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Post by jno on Feb 17, 2015 9:53:08 GMT
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Post by VAT on Dec 21, 2015 19:58:04 GMT
One of my favourite Terry episodes..for lots of reasons really...right from the beginning with Rycott missing the blagging ladies at the start due to a dodgy Motor...to the end "Lets have a nice cup of tea..." For me, I love Winchester scenes and this ep has loads...what with Mournful trying to off load the fur coat The dodgy motor Arthur sells Dee is hilarious too...and the way he buys it! "Look at the pudding on those seals...I'll give you 70" "Seventy???" and he pays in oners And some great Arthur action throughout ...including one of my favourite scenes..at Terry's flat when Arthur passes out for nearly being shot..."Oohh, that's water" "Yeah he's alright..." Moving Dee into Terry's flat right under his nose lol! "Anyway, you're never there, you're always at your grans" Also love when he's getting hassled to give a valuation on the stolen Tom..."sixty grand top whack" And the pub scene with Terry and Jimmy Fagg, the piano player, is great. Great script, Arthur and Terry on top form and supporting cast well on song in this one for me
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Post by gra966 on Jan 4, 2017 5:53:56 GMT
It was Minder s turn for the dodgy Australians this time - They must have had training from Colin & Ray ! Some brilliant characters & dialogue in this one & a rare occasion where Terry doesn't get lucky ! Mournful was another one of those shady characters you hoped to see again in another episode Rycott & Carp don't have a lot of luck with their motors , firstly their red Hillman Hunter fails to start on a number of occasions & Carp eventually T bones a Transit with it As a severe punishment they are driven around in an Allegro panda car which suffers a puncture - twice ! Just prior to this , Larry Lamb had starred in the dire short lived BBC 1 soap , aboard a ship - Triangle Howard Lew Lewis is best remembered for his role as dopey pub landlord Elmo in Brush Strokes - he almost appears to be playing the same character here
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Post by Zimbo on Mar 22, 2017 0:06:43 GMT
Very good episode. I always enjoy a Rycott appearance. Penny Downie was very good as Dee, turning from nice to vengeful in an instant. Further glamour from the lovely Julieanne White. Line of the episode from Arthur "...a fur coat Basil Brush would change his act for". Mournful Maurice was another great Minder character. I wouldn't have objected at seeing him again. This was filmed during a glorious spell of weather in the summer of 1983.
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Post by jno on Mar 22, 2017 6:40:20 GMT
The weird thing about this one is Larry Lamb ending up in bed with the two birds - not sure we see much like that in 'Minder' anywhere else do we? Clearly done to improve his Mr. Smooth image in this one.
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Post by chopper on Jun 15, 2017 10:51:16 GMT
Worthy of a 4/5,some great moments & one - liners,good locations too. As mentioned - you can tell it was warm! A little far fetched at times. Also,again - as mentioned "Mournful" would've made a great regular character!
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Post by thefactory on Jun 18, 2017 5:31:11 GMT
I could never quite work out why they used Larry Lamb to play the part of Greg, when they had genuine Australian actresses to play the three girls.
As an Aussie myself, it usually sticks out like the proverbial when someone is portraying an Australian who isn't one!
Nevertheless, this is a very enjoyable episode with some great characters and dialogue. I always enjoy watching Rycott's facial expressions when he's frustrated with one of his subordinates!
Pity we didn't see the role of Carp reprised in any other episodes.
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Post by ltd on Sept 2, 2017 18:54:34 GMT
The scene in the park where Rycott berates Aldridge as "a moron of mind boggling inepitude" always makes me laugh. I suppose it must be down to Peter Childs' delivery. Interesting to contrast his comic relief Rycott here with the rather more menacing figure of early episodes. What a fine actor he was.
The Aussie girls are all very glamorous, although I think some of those 80s trouser outfits don't do them any favours. A strange decade fashion wise.
