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Post by jno on Feb 17, 2015 17:56:48 GMT
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Post by daz on May 26, 2016 7:35:18 GMT
No reviews in for this peach of an episode, shocking! I remember this one very well from first time around and had not seen it since then, but still felt like I watched it only yesterday, which I did as I write this, but you know what I mean?! Just a great episode, a nice gritty storyline where Arthur is being stitched up by Billy Mitchell's character Grant Gedley, who was selling cars at ridiculous prices to force Arthur off the manor and went to extreme lengths to achieve this, but he didn't realise the power of the Daley's! Grant had recently taken over the business from his father, who was a bit of an old school gent with fingers in many pies, including money lending, but Grant wanted to make his mark and do things his way and Daddy just couldn't see him doing wrong, but Ray and Arthur soon got things sorted. I thought Ray was really getting into his stride in this series and a pity it is so soon coming to an end. It was good seeing Grant get his comeuppance!
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Post by jno on May 26, 2016 12:37:18 GMT
No reviews in for this peach of an episode, shocking! I remember this one very well from first time around and had not seen it since then, but still felt like I watched it only yesterday, which I did as I write this, but you know what I mean?! Just a great episode, a nice gritty storyline where Arthur is being stitched up by Billy Mitchell's character Grant Gedley, who was selling cars at ridiculous prices to force Arthur off the manor and went to extreme lengths to achieve this, but he didn't realise the power of the Daley's! Grant had recently taken over the business from his father, who was a bit of an old school gent with fingers in many pies, including money lending, but Grant wanted to make his mark and do things his way and Daddy just couldn't see him doing wrong, but Ray and Arthur soon got things sorted. I thought Ray was really getting into his stride in this series and a pity it is so soon coming to an end. It was good seeing Grant get his comeuppance! I am so glad we finally have a review here that gives this episode the credit it deserves. I wholeheartedly concur with all the points you've made here daz and agree that series 10 is a real belter and my favourite Ray Daley series. Eastender Perry Fenwick proving here he was more than Billy Mitchell in my opinion and this was a quality episode showing no drop of quality right to the end.
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Post by pr1 on Jan 16, 2017 2:05:39 GMT
I thought this was a good episode and it's interesting to see Arthur up against someone younger and definetly unhinged. I share Arthur's view on Rap music
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Post by Toecutter on Oct 6, 2017 18:34:27 GMT
Good episode,right up to the point that all 15 listeners to a pirate station all decide they need to buy a second hand motor ,on the same day,at the same time.They do a similar thing in Cars and Pints and Pains when Arthur hasn't sold a car for months,but lets it be known he is moving into rental and lo and behold,they're all rented out within an hour.Poor/lazy writing imho.
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Post by billyfarmer on Dec 8, 2017 18:31:48 GMT
A very good episode, which I can remember enjoying watching, when the episode was first shown, in 1994, I thought Perry Fenwick, made a very good Minder villain, I have never been a fan of Rap music, but I very much liked the scenes, featuring the Pirate Radio Station, scenes that make me laugh, every time I see the episode - Go Daley.
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Post by thewoodster on Feb 27, 2018 22:56:20 GMT
This was a good watch from the Ray days.I don't think there was a dull moment. As jno previously stated, unfortunate that it was on the way to being wrapped up.
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Post by westldner on Mar 20, 2018 14:17:33 GMT
I liked the episode, so much mid 90s culture, the business of cars being sold, the friends Ray befriend to help him and the police. I thought the police line up was ridiculously funny. Edit: Let me add it in here, it's just too funny, seeing the camera blur but seeing Arthur Daley's jacket and hat, as the police put him there in the middle so he could be easily made out as they brief the person to try to identify him, then they bought Arthur in to identify the actual guy like it worth the pay back which led to a more humorous scene.
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Post by thewoodster on May 16, 2018 9:02:22 GMT
Just watching this on ITV4...perked my morning up no end...lol
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Post by oufc on Aug 10, 2018 8:36:50 GMT
Brilliant episode. Perry "Billy Mitchell" Fenwick was very convincing as young thug/villain Gedley Jr. He didn't listen to his old man at all. Would have been good to see Raymond give him a good clip round the 'earole, but alas not to be The GO Daley rap adverts were really funny too, and a good reflection of the times when there were loads of pirate radio stations operating out of the back of vans and bedrooms all around London. Top notch stuff.
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Post by chopper on Aug 12, 2018 19:42:51 GMT
I usually choose to ignore the Ray era, but I’ll give this one a view next time it’s on....
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Post by thewoodster on Aug 13, 2018 14:10:17 GMT
I usually choose to ignore the Ray era, but I’ll give this one a view next time it’s on.... Well worth a watch chopper.
