• Air date: 02 Jan '89 7 episodes
      Minder 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...
  • List of Episodes (7)
    • 0. An Officer and a Car Salesman

      26 Dec '88
      After coming out of jail, Terry gets a job with an ex army officer who runs a military type survival school for executives.He is also buying equipment from Arthur in order to rob a security van.
    • 1. It's A Sorry Lorry, Morrie

      02 Jan '89
      Arthur buy's a lorry load of electrical goods, but when he finds out that they are stolen, and the police are watching the lorry, the only way out of the problem is to set fire to the lorry, but the police pounce before they burn the goods.
    • 2. Days of Fines and Closures

      09 Jan '89
      Dave goes missing while on a day trip to France. So Terry and Arthur take over the Winchester while he's away, but his wife thinks that Arthur is behind the disappearance, and calls in the police.
    • 3. Fatal Impression

      16 Jan '89
      An Irish fence dies owing Arthur money.
    • 4. The Last Video Show

      23 Jan '89
      Arthur opens a video shop and gets Terry to run it, but there is a mix up over a tape that has been shot by a big time gangster (Jack Last) which compromises the local police, that has been inadvertently taken back the Arthur's shop in place of the real tape, the police , the gangsters are all after it before Arthur discovers what he has.
    • 5. Fiddler on the Hoof

      30 Jan '89
      After a robbery in a safety deposit bank, Arthur withdraws his money and hides it in his lock up and gets Terry to guard it.. But as Arthur leaves the bank he is caught on TV talking to an old friend, Maltese Tony,who is wanted by a local gang boss.
    • 6. The Wrong Goodbye

      06 Feb '89
      Arthur’s bank manager won't extend his already considerable overdraft and his car lot, lock-up and goods have been seized by the sheriff for non-payment. He contemplates retirement, but he hasn't paid National Insurance since 1956, so doesn't qualify for a state pension.