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Post by jno on Feb 17, 2015 15:33:04 GMT
Link to episode on minder.org: www.minder.org/episodeguide/S05E07_HypnotisingRita.htm I quite like the start of this one and carpet cleaning is a very promising venture and Arthur's cigar problems has some potential. Sadly though, the last part of this one peters out, Sudbury is out of the story way too soon and and for me this one is at best a candidate for one of the weakest Terry McCann storylines.
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Post by daz on Jan 3, 2016 21:24:43 GMT
Agreed jno, not the best of episodes, but still quite a good few scenes to keep us amused throughout. I think it is due to the acting talents of George Cole that a weak episode is bearable, the man was a tour de force when it came to acting.
I like the part when Terry is cleaning the carpets of the old lady and she is glad of the company, he might be a tough minder, but he really has a heart of gold.
Dot Cotton of Eastenders fame makes an appearance in this episode.
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Post by arnie on Jan 26, 2016 16:43:08 GMT
Watched this again last night.
Not one the better episodes with an rare weak and predictive storyline but has some good moments.
Love the fiscally worried Arthurs retort to Terry being skint - "If your short, I'm a pygmy"!
And in the 'Smokers Emporium' when admiring a £10 cigar from the bottom drawer - "look at that, a Rembrandt of a lardy...".
Apart from Dot Cotton, nice to see Ray Burdis & Frank Williams make an appearance.
I thought Ray could have had a better, more prolonged role in Minder - I like his stuff and he had a London edge about him that could have carried off a decent character typical of the time and the circles Arthur & Terry mixed.
Seeing him sitting in his office with two young kids, quaffing whiskey was a bit odd - for starters he was skint??
But did like seeing Terry get more than afters off the Landlady in the Victory - definitely one of his better acquisitions in my book!
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Post by daz on Jan 27, 2016 13:08:08 GMT
Watched this again last night. Not one the better episodes with an rare weak and predictive storyline but has some good moments. Love the fiscally worried Arthurs retort to Terry being skint - "If your short, I'm a pygmy"! And in the 'Smokers Emporium' when admiring a £10 cigar from the bottom drawer - "look at that, a Rembrandt of a lardy...". Apart from Dot Cotton, nice to see Ray Burdis & Frank Williams make an appearance. I thought Ray could have had a better, more prolonged role in Minder - I like his stuff and he had a London edge about him that could have carried off a decent character typical of the time and the circles Arthur & Terry mixed. Seeing him sitting in his office with two young kids, quaffing whiskey was a bit odd - for starters he was skint?? But did like seeing Terry get more than afters off the Landlady in the Victory - definitely one of his better acquisitions in my book! I think the beauty of Minder is that so many strong characters were created during the run you wanted to see them more, I think that is testament to both the writing and quality of the actors who played the parts. So many characters I would have loved to have seen again. I think every TV series shows characters hitting the bottle when times are tough no matter how "skint" they are meant to be.
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Post by ltd on Feb 10, 2016 20:24:21 GMT
This one used to get a fair bit of flak in the past, general consensus being it lacked pace or even much of a plot. I've always liked it, especially the way it brazenly dumps the con man hypnotist storyline in favour of Terry's Confessions of a Door to Door Carpet Cleaner style adventures. Probably a waste of guest star Donald Sumpter's talents though - he's perfectly cast here and perhaps more could have been made of the character. I still prefer it to Fatal Impression.
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Post by chopper on Feb 11, 2016 15:51:05 GMT
I agree - I liked the carpet cleaning venture,especially his encounters on his first day - the lonely old woman,and the lonely bar manager.......
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Post by pr1 on Jul 25, 2016 0:33:13 GMT
I agree that this is a weak episode but there is some fine bits of humor sprinkled throughout. George Cole is able to work his magic as Arthur despite the lackluster script. Then again, George Cole could have read the phone book as Arthur Daley and it would have been entertaining..
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Post by billyfarmer on Jan 23, 2017 12:35:56 GMT
I think the best parts, of this episode, were definitely the scenes, involving the carpet cleaning business, the scene where Arthur and Terry, try out the carpet cleaner, in the Winchester, and the steam, from the carpet cleaner, quickly fills the room, a scene that always makes me laugh, and also the scene, where Arthur, tries to get rid of the wine stain, from the lady's carpet, and when Arthur, makes a mess of the carpet, he comes out with the words - Arabian patch.
Also good to see Frank Williams (who I have seen, a few times, at Dad's Army Days, at Bressingham, Norfolk), in a small role, in this episode.
