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Post by jno on Feb 17, 2015 16:51:23 GMT
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Post by daz on May 26, 2016 11:38:39 GMT
Arthur and Ray are stuck in Oz with no cash and no air tickets back to the UK, but never mind, with their British passports help is at hand at the British embassy. but alas no. They are stuck in Oz and have to rely on Ray working three jobs to pay their debts and get back to the UK, until Arthur has a stroke of luck. Some poor unsuspecting girl tries to sell Arthur some dodgy make up box in a pub and Arthur points to the errors of her selling ways and shows her how to do it. Which was brilliantly done. This results into a fortuitous friendship forming between the the Girl, Robyn and Ray, with the girls father being of somewhat dodgy character, passes some solar radios on to Arthur to sell, which he does, again another great scene in the episode.
Arthur then ends up on the wrong side of the law trying to sell stolen electronic organisers to a cop, on top of being thought of as a drug dealing gangster, by the oz gangster, who was initially trying to steal the inheritance in the previous episode, who then suspects Arthur of being a grass! Both cops and Gangster want Arthur out of the country, just a typical Minder episode!
I think the three episodes were very well done overall, just think an appearance by Terry, would have been the cherry on top.
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Post by bensonrad on May 26, 2016 12:55:22 GMT
I think the three episodes were very well done overall, just think an appearance by Terry, would have been the cherry on top. I was thinking exactly that when I watched these episodes last Friday, again really enjoyable and a fab end to the series. Ray sure does seem to have plenty of girlfriends. Wouldn't have these episodes cost far more than normal, would the viewing figures at the time have justified that cost. Is that where all the money went that could have been used in Series 10! |
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Post by daz on May 26, 2016 14:06:21 GMT
I actually thought series 10 was a cracker of a series, couple of dodgy episodes, but no more than other series of Minder over the years.
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Post by yoyopickles on Jun 20, 2016 16:03:22 GMT
AS I think I have said before a former mrs pickles (we'll call her er' down under) lived in Austalia, and took me to several of the locations where it was filmed, including the posh hotel where Arthur and ray stayed at, it seems a real MINDER moment for me when I sat in the bar of the hotel drinking a cocktail, (it was a posh place so beer was not an option!)
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Post by jno on Jul 1, 2016 15:23:52 GMT
Small feature on this episode from TV TIMES the week it was broadcast:  |
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Post by yoyopickles on Jul 1, 2016 18:58:24 GMT
There was a similar feature in the RADIO TIMES too, where they mentioned filming in Broken Hill, where Mad Max 2 was filmed. I think it may have been an interview with Gary Webster? In those days I just used to cut out the Doctor who listings on UK GOLD and put them in a scrap book, then throw the magazine out!
GOD I was AN ANORAK!
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Post by jno on Jul 2, 2016 4:37:49 GMT
...and we love you for it yoyo!  I really like the Australian episodes and this one really takes Arthur back to basics as he has to raise the cash to get home. |
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Post by yoyopickles on Jul 2, 2016 10:49:10 GMT
When i watched this episode with my aussie ex,she laughed but was a bit annoyed how Arthur carries on in the pub about being "a pioneer in the furthest corner of the empire" A "bloody typical straight off the plane old school pom she called him!
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Post by daz on Jul 2, 2016 11:22:54 GMT
It's becuase of this that I like this forum so much. The information gained on here is superb. Long live anoraks! |
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Post by yoyopickles on Jul 2, 2016 12:54:35 GMT
It's becuase of this that I like this forum so much. The information gained on here is superb. Long live anoraks! Doctor who anoraks are a different breed! I knew a fan who bought his clothes in charity shops,so he had more money to spend on dr who stuff! He even had a blank tape in his VCR,ready to hit record if an actor who had been in doctor who was on screen, of if dr who was even mentioned! Another fan I knew even went on BBC radio Kent one Saturday night to appeal to listeners to return any lost episode of doctor who they had to the BBC! |
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Post by pr1 on Dec 18, 2016 16:55:30 GMT
I liked this much more than the second part. I enjoyed Arthur's selling the goods to tourists and punters and felt it gave us a glimpse of what he was doing in his younger days. This three parter was a nice change but I can't help feeling it could have been better. Maybe instead of three regular length episodes the idea might have been better handled with the same first episode and then a movie length episode for the Australian part of the story.
Maybe I just expected too much. I did like it just not as much as usual.
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Post by yoyopickles on Dec 20, 2016 18:29:28 GMT
It is nice to see Arthur doing what he does best, and selling tacky gear to mug punters! The scene where he sells the make up cases in the pub is classic minder through and through, as is the conversation between Arthur and Ray as the plane is taking off for the long flight home to blighty!
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Post by yoyopickles on Dec 24, 2016 10:18:09 GMT
Another funny thing is, at the start of the episode, Arthur and Ray really do take a scenic roundabout tour of Sydney by foot! Very much like ANOTHER CASE OF VAN BLANK, where Dave and Ray head off to the south of the town, yet in the next scene they are in a cafe in the north of the town!
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Post by jno on Jan 22, 2017 8:39:46 GMT
A nice picture of Arthur & Ray down under, not normally seen this one in the publicity photos:  |
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Post by yoyopickles on Jan 22, 2017 10:44:57 GMT
Oh wow! I have never seen that one before.
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Post by thewoodster on Feb 8, 2018 0:22:18 GMT
Me neither, looks like they are enjoying themselves.
