Although Diana Trent is portrayed as a pensioner, actress Stephanie Cole was only 48 years old when she took on the role.

Even though the show is set in Bournemouth, location filming for the first three series was mostly carried out in and around Brighton and Worthing instead.

The first genuine on-screen appearance of Bournemouth town centre and the nearby suburb of Boscombe did not occur until the 1992 Christmas special.

Most exterior scenes at the fictional retirement home were actually filmed at and around the Oaken Holt Rest Home in Farmoor, Oxfordshire.

The show's theme music is taken from the middle of the fifth movement of Schubert's Trout Quintet, performed by the Nash Ensemble, and the same ensemble's recording of the third movement is also used elsewhere in the show.

Michael Bilton, who played the amorous Basil Makepeace, died at the end of series 4, after which his character was written out by being described as travelling in the Christmas special 'Another Christmas at Bayview'.

In 2013, series creator Michael Aitkens staged a play called Heaven Forbid!, based on Waiting for God, at The Hawaii Theatre, starring Patty Duke and Joe Moore.

A stage adaptation titled Waiting For God, also written by Michael Aitkens and directed by David Grindley, premiered in April 2017 at the Broadway Cinema in Letchworth Garden City, with Jeffrey Holland taking over the role of Tom from Roy Hudd, who withdrew during rehearsals.