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Post by gustav on Aug 9, 2018 11:40:49 GMT
Another episode I will have to grade as excellent.
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Post by chopper on Oct 10, 2018 20:36:13 GMT
I need to change this to a 5/5 - I forgot how entertaining this episode is! VAT man in a boat!
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rog73
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Post by rog73 on Nov 28, 2018 10:00:32 GMT
Great start to series 5. Can’t decide on the ‘best Terry series’ vote, but 5 is certainly decent. I always enjoy epsisodes of any program where it’s almost all out on location rather than the usual haunts, as those are the ones which stick in your mind. Same goes for the caravan to Brighton, and the racehorse stables episodes. Arnie’s attempts at getting friendly with the lady, and her obvious preference of Terry was a highlight.
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Post by mayday on Mar 15, 2019 23:09:09 GMT
I love this episode. One of the very best ones for me. Feels like it's much shorter than it actually is because it's crammed full of funny situations and dialogue and just seems to fly by.
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Post by jno on Mar 16, 2019 4:45:26 GMT
I love this episode. One of the very best ones for me. Feels like it's much shorter than it actually is because it's crammed full of funny situations and dialogue and just seems to fly by. I agree entirely. Interestingly before Minder was repeated and DVDed, people tended to talk about things/objects/locations in the show (Orient Express/3 phone boxes etc.) - this episode has really presented itself as a fans' favourite over the years solely through its acting and its excellent dialogue.
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Post by mybodyguard on May 25, 2019 2:06:58 GMT
Superb episode. Terry is in rare form here, having loads of fun. I like the way he looks at Arnie when he introduces himself to Penny as Arnold. Penny later calls him Arnie, though. Script flub or is it implying that she and the boys have been spending so much quality time together, she's heard Terry call him that enough to now use it? Lots of great moments seeing the boys vie for time with Penny.
Penny also gets one of the best one-liners of the episode to Arthur, "I'm afraid boats can be difficult for the older person" with Terry snickering right after.
My favorite Arnie line is "what's he on about Tel" after Arthur tells them they need to take the spikes off the trainers. Seeing him sulking alone later with the trainers after Terry sneaks off with Penny is a great scene, which needs no dialogue to be humorous.
It seems they came back to open series 5 with a bang, pulling out all the stops that makes Minder a one of a kind show.
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Post by wayne2467 on May 26, 2019 12:00:50 GMT
The scene at the end with Arthur trying to retrieve the bags is funny as well as Arthur drunk and hungover on the boat.
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Post by tinman on Sept 9, 2019 10:17:02 GMT
Did i see The Needles in the background?
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Post by Wynn Chester on Sept 9, 2019 10:56:23 GMT
Take a butchers here
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tinman
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Post by tinman on Sept 9, 2019 21:38:18 GMT
Take a butchers here I was only there last week.
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Post by Twin2 on Sept 16, 2019 8:43:26 GMT
Absolutely love this episode and I agree with what everyone has said about the script. It still makes me laugh out loud and I still use the term "river filth".
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Post by logie on Apr 3, 2020 13:36:26 GMT
Brilliant episode. This one had me laughing out loud more than any other so far. As pointed out many times on this forum, GC is such a good 'drunk' actor - got to be the best ever, surely? -but even he took it to new levels here. Even still had the patter about the deck shoes and football boot technology after several 'pink' vodkas A small point, maybe very subtle, that isn't quite resolved : at the start, when Chisholm and Jones visit the lockup, Chisholm refers to the stolen footwear as being 'high end trainers'; the gear that Arthur goes to great pains to conceal looks to me like cheap-tat football boots and presumably not the same as that which the plod are after. A better ending to the episode (as mentioned by jno, the denouement is a little clunky) might have been C&J catching Arthur 'red-handed' only for all to realise that the gear was not that which was sought after, and probably not worth a fraction of what Arthur shelled out for it. Just thought it worth a mention, it doesn't detract from a top-notch outing overall. Arnie is fantastic in this episode. In the scene where he and Terry are asleep in their bunks, he's kipping with his thumb in his mouth like a contented toddler. Such a shame Arnie wasn't used a little more because he brought another layer to the show. I agree, and Ray Winstone fitted in so well it's almost criminal he was in so few episodes. I suspect this had much to do with his availability (or lack of it) more than anything though, as he was just starting to make a name for himself and had a regular part in the ITV Saturday tea-time series of Robin Hood around the time he was appearing in Minder; but for that, I'm sure he would have been in more episodes. Also worth mentioning, as it may not be noticed by all, an almost Laurel and Hardy moment between Jones and Terry and the desk phones in the lockup near the beginning; keep an eye on them and don't get distracted by the dialogue between Arthur & Chisholm!
