotional video is being made to extol the
virtues of Bayview and several residents are to
have speaking parts,including Basil,who sees
himself as the new James Bond, Tom and Jenny.
The excitement is such that few will heed Diana's
view that it is just another money-making scam by
the idiot Baines - except Tom,who joins her in
sabotaging the project by substituting footage
of Marion and Geoffrey giving a rather more
realistic look at life.
S4, Ep7
21 Oct. 1993
Adult Education
When Tom and Diana's life drawing art classes
at the local college are terminated and complaining
yields no joy, they decide to instigate their own
at Bayview. Baines is to be the model, posing as
Julius Caesar, bare beneath his toga for
authenticity (or so Diana tells him). But when an
inspector calls at Bayview, Diana undoes the
knot holding the toga in place and leaving Baines
publicly nude. As a result he has to go to a clinic
where Jane reports that he has had a breakdown.
S4, Ep8
28 Oct. 1993
Sent to Coventry
A strange reversal of fortune overtakes Bayview with
the hospitalised Baines seen as the victim and Diana
his tormentor. She is sent to Coventry and there are
threats of staff strikes unless she goes. Help comes
from a most unexpected source - Marion,whose
pharmaceutical knowledge leads her to see that
Baines is faking his condition. Diana is vindicated
though Tom has made her apologize to Baines in order
for her to be allowed to stay. He knew Baines was
faking it but thought the humility would do her good.
S4, Ep9
4 Nov. 1993
Waterworks
After drinking a lot at a reunion Tom has trouble
passing water and becomes very sensitive about it.
He tries to keep it from Diana but his secretive
behaviour initially leads her to believe that he
is seeing another woman. Ultimately he sees a
doctor and goes to hospital and she is upset that
he had not told her the truth.
S4, Ep10
11 Nov. 1993
The Conference
There is to be a conference on the needs of the
elderly held and Diana is asked to be the local
representative. At the same time Tom is waiting
on tests to see if he has prostrate cancer and
so Diana researches the subject for the conference.
Although the results of the test are as yet
undisclosed Tom declares his love for Diana.
S4, Ep11
23 Dec. 1993
Another Christmas at Bayview
Jane's grandfather Jamie arrives at Bayview where
tom and Diana are putting on a Christmas play for
the residents,though Diana is as curmudgeonly
as ever in respect of the festive season. She
and Tom play a trick on Baines who is consequently
injured and undergoes a personality change for the
better.
S5, Ep1
8 Sep. 1994
After the Operation
Diana visits Tom in hospital. His operation to clear
his prostate cancer has been a success and he
returns to Bayview with her. Unfortunately Geoffrey,
who has had yet another falling-out with Marion,
decides he wants to move in with them again. Baines
is rejected by an exclusive golf club because he is
unmarried.
S5, Ep2
15 Sep. 1994
The Bayview Conservation Society
Baines is hiring Mr. Nakamura, a Japanese hotel
consultant, to advise on the building of a new,
space-saving wing to be built at Bayview -
thereby enabling him to pack in more residents.
Tom starts the Bayview Conservation Society,
eventually enlisting Diana, to demonstrate that
any such building would damage the wildlife and
the natural environment,thus stopping the plan
from going ahead. Jane and Geoffrey get close,
Marion and Baines get intimate,more down to her
desperation than his enthusiasm as she initially
mistook him for Geoffrey.
S5, Ep3
22 Sep. 1994
A Royal Visit?
A letter from the mayor's office suggests that a
royal personage will be gracing Bayview with a visit.
Diana, already even more crotchety than ever, due to
a painfully swollen foot, does not share Tom's
monarchist views and holds forth on the pointlessness
of the royals. Just as predictably the royal visit
turns out to be very much less 'royal' than expected.
S5, Ep4
29 Sep. 1994
Diana's Diet
Diana's foot shows no sign of healing and Tom is
anxious for her to see a doctor. For all of her
brash facade she is reluctant to seek medical advice
in case she is given the worst possible scenario.
However,she complies and is told that she has
diabetes and must alter her diet. A relieved Tom
proposes. Baines also proposes to Jane,in order to
get his golf club membership, but she turns him down.
S5, Ep5
6 Oct. 1994
Trouble with Men
Diana and Jane are both taken aback by the bizarre
ways of men,following their respective marriage
proposals. Tom's proposal to Diana has brought on
a shock and she collapses and is taken to hospital.
Jane's decision that she will become a nun after
all has tempted Harvey to consider joining the
priesthood.
S5, Ep6
13 Oct. 1994
Harvey the Priest
A combination of genuine feelings for Jane,whom
he is used to having around,plus the desire to
still join the golf club,causes Baines to become
a priest of the Order of the Flaming Sword of
Las Vegas - by post. He proposes and Jane accepts
this time. Jane thinks Diana should accept Tom,who
is now taking driving lessons to impress her.
However,he has an accident and Diana has to go
and bail him out,causing confusion when she meets
arresting officer Sergeant Watt.Witrh Diana still
refusing to marry him Tom considers very drastic
action.
S5, Ep7
20 Oct. 1994
Bungee Jumping
Whilst planning his pre-nuptial agreement with an
eager Jane, Baines is told that he is not a proper
priest and that any attempts he makes to get money
from his ordination will lead to fraud charges.
Diana is of course delighted but she has more
pressing matters - Tom's threatened bungee jump.
She agrees to marry him if only to stop the jump
from going ahead but insists on her own pre-nuptial
conditions.
S5, Ep8
27 Oct. 1994
A Double Wedding?
After confiding her doubts about marriage to Sarah,
Diana has a raucous hen night with male strippers
whilst Tom's stag night is a very staid affair.
The befuddled Dennis Sparrow is to conduct the two
wedding ceremonies separately but due to a double
booking involving a funeral, a double wedding is
on the cards after all - despite Marion's efforts
to sabotage Tom's marrying Diana. She need not have
worried because, whilst Jane becomes Mrs. Harvey
Baines, Tom and Diana happily agree not to marry
after all but to live in sin. |
