With his bank refusing to honour his cheques and a Court Bailiff pursuing him for unpaid bills, Arthur is delighted when a mysterious businessman makes him a very attractive offer for the wh... Read allWith his bank refusing to honour his cheques and a Court Bailiff pursuing him for unpaid bills, Arthur is delighted when a mysterious businessman makes him a very attractive offer for the whole of his business empire.With his bank refusing to honour his cheques and a Court Bailiff pursuing him for unpaid bills, Arthur is delighted when a mysterious businessman makes him a very attractive offer for the whole of his business empire.
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- TriviaDennis Waterman's final appearance as Terry McCann after 10 years in the role. When the series returned two years later, Terry had emigrated to Australia.
- GoofsTerry is supposed to take two hundred dolls to Leeds in his Capri. At about 44 mins in - see the size of the boxes. It would be impossible to get two hundred of them into a Ford Capri.
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William Pierce: With the greatest respect, none of us are getting any younger
Arthur: [Said in a reflective tone] How true. How very true.
Arthur: [Said with some indignation] You mean me!
William Pierce: It has to be a factor you know. If you were a younger man at the start of life's great adventure, I'd be able to take a more lenient view of the situation, but based on the available data, at your age you are a bad risk.
William Pierce: [Later] Are you seriously asking me to loan you fifty thousand pounds when you only earn a hundred and fifty pounds a week?
Terry: Well, yeah.
William Pierce: What assets do you own, house, shares?
Terry: Shares, me? No, no, I haven't got any of those, no. Well, I've got my flat, but that's rented
William Pierce: The trouble is it's all against you, isn't it, particularly your age.
Terry: My age?
William Pierce: If you were an older man well on the way in life's great adventure, I might be able to take a more relaxed view, but you're young and that makes you a bad risk.
- ConnectionsReferences The Long Goodbye (1973)
- SoundtracksI Could Be So Good For You
Lyrics by Patricia Maynard (as Waterman)
Music by Gerard Kenny (as Kenny)
Sung by Dennis Waterman (as Waterman)
Title song (1979-1988)
Justin: "You just got here!"
Having said goodbye to George Cole (2015), Glynn Edwards (2018), Dennis Waterman (2022), as well as Rycott (Peter Childs,1989), it stills feels like this memorable, exemplary, unique television show "just got here."
I've read elsewhere that Dennis Waterman didn't announce his plan to leave the show until after Season 7 concluded. That's hard to believe since this episode has all the earmarks of a farewell episode for everyone concerned.
Arthur Daley finds himself owing so many people that when he gets an offer to buy his entire operation he jumps at it. And then starts flashing the money around. Of course, this is Minder, so there are plenty of complications.
The producers get most of the old band back together to help untangle matters: Peter Childs (Rycott), Michael Troughton (Melish), and Michael Povey (Jones to his former boss, DS Chisholm; Taffy to the locals on the estate) and even latter-day semi-recurring Mark Farmer (Justin) and Royce Mills (Arthur's accountant).
Daley clears his slate with Glynn Edwards (Dave) at The Winchester. Sells some dodgy merchandise to a guy in Leeds. And has the local bailliff trying to seize the car lot and lockup. Classic stuff.
The writers finally gave Jones his due as a diligent copper, as he works with Terry McCann to find a detective's resolution to Arthur's financial challenge (harkening back to Waterman's work on The Sweeney in the 70s).
Contrary to some of the reviewers, who clearly enjoyed the earlier series as much as I did, I feel the show actually got stronger over the years. Yes, it lost the swearing, partial nudity, and lots of the grit, but it never lost the story-telling and it gained a lot of comedy.
It was my favorite show since I first watched it as a teenager on a tiny B&W television on latenight Canadian TV in the early 80s. And it remains on top as I watch Series 1-7 on my Firestick as a nearly retired person.
Cole and Waterman even go out singing. I doff my trilby hat to anyone who ever had a hand in this remarkable television show.
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- Dec 4, 2023
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