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Post by chopper on Aug 14, 2018 20:17:27 GMT
I was watching one of the Ray era episodes a while back, the only thing that was keeping me viewing was the very attractive Gina McKee being in it.....
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Post by daz on Aug 15, 2018 6:16:10 GMT
I was watching one of the Ray era episodes a while back, the only thing that was keeping me viewing was the very attractive Gina McKee being in it..... I can't understand why you don't rate the Ray years much Chopper, maybe the first series can be a touch hit and miss, but the final 2 series are very strong and stand up very well against the Terry years.
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Post by McCann on Jul 23, 2020 11:19:37 GMT
Good episode,right up to the point that all 15 listeners to a pirate station all decide they need to buy a second hand motor ,on the same day,at the same time.They do a similar thing in Cars and Pints and Pains when Arthur hasn't sold a car for months,but lets it be known he is moving into rental and lo and behold,they're all rented out within an hour.Poor/lazy writing imho. That's a fair point. Another point that doesn't sit right is how the Arthur and old man Gedley don't seem to really know each other. You'd think competing on the manor for years they'd be all too aware of each other. This was an element of Minder that could have been explored a bit more, but that would have introduced another recurring character. We see in series 1 that Arthur does a bit of trade with local Motor dealer Norman (Clive Hornby - Jack Sugden in Emmerdale) and it's all very friendly, Arthur mentions cutting up the area either side of the canal with another dealer in 'On the Autofront' presumably back in the 70s, and at the end we have the Gedleys. I suppose in between we had Wally West, and that episode was some of the best humour in Minder. I see the actor who played old man Gedley was a year older than George Cole and only died in 2014. He looked much older than George in 1994. Grant Gedley was a great Minder character, could have fitted into any episode really. I still give this an excellent. Just really like this one, it is a proper Minder episode.
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Post by azza200 on Apr 23, 2021 19:37:43 GMT
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Post by pr1 on Jun 12, 2022 16:33:48 GMT
“Now if you’ll excuse me, I have an empire to run.” That line from Arthur amused me. Always enjoy his delusions of grandeur.
This is a massive improvement over the previous piece of cr*p episode.
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Post by hollandpark on Sept 14, 2023 10:47:54 GMT
Possibly my fave episode of season 10 and in one of my top 5 post waterman era episodes. Billy Mitchell would have made a great waterman era villian . But he plays the part of wayward son here perfectly. Who knew he would go on to play such a meek mild mannered bloke in Eastenders . Overall this is certainly a 5 star from me
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Post by manta on Jan 4, 2024 11:20:42 GMT
I really enjoyed this, an Excellent episode, with quite a few laugh out loud moments, a key metric in my book. Quite why it's scoring more Goods than Excellents I really don't know - although most of the verbals on here are in support of the high rating. Particularly coming after the last very painful episode, this was a spectacular return to form. Classic story line, with some magic ups and downs. The pirate radio was bonkers to an amateur like me but it all seemed to hang together with all those folks at the end piling into Arthur's place to buy cars!
And Arthur facing an Attempted Murder charge - the banter around that was magic, Dave didn't do much in this episode but really stepped up to the plate in that discussion. And Ray - "I don't want to keep you hanging around" - tears in my eyes.
As folks have said, Ray was doing his bit and so was Arthur - that's probably one of the things that made this a cracking episode - it was more like the good old days with the split of responsibilities - if I can call it that - between Arthur and Terry. They were both doing things that the other couldn't do - like when Ray tried to negotiate with Don - he would only talk to Arthur. And Ray of course got his radio mates in.
The only thing that maybe could have improved it would have been Charlie Chisholm as the foaming-at-the-mouth, steam-coming-out-of-the-ears frustrated plod giving Arthur the failed grilling down at the station. Can you imagine how worked up he would have become - that would have been a show all of its own. Maybe even too much. Last season Jim Carter (Tomkins) had Morley being a sergeant down as a typing mistake - he could have been given a few better lines here? No matter, the plod just did their bit and everyone else played their roles just right. As I said, Excellent.
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Post by jno on Jan 4, 2024 20:58:27 GMT
Other than the obvious, series 10 of Minder is the best Ray Daley series for me, it is a shame it ended when it did as I would have loved to have seen more like this one.
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Post by Dazza on Jan 9, 2024 12:14:39 GMT
One of the better episodes!
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Post by ontheslate on Jan 15, 2024 12:51:19 GMT
Other than the obvious, series 10 of Minder is the best Ray Daley series for me, it is a shame it ended when it did as I would have loved to have seen more like this one. I do think it could have gone maybe a little bit longer with Ray, although the series was into its second decade it hadn’t aged.
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