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Post by jno on Feb 17, 2015 10:18:25 GMT
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Post by Kevin Dean on Jun 4, 2015 15:23:04 GMT
This is truly one of my favourites. Hilarious moments with the rotary etc.
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Post by jno on Jun 4, 2015 21:14:14 GMT
This is truly one of my favourites. Hilerious moments with the rotary etc This is indeed a great one. Pongo Harris is candidate for one of the best other characters! This is one of my favourites from series 4.
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Post by VAT on Aug 9, 2015 19:46:36 GMT
Bit of a strange one this, Terry's attitude is a bit off throughout for me, a really complex 'dodgy deal' (never really fully understood it!) and some major overdubbing of the baddies in the hotel room! And the older priest came across as a real nasty card. Dodgy photographer and a young teen 'flashing her harris all over the gaff" as Arthur would say. But some great parts also - Pongo, Arthur getting bladdered and a great scrap with the 'priests'!
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Post by gustav on Aug 21, 2015 0:25:46 GMT
Watched this on ITV4 the other day. A good episode but I found the ludicrous dubbing of Reece Dinsdale more than a bit distracting. This sort of thing was not uncommon, I have noticed it in other shows when the actor presumably just couldn't get the right accent. Are there other episodes of Minder where someone has been completley re-dubbed by a different actor?
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Post by jno on Aug 21, 2015 4:29:18 GMT
Are there other episodes of Minder where someone has been completley re-dubbed by a different actor? Yes, two spring to mind ... (a) Bettina's flatmate Joan at the end of 'A Nice Little Wine' (b) The newsagent at the start of 'Goodbye Sailor' Also check out: www.minder.org/episodeguide/S04E08_WillesdenSuite.htm where there is a little story about Reece Dinsdale and his dubbing - I caught him waiting for his suitcase at baggage reclaim in Nice airport in 2005 so naturally thought 'right then, ...'.
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Post by gustav on Aug 21, 2015 15:47:40 GMT
Thanks. You got a great scoop with that confession!
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Post by pr1 on May 23, 2016 3:00:31 GMT
Lots of great bits through out the episode. Arthur is always fun when he gets pretentious. Arthur among the Rotarians is yet another fine example of the magic George Cole brought to the role. Pongo is another in the legion of great characters to appear in Minder.
Terry does seem a bit out of character for most of the episode. Having little interest in actually doing his job at the hotel but he is back to normal when he takes care of the thieves and helps the girl get her money back.
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Post by syrupapplesnpears on Jul 22, 2016 17:56:53 GMT
I think the two 'vicar' were fleecing the guests? Some good lines from Arthur about confiture having 'a certain je ne sais quoi, dunnit? And it is cheap' - as well as the scene at the Winchester with Dave's confusion about the Rotarians. "No, that's yer three Masons". Oh - and 'Alcoholism And The Small Businessman'. Hahahahaha! Brilliant.
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Post by syrupapplesnpears on Jul 22, 2016 17:57:54 GMT
PS Norma Bates - 'Psycho' reference, surely?
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Post by Zimbo on Apr 4, 2017 14:07:48 GMT
A very good series 4 episode. Some nice subtle humour, such as Arthur not recognising it was Pongo's wife on the phone, rather than Pongo himself. The Norma Bates joke is as lame as the Mr De'ath one in Car Lot Baggers. It would have been better if Norma was a nickname she didn't know about. Sadly, Toby Robins, who played Norma died of breast cancer in 1986, aged 55. We have the infamous self- dubbing of Reece Dinsdale. Maybe Sally Jane Jackson could have been dubbed, her scouse accent, suddenly turns brummie in the lift.
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Post by ltd on Apr 5, 2017 5:24:37 GMT
Maybe Sally Jane Jackson could have been dubbed, her scouse accent, suddenly turns brummie in the lift. I think that's what's known as the reverse Peaky Blinders effect.
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Post by pr1 on Nov 27, 2017 2:26:33 GMT
On second viewing I still found this to be a good and enjoyable episode. I also still think Terry is slightly out of character in the way he treats his job at the hotel. Terry returns to form when he helps the girl at the end though.
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Post by thewoodster on Feb 24, 2018 16:46:58 GMT
Terry was out of character in this hotel watch episode, but the rotary club gags with Arthur,and Terry finding his feet and helping the young girl at the end, still is a very watchable episode.
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Post by westldner on May 5, 2018 4:33:23 GMT
I thought the episode was very bold... Terry taking on a security role, meets a model from Liverpool who gets forced to do a dodgy photoshoot and the fake priest at the hotel room to the punch up at the end. I thought Arthur's almost ruined moment being saved at the end was greatly entertaining.
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Post by jno on May 6, 2018 5:17:28 GMT
I wouldn't put Terry out of character as such myself. I think it's more he does the round and sees the hotel as a pretty straightforward gig, hence it's feet up and read about the footie. There's no doubt in this one that if trouble be afoot, he'd be there in a jiffy to sort it out.
I do wonder though, with the majority of this being shot all at one location if this was possibly the money saver/self-contained ep.
I like this one, there are a lot of real shifty characters in this, many disguised as trustworthy types or pretending to be as such.
