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Post by jno on Feb 17, 2015 15:48:17 GMT
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Post by jno on Feb 19, 2015 12:00:18 GMT
Feature on 'Minder On The Orient Express', published on 22nd December 1985 in the News Of The World "Sunday" magazine.  
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Post by Mr Rycott on Feb 20, 2015 17:12:49 GMT
"You've done me out like a right kipper haven't you! Just to dodge that bleeding subpoema"
Brilliant line and probably my favourite ever minder feature. I remember recording it on xmas day 1985. The xmas edition of tv times that year also featured a cartoon cover of Terry and arfur in santas sleigh
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Post by Andrew on Feb 21, 2015 8:52:13 GMT
I like the closing shot of Terry and Arthur as they are runnning away from the Winchester, they turn to each other with a big grin on their faces.
It left me with a warm fuzzy feeling at the time, because if I remember rightly in the supposedly last ever episode their relationship wasn't that great.
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Post by jno on Feb 21, 2015 16:45:26 GMT
I like the closing shot of Terry and Arthur as they are runnning away from the Winchester, they turn to each other with a big grin on their faces. It left me with a warm fuzzy feeling at the time, because if I remember rightly in the supposedly last ever episode their relationship wasn't that great. Yep I agree - it is a great scene - like two old buddies on the run.
Interestingly (I only found this out by complete accident), the alley way they run up at the end runs parallel on the other side of the wall to where Terry chases the two thugs at the end of series 1's "Come in T-64, Your Time Is Ticking Away" on Clarendon Road opposite Lansdowne Rise, W11.
Come In T-64
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BING Streetside showing both sides: 
Here is the Google Street View link: goo.gl/maps/ZY539 and the same with a better angle on: Bing Streetside link from which the last pic is taken. 
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Post by richb on Mar 30, 2015 20:32:35 GMT
Just watched this again and I have to say its British comedy at its best. I suppose it's a million miles away from what minder was originally but the timing is fantastic and it's the first time as a viewer you side with Charlie Chisholm
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Post by barrythebook on Apr 1, 2015 21:13:31 GMT
......and Chisholm is very,very good in this.
His body language on the train is perfect for someone that feels totally out of place and uncomfortable with the company he's in.
Also, a couple of his best lines ever imo...
"I do not intend to relax! I do not intend to have a good time and if you poke me like that again,so help me i'll stick one right in your boatrace!"
"..and what is standard Interpol procedure in these circumstances? Another three coure meal I shouldn't wonder."
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Post by emmo26 on Apr 4, 2015 12:01:08 GMT
See that the Arthur Daley doppelgänger gangster idea was shamefully stolen by Only Fools for their Xmas special Miami Twice.
However Arthur did say "He who dares, wins" in the episode The Son Also Rises.
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Post by I used to think I was a parrot on Apr 20, 2015 22:30:20 GMT
I always watch this and the much maligned Officer and a Car Salesman at Easter or Bank Holidays if I have the time; I watched Orient Express on Easter Monday.
Such a great cast and a fun film - although it is a bit cheesey. I love the music and the bit where Arthur says "where are the white cliffs of Dover" and Terry says "it's Folkestone you berk">
And Linda Hayden's hair is fantastic!
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Post by jno on Apr 27, 2015 2:55:15 GMT
I agree entirely that watching this over a holiday period is just fantastic. A little article here reminiscing about the crossing to France: www.dancingledge.com/words/interviews/george-cole.htmlI am not quite sure where Ray Winstone fits in into it though unless parts of this have been mistaken for 'Goodbye Sailor'. |
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Post by plasticpenguin on Jun 8, 2015 10:49:52 GMT
Love pics like these. Not often you get a glimpse of how they pan along when someone is walking or a vehicle is moving - simple rails and a fixed camera moving along. Simple but wicked.
Didn't realise Chris still owned the model trains. My family has a long history with trains. Caught my attention.
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Post by garytomo on Jun 24, 2015 6:43:11 GMT
Brilliant. Takes you back to better times!!!
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Post by barrythebook on Aug 22, 2015 11:11:20 GMT
There's a Christmas Special, 'An Officer and a Carsalesman' and another special which is basically a montage of clips from all the series, 'The Early Years'.
In the second 'special', Terry, Arthur and Dave are in the Winchester reminiscing and the different scenes appear as flashbacks.
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Post by Celvin on Aug 27, 2015 6:59:58 GMT
Never easy to stretch a TV show into movie length, but this is pretty good. Terry, Arthur and Chisholm are pretty much themselves - it is just the other regulars who are absent of course and replaced by a cast of characters on the train.
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Post by mybodyguard on Sept 13, 2015 14:02:19 GMT
It seemed to me like George hammed it up a little bit more for this one. Maybe because it was a special feature length episode. Although, he was actually hammered in the movie!
