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Post by McCann on May 31, 2020 20:39:44 GMT
The line from Dave about the Professionals is always a laugh.
But I wonder how original if is. In the OFAH episode 'as one door closes' Rodney urges Del Boy to be like 'the Professionals' when trying to catch a rare and valuable butterfly. To which Del replies 'what have Bodie and Doyle got to do with this' or words to that effect.
This OFAH episode was broadcast 6 months before 'From Fulham with Love' in April 1985. So it is possible the Minder script (or crew), nabbed that gag. Another example of both shows playing off each other.
Healthy competition can produce greatness at times. As I'm sure Arthur would agree.
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Post by logie on Jun 8, 2020 9:12:58 GMT
Average, for me, which is always disappointing for a Tony Hoare episode - I expect them to be a 4 star outing at least.
But, some decent stuff going on - Dave has a good 'un here, with some nice lines delivered with his dry wit. Arthur in the Russian hat, and another solid outing for Cheerful Charlie and his Welsh stooge.
I didn't care for the character of Nigel, and I'm not a fan of Rula Lenska; ironically, I see little or no chemistry between her & DW, and Dennis turns in some of his worst performances when she is around - mugging for the camera, almost hamming it up at times. I find it a bit cringey, and certainly detracted from this episode and 'the Birdman of Wormwood Scrubs'.
As to the Professionals reference in OFAH mentioned above, I can quote it almost verbatim as it is one of my favourite episodes of OFAH; perhaps not word-for-word but it goes something like this :
the Trotters spot a rare butterfly while visiting their mother's grave, and Rodney exhorts them to "Let's get it!"
Del : Steady, steady; we've got to do this carefully. We'll do this the way the professionals would do it... Uncle Albert : What do you mean? We've got to jump off of things & skid around in the van? Del (looking at him incredulously) : I don't mean Bodie & bleedin' Doyle. I mean professional butterfly collectors!
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Post by Barrel on Jan 24, 2022 17:37:02 GMT
Average, for me, which is always disappointing for a Tony Hoare episode - I expect them to be a 4 star outing at least. But, some decent stuff going on - Dave has a good 'un here, with some nice lines delivered with his dry wit. Arthur in the Russian hat, and another solid outing for Cheerful Charlie and his Welsh stooge. I didn't care for the character of Nigel, and I'm not a fan of Rula Lenska; ironically, I see little or no chemistry between her & DW, and Dennis turns in some of his worst performances when she is around - mugging for the camera, almost hamming it up at times. I find it a bit cringey, and certainly detracted from this episode I pretty much agree with Logie's assesment. I found this a lacklustre episode but than I've just seen s6 ep2,3 4 in quick succession and i rate them all top drawer. I did find Terry's scenes with Rula odd...he seems very un-Terry like, all jittery like a spellbound schoolboy too eager to please.... anyone would think he wasnt the same bloke who kicked out the naked Debbie Arnold from his gaff so cold bloodedly only 2 episodes earlier. You contrast that with George Cole's scenes with his real life Mrs the previous episode and the chemistry was masterful. Still thats probably how Tony decided to write it and Dennis decided to play it and who am I to complain by this stage in the run all 3 were total masters and could take even an average storyline and leave memorable lines to remember. I loved Arthur's freudian slip about being well known in the " underworld" and his russian hat while claiming to be a lifelong socialist. I found the Nigel character best kept as a one off he was getting on my nerves about 30 seconds after the first time he said "John". I loved the ship in the harbour location and adjacent pub scenes. Also the Sergei character was very likeable and again led to a brilliant line by Arthur about :peasants" that Sergei really appreciated.....there was definetely something missing in the middle of the episode....the filler of a few empty shots of Sergei going on a bender and the runtish Nigel being arrested....were not suitable filler for what could have been...i wonder why Nigel was introduced...if theres one thing Minder never lacked was colourful interesting supporting actors...any number of whom could have been roped in to do a job.
