Minder
"The world is your lobster"
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
Genre: Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Actor: George Cole, Dennis Waterman, Glynn Edwards, Patrick Malahide, Gary Webster
Creator: Leon Griffiths
Country: United Kingdom
Type: tv
Season: 1
Episode: 1
Duration: 1h 0m
Release: 1979
Rating: 6.7
Season 1 - Minder
29 Oct 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 ..."
12 Nov 1979
"Small-time crook Scotch Harry steals a suit-case from an airport, which contains a lot of money. The police are after him and Arthur agrees to broker a deal for its return, minus his ..."
19 Nov 1979
"Terry starts work as the bodyguard for Bassam Sayin, a Lebanese businessman and diplomat, but the two men do not get on, and, when the safe house in which they are staying is raided by ..."
17 Dec 1979
"Arthur is running a mini-cab business with a partner but when their drivers are attacked and the cars vandalized, Kevin, the partner, is reluctant, for tax purposes, to involve the police. ..."
07 Jan 1980
"Arthur is much taken by would-be singer Sharon Dobbs, who is a pretty girl but no great vocalist. He gets her a gig at a club run by dodgy Chris Lambert, who welshes on their agreement, and..."
14 Jan 1980
"Having saved Charlie, a Greek-Cypriot, from a beating, Terry learns that Christina, Charlie's cousin, is also being threatened by her brother-in-law, who wants to take over their Greek ..."
21 Jan 1980
"When some bearer bonds belonging to gangster Bobby Altman go missing, he immediately suspects the courier Billy Gilpin and sends his heavies after him. Billy turns to Arthur and Terry for ..."
Season 2 - Minder
18 Sep 1980
"Arthur goes to the hospital to visit his friend Alex, who has been the victim of a hit-and-run incident. Whether or not it was an accident is a moot point as Terry discovers when he agrees ..."
02 Oct 1980
"Terry is anxious to help boxer Willie Reynolds make a comeback in the ring but he is less than inspiring to the point that Barney, the promoter, is betting on his opponent to win. Terry is ..."
16 Oct 1980
"An old Army pal of Arthur's, known as Yorkie, comes down to London to chat about old times and have a night on the ale. After a drinking session he goes missing and when Arthur catches up ..."
23 Oct 1980
"Arthur buys a consignment of cheap red wine from dodgy wine merchant Clive Stannard but Clive is robbed of his takings by a masseuse at his hotel and suspects Arthur, sending a heavy after ..."
30 Oct 1980
"A landlady named Kate asks Terry to provide the muscle to help her remove a young couple of squatters. However Terry comes to realize that Kate is in the wrong and is illegally evicting the..."
13 Nov 1980
"With only three months to go of his sentence Terry's old school-friend George Palmer escapes from prison, protesting his innocence of the diamond robbery for which he was convicted. Terry ..."
27 Nov 1980
"Terry helps out his friend Des by delivering a car but it is a getaway car that has been used in a robbery and Terry's finger-prints are found in it. Amazingly Arthur comes to his young ..."
Season 3 - Minder
13 Jan 1982
"Monty Wiseman, a dodgy travel agent, pays Terry to collect a coffin from the airport and store it at Arthur's lock-up. It soon becomes clear that something very fishy is going on when a ..."
20 Jan 1982
"Terry gets his hand broken in a fight whilst collecting a debt so Arthur temporarily employs a new minder in Vernon, to help him guard a consignment of diamonds that he is shipping out. In ..."
27 Jan 1982
"When Terry gets a job as a security guard at an art gallery Arthur sees yet another golden opportunity to make money - forging old masters. He manages to find an extremely competent forger ..."
03 Feb 1982
"With Terry looking out for him, 'Mad' Micky Dixon goes on the run from prison in order to protest his innocence over his latest conviction. The press are interested in finding Micky. Arthur..."
17 Feb 1982
"Arthur is organizing the limousine for his niece Trina's wedding with Terry as the chauffeur. To Terry's annoyance Arthur decides they must use the car to get rid of a load of pornographic ..."
24 Feb 1982
"An old lag who is a chum of Arthur's is released from prison determined to recover the remains of the loot from a bank robbery. However, the retired policeman who sent him down, a prison ..."
03 Mar 1982
"Muriel Standen calls upon Terry's services as a bodyguard when her teenage son John is beaten up by local thugs and Terry ends up taking the lad to and from school. John's father Ted is a ..."
