Waiting for God
(1990)
Originaltitel: Waiting for God
Release: 1990-06-01
TV-bolag: BBC One
Längd per avsnitt: 30 min min
Status: AVSLUTAD
When Tom Ballard moves to Bayview Retirement Vilage, he meets Diana Trent, a fiesty old woman who complains about everything and wants nothing more than just to die. Much to the dislike of Harvey Baines, the head of the home, the two form a friendship and eventually a romance, helping each other out of tight situations. Toms son, Geoffrey, and daughter-in-law, Marion (whom Tom doesnt particularly like) are constantly stopping in and Jane, a worker at the home, is Dianas worst... (TheTVDB)
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1
Welcome To Bayview
1990-06-28
Welcome To Bayview
1990-06-28
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 homes manager. Initially she thinks Tom is...
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2
A Trip To Brighton
1990-07-05
A Trip To Brighton
1990-07-05
Diana rows with chief carer Jane for calling her a senior citizen and Tom does his best to ignore Marion and Geoffrey.
Dianas 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...
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3
Cheering Up Tom
1990-07-12
Cheering Up Tom
1990-07-12
Tom really thinks that he wont 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...
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4
The Christening
1990-07-19
The Christening
1990-07-19
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...
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5
Fraulein Mueller
1990-07-26
Fraulein Mueller
1990-07-26
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...
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6
The Psychiatrist
1990-08-02
The Psychiatrist
1990-08-02
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...
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7
The Helicopter
1990-08-09
The Helicopter
1990-08-09
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...
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