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Post by jno on Feb 17, 2015 17:49:42 GMT
Link to episode on minder.org: www.minder.org/episodeguide/S10E02_AnotherCaseOfVanBlank.htm The more I watch this episode the more I like it. It is of course very different to see Arthur, Ray & Dave outside their London domain but I just can't help but like it. This one feels very much like a 'Minder on holiday' episode and I am happy that with the booze cruise angle, Dave comes along too. The scenes in the prison cell are priceless as Arthur realises he can't talk his way out of jail this time. The booze cruise idea was popular at this time. I remember there was a cheap booze outlet in Calais called 'Eastenders' which used the same logo as the BBC soap. While trawling Google Maps hunting for locations I came across it and it is now in a very sad state of disrepair. The love interest for Arthur is interesting too - occasionally this pops up in the series and is funny to watch as he could never be with anyone but 'er indoors of course. I have visited all of the Calais locations found so far for this one in the past few years and it if you go there it feels great to be where our heroes were 'across the channel'. I stumbled across the warehouse where the robbery took place by total accident and this is not far by car from the station at the end of 'Minder On The Orient Express', all outside the town towards Guines. There is no punch up for Ray admittedly and his French speaking skills don't seem to have developed much in this one since we heard about them back in series 8 but it has become one of my favourites from the Ray Daley years - overall 8/10 from me!
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Post by yoyopickles on Feb 18, 2015 14:55:48 GMT
This is my all time favourite episode, as I do the booze runs myself, plus it brings back memories of the late 1980s, when my step dad would take me to Calais and bolougne with him on day trips, just because I was good at French in school, so he took me for the lingustics and carrying duties (I was still at school at the time)and my mum so she could make and carry around the picnic (he was to tight to but food out) and so he could use her allowance to ( in the days before duty free in eurpe was abolished)
I loved the scene with Arthur and the sailor in the police cell and Arthurs line about "being out of here before they (the French) have finished their morning co-co!Daves Comments to Ray about Arthur doing tim ein either a French or English nic is calssic as he says "perhaps they will meet half way, there is that big prison on the isle of wight!" CLASSIC!
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Post by Toecutter on Mar 3, 2015 21:21:55 GMT
Love the scenes in the Police station.Arthur...Je regrette plenty I can tell ya
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Post by auntieali30 on Jun 18, 2015 12:18:14 GMT
Love the scenes in the Police station.Arthur...Je regrette plenty I can tell ya Totally agree - there is usually always at least one quote that sticks out for me in an episode, but there was loads in this one - 'one man's coq au vin is another man's chicken in a basket' love it!! I loved the long shot of the three of them standing on the docks as the boat sails off!!
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Post by jno on Jun 18, 2015 13:20:13 GMT
Love the scenes in the Police station.Arthur...Je regrette plenty I can tell ya Totally agree - there is usually always at least one quote that sticks out for me in an episode, but there was loads in this one - 'one man's coq au vin is another man's chicken in a basket' love it!! I loved the long shot of the three of them standing on the docks as the boat sails off!!
I agree, that shot as the last ferry sails off is fantastic. I was there last summer and this is a far up and across as I could get without falling into the sea as there was construction taking place and I got some very funny looks from the holidaymakers while I was there too. The sunset and empty feel of the original is so much better than the more recent shot. They do a cracking bag of chips (not ships!) there.
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Post by yoyopickles on Jun 18, 2015 21:59:05 GMT
My local football team played away to Caais in a friendly in July 2013 and it was quite shocking the amount of people on the coach who actually could recall that episode of Minder!
Even better was when we got to the football stadium and the amount of people who rewarded me in beer, for ordering the beers for them in French at the bar! If only my French great grandfather ARTOIS, who brought the name ARTHUR into my family, could have seen me then!
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Post by jno on Jun 19, 2015 3:15:15 GMT
My local football team played away to Caais in a friendly in July 2013 and it was quite shocking the amount of people on the coach who actually could recall that episode of Minder! Even better was when we got to the football stadium and the amount of people who rewarded me in beer, for ordering the beers for them in French at the bar! If only my French great grandfather ARTOIS, who brought the name ARTHUR into my family, could have seen me then! Great stuff yoyo! One day myself and le yoyo pick-elles will have to meet in Calais to sample 'Artois et le Minder locationnes!' - the 'Minder On The Orient Express' locations are all really close by too. I have searched high & low for Henry's garage from this episode (the only one missing), driven up and down the canal to Guînes and back trying to find it but no luck. Also traced the location managers and art director and enquired there but alas, 'not a saucisse'. The only way is going to be through French business data I reckon, major agg! I'm back again this year so will have to brush up on my 'Je m'appelle Raymondo' in order to ask the locals where it might be/might have been as I think it has probably bitten le dust.
