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Post by chopper on May 8, 2020 13:17:51 GMT
Watched this for 101st time yesterday afternoon, and again this morning!.....
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Post by steve74 on May 25, 2020 11:30:41 GMT
I have a soft spot for series 7 of Minder. I thought it rounded off the Terry years with some great episodes and The Days of Fines and Closures is one them. So much is happening here, I am surprised that they somehow managed to fit the story into 50 minutes. Loved Arthur at the auction up to his usual tricks, pasting the cancelled sign over the notice board to lessen his competition. Plus it has one of my very favourite Arthur quotes "One man's firewood is another man's porcupine whatsernames", George Cole's delivery is genius. So many plot strands - Terry behind the bar of the Winchester, George Baker's Cooper wanting his £2000 from Dave, Dave's disappearance, Rycott determined to close the Winchester - Jones trying to keep it open, Arthur organising muscle for Tony's club, Arthur and Terry fighting for the Winchester in court. It all fits together brilliantly and comes to a satisfying conclusion. Loved the final scene with Dave returning and seeing the 'improvements' Arthur has made to his club - " Arthur Daley, your barred!". My favourite scene has to be in the courtroom, Arthur beating the bench with his hand with Rycott on the stand. And just as Arthur eventually does a good deed he gets a handbag round the head for his trouble - " brand new titfer that was" - class. 4.5 out of 5.
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Post by nationalpelmet on Jun 18, 2020 12:39:23 GMT
Not sure if that would be Arthur’s taste the way The Winchester was “refitted” 😂
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Post by c79 on Aug 25, 2020 16:06:33 GMT
A great episode. Some personal thoughts:
George Baker's opening with classical music playing in his car reminded me of his aspiring villainous character 'Bowler' from the 1973 ITV comedy (I loved it as a lad) - I wonder if it was intentional.
Jones' and Justin's characters are skilfully developed here. Justin's constant adoration of Arthur was an inspired thought; it's a shame he didn't feature even more regularly.
Great cameos by John Nettleton and Patricia Maynard.
I don't think I've seen an episode where Arthur is so kind to Terry. It's a lovely moving ending to GC's brilliant court scene where he intervenes to protect Terry's name. Then he stops him getting involved trying to stop the arson attempt.
A real gem.
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Post by pr1 on Oct 26, 2020 1:21:53 GMT
I honestly didn’t remember anything about this episode when I started to watch it again tonight. An extremely entertaining episode. Lots of great moments including some laugh out loud ones.
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Post by richb on Nov 20, 2020 14:19:12 GMT
Forgotten all about this episode. Very funny. Not sure if that would be Arthur’s taste the way The Winchester was “refitted” 😂 No but he had this misguided idea thats what people liked and would make money ha ha |
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Post by Toecutter on Jan 25, 2021 19:05:16 GMT
Watching again,now,for the umpteenth time.Arthur's court scene,Justin and his run in with the heavies,Terry in the winchester,Lucy giving Arthur a handbagging ,Mr Shanks ,Jones and his side kick...ect,ect.
This episode has stood the test of time rather well.
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Post by minderfan84 on Jan 25, 2021 23:14:25 GMT
Absolute class that love how he grills Rycott and he is walking up and down the room  |
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Post by bigaitch on May 3, 2021 9:03:08 GMT
What a great episode. Arthur cross examining Rycott was brilliantly executed by George Cole and the reaction to Justin, all 5 foot 8 of him giving advice to the heavies was priceless. And of course Daves Mrs wacking Arthur round the head with her handbag, priceless.
A slight blooper I think right at the end when Dave is banged up with some very agitated England fans....it appears there is a guy with a Scotland flag in amongst them.....not sure he would have lasted ten seconds in real life....
I also thought Tony Selby’s Scottish accent was superb.
