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Post by barrythebook on Feb 3, 2019 20:05:06 GMT
You are right, Terry tells someone that his mum thinks that he is a chauffeur. I can’t remember what episode it is or who the conversation is with... I think it’s with Penny so probably ‘Not A Bad Lad, Dad’ or ‘Monday Night Fever’. Isn't there also a mention in an episode of some 'knock off' curtains which Arthur says Terrys Mum was," well pleased with!"?
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Post by logie on Jan 9, 2020 10:23:37 GMT
I recently found out that Chelsea were in the old Second Division when that match was played. I always assumed it was a First Division game with it being Chelsea! Nah, they were up and down like a bride's nightie in the 70s and 80s. Happy days! (for some of us...)
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Post by pr1 on Mar 2, 2020 1:37:31 GMT
I've mentioned before that the average American would have trouble understanding Terry and Arthur but they would get the meaning of the gesture Terry makes when he leaves the game. Is that brief bit still shown or has it been cut for being too naughty or something?
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Post by jno on Mar 3, 2020 4:32:12 GMT
I've mentioned before that the average American would have trouble understanding Terry and Arthur but they would get the meaning of the gesture Terry makes when he leaves the game. Is that brief bit still shown or has it been cut for being too naughty or something? As I never watch edited 'Minder' pr1, I'll say 'no' the last time I watched it.
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Post by steve74 on Dec 13, 2020 14:51:21 GMT
Not seen this episode for awhile so it was nice to refresh my memory of it. The scene I always remember is Terry being thrown out of Stamford Bridge after Arthur's little set up. Karl Howman plays a professional footballer with an eye for the ladies and a few bookies chasing him, roping Arthur and Terry into his spot of bother. I was surprised to learn that Martin Campbell directed this episode. My favourite scene has to be the closing one with Arthur visiting Terry in hospital, although Arthur wasn't willing to share his grapes I love their relationship in the earlier series before Terry began to tire of Arthur's antics. 3.5 out of 5.
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Post by daz on Dec 28, 2020 16:12:56 GMT
Not seen this episode for awhile so it was nice to refresh my memory of it. The scene I always remember is Terry being thrown out of Stamford Bridge after Arthur's little set up. Karl Howman plays a professional footballer with an eye for the ladies and a few bookies chasing him, roping Arthur and Terry into his spot of bother. I was surprised to learn that Martin Campbell directed this episode. My favourite scene has to be the closing one with Arthur visiting Terry in hospital, although Arthur wasn't willing to share his grapes I love their relationship in the earlier series before Terry began to tire of Arthur's antics. 3.5 out of 5. Got up early today to watch a few episodes and this was one of them. A very good episode for me. £2 entry to Stamford Bridge, wouldn't even get you a pie now.
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Post by daz on Dec 29, 2020 21:06:36 GMT
What kind of car was Danny driving in this? Was it a TR7?
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Post by barrythebook on Dec 29, 2020 21:25:49 GMT
What kind of car was Danny driving in this? Was it a TR7? It was a Lotus I think daz, possibly a Lotus Esprit or Eclat.
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Post by McCann on Dec 29, 2020 23:05:42 GMT
It's a Lotus Esprit
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Post by gra966 on Jan 5, 2021 19:01:48 GMT
Gave this one a watch on You Tube last night , as I hadn t seen it for ages , & would say this is Minder at its best . Plenty of comedy situations & one liners . The scene at the football match is brilliant , with Terry ending on " If a Green Line bus was to knock down my old Mum , it would have to be doing a detour through Kilburn cemetry " I also love the moment Terry arrives at the golf club , and a punch up starts between him and Clifton , only to realise in a few seconds they knew each other & used to be the best of mates . The look on the others faces is priceless .
Some good performances from Karl Howman & George Sweeney . Danny s girlfriend was Adrienne Poster , who appeared in recently viewed , Carry on Behind . Another familiar face of the time , was the mini cab driver , who was a regular in It Ain t Half Hot Mum & also played one of the students in Mind Your Language . I could nt work out though , where I had seen the student nurse before .
In your summary , you mention the real life football match took place on 20th September 1980 , which was my 14th birthday !!!!
I can confirm Danny s car is a Lotus Esprit & is still with us , on SORN . It has a Norwich registration mark issued in July 1980 , so the boys at Lotus must have thought Minder was as important as James Bond & didn t mind loaning out one of their cars ! Clifton & his mate use a gold 5 Series Beemer & the angry farmer on Danny s tail has a green M registered Land Rover . A regular " background car " , a MK4 Cortina in Roman Bronze , puts in a couple of appearances , firstly in the street , where the football supporters scare Arthur to death & secondly in the underground car park at the end . As mentioned in the summary , a couple of " old friends " turn up for the finale , the Transit ambulance OMO227M & the Rover SD1 " Jam Sandwich " , SYY904S .
