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Post by glazbury on Mar 5, 2016 15:59:47 GMT
Maybe Tel was feeling older too....driving a base model Fiesta rather than a Capri, dressing like a middle aged man and feeling downbeat about his career prospects.
Totally agree. I never like the scene where we see Terry locking up the little Fiesta outside the video shop. That car doesn't fit very well with Terry's tough guy, minder image. They should've used a Capri or at least a Fiesta XR2 model.
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Post by barrythebook on Mar 5, 2016 18:43:34 GMT
Maybe Tel was feeling older too....driving a base model Fiesta rather than a Capri, dressing like a middle aged man and feeling downbeat about his career prospects.
Totally agree. I never like the scene where we see Terry locking up the little Fiesta outside the video shop. That car doesn't fit very well with Terry's tough guy, minder image. They should've used a Capri or at least a Fiesta XR2 model. That particular scene and this episode in general shows Terry accepting that his life has moved on an era imo. He's no longer a bird-pulling 'Jack-the Lad' who was in the gym four times a week, living day to day off his wits and relishing the scrapes he was getting into.
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Post by pr1 on Aug 28, 2016 21:03:20 GMT
Knowing both Ian McShane and Brian Blessed were in this episode I've really been looking forward to seeing it. It did not disappoint! A flat out great episode!
As previous comments have made clear there is no shortage of quotable dialogue in this episode.
The video store looked just like the ones that were all over the place at that time in the US. Giving the time period when Minder was being made I've been waiting to see Arthur get involved in hooky videos. It's also funny that Arthur admits for a change that his goods are cr*p. Usually he goes through linguistic gymnastics to justify his merchandise.
Poor Rycott! I hate to think how Chisholm would have reacted in the same situation!
Easily one of the best episodes of Minder. Everything comes together perfectly. Even the end credits are funny when Ken Campbell is credited as Seedy Customer. He certainly was!
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Post by Zimbo on Aug 29, 2016 11:24:21 GMT
There was a Q&A with Rula Lenska in the Mail On Sunday magazine yesterday, where she revealed that she had a nickname of 'Sandy' which may explain a bit about the in joke of that policewoman lookalike at the end of the episode.
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Post by billyfarmer on Jan 19, 2017 19:16:00 GMT
I have always liked series seven of Minder, and The Last Video Show, is one of my favourite episodes, from series seven.
As mentioned in other posts on this Thread, plenty of memorable moments, in this episode, and great guest stars.
Nice to see Emma Wray (one of Dennis's co-stars from Stay Lucky), in a small role, in this episode, and her memorable words (about Arthur) to Terry, when she walked out of Arthur's Video shop, after quitting her job - don't let the old f..t grind you down.
This episode also shows how times change, no demand for Video shops, nowadays, all DVD's and Blu-Rays (much better picture quality).
I am sure that this was the episode, where I can remember reading at the time (the episode was shown), that Dennis Waterman didn't know that Rula Lenska, was going to be in the episode, until she walked on to the set, one day, much to Dennis's surprise.
A clip from The Last Video Show, can be seen in the one-off ITV Drama Somewhere to Run (1989).
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Post by billyfarmer on Jan 20, 2017 19:41:19 GMT
A screencap from the one-off ITV Drama Somewhere to Run (1989), featuring some of the cast watching the Minder episode The Last Video Show.
The scene (from the Minder episode The Last Video Show), which can be seen in the above screencap, is the scene, where Arthur was complaining (over the phone) to Barry, about the T-Shirts - Daley Videos bringing Holywood to your home.
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Post by barrythebook on Jan 22, 2017 15:18:53 GMT
My video rental shop in Hayle was also called Video Vault and I'd go there with my Dad to rent films at the weekend.
The first films we took out were The Warriors and Quadrophenia which the shop owner knew I was going to watch but as you say, age restrictions didnt seem to be adhered to. I don't think I could have rented them myself but with Dad there I could take out virtually anything i wanted.
I watched Quadrophenia twice and Warriors three times before we took them back on Sunday teatime.
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Post by daz on Jan 22, 2017 19:45:30 GMT
Bar the smaller newsagents who stocked videos, all our other video shops closed on Sundays so you returned them on the Monday, which was a bonus.
South Pacific was the first video we ever took out, my Mums choice. I cannot for the life of me remember the first one I got out was, but I remember getting the Champ and Rocky soon after we got our video.