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Post by yoyopickles on Jun 20, 2015 9:04:43 GMT
My local football team played away to Caais in a friendly in July 2013 and it was quite shocking the amount of people on the coach who actually could recall that episode of Minder! Even better was when we got to the football stadium and the amount of people who rewarded me in beer, for ordering the beers for them in French at the bar! If only my French great grandfather ARTOIS, who brought the name ARTHUR into my family, could have seen me then! Great stuff yoyo! One day myself and le yoyo pick-elles will have to meet in Calais to sample 'Artois et le Minder locationnes!' - the 'Minder On The Orient Express' locations are all really close by too. I have searched high & low for Henry's garage from this episode (the only one missing), driven up and down the canal to Guînes and back trying to find it but no luck. Also traced the location managers and art director and enquired there but alas, 'not a saucisse'. The only way is going to be through French business data I reckon, major agg! I'm back again this year so will have to brush up on my 'Je m'appelle Raymondo' in order to ask the locals where it might be/might have been as I think it has probably bitten le dust. Good idea, but the ultimate picture to get would be inside the police cell, with a gay sailor saying "I like your hat, it suits you!" I think of that scene every time I am in Calais
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Post by jno on Jun 21, 2015 4:24:03 GMT
At the moment I can only offer a shot of Madelaine's café - the very kind owner was very interested in the shop's past and let me take a photo.
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Post by daz on May 21, 2016 8:38:39 GMT
I gave this a watch this morning and it is a cracker of an episode, a real cracker, very funny. Dave is prominent throughout, which is always great, one of the best characters in any TV series and his devotion to Arthur is touching. Some great lines throughout, with my favourite being when Arthur quoted Kennedy..."Ich bin ein Binliner" Arthur also getting his plates of meat under the table at Madelines Cafe was nice also, pity we couldn't have had a return to this storyline on a later episode. I have been to Calais 3 times and am familiar with a few of the locations, I have even been in one of the cafes which we see. We also missed our ferry because I never changed the time on my watch the first time! The second time we were on foot and got lost in the harbour area for over an hour and never saw a single soul to help us find our way again, how times have changed in Calais...We missed that ferry too!
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Post by ch on Jun 5, 2016 2:13:41 GMT
"What's French for en suite facilities?" comedy gold. Great, great episode.
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Post by jno on Aug 15, 2016 8:15:13 GMT
When Arthur first met café owner Madeleine ... From the 1956 film 'It's a Wonderful World', coming soon to 'Not Minder'. Actress Mylène Demongeot was known as Mylène Nicole back then. IMDB link: www.imdb.com/title/tt0049374/
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Post by pr1 on Jan 9, 2017 1:33:54 GMT
Another great episode. It's a fun change of pace to see Arthur and Ray away from the manor and it's good to see Dave have a larger role ithan usual. Lot of fine moments through out the episode. Arthur in the French jail is a series high point!
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Post by VAT on Jan 10, 2017 19:33:13 GMT
One of my fave episodes too...all having to kip in the same room with the dodgy light always makes me laugh."hands on wallets"...the police station scenes are great, classic Arthur...but one of my favourite scenes comes right at the end...with Arthur swigging neat vodka from the bottle
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Post by jno on Jan 10, 2017 20:34:38 GMT
Every time I visit Calais I can't help but think of this episode. It seems to be so representative of what I remember from the 90s - people harping on about French booze cruises and this is a top top episode you can return to time and time again. I challenge anyone who goes to Calais and visits a location from the episode, not to think they have somehow arrived in Minder heaven. I ťhink everyone who has a fondness for this episode has to go to at least one of them for a visit. As I sat and took this photo below, I was transported right back to this episode and 1993 ... absolute magic.
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Post by yoyopickles on Jan 11, 2017 19:14:50 GMT
Every time I visit Calais I can't help but think of this episode. It seems to be so representative of what I remember from the 90s - people harping on about French booze cruises and this is a top top episode you can return to time and time again. I challenge anyone who goes to Calais and visits a location from the episode, not to think they have somehow arrived in Minder heaven. I ťhink everyone who has a fondness for this episode has to go to at least one of them for a visit. As I sat and took this photo below, I was transported right back to this episode and 1993 ... absolute magic. It makes me laugh seeing Dave and Ray at this cafe, as in the previous scene they had left in the wrong direction to get there!
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Post by jno on Jan 12, 2017 3:27:32 GMT
In fairness yoyo, I have taken a few wrong turns in Calais myself trying to find these places. I've had no luck at all finding Henry's garage after driving about looking for it. Neither the location manager nor the art director both of whom I have tracked down and asked have been unable to help out.
The name 'Garage Du Canal' suggests the canal somewhere but until some paperwork turns up this is a lost one (for now).
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Post by yoyopickles on Jan 12, 2017 18:05:58 GMT
I did the same looking for hotel alcatrez, last time I had some time to kill after getting off a train from Lille and realising I had 3 hours until the boat sailed back to blighty
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Post by alf on Apr 18, 2017 13:10:05 GMT
Driving instructor: "The life jacket says Italian Navy?" Arthur: "It's one up from Royal Blue!"