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Post by thewoodster on Jun 9, 2018 11:10:11 GMT
I wouldn't put Terry out of character as such myself. I think it's more he does the round and sees the hotel as a pretty straightforward gig, hence it's feet up and read about the footie. There's no doubt in this one that if trouble be afoot, he'd be there in a jiffy to sort it out. I do wonder though, with the majority of this being shot all at one location if this was possibly the money saver/self-contained ep. I like this one, there are a lot of real shifty characters in this, many disguised as trustworthy types or pretending to be as such. Think your probably right jno, the one location storyline is probably why it seems to differ from most DW episodes.
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Post by eightiesclassic on Mar 14, 2019 13:32:34 GMT
Watched this on ITV4 the other day. A good episode but I found the ludicrous dubbing of Reece Dinsdale more than a bit distracting. This sort of thing was not uncommon, I have noticed it in other shows when the actor presumably just couldn't get the right accent. Are there other episodes of Minder where someone has been completley re-dubbed by a different actor? Couldn't agree more - how the hell could they have been happy with that?? I was always amused when watching old films and the character was outside but his voice was obviously reverberating off the walls of a studio - I've never witnessed it the other way round!
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Post by Celvin on Jun 23, 2019 7:39:42 GMT
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Post by jno on Jun 23, 2019 10:44:27 GMT
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Post by denzel on Aug 4, 2019 10:44:38 GMT
Saw this yesterday..I've always liked the fourth series, as with most all Terry episodes..but this is one I rush to see a little less often..still, not bad, with a few noteworthy characters and moments, some of which people have noted. - Saw that this was written by Andrew Payne, and not by someone like Tony Hoare, by whom great gimmicks, one liners and even the odd continuity seem more present. Nor was it done by series creator Leon Griffiths, in his generally gritty style. What we were left with was a very different Terry episode, at least for me..but I then saw that Payne had penned a handful of other Minder episodes, including Minder on the Orient Express, and a bunch of my favourites..so I take this, happily.
- Kind of liked the Sue character, at least her line when she told Terry, "I've got form", and his reaction.
- People seemed to be acting out of order toward Pongo in this..how about Arthur, upon hearing he'd just been nicked, "That's a fly in the ointment, I only hope it's something very serious, and nothing to do with me".
- Dave reading Arthur's notes is great...this goes on a bit, he says..Rotarary club..a pleasure, nay, an honour..blah blah...bit more bleedin' honour..simply great delivery from Glynn Edwards as usual.
- Great moment with Terry the shocked recipient of a century, up front, from Arthur....rare times indeed.
- Obviously the Dinsdale dubbing was poor, but I did enjoy the singing, with forgetting the words and all..think the same song was sung, in the same humorous fashion by Roddy Allan's relatives in the very next episode.
- George Cole plays the drunk role greatly again..can't help but feel that Arthur'd have slurred up something even more spectacular, had he not been interrupted.
- And another great Arthur feature, is how he cringes at people mentioning anything too sexual, such as Karen here, and her "stick your bum out", etc..a fun trait of Arthur's to see.
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Post by ace5150 on Nov 8, 2019 21:36:45 GMT
Watched today, a decent enough episode apart from the whiney Scouse accent from the impressionable model. As previously mentioned, name play on Norma Bates with the shabby hotel, but another I noticed was the sleazy photographer called Sullivan, as in David Sullivan? Google him if you're unsure. Laugh out moment was Dave saying "After a dinner and a few brandies, they'd have a speech, then a stripper" Terrys green velvet jacket belonged on a snooker table though.
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Post by VAT on Nov 27, 2019 18:47:53 GMT
Are there other episodes of Minder where someone has been completley re-dubbed by a different actor? Yes, two spring to mind ... (a) Bettina's flatmate Joan at the end of 'A Nice Little Wine' (b) The newsagent at the start of 'Goodbye Sailor' Also the copper driver in If Money Be The Food Of Love when the tyre blows out ?
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Post by Incapable on Nov 28, 2019 5:01:30 GMT
Laugh out moment was Dave saying "After a dinner and a few brandies, they'd have a speech, then a stripper"
Arthur too naiive to know he was doing a low end gig, hard to believe given his general snobbery.
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Post by barrythebook on Jan 31, 2020 20:49:33 GMT
I see Reece Dinsdale is currently directing some episodes of 'Emmerdale'.
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Post by jjmolloy on Jan 31, 2020 23:44:57 GMT
I see Reece Dinsdale is currently directing some episodes of 'Emmerdale'. Seem to remember him in an ITV comedy with Keith Barron as father and son 18th century con men, was quite funny as I recall. Just googled it, it was Haggard, from 1992.
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Post by denzel on Feb 1, 2020 17:29:25 GMT
Seem to remember him in an ITV comedy with Keith Barron as father and son 18th century con men, was quite funny as I recall. Just googled it, it was Haggard, from 1992. And Sam Kelly, I see, as well..who is I guess best known as Hans from Allo Allo..but also was in On The Up, with DW.
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Post by nationalpelmet on May 16, 2020 16:18:12 GMT
I’d not seen this one for a while and forgot it’s such a good ‘un. The way that geezer goes flying over the tables at the end he could be trialing for the Olympic diving team 😂. And there’s Arthur completely elephants !!
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Post by pr1 on Jul 5, 2020 22:34:44 GMT
Watched this again earlier today and seemed to enjoy it a wee bit less this time. I still like it just not as much for some reason.
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Post by harryshand on Jul 8, 2020 13:46:28 GMT
GC chatting to the "blunch of bokes" from the Rotary elevates this episode to very good but not quite as good as a couple in S4. "Oh, one of the Yorkshire Ridings?"
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