Minder - The Complete Collection [DVD]

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Arthur tests Terry's patience with dishonest and doomed schemes to make money, then uses his cunning to persuade Terry to stay with him. Initially produced by Verity Lambert, it was made by Euston Films, a subsidiary of Thames Television, and shown on ITV for ten series between 1979 and 1994.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Later series starring Cole and Waterman featured Billy Connolly playing Tick-Tack, a bookie and grifter, Brian Blessed as corrupt police officer DI Dyer, Ian McShane as gangster Jack Last, Roy Kinnear as "Fat Charlie" and Andrew Sachs as Sidney. The podcast referred to Dennis Waterman as a truly underrated actor and following his death, pledged to go off air for 7 weeks, one for each of the Minder series in which Waterman appeared.

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Arthur's world was mainly populated by petty crooks, fellow minders, dropouts, "tea leaves", "fences" and those happy to quickly turn over dodgy goods, usually (but not always) without violence. As well as heavy use of leading British actors, other features were Arthur's constant rhyming slang and other misquoted sayings (one being "the world is your lobster" and "I had a dream"), the derelict sites used as locations, and the episode titles, which contained references to films (e. In the Series 7 episode " It's a Sorry Lorry, Morrie", Arthur is down on his luck and has to resort to driving a clapped-out mustard yellow Ford Granada Mk.

A live version of the song sung in duet between Gerard Kenny and Dennis Waterman was released on 1997's The Best of Gerard Kenny – The Singles album.Ray is only a few years out of school, reasonably well educated, but directionless and on the fringes of dodgy company (mostly those he went to school with). citation needed] The characters often drank at the local members-only Winchester Club, where owner and barman Dave Harris ( Glynn Edwards) acted, often unwillingly, as a messenger for Arthur, and turned a blind eye to his shady deals. DC/DS Ronald Rycott; Detective Constable Ronald "Kenny" Rycott (played by Peter Childs) made his first appearance in Episode 3, "The Smaller They Are".

In the feature-length episode " An Officer and a Car Salesman" that preceded series 7, Chisholm was written out (he was seen to have taken a job as a security officer), and Jones was promoted to DS. Waterman's final broadcast episode, Series 7's coincidentally titled "The Wrong Goodbye", had closed as a standard episode, filmed before Waterman announced his departure and so with no clue as to Terry's forthcoming departure.At its peak, the show was one of ITV's most popular programmes, even the repeats attracting over 10 million viewers. Blending crime with cockney humour, the chemistry between the colourful characters, played brilliantly by George Cole and Dennis Waterman, was first rate, set against a backdrop of modern London. A truely wonderful box set with two of the greatest onscreen chemistry acts to ever grace the TV screen.