10 Mar 1982
"Terry agrees to accompany a bookie named Barry to an empty car-park where Barry is going to hand over the winnings to a punter. Too late, however, Terry realizes that he has been caught up ..."
24 Mar 1982
"Terry's girlfriend Debbie is now working as a mobile hair-dresser but unfortunately the first house she visits gets robbed. Debbie is a witness to the robbery but the police suspect that ..."
31 Mar 1982
"When Jack 'Oily' Wragg, a villain who has fled the country, returns to London, Terry is in two minds as to whether to welcome him or not. That is, until it transpires that Wragg has come ..."
Season 4 - Minder
25 Jan 1984
"Terry is working as a driver for Mickey 'The Fish' Metcalfe, who is not a man to be trifled with, so that when a sneak thief of Terry's acquaintance climbs through a window and makes off ..."
01 Feb 1984
"Arthur's latest money-making scheme, in partnership with veteran con artist J.J. Mooney, involves a race tipping scam with an imaginary office. They hire a postal address and use three ..."
08 Feb 1984
"A group of gypsies are suspected of intimidating a car-dealer friend of Arthur's but they come to Terry's rescue when the real villains turn out to be supposedly respectable businessmen. ..."
15 Feb 1984
"When the lovely Dee Collins arrives in the Winchester, with her friend Greg, having flown all the way from their native Australia, everybody is captivated by her charm, especially Arthur, ..."
29 Feb 1984
"Having been invited to speak at the Rotary Club where Terry is the security guard, Arthur sees the chance to better himself by providing the catering for a local hotel. Terry, meanwhile, ..."
07 Mar 1984
"Arthur decides to cash in on the fitness craze by opening his own aerobics suite named the Daley Work-out staffed by moon-lighting casino staff but runs into trouble when his business ..."
14 Mar 1984
"Arthur is the sole witness when a punter drops down dead after being threatened by the illegal bookie Albert Wendle, to whom he owed money. Arthur is questioned by Chisholm but released. ..."
21 Mar 1984
"Terry is engaged to act as minder for the fashion collection of buyer Ronald Shyver, guarding his warehouse overnight but as he has another appointment Arthur agrees to take his place. Next..."
Season 5 - Minder
12 Sep 1984
"Shamy is a young Indian who has owed Arthur money for a while and eventually gets round to paying him. Unfortunately the \u00a320 notes he gives Arthur are forgeries, a fact which comes to ..."
19 Sep 1984
"Arthur and Terry are initially surprised that the apparently confident and successful businessman Clive Cosgrove should be so apprehensive about getting married. Until, that is, the truth ..."
26 Sep 1984
"Arthur's friend Ruby Hubbard, an authoress, returns to London to write a new book and to sell her house, only to find that Barney, her ex-husband, has sold the house behind her back. She ..."
10 Oct 1984
"Ever on the look-out to make money, Arthur buys two thousand tickets for an England-Scotland match at Wembley from ex-Liverpool footballer 'Benno' Benson, and drives North to Scotland with ..."
17 Oct 1984
"Arthur and Terry help Dr. Sudbury, a hypnotherapist, and his teenaged fiancee Rita, who is an heiress about to inherit \u00a325,000, escape her disapproving family who say the doctor has ..."
26 Dec 1984
"Arthur's get-rich-quick schemes are, as usual, going nowhere fast. He invests in a racing greyhound which he calls Daley's Deal but it is a non-starter. Furthermore his efforts to make a ..."
Season 6 - Minder
04 Sep 1985
"When Arthur Daley meets a philanthropic vicar who runs a social club for ex-convicts he greedily recruits them as cheap labour to build a garden rockery for a trusting client. Alas, they ..."
11 Sep 1985
"Terry's new girlfriend Sarah turns out to be the daughter of a possessive burger millionaire who is paranoid that all her boyfriends are after her money. Arthur, in the red after a deal ..."
18 Sep 1985
"When Arthur's tailor Solly's staff strike for more pay Solly asks Arthur to stage a burglary to prove the wages were stolen. Inept safe-cracker Scotch Harry is keen to oblige but fails ..."
25 Sep 1985
"Faced with a huge tax bill, Arthur fakes his own death by drowning and hides out in a hotel but Chisholm is suspicious as there is no body, Arthur's creditors steal what he owes them, his ..."