An episode that deserves a 9/10
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Post by jno on Jan 7, 2021 16:24:16 GMT
I can confirm Danny s car is a Lotus Esprit & is still with us , on SORN . It has a Norwich registration mark issued in July 1980 , so the boys at Lotus must have thought Minder was as important as James Bond & didn t mind loaning out one of their cars ! Clifton & his mate use a gold 5 Series Beemer & the angry farmer on Danny s tail has a green M registered Land Rover . A regular " background car " , a MK4 Cortina in Roman Bronze , puts in a couple of appearances , firstly in the street , where the football supporters scare Arthur to death & secondly in the underground car park at the end . As mentioned in the summary , a couple of " old friends " turn up for the finale , the Transit ambulance OMO227M & the Rover SD1 " Jam Sandwich " , SYY904S . The Lotus currently resides in South Wales. Plenty of info on dodgy motors here: www.minder.org/cars/dodgymotors.htm
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Post by ltd on Apr 4, 2021 3:05:22 GMT
This episode is not shown on ITV during the day. I wonder what is offensive in it? I think BarrythBook's subsequent post perhaps answers this question but in addition to "slags" we have "scrubbers", "bit on the side", "his South London job" and Rafferty saying he'd pay someone to...err...service his Mrs, plus Clifton Fields' rather jocular attitude to domestic violence. Much as I enjoy this episode I wouldn't expect it to be popular with the distaff side of the audience.
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Post by ned on Sept 23, 2021 21:45:42 GMT
Lovely exchange between Dave and Arthur in this one:
"That is Ronnie Raikes, he has this column, Sunday's Sober Voice Of Sport" "Oh, Saturday's his day off is it?"
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Post by kelotoph on Dec 26, 2021 12:47:33 GMT
Very entertaining episode and, as a Chelsea supporter, a nostalgic reminder of Stamford Bridge (and the club) before the big money. I remember being in the away end once for a match against Arsenal. That end of the ground was basically a sloping slab of concrete with metal bars to lean on and was completely open to the elements. The chants from the Arsenal supporters around me included "What a feckin sh!tty ground" to the tune of Bread of Heaven. Nice to see Karl Howman and Adrienne Posta as familiar sights from other programmes and films of the time (Brush Strokes and the Long Good Friday for KH and Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush and the film Up Pompeii for AP spring to mind.) Another nostalgic view was af Fleet Street and a train passing over Holborn Viaduct into the eponymous station (since built over by City Thameslink station). Dave refers to one of the pubs in Fleet Street as the Old Cheddar Cheese, when in fact it's Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese. I found the scene in the penthouse room where Danny and Terry lark around to be a bit tedious, as it didn't seem to add to the plot, but apart from that I thought it was a well-paced episode. References to birds, domestic violence, dusky Arabs and stereotypical clog-wearing Dutch girls would probably offend some people these days
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Post by Barrel on Feb 12, 2022 21:37:30 GMT
Remember this one from the 80's.
Always liked the scene between Terry and Clifton. Although its coming up to 40 odd years I remembered it instantly on todays watch.
Nice dialogie and scenery throughout and always loved Karl Howman in Brush Strokes.
I'd call this episode between excellent and good ie very good so have stick with a good rating on here rather than excellent.
Most my excellent scores are in season 7 (3) and 2 in season 6.
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Post by wayne2467 on Feb 14, 2022 18:32:02 GMT
Just caught some of this on ITV4- lots of little cuts - think il avoid the channel and stick to the dvds
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Post by 615 on Jul 18, 2022 9:36:16 GMT
When Danny's getting the football results and the Crystal Palace match is mentioned as being a 'kicking match' with 3 booked and 1 sent off, that's always washed over me, until I was watching the re-runs of The Big Match. In those days it seemed to be quite rare for the ref to actually book anyone, even for some really crunching tackles. A different game then.
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Post by barrythebook on Jul 23, 2022 8:16:15 GMT
When Danny's getting the football results and the Crystal Palace match is mentioned as being a 'kicking match' with 3 booked and 1 sent off, that's always washed over me, until I was watching the re-runs of The Big Match. In those days it seemed to be quite rare for the ref to actually book anyone, even for some really crunching tackles. A different game then. Another thing which stands out on those re-runs is the state of some of the pitches! They're little more than ploughed fields and quite often the ball will be slowed down or even bogged down by the mud. It would be interesting to see players from the 70s playing on todays consistently great surfaces so that they could show their full potential and some of todays pretty boy prima donnas playing on a 70s quagmire of a pitch.
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Post by 615 on Jul 24, 2022 12:56:54 GMT
When Danny's getting the football results and the Crystal Palace match is mentioned as being a 'kicking match' with 3 booked and 1 sent off, that's always washed over me, until I was watching the re-runs of The Big Match. In those days it seemed to be quite rare for the ref to actually book anyone, even for some really crunching tackles. A different game then. Another thing which stands out on those re-runs is the state of some of the pitches! They're little more than ploughed fields and quite often the ball will be slowed down or even bogged down by the mud. It would be interesting to see players from the 70s playing on todays consistently great surfaces so that they could show their full potential and some of todays pretty boy prima donnas playing on a 70s quagmire of a pitch. That was why the FA Cup was always such a leveller. When you see the state of big club's pitches (Stamford Bridge, Highbury), just imagine further down the league (The Shay at Halifax always stands out for me). And of course Yeovil's famous sloping pitch. Bet Danny would have gone AWOL rather than play on some of them.