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Post by logie on Apr 3, 2020 15:21:05 GMT
Also, one more thing (doing a bit of a Columbo here) : Does anybody know what a same day nappy service was?
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Post by jno on Apr 3, 2020 15:47:47 GMT
Also, one more thing (doing a bit of a Columbo here) : Does anybody know what a same day nappy service was? I would assume this has to be from the days of (Terry)cloth nappies, the time before disposable nappies existed.
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logie
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Post by logie on Apr 4, 2020 10:30:49 GMT
Also, one more thing (doing a bit of a Columbo here) : Does anybody know what a same day nappy service was? I would assume this has to be from the days of (Terry)cloth nappies, the time before disposable nappies existed. Thanks, but what a horrible thought; someone rocking up in a van like that, collecting your dirties and dropping off a load of ‘clean’ ones. Just the idea makes me feel a bit Tom Dick...😬
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Post by wayne2467 on Apr 11, 2020 23:07:42 GMT
Great episode 😁
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Post by gareth on Apr 16, 2020 12:30:34 GMT
Watched this yesterday and it did make me chuckle..
Both Waterman and Winston both simultaneously trying to “ Pull” the girl and then Terry leaving Winston to undo the football studs whilst he whisked her off down “ The boozer”
Quality!
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Post by nationalpelmet on May 10, 2020 14:26:30 GMT
Totally agree that this episode is one of the very best. Along with lines mentioned, what about the one when Arnie says he had to stop playing Sunday league football when “the back four got banged up in the Scrubs”. 😃
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Post by jno on May 11, 2020 2:54:06 GMT
Totally agree that this episode is one of the very best Agreed, this one is a real fans favourite (one only has to look at the polls), and is a definite top 3 for me.
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Post by heredia1 on May 28, 2020 18:28:15 GMT
I thought Arthur looked particularly ashen faced when he went up on deck with the hangover, that combined with his great acting really did make him look sick
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logie
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Post by logie on May 29, 2020 8:46:43 GMT
I thought Arthur looked particularly ashen faced when he went up on deck with the hangover, that combined with his great acting really did make him look sick Absolutely; not only does he do 'drunk' better than most other actors, he also does 'hungover' just as well.
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Post by harryshand on Aug 19, 2020 9:10:39 GMT
After shelling out £12.99 to replace my old Clearvision DVDs I now have the complete Network DW set so can rewatch from S5 onwards starting with this cracker.
Brilliant opener to S5 and nice to leave west London for a change of scenery.
GC playing drunk and then hungover to absolute perfection as usual. One too many pink vodkas perhaps.