02 Oct 1985
"Already put out at having to employ gormless nephew Nigel at the car lot, Arthur's day gets worse when he sells a load of goods to Russian sailor Sergei, who goes off on a pub crawl, ..."
09 Oct 1985
"Private investigator Caroline Selby seeks Arthur's help in locating eccentric recluse and inventor Albert Goddard, who has come into an inheritance. Seeking a rake-off, Arthur acts as ..."
25 Dec 1985
"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 ..."
Season 7 - Minder
02 Jan 1989
"Terry goes into panic mode when he finds himself facing the prospect of another stint in prison after the police stake-out a stolen van full of electrical items that he has collected for ..."
16 Jan 1989
"A so-called reformed gambler suddenly dies owing Arthur two thousand pounds, but Terry isn't interested: he has his own problems to contend with when an old flame turns up at his door after she and her son walk out on her abusive husband."
30 Jan 1989
"Arthur panics when he learns that there has been a robbery of safety deposit boxes in The City. He is relieved to learn that the contents of his box are intact, but decides that the safe in..."
06 Feb 1989
"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."
Season 8 - Minder
12 Sep 1991
"Arthur buys a consignment of wine from dodgy Herbie, which he intends to sell to the local corner shop. When the wine is impounded Arthur and Ray break into the warehouse to retrieve it but..."
03 Oct 1991
"Whilst attending Charlie Johnson's wake in Pinner, Arthur attracts the lustful attention of merry widow 'Ron' Johnson but gets so drunk he has no recollection of his conversation with ..."
10 Oct 1991
"Having given up smoking and drinking on doctor's orders an already nervy Arthur is not helped when 'Mad' Benny McLeish, a truculent dissatisfied customer, threatens violence unless he gets ..."
17 Oct 1991
"Arthur's Yorkshire contact Billy hires Ray to guard Young Sam, his racing pigeon, on the eve of a race whose prize money is worth ten thousand pounds. Due to Arthur's stupidity, Young Sam ..."
24 Oct 1991
"Stuck in his lock-up, due to a faulty alarm system fitted by ex-burglar Ron, when he should be taking his wife out for her birthday, Arthur is arrested as a prowler by a zealous rookie cop...."
07 Nov 1991
"Arthur's latest ill-starred venture is Daley's Catering International Cuisine, booking on banquets. Unfortunately for him his chef is wanted by a group of gangsters and goes on the run, ..."
14 Nov 1991
"Wealthy Lewis Nelson hires Ray to keep his much younger, gambling-addicted wife Lorna away from the casino he part owns, as she has run up heavy debts. Lorna persuades Arthur to play the ..."
Season 9 - Minder
07 Jan 1993
"The Winchester is about to take part in a quiz against a rival pub and Arthur picks Marty 'Brains' Goldblum, a man with an encyclopaedic general knowledge, for the home team. Unfortunately ..."
04 Feb 1993
"To make room for sixty Russian telescopes in his lock-up Arthur swaps his out of date old tat for a fruit machine from Alexei Nolan's funfair. However he has helped himself to one that he ..."
25 Feb 1993
"Arthur buys a job lot of satellite dishes with instructions in German, so he enlists the aid of ex-television repair man Logie to fit them. After fitting the first one at the wrong house ..."
04 Mar 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 ..."
18 Mar 1993
"Desperate for a stroke of luck, Arthur is approached by Australian private investigator Bill McCabe who tells him that he is the possible heir of Joshua Daley, who died intestate in ..."
25 Mar 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 ..."
01 Apr 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, ..."
Season 10 - Minder
10 Feb 1994
"After renting a stall at a business fair, Arthur discovers the joys of corporate entertainment and launches the Willesden Entertainment Consultancy. However, he finds himself at odds with ..."
17 Feb 1994
"When Ray's Uncle Brian appears to be suffering from depression, Arthur seeks the advice of Percy Vallins, a successful businessman but known manic depressive, who suggests that Brian is ..."
03 Mar 1994
"Arthur is one of several people being targeted by violent criminal Charlie Knowles, who is doing time for armed robbery and wants vengeance on accomplices who got lighter sentences or in ..."
10 Mar 1994
"Arthur's former employee Cranky Frankie Connor escapes from prison and takes Arthur hostage, demanding to know if his wife Rosie is having an affair with Italian restaurateur Luigi, who has..."