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Post by jno on Dec 9, 2015 8:05:14 GMT
A nice little article with a tiny bit of background info on Patrick Malahide and info from Dennis from The Daily Express on Tuesday 24th Dec 1985:
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Post by jno on Mar 18, 2016 7:13:47 GMT
From The Express on Wednesday 21st May 1986 - first ever release of this film on glorious VHS.  |
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Post by vicboy on Apr 26, 2016 21:14:24 GMT
Anyone know why this film is shown so rarely?
After all, ITV4 have flogged The Professionals to death and beyond in recent years, closely followed by Minder itself and The Sweeny.
Whilst we all love this programmes, it surprises me that ITV have not filled up a couple of episodes worth of the above with the film a bit more frequently.
Would it be down to cost? Anyone know?
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Post by jno on Apr 27, 2016 7:37:59 GMT
I think it all comes down to the running time. The same applies to 'An Officer & A Car Salesman'. As they are over an hour in length fitting them into a (likely computer generated) schedule of 1 hour blocks means it just a non-starter. This would be my guess.
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Post by bensonrad on Apr 27, 2016 12:12:44 GMT
I reached this episode/film with my viewing last week, really enjoyed it, I can see why it's not on TV so much what with its length, but you would think it would fit in well with a bank holiday weekend, when they seem to fill the schedules with back to back old movies.
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Post by jno on Apr 27, 2016 14:00:36 GMT
I reached this episode/film with my viewing last week, really enjoyed it, I can see why it's not on TV so much what with its length, but you would think it would fit in well with a bank holiday weekend, when they seem to fill the schedules with back to back old movies. I have to say that of all the Minder locations I have been to, I know it's not in London but this one in Caffiers in northern France is Minder Location Utopia for me:  Why? Well for me, this episode was shown at what was arguably the peak of the show's popularity - this station which features in the film's climax is literally in the middle of nowhere in France and when you're there you absolutely feel (well sad ol' me did anyway) totally a part of this total Minder momentum. Love it!  |
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Post by yoyopickles on Apr 28, 2016 18:12:32 GMT
Arthurs cream coloured trilby does really not go with his suit and of course crombie at all!
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Post by jno on May 9, 2016 20:21:29 GMT
The end of Minder in 1985 - oh my good gawd, what will we do? Well here's some tips from The Times on Monday December 16th, 1985:  Alternatively, cut this out and visit your local travel agent (again seen in The Times Christmas Eve 1985):  |
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Post by leaveitoutjohn on Jun 21, 2016 20:53:01 GMT
Arthur thought that the German guy in Minder on the Orient Express was Welsh.
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Post by pr1 on Aug 16, 2016 22:35:11 GMT
My health problems were acting up a bit today so I prescribed myself a dose of Minder. This turned out to be very good medicine! I enjoyed it a great deal. Nice to see Garfield Morgan in Minder. A great cast of familiar faces, even to my American eyes, playing interesting characters. So many great lines even by the standards of Minder.
Patrick Malahide excels at playing Chisholm as a fish out of water. Nothing goes right for the poor guy! Dennis and George are definetly at the top of their game. I love the scene in the park at the end of part one. George Cole is really working his magic in that scene!
If I didn't know differently and if not for the title cards indicating ends of parts, it would be easy to think this was a theatrical film rather than being made for tv.
What where the ratings like for this when it first aired?
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Post by swainy on Aug 17, 2016 12:59:13 GMT
It was originally intended for cinema release from what I remember.
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Post by pr1 on Aug 17, 2016 15:07:42 GMT
It was originally intended for cinema release from what I remember. It certainly has the look and feel of a theatrical film. |
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Post by swainy on Aug 17, 2016 15:12:31 GMT
To answer your other question about how it done in the ratings, sadly it was put up against a Christmas special of Only Fools & Horses on BBC1 which ratings wise came out on top. We watched Minder in our house |
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Post by pr1 on Aug 17, 2016 17:00:47 GMT
Since it aired on Christmas Day I was curious about the ratings. Here in Ameirica the major networks show reruns or an older movie they wouldn't normally show. Brand new programming is virtually unheard of in Primetime on Christmas evening.
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Post by syrupapplesnpears on Oct 24, 2016 16:35:15 GMT
Loved it - never seen it before. The characters are that well-defined by now they work in a completely different setting such as this.
The music's a bit cheesy, but it's prime Minder. Arthur's inhuman howl when he sees Chisholm for the first time ('Albert' again - Charlie has to be an alliterative nickname), the slinky Honor Blackman, Arthur outside the window, the slapstick fight at the end and the mention of 'Chisophrenia'...great stuff.
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