"Waiting For God" is the fourth episode from science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf series one. It was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 7 March 1988. 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, the episod...
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"Waiting For God" is the fourth episode from science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf series one. It was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 7 March 1988. 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, the episode was considered to be one of the weakest from the first series. 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.
Lister lied about passing the chef's exam. But there's more important things to worry about as Holly tracks an Unidentified Object and brings it aboard. Rimmer believes it to be a stasis capsule carrying a dormant member of an alien race. He even invents a name for this race, "the Quagaars", and convinces himself that...
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