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Post by blanco on Jun 22, 2020 9:20:14 GMT
It's becuase of this that I like this forum so much. The information gained on here is superb. Long live anoraks! And Danielle Spencer (Robyn) was married to Russel Crowe! |
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Post by logie on Jun 22, 2020 10:17:00 GMT
It's becuase of this that I like this forum so much. The information gained on here is superb. Long live anoraks! And Danielle Spencer (Robyn) was married to Russel Crowe! She is also the daughter of Don Spencer who you'll remember, if you are of a certain age, as the Aussie with the guitar who sometimes presented 'Play School' in the 70s... |
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Post by newishminderfan on Apr 19, 2021 21:26:53 GMT
"Ridiculous. Just because we didn't go to the same school as him."  |
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Post by bigaitch on Jun 8, 2021 17:06:03 GMT
I loved this episode. Arthur meeting by chance his Australian counterpart was excellent and his whiting of the radios was superb, in the pub and by the harbour. The love angle between Robyn and Ray is excellent too.
Very enjoyable and some very funny and also touching moments.
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Post by 615 on Aug 11, 2021 21:29:03 GMT
Carole Skinner ( Nola McKenzie in Prisoner Cell Block H) is in this episode apparently playing a barmaid. I watched it today on ITV4 and the only barmaid that I saw was the one who takes the bets. Did I miss something ( I did have to answer the phone to some fool who wasn't watching Minder) or did Miss Skinner look a lot different in life outside Wentworth Prison
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Post by jno on Aug 15, 2021 3:23:14 GMT
Carole Skinner ( Nola McKenzie in Prisoner Cell Block H) is in this episode apparently playing a barmaid. I watched it today on ITV4 and the only barmaid that I saw was the one who takes the bets. Did I miss something ( I did have to answer the phone to some fool who wasn't watching Minder) or did Miss Skinner look a lot different in life outside Wentworth Prison This requires further investigation, I'll get on it, but it might take a little while. |
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Post by swainy on Aug 15, 2021 6:30:54 GMT
Carole Skinner ( Nola McKenzie in Prisoner Cell Block H) is in this episode apparently playing a barmaid. I watched it today on ITV4 and the only barmaid that I saw was the one who takes the bets. Did I miss something ( I did have to answer the phone to some fool who wasn't watching Minder) or did Miss Skinner look a lot different in life outside Wentworth Prison This requires further investigation, I'll get on it, but it might take a little while. She is in the episode but she doesn’t have a speaking part. I’m guessing that her lines were cut but we do see her walk past Ray behind the bar in the first pub that he starts work in (where Arthur sells Robyn’s dodgy make up cases).  |
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Post by logie on Sept 10, 2021 8:48:08 GMT
I have just finished watching the Australian trilogy for the first time since, I think, it aired. Mainly I haven’t watched it since because at the time, I didn’t enjoy it so have never bothered re-visiting but actually really enjoyed the whole thing with part 3 being the best of them. There is a lot of good stuff in this, such as the recurring theme of Arthur being brought back to the hotel against his will, and having to do that move where he tries to hide his face but just ends up drawing more attention to himself. Also when he is legitimately trying to return to square things and tells Ray ‘we must keep a low profile’. Only to be assailed by copious ‘Good Morning, Mr. Daley’ greetings from all sides.
Ray having to work 3 jobs to try to earn the readies while Arthur initially sits at the bar refreshing himself, but then comes into his own when he takes Robyn under his wing and shows her how to sell is a nice touch too.
Yes, very enjoyable all round, and I shan’t leave it 25+ years before giving it a third outing!
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Post by 615 on Sept 19, 2021 9:04:10 GMT
This requires further investigation, I'll get on it, but it might take a little while. She is in the episode but she doesn’t have a speaking part. I’m guessing that her lines were cut but we do see her walk past Ray behind the bar in the first pub that he starts work in (where Arthur sells Robyn’s dodgy make up cases). Thanks for the info on Carole Skinner. I thought she couldn't have changed that much, but she doesn't do much if any of the fan events so seeing her out of character seems to be unusual. |
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Post by kurt on Nov 24, 2021 1:36:56 GMT
Finally, I've reached the end of season 9, and I am so happy that these Ray Daley seasons are just as much fun as the Terry Mcann years, although
of course, nothing will ever get better than those years. I'd been hesitant to watch these final seasons for so long for fear I'd hate them and it would
ruin Minder for me, but I have to say, I've really enjoyed these previously unviewed seasons. My only complaint if you can call it one, is that the
original Minder opening is so classic, I still watch it and the closing credits all the way through no matter what, but I just can't get into the closing
sequence of the Ray Daley episodes, them walking on that long pier seems contrived, why couldn't they just do the same thing as they did with
Dennis and George with the pictures and the music, anyway, a small trifle of a complaint.
Looking forward to finishing off season 10 so I can start all over again with season 1 in 2022.
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Post by swainy on Nov 24, 2021 5:05:14 GMT
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Post by jno on Nov 24, 2021 5:10:14 GMT
Superb swainy, love it. |
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Post by manta on Sept 16, 2023 9:40:59 GMT
As with the previous episode, this gets a Good and for the same reasons - there are more possibilities for failure than success so I think they did pretty well and the plot did hang together pretty well but it was never going to be a top notch this far from the manor. I did enjoy that Arthur managed to find a kindred spirit - but as he said, it will be better when he is back on Terra Winchester.
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