Minder (1979)
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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Episode 1 - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Entrepreneur
Release Date: 1991-09-05After Terry marries and leaves for Australia without telling anyone, Arthur appoints his nephew Ray as his new minder and assistant, on similar vague and ungenerous terms. Ray proves himself as physically capable as Terry was, and also finds his French language skills of use when he is sent to Brussels to pick up a car.
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Episode 2 - A Bouquet of Barbed Wine
Release Date: 1991-09-12Arthur ventures into the wine trade, but when the supplier is taken in for questioning, his wine is locked up by the police and somehow they've got to get it out.
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Episode 3 - Whatever Happened to Her Indoors
Release Date: 1991-09-19Her indoors has gone missing and Arthur is the police's prime suspect. More importantly, he's got a cash flow problem and his British car sales are being hampered by the Council.
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Episode 4 - Three Cons Make a Mountain
Release Date: 1991-09-26Arthur keeps acquiring items that won't do his reputation any good. How is he going to off-load them without the rest of the manor finding out he's been conned ?
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Episode 5 - Guess Who's Coming to Pinner
Release Date: 1991-10-03At Charlie Johnson's funeral, a friend of Arthur's persuades him to help with the next 'big one'.
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Episode 6 - The Last Temptation of Daley
Release Date: 1991-10-10Arthur’s doctor wants him to give up alcohol and tobacco if he wants to avoid a stomach ulcer, but this causes him even more stress and he begins to believe that everyone's after him. The feeling is reinforced when building contractor Benny McLeish threatens him over a paint deal that goes sour.
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Episode 7 - A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in Shepherd's Bush
Release Date: 1991-10-17Ray is given the task of minding a racing pigeon due to race from London to Bradford with a prize of 10,000 pounds at stake.
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Episode 8 - Him Indoors
Release Date: 1991-10-24When Ron the Burglar, now reformed, opens Arthur Daley's lock-up with a metal comb, it's clear to that Daley Enterprises has to strengthen its warehouse security.
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Episode 9 - The Greatest Show in Willesden
Release Date: 1991-10-31Arthur plans to boost the membership of the Winchester Club with some variety nights, but ends up in a spot of bother over a stolen karaoke machine.
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Episode 10 - Too Many Crooks
Release Date: 1991-11-07Arthur gets into the food business, but the chef he employs goes on the run from a group of gangsters, leaving him to cater for a policeman's retirement party.
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Episode 11 - The Odds Couple
Release Date: 1991-11-14Ray is assigned to look after the wife of a casino owner who has become a compulsive gambler. But Arthur finds himself strangely drawn to her husband's casino.
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Episode 12 - The Coach That Came in From the Cold
Release Date: 1991-11-21As Arthur attempts to ingratiate himself at the local golf club, DS Morley offers to sell him a police transport coach for a knock-down price.
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Episode 13 - The Cruel Canal
Release Date: 1991-12-25When Ray's van breaks down whilst delivering two hundred video recorders to a client in Limehouse, Arthur needs alternative transport - and fast. He learns they were stolen property, and psychotic Big Dai wants them back...