"Minder" (1979) - Episodes cast
Season 1, Episode 1: Gunfight at the O.K. Laundrette
29 October 1979
Terry McCann, an ex-boxer who has served a prison term is working for dodgy car salesman Arthur Daley. Alfie Cavallo, a friend of Arthur's, asks for the loan of Terry's services when he goes to collect the takings from one of the laundrettes he owns. However, Alfie and Terry walk in on an armed robbery by a trio who claim to be the Independent Rastafarian Army. Alfie is shot and the two men are taken hostage along with elderly customer Mrs. Mayhew. An overnight siege takes place. Because of his form Terry is suspected by the police of being an accomplice but he proves himself to be the hero of the day with Mrs. Mayhew vouching for the fact that he defused a very dangerous situation. Arthur is hopeful that he can make money by selling Terry's story to the press and foresees the start of a beautiful friendship.
Season 5, Episode 1: Goodbye Sailor
5 September 1984
Arthur plans to make a killing by buying some cheap tobacco from a sailor coming over from France and sends Terry and young Arnie down to the coast to meet the prospective sellers. When Arthur joins them he learns that two respectable sailing club members are the actual importers and the party sets out in a yacht to make the deal. On their return they are intercepted by a customs launch and the spoils thrown overboard though Arthur is quick to retrieve then when they are washed up on a beach.
Season 6, Episode 7: Minder on the Orient Express
25 December 1985
Feature-length special from the popular TV series "Minder". Saving deceased gangster Jack South's daughter Nikki from an attack by hired thugs earns "minder" Terry McCann a trip for two across Europe on the famous Orient Express. But a perfect romantic opportunity with his girlfriend Annie is ruined when his dodgy employer & "friend" Arthur Daley cons his way onto the trip to avoid a court appearance, and Terry again finds himself battling to protect Nikki from a whole train load of sinister characters all after Nikki's legacy. Add to this a Mafia hitman, a gun-toting Interpol officer and an unwelcome appearance by Terry & Arthurs' London nemesis, the long suffering Detective Sergeant Chisholm...
Season 7, Episode 0: An Officer and a Car Salesman
26 December 1988
Special feature length edition of the popular TV series. After "minder" Terry McCann does a stretch in prison for getting caught up in one of his boss Arthur Daley's shady deals, their long & turbulent partnership seems to be at an end. But Arthur's dealings with a former army Colonel, Caplan, who is running a "survivalist" centre in suburban England and for whom Arthur is supplying army surplus equipment, reunites the two when they stumble across a plot hatched by Caplan and his "troops" to stage a bullion robbery - the security for which is supervised by their old enemy, former detective sergeant "Charlie" Chisholm!
Season 9, Episode 9: Last Orders at the Winchester
4 March 1993
Arthur hires incompetent decorator Heart Attack to do up the Winchester for its twenty-fifth birthday but Heart Attack does more damage than good and the club faces closure until expensive repairs are made. To get the cash Ray organizes a charity football match versus the police but just before kick-off Heart Attack turns up with thousands of pounds stolen from oily rival landlord and professional nark Vic. Surrounded by the police Arthur concocts a plan to plough the money into the Winchester charity auction fund without Sregeant Morley cottoning on.
Season 9, Episode 12: A Taste of Money
25 March 1993
Ray and a jet-lagged Arthur are met from the plane in Sydney by Bill McCabe, unaware that there are five other likely candidates for the inheritance as well as a bogus claimant, a professional criminal called Rod who has been groomed by the shady Reid. Reid employs dirty tricks to nobble Arthur, which are thwarted by Bill and lawyer Susan Hamilton but a legitimate heir is eventually found - and it is not Arthur. To make things worse the Daleys discover that their flight tickets were one-way and they are now marooned in Sydney.
Season 9, Episode 13: For a Few Dollars More
1 April 1993
Broke and marooned in Sydney, the Daleys book into a cheap back packers' hostel. Ray gets bar work and Arthur falls in with street trader Derek Collins, an Antipodean version of himself, and actually does well until he catches the attention of Detective Sergeant Davis, who gives him forty-eight hours to leave Australia. Reid also causes more trouble, imagining Arthur to be a drug dealer and giving him a mere twenty-four hours to leave town. Fortunately by this time the Daleys have made enough money for a stand-by flight home and return to England.
Season 10, Episode 2: Another Case of Van Blank
13 January 1994
Arthur goes to Calais with Dave and Ray to buy cheap booze for the club but their van is broken into and all the drink stolen. Arthur meets an old friend Henry, who takes him to a warehouse to get some more but Henry and his gang are burglars, who flee when the police arrive, leaving only Arthur to be arrested and locked up. He is released after Henry is caught and the trio return to Dover but the Customs officer is suspicious that the van is empty and accuses them of drug smuggling.
Season 10, Episode 3: All Things Brighton Beautiful
20 January 1994
Sidney Myers seeks Arthur's help, having been erroneously diagnosed with a fatal illness and asked a skinhead to kill him so his wife got the insurance money and then found the diagnosis was wrong. Arthur takes Sidney to Brighton in Dave's sister's caravan where, after a fraught journey, the caravan burns down. Meanwhile Ray has located the skinhead, who tells him that Sidney really wanted him to kill psychopathic ex-convict Benny the Bosh - the very man who turns up at the Salvation Army hostel where Arthur and Sidney have taken refuge. Fortunately he is a forgiving, Born Again Christian who ends up singing hymns with Sidney but Arthur finds Dave's sister is less forgiving over the caravan.
Season 10, Episode 5: The Immaculate Contraption
3 February 1994
Having sold an over-priced and less than roadworthy Austin Allegro to a nun, Sister Angelica, things start to go wrong for Arthur as he attempts to supply equipment to Bjorn, the manager of the Jorgensen stress reduction clinic. He believes that he is being punished for his actions and sends Ray to the convent to fix the car, at a loss to his own wallet. However, when Jorgensen finally arrives from America for the clinic's opening, everything goes well and he considers that he has been exonerated in the eyes of God.