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Post by c79 on Sept 12, 2022 15:12:38 GMT
Average, for me, which is always disappointing for a Tony Hoare episode - I expect them to be a 4 star outing at least. But, some decent stuff going on - Dave has a good 'un here, with some nice lines delivered with his dry wit. Arthur in the Russian hat, and another solid outing for Cheerful Charlie and his Welsh stooge. I didn't care for the character of Nigel, and I'm not a fan of Rula Lenska; ironically, I see little or no chemistry between her & DW, and Dennis turns in some of his worst performances when she is around - mugging for the camera, almost hamming it up at times. I find it a bit cringey, and certainly detracted from this episode I pretty much agree with Logie's assesment. I found this a lacklustre episode but than I've just seen s6 ep2,3 4 in quick succession and i rate them all top drawer. I did find Terry's scenes with Rula odd...he seems very un-Terry like, all jittery like a spellbound schoolboy too eager to please.... anyone would think he wasnt the same bloke who kicked out the naked Debbie Arnold from his gaff so cold bloodedly only 2 episodes earlier. You contrast that with George Cole's scenes with his real life Mrs the previous episode and the chemistry was masterful. Still thats probably how Tony decided to write it and Dennis decided to play it and who am I to complain by this stage in the run all 3 were total masters and could take even an average storyline and leave memorable lines to remember. I loved Arthur's freudian slip about being well known in the " underworld" and his russian hat while claiming to be a lifelong socialist. I found the Nigel character best kept as a one off he was getting on my nerves about 30 seconds after the first time he said "John". I loved the ship in the harbour location and adjacent pub scenes. Also the Sergei character was very likeable and again led to a brilliant line by Arthur about :peasants" that Sergei really appreciated.....there was definetely something missing in the middle of the episode....the filler of a few empty shots of Sergei going on a bender and the runtish Nigel being arrested....were not suitable filler for what could have been...i wonder why Nigel was introduced...if theres one thing Minder never lacked was colourful interesting supporting actors...any number of whom could have been roped in to do a job. Logie and Barrel I agree completely. DW does seem a bit off-key here. And the nephew character is only saved by some lovely fed-up quips from GC.
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Post by manta on Jan 6, 2023 15:46:04 GMT
This is an great episode IMHO and shows off Patrick Malahide's talents amazingly. Doesn't he steal the show? He is absolutely convincing as obsessed and unhinged about catching out Arthur, tempered by some politeness and even joviality as he starts and then hemmed in by his boss at the end when he can't get a word in. Surely it would be easy to fall into caricature but he is completely convincing! Michael Povey helps - and probably helps so well you don't fully notice his contribution. I don't mean to take anything away from the other folks - Arthur and Dave are well on form - point taken about Terry - but three - no six - cheers for Charlie Chisholm.
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Post by yoyopickles on Feb 13, 2023 10:28:54 GMT
Am I the only one who has noticed that this is episode is a meeting of two incarnations of flash Harry?
Ernie,played by Joe Melia also played flash Harry in the 1980 movie wild cats of st Trinian's.
I read once that George Cole Could not reprise the role for that film,due to his commitments on minder. I'm not sure how true that is though?
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Post by kelotoph on Mar 27, 2024 14:05:26 GMT
Enjoyable episode, but average in Minder terms. I loved the old 1980s dockland location (not sure whether this was in Fulham or further east) - ships were getting fewer and fewer there in 1985. Arthur's nephew was a bit irritating, but as a one-off he was bearable. I thought that Chisholm's pretext for running him in were a bit thin, but there again might well have reflected the Met at the time. I thought Chisholm was at his finest here, especially with his grass in the cafe. I suspect that has this been real life, Sergei's future back in the USSR might have been uncertain to say the least, given that he tried to defect. He might well have ended up in a gulag or salt mine on an 'archigelapo', as Arthur put it.
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Post by spacecadet on Mar 29, 2024 15:16:53 GMT
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