Rimmer sets himself up as commander of the Hero World droids (a motley crew led by Elvis Presley, Albert Einstein, Stan Laurel and Father Christmas), seeing this as his chance to pit his tactical wits against the greatest military minds of the past. However, he is hampered by the fact that his army is made up of pacifists, holy men, celebrities, intellectuals and philosophers, whilst his enemy's force is made up of tyrants, psychopaths, brilliant generals and sadists.
Meanwhile the Cat and Lister are captured by Adolf Hitler ("They're tying someone to the stake ... It's Winnie-the-Pooh!"). Rimmer 'saves' the day when he sacrifices all the Hero World droids in an assault on the Villains, but manages to assassinate the leaders (with some help from Queen Victoria) and all the other villain droids by turning up the temperature and melting them. In the end, Rimmer gets what he deserves as Lister swallows his light bee.
List of Wax Droids
Hero Droids
- Mahatma Gandhi (Charles Reynolds)
- Dalai Lama (Leonard Ten-Pow)
- Elvis Presley (Clayton Mark)
- Pope Gregory (Michael Burrell)
- Stan Laurel (Forbes Masson)
- Noel Coward (Roger Blake)
- Marilyn Monroe (Pauline Bailey)
- Father Christmas (Sam Avent)
- St. Francis of Assisi (Ray Chaney)
- Queen Victoria (Alice De Mallet De Donas)
- Mother Teresa (Loraine Farraro)
- Albert Einstein (Martin Friend)
- Pythagoras (Stephen Tiller)
- Abraham Lincoln (Jack Klaff)
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Villain Droids
- Adolf Hitler (Kenneth Hadley)
- Caligula (Tony Hawks)
- Joseph Goebbels (Raymond Martin)
- Rasputin (Stephen Micalef)
Trivia
- This should have been the first episode of the fourth series to air, but due to the Gulf War conflict it was pushed back in the schedule. This explains why Kryten still has to obey Rimmer although his programming was supposedly broken in the earlier episode Camille.
- The monsters Kryten and Rimmer flee from when they first arrive on the planet are taken from scenes from the 1967 film Gappa.
- The original actor to play Mahatma Gandhi was approximately 90 years old. Filming of his scenes were to be done outdoors on a freezing cold day, and the actor was to wear nothing but a loincloth. Due to the concerns of costume designer Howard Burden that the actor may not survive the day's shooting, he was sent home with pay and the part of Gandhi was recast.
- This is the second episode after Dimension Jump, with an alternate end song. This time it is sung by "Elvis Presley".
- This is the first episode where we are introduced to Rimmer's "light bee", which is used or mentioned in episodes afterwards. Interestingly, Rimmer survives being swallowed by Lister at the end of this episode.
