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Post by jno on May 20, 2015 9:32:32 GMT
Link to episode on minder.org: www.minder.org/episodeguide/S08E03_WhateverHappenedToHerIndoors.htm
This starts with a nice few scenes about the 'British Is Best' flag and despite all Arthur's proud to be British attitude from the start of this episode, he still has a map of Italy behind him on the wall at the the car lot caravan. The story then quickly moves on to the fact that 'er indoors has disappeared.
This episode is very well constructed to conceal the identity of 'er indoors from start to finish. Although the majority of the episode is about her we find out very little about her, only that she has a sister referred to as simply 'er in Norfolk. We also learn that Ray's middle name is Albert (used at court). This is the second time Bert & Doreen appear as Morley goes around to interview them. Billy from Bradford is down as Arthur tries to sell him very humourous micro chip marvels in the form of timers that play three popular tunes - these are one of my favorite gadgets that Arthur has for sale throughout the entire series.
A few notable faces in this one - firstly Kevin McNally as Mr Richards the jobsworth council planning enforcement officer. He is of course Kevin Sperring who wrote nine Ray Daley episodes, the first of which having been the previous episode 'A Bouquet Of Barbed Wine'. George Cole would later appear with Kevin McNally in the BBC sitcom 'Dad' and talks a little bit about Kevin and working him in his 'The World Was My Lobster' autobiography. Then we see a very young Philip Glenister as reporter Greg Hunter. Also appearing is Cherry Gillespie who plays the hairdresser that reports 'er indoors missing to Morley. She was member of Pan's People on Top Of The Pops from 1972 to 1976 and the shortlived 'Ruby Flipper' that replaced them briefly in 1976 before Legs & Co. took over.
A small clue on the filming date: the calendar on the door of Arthur's office of the lockup I believe could be from December 1990 (see picture - unless its a prop?).
Point of interest for old school retro computing lovers - Arthur's bank manager has an Amstrad 1640HD on his desk. These came with a humongous 20Mb hard disk and superseded the earlier 1512DD model which has two floppy drives and a staggering 512k of memory - more info: www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?c=19&st=1.
Some good lines from Arthur:
Sell to keep well - get all the British ones down the front. About 'er indoors: When she's aggravated, I get aggravation.
In court: Mrs Worship, one cannot hold a dialogue with a man who is permanently cocking a deaf'un. In court: I have led a blameless life.
Overall, although not the best episode of Minder ever - this is a very enjoyable one with sadly only a few laughs along the way.
The inclusion of lots of characters very much keeps the story going and there is certainly a lot going on. Of course the viewer is very keen to know what has happened to her indoors by the end of the story too. 6/10
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Post by henry66 on May 22, 2015 14:02:45 GMT
Blooper in this episode , Arthur has had his phone disconnected at the lock up , when he leaves Ray with instructions to clear out the stock in case plod turn up ,Ray is seen phoning Billy from Leeds from the lock up on the land line
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Post by daytona355 on Nov 18, 2015 19:33:03 GMT
This was actually one of my favourite episodes, with his verbally bashing the council bloke and making him out as a drunk! Hilarious
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Post by VAT on Nov 22, 2015 20:11:36 GMT
This was actually one of my favourite episodes, with his verbally bashing the council bloke and making him out as a drunk! Hilarious Yes, same here. One of my favourite Ray eps.
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Post by daytona355 on Nov 23, 2015 7:57:33 GMT
It was typical Arthur, unleashed. The one liners and 'arthurisms' ran thick and fast in it, absolutely hilarious.
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Post by daz on Jan 3, 2016 14:48:46 GMT
Yes, have to agree with the above a good episode, always lovely to see and hear Arthur taking the moral highground in certain matters relating in him making money or being stopped from making money. Loved the way they referred to "Er Indoors" throughout the whole of Minder but we never actually seen her, no idea where the pinched that idea from...
I also like how the Police are on Arthurs case the whole episode about his Wife disappearing and he seems oblivious to it all, brilliant.
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Post by swainy on Jan 3, 2016 15:25:32 GMT
Glad to hear that you are getting back into these Daz.
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Post by pr1 on Oct 2, 2016 17:53:31 GMT
I thought this episode was brilliant! I really enjoyed Arthur's opportunistic patriotism and his court room antics.. I also like the clever way next to nothing is revealed about 'Er Indoors despite most of the episode being about her.
I've only seen three Ray episodes but so far this is my favorite.
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Post by daz on Oct 2, 2016 19:17:07 GMT
Trust me PR1, you have some real treats ahead.
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Post by thewoodster on Feb 27, 2018 23:01:38 GMT
George Cole played a blinder in this, the mannerisms and one liners are great to watch.
Er indoors missed by everybody in this episode apart from Arthur.
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Post by djchapman86 on Mar 1, 2018 13:32:02 GMT
Really hope last orders, with heart attack is on ITV4 soon.
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Post by thewoodster on Mar 1, 2018 22:50:42 GMT
Last orders hopefully showing soon ITV4.