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Post by gra966 on Feb 9, 2017 6:10:32 GMT
I have to agree , probably not one of the best episodes, but still has plenty of amusement & good one liners as always It is a shame the carpet cleaning wasn't the main storyline , as it had plenty of comedy potential A great scene in the Winchester , when Arthur is trying to convince Dave that it needs sprucing up a bit , so he can make use of the tangerine paint Considering who delivered it , I'm surprised it wasn't OXO brown !!! Renu Setna seemed to be one of those stock Indian actors that appeared in just about everything at the time , similar to Ed Bishop as the stock American
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Post by Zimbo on Feb 9, 2017 20:31:31 GMT
Renu Setna seemed to be one of those stock Indian actors that appeared in just about everything at the time , similar to Ed Bishop as the stock American He's still acting today. He played 3 different characters in It Ain't Half Hot Mum.
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Post by Zimbo on Jun 19, 2017 13:44:23 GMT
I actually think the episode is very good, if a little disjointed with the two story lines. The carpet cleaning is the better one. The cigar distaste is a great comic plot, leading to Arthur's great line "That's the trouble with Havana's since Castro took over". A bearded Frank Williams looks different as the Tobacconist, though the voice gives him away. Great guest cast here, Donald Sumpter, June Brown, Nicola Cowper (looking very nice), Ray Burdis and Asian legend Renu Setna. Seems to have been a long winter in 1984 as all except Goodbye Sailor seem to have been filmed in wintery conditions. Due to industrial action, the episode wasn't screened on all regions on the scheduled date. Granada showed it at 21:15 on New Years Day 1985.
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Post by alf on Aug 10, 2017 9:05:10 GMT
I enjoyed this very much.Arthur gers hypnotised to be a success and ends up even worse.Sally Faulkner makes a fleeting appearance.
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Post by gustav on Aug 13, 2017 22:21:00 GMT
Saw this again recently and I thought it was good to be honest. I didn't find it as disjointed as some others did and felt the two sub-plots fitted together quite well. A good episode I thought.
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Post by pr1 on Mar 19, 2018 6:07:31 GMT
I still think it's an overall weak episode but I enjoyed this more the second time than I did when I first watched it.
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Post by thewoodster on Mar 19, 2018 8:49:10 GMT
It had better bits than others, the carpet cleaning escapade, Arthur's hypnotic symptoms, but on the whole not up there with the best unfortunately.
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Post by westldner on Aug 15, 2018 14:47:25 GMT
I was lost with the ending also with Peter, the scenes that works well together like the paint and carpet cleaning which I thought did tie in well together felt like a distraction to cover the ending.
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Post by incapable on Aug 15, 2018 21:10:43 GMT
I don't think this episode is all that bad. The carpet cleaning storyline and hypnotist storyline aren't that disjointed - it's getting involved with the former that leads Arthur and Terry to the latter as they work out of the same building. Terry Jack the Ladding it on his carpet cleaning travels is great, and I like June Brown in this. You can see why she was cast in Eastenders shortly after, it was a much grittier program in its early years than the tosh it is these days, she was an ideal actress (like many EE characters Dot Cotton morphed from serious character in gritty soap to figure of mirth over the years).
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Post by ace5150 on Nov 7, 2018 13:26:52 GMT
This was more comedy than usual, but I liked it. Terry showing 4 classic sides, firstly bopping the brothers, then a caring side sitting with the old lonely lady, then sorting out the bored bar owner and finally passing on the con artists address so the brothers could "have a word" A few good lines as well* I liked it.
*what's this, confessions of a steam cleaner?
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Post by thewoodster on Nov 12, 2018 23:31:25 GMT
This was more comedy than usual, but I liked it. Terry showing 4 classic sides, firstly bopping the brothers, then a caring side sitting with the old lonely lady, then sorting out the bored bar owner and finally passing on the con artists address so the brothers could "have a word" A few good lines as well* I liked it. *what's this, confessions of a steam cleaner? Hear hear ace5150
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Post by mybodyguard on May 28, 2019 23:52:35 GMT
A.k.a. Confessions of Steam Cleaner This episode may have more laugh out loud moments than any other I can think of. Top notch entertainment. I like both halves of the story, the carpet cleaning business he gets Terry to reluctantly help with (sending him up to the 27th floor), and the little golddigger (as Arthur calls her) Rita ready to marry a much older hypnotist. Nothing short of an excellent vote from me. I liked Terry getting the cheese sandwich from the older apartment owner he cleaned, and then being offered food and a drink from Claire, the lovely bar owner. She may have the best line of the show, in an episode full of punchlines: "If you're ever in the area, I've got other carpets you can do." So much sly humor injected eveywhere in this script. He gets back and only made Arthur £7.50, and Arthur asks what was he doing with the rest of the day. Brilliant script.
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Post by VAT on Jun 3, 2019 19:44:30 GMT
I like this ep but it has the feeling of Arthur and Terry in hard times and the start of their bickering to me...so (for me anyway) its always feels a bit depressing..hard times...but it has some great parts..."Do you believe in the good book Terrence?...do unto others..."
