Shark Bytes

It's dotty and silly, and I'm so much in love with it, I hope I never see the motorboat rounding the cliff. Imagine being elderly, rather blowsy, physically unattractive, with a gammy leg, overly intelligent, hypercritical, and still have someone who loves you despite all that and thinks you're sexy? I should live so long.

Waiting For God is a masterpiece! Diana Trent is crotchety, and hell bent to take on the powers that be, with dotty, but crafty, Tom as her faithful sidekick. There's nothing to equal this in America where everyone has to be basically nice and likeable and under forty. I rarely laugh out loud when I watch TV but this makes me laugh. I do agree, however, that the Jeffrey/Fatboy thing was over the top, but it's a credit to the actor that it was still entertaining. Getting Marian help is defeating the purpose of the comedy. She's supposed to be awful! Jeffrey and Jane enjoy being abused. If they were happy they wouldn't know what to do with themselves.

Just because people get old, doesn't mean they're dead. It was refreshing to watch older people being randy. I only hope that I can be a charming curmudgeon like Diana...

Solid show throughout the years...Stephanie Cole excellent as the crusty Diana Trent. Shows could be a bit preachy at points, but still enjoyable. Was it just me, or was that "idiot Baines" kinda sexy in a weasle kind of way?

The place is called "Bayview" with no water seen, either from the ariel shots or the sceans on "the grounds". Was this suppose to be yet another "idiot Banes" ploy to cheat the residents or does the word bayview in Britian inply something other then a view of a body of water?To the above poster who said Jane applauded Tom&Diana "shacking up",my recolection is that Jane was flabergasted and outraged when she discovered it.Jane would'nt speak to Diana and somewhat out of char. Diana had to beg Jane to talk about it.I don't know old the char.playing Tom,Diana, and Basil were when the show started but it was gutsy for the producers to take a chance actual old people playing old people in lead roles.While it sometimes goes "over the top" with slapstick at times this is a well made ORIGINAL (very few of those around)program.

It's hard to mention a particular shark-jumping moment for this show, but I'd say that the episodes where Geoffrey finally tells off Marian, then ends up losing his job and turning into a grubby biker, marked the downfall of the show--after that, any stupid, goofy thing could happen, and did.

Oops, the series has started all over again here, so I stand corrected on a few things: The Basil character apparently WAS written out, but in an episode that most US stations don't show for some reason-- NO FAIR; I DON'T like the way the Geoffrey/Fat Boy thing ended-- or rather, how it DIDN'T end. Did he get his job back? Or get another? We never find out. And WHY, if Marian makes him so miserable but he can't bring himself to leave her for good, does he not get some HELP for the woman?!? She DEFINITELY needs it; [And of all the men with whom she's cuckolded him, why does he only beat the crap out of Harvey? I think it wasn't so much Marian at stake there as Jane; Jane is supposed to be a highly moral woman, yet when the highly moral Tom seemingly abandons his principles to continue "shacking- up" with Diana, Jane starts applauding-- what goes on here?!?; Has anybody noticed that Harvey is supposed to be this swinging bachelor who only weds "his first wife" at the very end of the series, yet in several of the first episodes he's wearing a wedding ring? Sounds like a bit of forgetfulness on the actor's part to me...; And while we're at it, WHY was Harvey wearing a kilt at his wedding?!? He's not a Scot, if I remember right; Lastly, I think the whole Harvey/Jane thing might have been better served if they'd played it a little more bittersweet, like Tom & Diana [or Lionel & Jean on "As Time Goes By"], and less for the obvious laugh. Don't get me wrong, I still love the show; all in all, while it ranks one small step below "ATGB", it DOES still beat the crap out of anything made in the USA! I'd be very curious to see how/if the whole Geoffrey/Marian thing IS resolved, and what married life is like for the Bainses-- most U.S. shows never engender this kind of post-finale curiosity, but keep going, and going, and GOING far after rigor mortis has set in-- hence this website...

Diana is my hero - I can't wait to be an old sarcastic woman with big white hair who carries a big cane ranking on the young people and wreaking havoc at the folks home. This show makes old people look cool as sh*t. I could however, do without that mousy woman fawning over Harvey.

not quite a shark jump--but hark, is that a motorboat I hear? Whomever called this an exclusively "British" series that the U.S. would only have destroyed was SO RIGHT! I LOVE the show; we're coming up on the final episodes here, & it is AMAZING how the plotlines have played out-- especially, watching the change in the Idiot Bains has been... er, INTERESTING. In any less skillful hands [actor, writers, et c.], this "change of heart" WOULD have brought on the boat, skis, & paisley life vest-- nice to see he's turned/turning human without completely leaving character. Which reminds me, I think you need to have a new Shark Jump category: "The Bickley/Bunker Syndrome", wherein a curmudgeonly character suddenly, inexplicably becomes a "kind, sensitive human being". We LIKE our villains; if they're going to change their stripes, it had better make sense! [BTW: Michael Bilton was a wonderful actor, & I thought it rather shabby that the Basil character just vanished without a proper goodbye, he was one of the best things on the program!!!]

I never saw any problems in the way that the show played out. Just lots of humor, given in interesting and sometimes off the wall ways. I often think that this is a program that would only work in Britain, as the networks would just change everything, and that would mess up the entire show!

Somehow the show didn't seem the same after they moved.

I don't know if Basil died on the show or just left, but the actor died in 1994.