"Waiting for God" | |
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Red Dwarf episode | |
Episode no. | Series 1 Episode 4 |
Directed by | Ed Bye |
Written by | Rob Grant & Doug Naylor |
Original air date | 7 March 1988 |
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"Waiting For God" is the fourth episode from science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf series one.[1] It was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 7 March 1988.[2] The episode's theme is religion: atheist Rimmer succumbs to a passionate belief in a superrace of aliens with the technology to give him a new body, while Lister reflects on his role as god of the Cat people.
Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, and directed by Ed Bye,[3] the episode was considered to be one of the weakest from the first series.[4] The episode was re-mastered, along with the rest of the first three series, in 1998, to bring the episodes up to a standard suitable for international broadcast.[5]