Very funny dialogue. Peters out a bit towards the end. I must visit Southend Pier one day and do the walk.
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Post by westldner on Mar 16, 2018 3:22:12 GMT
When Arthur first met café owner Madeleine ... From the 1956 film 'It's a Wonderful World', coming soon to 'Not Minder'. Actress Mylène Demongeot was known as Mylène Nicole back then. IMDB link: www.imdb.com/title/tt0049374/Oh, I wondered what she meant in the cafe. Clever! I liked the episode because it was set in France.
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Post by thewoodster on Mar 16, 2018 9:11:19 GMT
As other brothers have already stated, this is right at the top of the best episodes. Booze cruises or booze runs where all the rage then and brings back memories for most. Also the love interest for Arthur was great, knowing her indoors would win over any other Great locations and dialogue. TOP EPISODE.
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Post by artyboy1973 on May 2, 2018 8:20:13 GMT
Not a bad episode. I quite enjoyed it. Coincidentally, this was repeated on ITV4 the same day the booze price hike up here in Scotland as I have been reading that Scots may travel the border to England for cheaper booze.
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Post by thewoodster on May 2, 2018 8:32:22 GMT
It's showing now on ITV4..! That's the next hour sorted...lol
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Post by yoyopickles on Feb 25, 2019 23:32:31 GMT
Funny thing is, the aussie dvd has a picture in the extras section, of Arthur, Ray and Dave at the restaurant on the ferry, George Cole is the Arthur clothes, and as in the episode Arthur says "we have had morning solid to eat since the ferry" makes me wonder if that was a reference to that (maybe cut) scene?
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Post by mybodyguard on Jun 8, 2019 3:52:37 GMT
This is a top final series episode. Dave pushing shopping carts and moving about in the hotel is very strange to see him away from The Winchester Club.
When the widow from the Cafe first greets Arthur, if you're not looking at the screen and just listening, it sounds like a sex scene is occurring with the elated sounds she makes!
I wonder if that Calais Ouest is still there. Is/was this a chain?
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Post by jno on Jun 8, 2019 4:20:14 GMT
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Post by I used to think I was a parrot on Jun 9, 2019 20:39:52 GMT
I watched this on the May Bank holiday. I normally watch On the Orient Express or Officer and a Car Salesman at Easter/Bank holidays, but mixed it up a bit by watching this episode in a wonderful double bill with Goodbye Sailor.
It's one of my favourite episodes of Minder.
I had a good look around the great Minder locations page with Google maps as well.
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Post by jno on Jan 30, 2020 3:06:11 GMT
It's one of my favourite episodes of Minder. I used to think I was a parrot for president, I wholeheartedly concur, there is something really magical about this episode for me. I'd challenge anyone who says the Ray years are inferior to watch this and not like it. It's great stuff. I'm happy to see so many 'Excellent' ratings above and I know both myself and brother yoyopickles love this episode. I had a good look around the great Minder locations page with Google maps as well. Creating this location page was a real pleasure. Stand on me, you really should go to Calais and visit these places like I have. Honestly, I had a feeling like I'd "arrived". You can't help be there and not get transported to some great nostalgic Minder place in the 90s. I think it's extra special because Arthur, Ray and Dave are out on their own in this one - it's sounds incredibly strange but you almost feel you're part of it when you're actually in Calais. The dodgy hotel on the corner in particular - you can't help but think "how did they end up here?" The factory where they all get nicked I stumbled on by complete accident when driving to an Orient Express location. Amazing stroke of good luck that I decided to drive a certain way and I spotted it immediately. Location finds can be really hard work but on this day I really felt someone wanted me to find this. A very strange feeling indeed. I will forever continue to look for 'Garage Du Canal', it has become a real bugbear that I haven't found that one. I have been in touch with few behind the scenes guys on this one but very little memory of it from anyone. The UK location manager only went there once and if my memory serves me correctly was taken there by the French production team. It's completely rundown in the episode and the chances of it still being around are next to none. Actor David Simeon is great in this, his second 'Minder', plays the role of Henry really well.
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Post by McCann on Jul 19, 2020 22:39:10 GMT
The first episode of 'new' Top Gear visited the EastEnders hypermarket when Clarkson took a Citroen Berlingo across on a similar trip to Arthur's scheme.
This is actually a nice little car review by Clarkson, which is how the show started out in 2002, before it got overrun and ruined by all the childish jackass antics from about 2005 onwards.
EastEnders (subtle eh) shop from about 4 minutes in:
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Post by bigaitch on May 9, 2021 20:48:51 GMT
This is a superb sloshed and something a little different from the norm as they are overseas. Superb plot and really great dialogue as well as the love interest which is really quite sad as the lady believes AD to be a long lost soldier.... Very enjoyable.
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