Our local shop started off as a music shop, then went to videos, then tropical fish, then it closed down mid 90s.
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Post by jno on Jan 22, 2017 20:40:21 GMT
A recent shot of Emma Wray - she is great in this episode. Source: www.vivaactivists.org.uk/celebrities/actorsLet's not forget she was also in 'A Wonderful Life' with a certain Gary Webster in the late 90s - a candidate for 'Not Minder'.
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Post by yoyopickles on Jan 23, 2017 17:49:09 GMT
When I was growing up, the local parade of shops had a video shop that opened up in 1982, I remember the year, because it was just before my dad died. It was quite a bold move as hardly anyone have a video recorder in those early days! A few years later, my soon to be step dad warned me "don't go in there as the people who work in these shops sell video nasties and are all weirdos!"
They also actually hired video players in the early years, it was called VIDEO BOX and for £50 deposit and a fiver, you got a video player in a big white plastic case and video tape of your choice to watch, plus the cable to plug into your telly! That shop actually lasted until 2002, when it finally closed due to the competition from blockbusters in town, SKY MOVIES and on demand
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Post by karlbrookes on Feb 12, 2017 22:25:50 GMT
A rare episode where Terry shows no interest in any woman a couple of years earlier and Tel would have had a go at both Emma Wray's character and Mrs. Last
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Post by karlbrookes on Feb 26, 2017 15:42:46 GMT
Is this plotpoint a plothole?? :-
Brian Blessed's character Inspector Dyer is not known by Arthur or "the local plod" but known by Terry "It's that flash git Freddie Dyer! Tried to nick me once when he was a DC"
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Post by barrythebook on Feb 26, 2017 17:48:01 GMT
Is this plotpoint a plothole?? :- Brian Blessed's character Inspector Dyer is not known by Arthur or "the local plod" but known by Terry "It's that flash git Freddie Dyer! Tried to nick me once when he was a DC" Good point. We don't know how long ago Terry was talking about so it could have been on a different manor before Terry and Arthur met. Terry may have lived in another part of London or may have been running around with mates from a different area.
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Post by karlbrookes on Feb 26, 2017 23:48:54 GMT
Good point. We don't know how long ago Terry was talking about so it could have been on a different manor before Terry and Arthur met. Terry may have lived in another part of London or may have been running around with mates from a different area. Yes Tel must have gotten into a bit of schtuck on another manor where he came into contact with a young DC Dyer because you get the impression Arfur and Tel are both from this "area" in which they both reside. Interesting that he "tried" to nick him but didnt succeed makes you wonder what Terry was doing
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Post by barrythebook on Feb 27, 2017 21:20:59 GMT
Could have been a bit of blagging from his younger days or maybe Terry went a little too far on a job as 'muscle for hire' and left someone bashed up but had sorted an alibi.
Then again,Terrys previous could have made him a candidate in a pending case and Dyer was possibly trying to fit him up.
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Post by alf on Aug 4, 2017 13:09:32 GMT
The scene with Terry and Ian McShane's character in the video shop is electric.Nice touch having Brian Blessed as the cop.He delivers the "BL00DY Daley" line to perfection.
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Post by gustav on Aug 5, 2017 17:07:16 GMT
This is an excellent episode. The cast and the story all help to make it stand out. It is interesting, as many people above say, how the idea of a local video shop which many of us remember is something that now belongs to the distant past. Imagine what this show will look like to viewers in 20 years time? People will find it hard to imagine that such places existed and it may need some explanation for viewers in the future.
I have held off from the excellent opportunity to vote on each episode because I felt I needed to watch all episodes back to back to do the job justice. But if I am honest that is not going to happen so I will start voting with this one and have no hesitation in giving it an excellent rating.
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Post by harryshand on Aug 8, 2017 15:58:42 GMT
Just watched this on ITV4 and think I've spotted another circular reference between Brian Blessed and DW. Blessed refers to Regan as Cozzer in the Sweeney ep Ringer and it's such an unusual word it must be another in joke between the cast.
Cracking episode.
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Post by daytona355 on Aug 9, 2017 2:15:43 GMT
Watching his right now, bl*ody hilarious episode. Lots of clever banter and interesting cockney slang. Richards - tarts/whores, I used to remember the reason for the term, but it escapes me, and I haven't heard it used in years even in the east end.
