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Post by mario65 on Jan 22, 2018 23:22:51 GMT
It did seem to be a stylistic departure from the previous episodes. Much more library music and a more 'serious' feel. Watched it this evening for the first time in years and bl*ody loved every minute of it (and so did my 10 year old daughter who insists we watch an episode every evening. Something of which I am more than happy to go along with) Your daughter is very wise! She sure is!! We had a right old laugh this evening watching 'The Tethered Goat'. Kenneth Griffith as the impromptu butler Dai Llewellyn absolutely stole the show. Brilliant! His hand gestures while addressing Mr Sayin were inspired. Classic!!!
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Post by mario65 on Jan 21, 2018 23:52:19 GMT
Perfect episode to conclude series 1. A darker episode and an unusual use of incidental music. Terry coming across very heroic here. The 'extra' is obviously spooked by the dog barking. Very surprising to see the people looking on when Terry and Arthur leave the police station. That's the type of thing Crossroads would get crucified for. As the ratings weren't great, it's scary to think that this could have been the last we saw of Minder. Thank goodness for Brian Cowgill (I think)I wa It did seem to be a stylistic departure from the previous episodes. Much more library music and a more 'serious' feel. Watched it this evening for the first time in years and bloody loved every minute of it (and so did my 10 year old daughter who insists we watch an episode every evening. Something of which I am more than happy to go along with)
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Post by mario65 on Jan 5, 2018 18:12:36 GMT
The club atmosphere is absolutely bang-on! Harringey in North London used to have loads back in the 70's. During school days, me and my mates used to go to one of these clubs for a quick (few) games of pool during our lunch break. One day turned out to be very different though. We noticed the door and curtains were closed but we could see the owner just behind the curtain so we banged on the door for him to let us in. He was usually a friendly bloke but that day he told us to eff off!! Being pretty daft, we kept banging on the door and eventually, he let us in but told us to be silent, play 1 game of pool then eff off! I'll never forget him locking the door behind us.
We soon found out that a major card game was going on. We started playing our game of pool but you could cut the atmosphere with a knife and It didn't feel good at all! It felt like it could get dangerous at the drop of a hat. My mates kept quietly asking me what was going on and being Greek I was able to tell them. It wasn't pretty. This one old bloke just kept losing. He was sweating buckets and couldn't keep his leg from shaking. Poor bloke eventually gave up one of his homes in Southgate and his daughters Merc. We just couldn't believe what we were seeing. Another guy had lost about 300 quid but didn't seem that bothered. Never seen anything like it since but the old guy's crying at the end was terrible. What was meant to be our 1 game of pool went on for over two hours because we were too scared to tell the owner to unlock the door in case he went mad again. Well, that was about 1977 and Harringey looks very different now.
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