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Post by barrythebook on Jan 4, 2021 21:08:33 GMT
Chisholm's reappearance and inflatable accident in the Winchester
On watching this today, I reckon Patrick Malahide actually took quite a knock when the holdall bursts open. The expression on his face leads me to think that initial impact took him completely by surprise and it looks to me like it knocks the wind out of him. He's in shot twice (?) afterwards and I think he looks pretty uncomfortable both times. I'm assuming that this wasn't a scene which could be rehearsed due to the fact that it'd be nigh on impossible to re-pack the dingy into the holdall after each take, so Malahide just had to play it by ear so to speak. I think that if he had his time over again he wouldn't stand astride it when he pulled the chord
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Post by jjmolloy on Jan 4, 2021 21:46:25 GMT
Chisholm's reappearance and inflatable accident in the Winchester
On watching this today, I reckon Patrick Malahide actually took quite a knock when the holdall bursts open. The expression on his face leads me to think that initial impact took him completely by surprise and it looks to me like it knocks the wind out of him. He's in shot twice (?) afterwards and I think he looks pretty uncomfortable both times. I'm assuming that this wasn't a scene which could be rehearsed due to the fact that it'd be nigh on impossible to re-pack the dingy into the holdall after each take, so Malahide just had to play it by ear so to speak. I think that if he had his time over again he wouldn't stand astride it when he pulled the chord True, just looked at it on youtube, like a bomb going off, GC looked quite shocked too, jumped about 6ins off the ground. Must have been quite a shock as those things would always be inflated outdoors, can only imagine what it would have been like in a confined space, especially for GC.
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Post by Albert Wendell on Jan 10, 2021 3:23:01 GMT
Chisholm's reappearance and inflatable accident in the Winchester
On watching this today, I reckon Patrick Malahide actually took quite a knock when the holdall bursts open. The expression on his face leads me to think that initial impact took him completely by surprise and it looks to me like it knocks the wind out of him. He's in shot twice (?) afterwards and I think he looks pretty uncomfortable both times. I'm assuming that this wasn't a scene which could be rehearsed due to the fact that it'd be nigh on impossible to re-pack the dingy into the holdall after each take, so Malahide just had to play it by ear so to speak. I think that if he had his time over again he wouldn't stand astride it when he pulled the chord Yes you are right, the scene was not rehearsed and Patrick was told that it would gently inflate, it took him by surprise how quickly and fiercely it inflated I'm not sure if he was hurt but he was not at all pleased about this and the producer (I think it was) invited him to his/her office gave him a drink and apologised for what had happened. (I'm sure I've seen Patrick Malahide refer to this on television rather than just reading it).
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Post by jno on Jan 10, 2021 12:07:07 GMT
He talks about it in the 'Drama Connections' Minder episode, around 18 minutes in.
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Post by efc1985 on Mar 17, 2021 19:07:38 GMT
One of the top 5 episodes full of brilliant lines and agree would have made a great 90 minute special. Love it when they're in the Winchester and Arthur is handing over the money to Terry and goes 'as this is strictly legit I want you to both sign this receipt' and Terry goes 'do what?' and Arthur goes 'a paw mark will do for you Arnie' Brilliant
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Post by kettle on Apr 11, 2021 10:38:51 GMT
This sequence was fantastic:
Arthur: "No I don't think I can keep anything down, my dear. What is it?" Penny: "bloody Mary" Arthur: "Oh, oh, ... perhaps just a sip"
Then half way through it: "Just a bit of passing indigestion. Daley's have always been very good sailors."
And once finished: "Any danger of another medicinal, my dear?"
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Post by rik42 on Jun 21, 2021 17:11:11 GMT
What a fantastic episode this was. Watched this on my commute home from work last week and was laughing through pretty much the whole episode.
The part at the end where Arthur loses his hat not once but twice was quality viewing.
‘My hat, my hat!’ 😁
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Post by steve74 on Jul 24, 2021 12:08:13 GMT
"It's the river filth!". Minder leaves the manor for a life on the open waves to produce one of my very favourite episodes. Arthur has Terry and Arnie (plus £2,500) on an errand to the south coast to pick up some tobacco from Commander Hawksly. There is a delay with the delivery so they get to spend some time on the Commander's boat, later joined by Arthur himself. What ensues is a delight of an episode - a definite contender for the best Minder in my humble opinion. George Cole is at his best - his drunk and hungover acting are brilliant to watch - the comedic timing of the man is just perfect. What I get from this episode is how much genuine fun the cast are having and that spills over to the viewer. The scene in the mud collecting the tobacco, with Arthur's hat blowing off is my favourite single scene of Minder ever. Goodbye Sailor is a blast from start to finish. 5 out of 5.
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