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Post by Zimbo on Jun 28, 2018 11:17:25 GMT
I really enjoyed this one. Two good story strands with the disappearance of Her Indoors and the flag. George was on top form here, as though he knew that it was going to be ok without Dennis. The bank manager was played by Michael Garner, soon to become Geoffrey 'Poison' Pearce in London's Burning and had also appeared in 'Another Bride, Another Groom' in series 3.
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Post by pr1 on Oct 1, 2018 3:51:13 GMT
A great episode.
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Post by jno on Nov 2, 2018 18:47:43 GMT
Press photo:
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Post by spacecadet on Feb 1, 2019 11:53:38 GMT
Watched this episode last night. Noticed that there was some snow on the ground of the car lot in a number of scenes. This may indicate the episode has filmed around the second week of February 1991 as London had some snow around that time. See link : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_1990–91_in_Western_Europe
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Post by swainy on Feb 1, 2019 16:57:05 GMT
I remember seeing a trailer on Thames of forthcoming shows for Autumn 1991 and they showed a clip of Minder being filmed at the car lot, it was snowing and George Cole was clearly feeling the cold weather. It was probably from this episode.
Would love to see that again.
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Post by thewoodster on Feb 2, 2019 14:26:05 GMT
I remember seeing a trailer on Thames of forthcoming shows for Autum 1991 and they showed a clip of Minder being filmed at the car lot, it was snowing and George Cole was clearly feeling the cold weather. It was probably from this episode. Would love to see that again. I remember that swainy,would be good to see again,but don’t think we’ve much hope.
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Post by swainy on Feb 2, 2019 16:27:39 GMT
Well I keep searching YouTube through tons of ITV adverts of 1991. New (old) stuff turns up every now & then so you never know.
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Post by jno on Feb 2, 2019 18:13:52 GMT
Well I keep searching YouTube through tons of ITV adverts of 1991. New (old) stuff turns up every now & then so you never know. The Internet: everything you want is probably out there, you just need to find it (jno 1995) - you never know what is 'around the corner'.
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Post by Shot By Both Sides on Dec 18, 2019 16:33:58 GMT
Minder was on today, I thought oh good until that theme music was different and I saw it wasn't Waterman.
Can't bear it but I wonder how many of us there are that like both as to having a preference for one or the other.
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Post by swainy on Dec 18, 2019 17:43:09 GMT
Well I keep searching YouTube through tons of ITV adverts of 1991. New (old) stuff turns up every now & then so you never know. Seek and you shall find! Skip to about 2:34
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Post by jno on Dec 18, 2019 18:14:08 GMT
Utterly superb find swainy, well done!
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Post by swainy on Dec 18, 2019 21:32:22 GMT
The only thing I want to find now is a clip from Thames News where they were in the Winchester whilst filming series 8.
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Post by Shot By Both Sides on Dec 18, 2019 23:26:01 GMT
Great find, swainy.
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Post by jjmolloy on Dec 19, 2019 1:34:44 GMT
As series 8 is running on ITV4 I've decided to dig them out on my DVDs. I was early 20s when Series 8 was broadcast, roughly the same age as Ray. I have to say that I enjoyed them immensely at the time.
With the passing of the years though I kind of dismissed the Ray years, compared to Terry's episodes so I'm watching Ray's for the first time in many years. I'm being very pleasantly surprised at how good they are, some really excellent dialogue. Looking forward to the rest of the Ray years very much.
Pretty big (in my opinion) continuity error in this episode, when Arthur arrives back at the car lot after his triumph in court as he gets out of his car it's a very foggy overcast murky day, within seconds however by the time he reaches the flagpole the sky is clear blue and the whole scene is bathed in bright sunshine.
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Post by jno on Dec 19, 2019 18:48:41 GMT
I'm being very pleasantly surprised at how good they are, some really excellent dialogue. Looking forward to the rest of the Ray years very much. Without drifting off the topic of this episode, you'll see elsewhere on this forum me saying that having seen these series many times, my preferred Ray series is 10, then 9, then 8.
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Post by McCann on May 20, 2020 10:35:34 GMT
Another average score here. Certainly it was pretty wintery weather during the filming of these episodes, you can see from their breaths, and the dusting of snow in the background.
Of course this is a bit of a rehash of the story from series 2 episode 'You win some, you lose some' With a missing Mrs who has taken off to a health farm. It was probably so long since series 2 had been aired (maybe 6/7 years) that they figured nobody would notice the plot being used again.
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Post by gareth on May 27, 2020 9:17:09 GMT
Not the best Minder I've seen...
Feel sorry for " Her indoors " though as for the third year in succession she's been let down by Arthur..
Not a very good story line but Arthur somehow styles it out in his usual Modus Operandum.
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Post by Toecutter on Sept 4, 2020 18:31:27 GMT
Always liked the 'Nah,she wouldn't be in there' line to Morley when he suggests that he'd like to look in her wardrobe.Always gives me a chuckle.
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