It does occur to me 'Richard the third', as in, bird, but doesn't seem right, I'm sure it meant prostitute, so must be something else.
You can't arrest me, I'm, I'm an architect. There's my Porsche! A hahahahahaha
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Post by jno on Aug 9, 2017 4:29:44 GMT
You can't arrest me, I'm, I'm an architect. There's my Porsche! A hahahahahaha This is indeed a superb line, so typically 80s and yuppies - makes me giggle every time!
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Post by barrythebook on Aug 10, 2017 20:57:29 GMT
Watching his right now, bl*ody hilarious episode. Lots of clever banter and interesting cockney slang. Richards - tarts/whores, I used to remember the reason for the term, but it escapes me It does occur to me 'Richard the third', as in, bird. Yes i think that's it,sure I've read this somewhere, Richard the Third = 'Bird'.
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Post by daytona355 on Aug 12, 2017 5:26:00 GMT
Ahhh, I'm not so nuts as a I thought then....
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Post by gustav on Aug 12, 2017 11:49:49 GMT
It does occur to me 'Richard the third', as in, bird, but doesn't seem right, I'm sure it meant prostitute, so must be something else. I think there is a sketch in an episode of the 'Two Ronnies' in which Ronnie Barker delivers, deadpan, a speech composed of rhyming slang where he refers to Richard the Third (meaning bird) a number of times. I can't remember anything else but for some reason his use of that phrase stuck in my head.
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Post by Zimbo on Aug 12, 2017 15:16:31 GMT
It does occur to me 'Richard the third', as in, bird, but doesn't seem right, I'm sure it meant prostitute, so must be something else. I think there is a sketch in an episode of the 'Two Ronnies' in which Ronnie Barker delivers, deadpan, a speech composed of rhyming slang where he refers to Richard the Third (meaning bird) a number of times. I can't remember anything else but for some reason his use of that phrase stuck in my head. The little brown Richard the third...
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Post by gustav on Aug 12, 2017 15:33:40 GMT
Ha! Thanks Zimbo
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Post by daytona355 on Aug 13, 2017 21:46:30 GMT
Case closed then, thanks chaps
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Post by Zimbo on Sept 28, 2017 13:05:00 GMT
It is a brilliant episode. The Holywood T shirt did make me laugh as did Terry's suggestion that Dyer suspected Arthur would be doing an armed robbery with Jack Last. It was a great guest cast, who've been mentioned in previous posts. I liked David Gower lookalike, Patrick Rycart and there was a brief appearance by Milton Johns. This was a great episode for Rycott.
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Post by barison82 on Sept 28, 2017 17:38:59 GMT
This is one of my fave episodes from the final series with Terry. Although he was looking older by this time, and this was certainly being reflected in the writing/acting style of Terry's character in this late series, there are still some great scenes in this one and what a great supporting cast - a clean-cut Blessed (minus beard!) McShane (hard to look at him here and not think of Lovejoy - the actor was between filming the new series at this time) and I like how Terry still handled Jack Last and his minder in the video shop, after holding himself back but is finally forced to physical contact. As daytona355 mentions earlier in this thread, classic McCann justice was still served - but with a comedy aspect to it at the end, with Jack Last hanging over the counter, softening it up somewhat, which is in contrast to the grittiness of the earlier episodes.
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Post by pr1 on Sept 17, 2018 1:37:14 GMT
It's always nice when something is just as good or better the second time you watch it. This certainly fits the criteria. A great episode.
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Post by ralph on Sept 30, 2018 15:57:34 GMT
Excellent episode, much enlivened in particular by Brian Blessed, Ken Campbell and Ian McShane. McShane's Jack Last is spot-on as an arrogant gangster and employs that very rude - but expressive - term "mons-up" (not used that often in Minder) to describe his wife's c¤ck-up with the p0rn video. Campbell is reality itself as "Seedy Customer" (note the attention to detail when Arthur and Terry visit his home to retrieve the video tape - dried puke is clearly visible on Seedy's chair!). Blessed plays out a corrupt extension of his role as PC Fancy Smith in "Z Cars" - bulkier, nastier and threatening, especially when he and his henchman confront Arthur in the lock-up - note how he runs his fingers along Arthur's lapels while suggesting Arthur may be webbed-up with Jack Last. "Be very careful, Daley!"
Does anyone know where I can get hold of a copy of "Storm Troopers In Suspenders"?
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