Waiting for God - Season 1

Waiting for God - Season 1

Season 1

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Episodes7
DatesJun 28, 1990 - Aug 9, 1990
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Episodes

Welcome to Bayview
Season 1Episode 130 min

Welcome to Bayview

Tom Ballard arrives at Bayview where he becomes a new resident due to his weak willed son and his daughter in law who runs roughshod over her husband. Upon arrival, Tom meets Diana Trent who's main goal in life seems to be to torment the staff of the facility. She takes a instant dislike to Tom and his antics until he goes on a hunger strike because of the poor quality of food served by the Senior facility.

Jun 28, 1990
A Trip to Brighton
Season 1Episode 230 min

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.
Jul 5, 1990
Cheering Up Tom
Season 1Episode 330 min

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.
Jul 12, 1990
The Christening
Season 1Episode 430 min

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.
Jul 19, 1990
Fraulein Mueller
Season 1Episode 530 min

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.
Jul 26, 1990
The Psychiatrist
Season 1Episode 630 min

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.
Aug 2, 1990
The Helicopter
Season 1Episode 730 min

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.
Aug 9, 1990

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