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Post by denzel on Jul 31, 2019 16:44:09 GMT
I quite like the start of this one and carpet cleaning is a very promising venture and Arthur's cigar problems has some potential. Sadly though, the last part of this one peters out, Sudbury is out of the story way too soon Have to agree with your comments jno, if not others as well. Certainly this one started off as good as any from the good old Early Years episodes. - I quite enjoyed Renu Setna here, with his character offering Daley his "chair to rest on", and having one of his sons try an "old remedy", which in fairness to him was rendered gratis.
- The carpet cleaning is as good a business venture as any premise, whether you're Daley & McCann, or Laurel & Hardy, with no end of comic potential.
- The chance meeting with Sudbury also led to that great scene with Arthur being hypnotized, like "all the most successful executives today". As someone who's dabbled in self-improvement/hypnosis in the past, with a qualification or two not too dissimilar to the one on Sudbury's wall, I found this scene to be fascinating, personally.
- June Brown was very believable here..always found her scene when Rita was driven off to be a bit gutwrenching.
- Not sure if we'd say this peters out exactly, but the ending certainly was strange..for a start, Tel's u-turn in giving Joany the address..though simply seeing her face at that point would be enough to make anyone break down in pity, I guess.
- At the end, Rita comes back home, to Joany..after Sudbury had come back..for his clothes? And that's in spite of Rita having claimed earlier that "all his stuff was gone".
- Have to agree that this was predictable; with the plot of Sudbury being a wrong'un, there was no pretense, or twist or anything whatsoever.
for me this one is at best a candidate for one of the weakest Terry McCann storylines. Again I'd have to agree there..some television episodes are memorable for the odd scene, but on the whole were poor offerings, and this seemed to be the case here, with the episode seeming to suffer from "Middle Of Minder Syndrome". Terry showing 4 classic sides, firstly bopping the brothers, then a caring side sitting with the old lonely lady, then sorting out the bored bar owner and finally passing on the con artists address so the brothers could "have a word" I might add a 5th side, that of him leaving Arthur, sticking him right in it at the punter's place, to have to come out with Arabian Patch.
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Post by spacecadet on Nov 11, 2019 15:15:29 GMT
This episode was shown by Central on New Year's Day 1985 although episode guides list it as having been shown in October 1984.
I seem to remember that the last 3 episodes of series were affected by an industrial dispute at Thames TV where they stopped relaying their productions to the rest of the ITV network.
I can remember Central showing "Balance of Power" at some point in the summer of 1985 when other ITV regions showed other programmes.
I think the other affected episode was "The Long Ride Back to Scratchwood".
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Post by madaboutdeltics on Apr 24, 2020 10:52:22 GMT
I really like this episode, not an excellent one but worthy of a good vote.
GC carries it with some fantastic lines, doesn't he call Castro... Castrol in the cigar shop and his single mindedness to shift the tangerine orange paint after hypnosis is his comical brilliance at its best.
Also loved some of the scenic shots of the old tower blocks and railway lines in West London.
Really enjoyable episode and some of the banter between GC and GE in the Winchester about the steam cleaning is also memorable.
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Post by steve74 on Apr 24, 2020 11:38:20 GMT
I have always liked this episode. The steam cleaning venture is comedy gold, especially when Terry gets lost in a cloud of steam at the Winchester. While the plot with Sudbury isn't the strongest it still kept my interest and of course without him we wouldn't have Arthur's burning rubber cigars. Needless to say George Cole is excellent throughout. 4 out of 5.
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Post by pr1 on Aug 23, 2020 23:07:07 GMT
I forgot about Arthur’s line ar the beginning when he says he “feels like a cola bear up a gum tree“. That gave me a nice laugh.
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Post by Terry on Dec 13, 2020 11:00:45 GMT
Just watching this.
Can someone please translate Shama the glass for me? Couldnt find any rhyming slang translation for glass re. an indian guy....
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Post by jno on Dec 13, 2020 11:34:17 GMT
Just watching this. Can someone please translate Shama the glass for me? Couldnt find any rhyming slang translation for glass re. an indian guy.... I think it's nothing more than he makes/deals in mirrors (see his workshop at the start).
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Post by Terry on Dec 14, 2020 5:29:54 GMT
Ah, ok. So no RS....got it.
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Post by daz on Jan 11, 2021 23:06:41 GMT
Caught this tonight on ITV4, which they seem to be showing in the old Profs slot, with the Profs moved to the Sweeney slot.
I do like this episode and despite being an 84 episode, it has a 70s feel to it due to the locations.
I like the part with the lonely old dear making Terry a sandwich. Just the simple ordinariness of that scene makes it stand out.
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