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Post by thewoodster on Jan 29, 2018 9:10:34 GMT
Thanks to jno I now know the geezer in the boozer playing the Joanna singing "leave it out John" DW years to be Jimmy Fagg. Good episode, not that good an Australian accent from the usually talented Larry Lamb.
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Post by ned on Feb 16, 2018 14:59:52 GMT
I'm afraid I did use the Shaw Taylor/fell off the back of a lorry joke from this episode when he died the other year.
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Post by I used to think I was a parrot on Feb 21, 2018 22:13:42 GMT
I watched a bit of this classic episode on tv the other day, and was reminded of a favourite scene involving Arthur (although there are about a 100). In the Winchester I love Arthur's face looking pained and looking side to side when the Australian woman gets a wedge of cash out. Arthur is always shifty around cheques and banknotes!
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Post by thewoodster on Feb 25, 2018 21:49:29 GMT
Pound signs going round Arthur's brain iuttiwap,brain working over time thinking of what to slot her up with..as he called her..waltzing Matilda...lol
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Post by westldner on May 2, 2018 19:37:06 GMT
More aussies... nice... aussie problem solving. I somewhat knew that the aussies were going to get really on edge in the episode.
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Post by johnnybear on Sept 22, 2018 8:52:19 GMT
Carp was a good character and worth a few laughs and the two Aussie gals coming down the steps is a highlight in this episode! JB
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Post by artyboy1973 on Mar 5, 2019 11:15:51 GMT
Not a bad episode. One thing I find intriguing are the two Aussie birds (Julianne White and Sally Taylor) who look like identical twins but I cannot find anything on net to find out whether they are related. They both have different surnames unless they are married or using stage names.
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Post by denzel on Aug 1, 2019 22:39:01 GMT
Very good episode. I always enjoy a Rycott appearance. Penny Downie was very good as Dee, turning from nice to vengeful in an instant. Further glamour from the lovely Julieanne White. Line of the episode from Arthur "...a fur coat Basil Brush would change his act for". Think I'd have to agree with all of that there, Zimbo. A rather good episode, thought it might be too soon after my last viewing to fully appreciate it this time, but I was wrong thankfully. - I had forgotten all about Carp..much like one might forget about the original actor playing Jones..would have been curious to see him do more, in more episodes.
- Mournful was indeed a fine character, great line from him in the Winch, "I know a couple of Aussie birds..terrific 'oysters/hoisters", before the scene changes to said hoisters, hoisting.
- Most memorable appearance from Howard Lew Lewis as Aldridge..love the scenes with the snout doing his schmoozing with Arthur in the Winchester..great lines from the pair..liked Arthur suggesting he'd been on a "sojourn in one of her majesty's hotels", then offering the idea of Ronnie buying his "dragon" a packet of firelighters..then finally, as Zimbo said above, great line about the fur coat Basil Brush would change his act for..can't think of a better line here.
- Great scene in the park with the two Ronnies..Aldridge and Rycott.
- Nice scene in the "old English pub", with pianist Johnny, and his singing and mirth.
the two Aussie gals coming down the steps is a highlight in this episode! Not going to argue on that, there. Not a bad episode. One thing I find intriguing are the two Aussie birds (Julianne White and Sally Taylor) who look like identical twins well one thing that jumped out at me, is how Sally Tayler, Lisa, had much less to do than Julianne White's Sandra, to the point where she always seemed to be in the background in shots she was in, giving way to ms. White..seemed strange to me a little.
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Post by johnnybear on Aug 3, 2019 12:50:46 GMT
This episode would not play on my DVD set without trouble so I bought another set but now have a disc with a different picture on it than the others!!! JB
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Post by ace5150 on Sept 2, 2019 18:11:07 GMT
Not a classic in my opinion. Watchable just for the piano player in the smokey boozer, but his crutches "joke" wasn't funny. "I don't think you've got the bottle, sport" was a good line Terry used later on. Terry was clearly getting desperate to nail Dee, his usual technique was strictly second division, Dee was having none of it and knew how to string him along!