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Post by steve99 on Jul 24, 2022 14:55:34 GMT
I think it was from this episode where a clip was taken for It'll Be Alright on the Night. It was a scene where Dennis is in the hotel and goes to open the door for (I think) the guy bringing in food. As Dennis grabs the door handle it detaches from the door and Dennis says "That's the first f--- up of the day." This was one of the first episodes I recall seeing. I didn't latch onto Minder until the third series in '82 and the same year my ITV region repeated series 1 and 2 at lunchtimes so out came the old blank video tapes. I'm sure it was 'Scoring' I was watching when the picture wouldn't settle and I was getting rather peeved I couldn't get my Minder fix. It was as if there was something wrong with the tracking, if anyone remembers that on VCRs, and my mood improved markedly as the picture came good for a scene in the Winch. Although football itself has altered hugely since 1980, some things never change and I'm sure there are still plenty of Danny Varrows around, cocky bird-chasers with a liking for bookies and the high life. And the money and cars players can flaunt now make them more attractive to some women than 80s footballers would have been to their 'admirers'. Ronnie Raikes doesn't appear that much in this story but to me he's one of the great Minder characters, more so as you know there will have been plenty of boozy sports journalists around at that time. An odyssey through the bedrooms of the nation's faceless slags is an inspired line, however much it would offend today's easily offended nitwits. In fact, this episode is chocka with great lines. In addition to Bill Dean's copper saying he can do without some smart @rse Uncle Arthur and Raikes telling Mr D to scram before he kicks his bl00dy 'ead in, there are: "This is Ronnie Raikes - Sunday's sober voice of sport." "Oh yeah. Saturday's his day off, is it?" "You dirty, disgusting sod! I'm gonna blow your brains to b-ggery!" "You know what your problem is?" "Yeah, I'm shacked up wiv a lunatic bird." "No, you suffer from verbal diarrhoea." Clifton looks puzzled. "Give one to my missus? Who'd want to give one to my missus? Look, I'd pay someone to give one to my missus!"
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Post by yoyopickles on Dec 8, 2022 17:29:57 GMT
Going back to comment about Terry's mum being passed since 1967, there was also an episode before this one,when Arthur tries to store 30 odd mini fridges at Terry's flat and mentions to Terry about his mum maybe wanting one.
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Post by denzel on Jun 7, 2023 19:34:05 GMT
I remember in this episode Terry says his mother is long since dead. I could be wrong but I think there is another episode that contradicts this...I can't remember which one though. Can anyone help? Better late than never...you was right, Pete...see below. You are right, Terry tells someone that his mum thinks that he is a chauffeur. Indeed, swainy sir.. It was in The Bengal Tiger, in series 1, which I just happened to resee tonight. I had a feeling someones would note this error. And yet, The Bengal Tiger was written by Leon Griffiths. jno....anyone..any idea about this rare continuity error?
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Post by barrythebook on Jun 8, 2023 16:55:25 GMT
I remember in this episode Terry says his mother is long since dead. I could be wrong but I think there is another episode that contradicts this...I can't remember which one though. Can anyone help? Better late than never...you was right, Pete...see below. You are right, Terry tells someone that his mum thinks that he is a chauffeur. Indeed, swainy sir.. It was in The Bengal Tiger, in series 1, which I just happened to resee tonight. I had a feeling someones would note this error. And yet, The Bengal Tiger was written by Leon Griffiths. jno....anyone..any idea about this rare continuity error? There were a few comments made in certain episodes which could be linked to a previous storyline but generally they all stood alone with no continuity so i guess LG was writing each episode independently. Well spotted on the connection though denz, good stuff.
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Post by denzel on Jun 8, 2023 17:58:37 GMT
I had a feeling someone would note this error. And yet, The Bengal Tiger was written by Leon Griffiths. jno....anyone..any idea about this rare continuity error? There were a few comments made in certain episodes which could be linked to a previous storyline but generally they all stood alone with no continuity so i guess LG was writing each episode independently. Yeah, I guess that could be the case, about LG, BTB. As for continuity..today I happened to see one of those callbacks to prior episodes... In Poetic Justice, Innit, Terry reminds Arthur about the events of Caught In The Act, Fact, which resulted in him getting a suspended sentence. I see now that Tony Hoare wrote both episodes...so that of course explains a lot, there. Well spotted on the connection though denz, good stuff. Thanks...and here, perhaps it's down to this episode being written by someone other than LG. I believe television series tend to have what's known as a "writer's bible", with certain facts of the show's continuity listed there, for the various writers to refer to...guess if there was one for Minder, it didn't list Tel's mum's status, and the writer of this episode went and killed her off.
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Post by spacecadet on Mar 22, 2024 10:45:58 GMT
TV Times snippet from 1985 repeat,
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