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Post by coyote on Apr 14, 2022 16:42:20 GMT
I just noticed the Aiwa sound system and Banwa video recorder in Arthur's lockup are the same boxes that were burnt in the "sorry lorry" in the previous episode  |
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Post by 615 on Sept 15, 2022 14:16:04 GMT
remember it for one thing i.e. the one that Dave goes missing in. It is arguably Dave's most famous episode for me even though he's not in it that much. Another thing I noticed is that, likewise, 'Er Indoors gets a similar episode, where she is missing, and, of course has very little to do, despite the episode centering on her...and it was also written by David Yallop. Regarding the issue of similar characters to past ones played by the same actor...moreover, why they don't just reprise the first character and be done with it...I don't suppose having different writers for each of the episodes may affect this? Would it particularly be a problem, with rights or whatever, to resuse an exact character name from someone else's episode? Just for the sake of an example or two..You Gotta Have Friends was written by Leon Griffiths, who'd come up with the name "Bobby Altman". Likewise Roly-Poly Peter, by Tony Hoare, in Second Hand Pose. I don't know, just a thought on what goes through the production's minds, when it comes to continuity. Can be a very different thing to our, the viewer/fan's thinking. It most certainly could be a problem reusing characters created by different writers again. Apart from the copyright issues, writers tend to guard their creations like lionesses guard their cubs. When the writer of 'Happy Ever After' fell out with the BBC, it had to continue as Terry And June, with different surnames. And Nearest And Dearest changed likewise to become Not On Your Nelly. |
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Post by manta on Feb 12, 2023 18:49:22 GMT
This is a magnificent episode. Amazing they squeezed it all in there and of course it's bonkers but it somehow it all hangs together. Justin's encounter with Cooper and his heavies is indeed memorable but of course Arthur is on absolute top form throughout - as is everybody but Arthur has so much to carry - with ease.
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Post by AlanH on Feb 14, 2023 8:41:04 GMT
7.2 Days of Fines and Closures
Watched this one last night care of ViaVision's reissued Minder sets from Australia.
It's an excellent, highly entertaining episode which manages to surprise - with Arthur for once coming up trumps and doing something for reasons mostly for the good of others, i.e. Dave and also to protect Terry's reputation. You really expect him to make a complete pig's ear of the court case and yet he comes up smelling of roses instead. It's always good when a TV series can twist the viewer's perceptions, particularly when into its seventh series.
Some great comic moments, particularly when Dave's wife Lucy gives Arthur a bit of a beating, and it's also fun to see the factions in the police force working against each other, with Arthur and Terry the piggies in the middle. Also Arthur's nerve in turning up to an auction with a 'cancelled' sign and plastering it over the entrance sign so as to keep the number of rival bidders low is an absolute gem.
Nice turn from George Baker in a very Bowler role (indeed, Del Henney, one of his henchmen, is very reminiscent facially of Bowler's minder Reg, played by Fred Beauman in the 1973 LWT sitcom). Obviously, it's played straight compared to Bowler, but the parallels are obvious - it must have been on the collective mind of the Minder team when Baker was cast.
There are also some enjoyable appearances from Johnny Shannon (who I will always remember from the first Professionals to be filmed, Old Dog with New Tricks), Thorley Walters (always a surprise to see this stalwart of British films turn up in TV programmes, but a very welcome one), Patricia Maynard (who I will always remember from Doctor Who: Robot, but who of course was the second Mrs Dennis Waterman - by the time of this episode they had been divorced for 7 years), Tony Selby (oddly playing a Scot but convincing at least to this non-Scot) and also Mark Farmer is again good value as Justin (or Justine as Arthur calls him, suggesting it's a name that can be male or female!).
One of those episodes that you go back to. Excellent stuff. A 9/10 this one...
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Post by manta on Feb 15, 2023 11:33:05 GMT
Indeed AlanH, with the police set against each other, it's a natty way of neutralising them whilst keeping them involved!
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Post by coyote on Feb 15, 2023 22:44:35 GMT
I am one of the few on here who enjoys Jones as a Sgt on his own as much as as Chisholm's sidekick. This episode shows how different he is to Chisholm - Cheerful Charlie would never have given a file to Arthur, in fact he would also have been in favour of closing The Winchester and possibly only opposed it to get one over on Ronnie Rycott, whereas Taff shows here and even more so in the final S7 episode that he's clever and capable of pulling strings behind the scenes.
I've said somewhere before that Jones' level of disdain for Ronnie is possibly even more insulting for him than Chisholm's - Ronnie and Charlie were competitive peers but both ultimately failures. Rycott and Jones both know Taff is on his way up and pretty soon Ronnie will be calling him "sir" or "guv", and that sits very badly with him.
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