
Minder (1979)
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Gary Webster as Ray
Episodes 36
Christmas Bonus
This special Christmas episode presents highlights from earlier episodes, linked by some new material set in the Winchester Club.
Read MoreMinder on the Orient Express
When a gangster passes away, he leaves his daughter with clues to the location of his ill-gotten gains. She offers Terry tickets to the Orient Express, and Terry and Arthur spot underworld business on the luxury train to Venice.
Read MoreA Little Bit of Give and Take
Produced in 1986 and just 28 minutes long, A Little Bit Of Give & Take was a one-off production for British school children to learn about the dangers of taking drugs.
This episode was sent to schools and health authorities as part of a video package called DOUBLE TAKE.
The theme of this episode covers how young people might react to situations when they are offered drugs and how they might cope with overcoming this.
Read MoreAn Officer and a Car Salesman
Upon leaving jail, Terry gets a job with an ex-army officer who runs survival school for executives along military lines, but he is also buying some equipment from Arthur so that he can rob a security van.
Read MoreThe Loneliness of the Long Distance Entrepreneur
After 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.
Read MoreA Bouquet of Barbed Wine
Arthur 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.
Read MoreWhatever Happened to Her Indoors
Her 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.
Read MoreThree Cons Make a Mountain
Arthur 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 ?
Read MoreGuess Who's Coming to Pinner
At Charlie Johnson's funeral, a friend of Arthur's persuades him to help with the next 'big one'.
Read MoreThe Last Temptation of Daley
Arthur’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.
Read MoreA Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in Shepherd's Bush
Ray 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.
Read MoreHim Indoors
When 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.
Read MoreThe Greatest Show in Willesden
Arthur 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.
Read MoreToo Many Crooks
Arthur 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.
Read MoreThe Odds Couple
Ray 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.
Read MoreThe Coach That Came in From the Cold
As 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.
Read MoreThe Cruel Canal
When 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...
Read MoreI'll Never Forget Whats'ername
Arthur is determined his team will defeat their old rivals at the Winchester Pub Quiz night. Unfortunately his star performer is an escaped convict with DS Morley hot on his trail.
Read MoreNo Way To Treat a Daley
The acquisition of a hot air balloon introduces Arthur to the lucrative world of aerial advertising, but the launch of Daley Inflatables comes to an abrupt halt when he is abducted by a psychotic business rival.
Read MoreUneasy Rider
The chips are down for Arthur's friend Maurice when the professional gambler is barred from the casinos and mugged of all his winnings.
Read MoreLooking For Mr. Goodtime
Arthur gets arrested when he attempts to hunt down a new car, acting very strangely in the process.
Read MoreOpportunity Knocks and Bruises
Arthur and Ray swap the contents of the lock-up for a fruit machine full of stolen money.
Read MoreGone with the Winchester
Arthur falls out with Dave when a member of their boyhood gang re-appears on the scene.
Read MoreHow to Succeed in Business Without Really Retiring
When Arthur allows himself to be persuaded into retirement, Ray quickly steps into his shifty uncle's shoes.
Read MoreThe Roof of all Evil
With typical aplomb, Arthur announces the launch of Daley Into Space to flog some satellite dishes.
Read MoreLast Orders at the Winchester
The Winchester Club is faced with permanent closure when one of Arthur's money-making schemes backfires badly.
Read MoreCars and Pints and Pains
If he's not able to sell his second-hand cars, Arthur decides it might be a good idea to hire them out instead.
Read MoreThe Great Trilby
Arthur's eyes light up with pound signs when he learns he may be in line to inherit a fortune.
Read MoreA Taste of Money
Arthur comes back to earth with a bump when he learns that he faces tough opposition for the Daley inheritance.
Read MoreFor a Few Dollars More
Having hit rock bottom in Australia, penniless and under the threat of deportation, Ray and Arthur try to raise the funds for a return air fare home.
Read MoreA Fridge Too Far
To sell a consignment of mopeds to The Pizza Man, Arthur gets involved in complicated money-juggling. He has pawned his wife’s jewellery to fund the purchase, but instead uses the cash to buy a lorryload of fridge freezers at a knockdown price.
Read MoreAnother Case of Van Blank
To take advantage of new rules concerning duty free alcohol, Arthur, Ray and Dave take a van to Calais, planning to stock up on cheap booze. Whilst Ray and Dave go to a hypermarket, Arthur has meets with Henry, a former mate, and gets unwittingly drawn into breaking into a liquor warehouse.
Read MoreAll Things Brighton Beautiful
Arthur's chum Sidney comes to him for protection from a murderer. Unfortunately, Arthur's idea of a safe house is a caravan.
Read MoreOne Flew Over the Parents' Nest
Whilst his parents are on holiday in Spain, Ray, driving Bert’s taxi, picks up Susie, an attractive girl who claims to be on the run from a violent husband. Arthur, scenting a ‘nice little earner’, installs her in Bert and Doreen’s house.
Read MoreThe Immaculate Contraption
A nun buys an Austin Allegro from Arthur’s car lot, despite Arthur knowing it’s clapped out and overpriced, then everything in his life starts to go wrong. Could it be divine retribution?
Read MoreAll Quiet on the West End Front
Arthur's venture into corporate hospitality takes him and Ray into company that's glamorous and dangerous.
Read MoreThe Great Depression of 1994
Arthur spots a way to make money out of his brother-in-law Brian's misery.
Read MoreOn the Autofront
Arthur is forced to broadcast his first ever commercial on pirate radio when a rival car dealer tries to put him out of business with a nightmare test drive.
Read MoreBring Me the Head of Arthur Daley
Arthur is targeted by violent criminal Charlie Knowles, who blames him for his incarceration.
Read MoreThe Long Good Thursday
Café owner Luigi is opening a mafia-themed restaurant, the ‘Cosa Noshtra’ with Arthur’s financial backing. On the evening before the grand opening, ‘Cranky Frankie’ Connor escapes from prison and holds Arthur at gunpoint in his lockup. He demands to see Rosie, his wife, whom he suspects of having an affair with Luigi. Luigi’s wife Carla also has her suspicions.
Read MoreMinder - The Early Years
An exclusive interview with George Cole covering the early years of Minder.
Read MoreMinder - The Middle Years
George Cole recounts the memories of the middle years of Minder.
Read MoreMinder - The Gary Webster Years
George Cole concludes the exclusive interviews with a recount of the final years of Minder with the departure of Dennis Waterman and the arrival of Gary Webster as Ray Daley.
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