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Minder : Season 6
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Air date: 04 Sep '85 - 8 episodesMinder is a British comedy-drama series about the London criminal underworld. Initially produced by Verity Lambert, it was made by Euston Films, a subsidiary of Thames Television and shown on ITV. The show ran for ten series between 29 October 1979 and 10 March 1994, and starred Dennis Waterman as Terry McCann, an honest and likable bodyguard and George Cole as Arthur Daley, a socially ambitious, but highly unscrupulous importer-exporter, wholesaler, used-car salesman, and anything else from which there was money to be made whether inside the law or not. The show was largely responsible for putting the word minder, meaning personal bodyguard, into the UK and Australian popular lexicon. The characters often drank at the local members-only Winchester Club, where owner and barman Dave acted, often unwillingly, as a message machine for Arthur, and turned a blind eye to his shady deals. The series was notable for using a range of leading British actors, as well as many up-and-coming performers before...
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List of Episodes (8)
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Minder (1979)
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1. Give Us This Day, Arthur Daley's Bread
04 Sep '85Arthur gives some landscaping work to a group of ex-criminals, who the Vicar of St Chad's, is (thus far, unsuccessfully) trying to persuade to 'go straight'.
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Minder (1979)
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2. Life in the Fast Food Lane
11 Sep '85Arthur gets into the carphone business but unknown to him they are from a dodgy supplier Terry meets a girl who tries to hide her rich family background Arthur seeing his workforce being distracted does a deal with her father to break up the relationship.
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Minder (1979)
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3. Return of the Invisable Man
18 Sep '85When the local gents tailor is going out of business, he wants Arthur to get a gang together and rob his safe so he can claim on the insurance. but things start to go wrong, when the leader of the gang, Scotch Harry is accidentally blown up and he goes to Arthur for help.
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Minder (1979)
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4. Arthur is Dead, Long Live Arthur
25 Sep '85When the tax people catch up with Arthur, he fakes his death, and starts a rumour that he was being hounded by the police, and the tax authority's When the news reaches the Winchester, they take up a collection.
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Minder (1979)
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5. From Fulham with Love
02 Oct '85Arthur sells tracksuits and watches to some Russian Seaman, but one of them goes missing and tries to defect. When Arthur tries to bank the Russian money they will not except it. Arthur's nephew Nigel comes to work at the car lot.
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Minder (1979)
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6. Waiting for Goddard
09 Oct '85A lawyer comes to see Arthur for some help in tracing an old man who has come into a considerable amount of money.
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Minder (1979)
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7. An Officer and a Car Salesman
26 Dec '88When Terry helps out a girl who was being mugged, she repays him by giving him a couple of tickets for a holiday on the Orient Express. The girl turns out to be Nikki South,the daughter of Jack South, a big time crook who has died, and has left a large amount of money in a Swiss bank account. When Arthur finds out , he cons the other ticket off Terry and the two of them set off for Venice accompanied by several other travelers all of whom are also interested in the Swiss bank account, but the on
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Minder (1979)
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8. Murder on the Orient Express
25 Dec '85Private investigator Caroline Selby seeks Arthur's help in locating eccentric recluse and inventor Albert Goddard, who has come into an inheritance. Seeking a rake-off, Arthur acts as go-between, installing Albert in a 'safe house' - rather against his will - and trying to palm off one of the inventions as his own. The finder's fee is, however, paltry compared to the sum involved. Chisholm, meanwhile, finds he has literally been 'stitched up' on a visit to his tailor.
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