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Post by Twin2 on Sept 16, 2019 8:58:54 GMT
Not a classic in my opinion. Watchable just for the piano player in the smokey boozer, but his crutches "joke" wasn't funny. "I don't think you've got the bottle, sport" was a good line Terry used later on. Terry was clearly getting desperate to nail Dee, his usual technique was strictly second division, Dee was having none of it and knew how to string him along! Not a classic for me either. I'll watch it if it is on and I'm looking for something to watch but not one I'd choose from a list I'm afraid.
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Post by VAT on Sept 28, 2019 16:01:41 GMT
Still one of my all time fave episodes...Rycott inheriting death duties in the form of Carp...Mournful and a fox fur basil brush would change his act for, good old London pub singalong with Jimmy Fagg...and Arthur and Terry both on great form... OOHH its water....
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Post by coyote on Apr 7, 2020 0:39:56 GMT
This one has a few strange bits - Tel tipping off Arthur that Ronnie is a 'wrong-un' when normally Arthur knows who you shouldn't trust regarding plod. And by series 4 it's unusual that they went to another boozer looking for someone. Or at all. The co-incidence that Dee's bf/minder/whatever he is (Larry Lamb) is in bed with - quite literally - the shoplifters Rycott and Carp are after is a massive stretch, especially when Dee and Greg are talking in the taxi about how big London is in relation to Sydney. Which also doesn't really make any sense as Sydney is massive and even then wouldn't have been small enough to think every villain knew every other villain... I didn't think Carp added anything tbh, I much preferred Melish as Rycott's sidekick
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Post by jno on Apr 7, 2020 5:17:47 GMT
I didn't think Carp added anything tbh, I much preferred Melish as Rycott's sidekick I always think of Carp as a Melish prototype.
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Post by logie on Apr 7, 2020 11:36:59 GMT
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Post by nationalpelmet on May 14, 2020 17:52:51 GMT
Corker of an episode. Arthur’s Christmas’ all come at once when Dee gets her folding out in Winchester 😆
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Post by pr1 on Jun 28, 2020 23:31:03 GMT
Watched this for the third time tonight and didn’t remember it very well. A good, solid episode but not a great one. Too bad Chisholm and Jones wern’t in it.
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Post by harryshand on Jul 7, 2020 15:10:16 GMT
Distinctly average episode for me and a noticeable increase in (fairly) mild swearing to the normal on the DVD version. Seems quite out of place even for uncut Minder.
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Post by johnnybear on Aug 22, 2020 9:18:07 GMT
I saw that Patrick Monckton is actually on FB! Anyone wanna friend him and ask some questions? JB
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Post by running16 on Dec 24, 2020 10:20:45 GMT
Great line from Gary Mitchell describing his & Dee's modus operandi in Australia. "Steam in as old bill on a moody search warrant". Arthur and Terry really stitched up and taken to the cleaners by Dee. Mournful & Ronnie Aldridge - great characters. Already been said but similar to the Sweeney episode with Patrick Mower and George Layton.
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Post by joshmel on Dec 25, 2020 3:12:48 GMT
Thanks to jno I now know the geezer in the boozer playing the Joanna singing "leave it out John" DW years to be Jimmy Fagg. Good episode, not that good an Australian accent from the usually talented Larry Lamb. looking into Jimmy Fagg it seems he’s still knocking about aged 91 now nice to hear
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Post by denzel on Feb 5, 2021 2:44:24 GMT
I saw that Patrick Monckton is actually on FB! Anyone wanna friend him and ask some questions? JB Bit late, I know..but RIP Patrick Monckton, AKA Carp.. just saw him in a bit part in a 90's Eastenders episode.. recognized his face...looked him up..and saw on his IMDB that he just died, in December 2020. He was the proto-Melish, and as such, will be remembered.
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