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TV series

Minder

1979TV-1410 seasons7.2 / 10

The world is your lobster

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

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Availability

Not streaming in United States

Checked Jul 22, 2026

Minder premiered October 29, 1979. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.

Synopsis

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

Cast, crew and production details

About Minder

Cast

George ColeArthur Daley
Dennis WatermanTerry McCann
Gary WebsterRay
Glynn EdwardsDave Harris
Patrick Malahide
Gennie NevinsonPenny
George LaytonDes
David JacksonMr Fletcher

Credits

Created by
Leon Griffiths, Verity Lambert

Production details

Status
Ended
Series type
Scripted
Episodes
108
Original language
English

Networks & production

  • ITV1United Kingdom
  • Euston FilmsUnited Kingdom

Themes

bodyguardboxercaper comedycar salesmancigar smokercondealerexportfightflatgangsterimportlondon, englandlove-hate relationship

Season 6 episodes

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Episode 1

Give Us This Day Arthur Daley's Bread

1h

Arthur gives some landscaping work to a group of ex-criminals, who the Vicar of St Chad's, is (thus far, unsuccessfully) trying to persuade to 'go straight'.

Directed by Francis MegahyWritten by Andrew PayneGuest stars David Jackson, Patsy Smart, Norman Eshley, James Booth, Sylvia Kay, Nat Jackley, Eric Francis, David Jessiman

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Episode 2

Life in the Fast Food Lane

1h1.0 / 10

Arthur gets into the carphone business but unknown to him, the goods are from a dodgy supplier. Terry meets a girl who tries to hide her rich family background, and Arthur seeing his workforce being distracted attempts to deal with her father in order to break up the relationship.

Directed by Terry GreenWritten by Alistair BeatonGuest stars Jan Francis, Timothy Carlton, David Daker, Peter Capaldi, Jake D'Arcy, Debbie Arnold, Benjamin Whitrow, Annee Blott

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Episode 3

The Return of the Invincible Man

1h

When the local gents tailor is going out of business, he asks Arthur to get a gang together and rob his safe so he can claim on the insurance. Things start to go wrong when the leader of the gang, Scotch Harry, suffers an accident...

Directed by Roy Ward BakerWritten by Leon GriffithsGuest stars Phil McCall, Anne Kristen, John Bluthal, Michael Sarne, Anna Savva, Shevaun Briars, David Shaughnessy, Cleo Sylvestre

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Episode 4

Arthur is Dead, Long Live Arthur

1h

When the tax people catch up with Arthur, he fakes his death, starting rumours that he is being hounded by the police and the tax authorities. The news reaches the Winchester, and they take up a collection.

Directed by Terry GreenWritten by Tony HoareGuest stars John Alkin, Royce Mills, Penny Morrell, Jonathan Elsom, Timothy Kightley, Jon Laurimore, Ben Howard, Robert Austin

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Episode 5

From Fulham with Love

1h

Arthur sells tracksuits and watches to some Russian seamen, but one of them goes missing and tries to defect, with the bank refusing to accept the foreign currency. Arthur's nephew Nigel comes to work at the car lot.

Directed by Francis MegahyWritten by Tony HoareGuest stars Rula Lenska, Michael Gothard, Joe Melia, Jonathan Warren, Tony Caunter, Czeslaw Grocholski, Alexei Jawdokimov, Mitzi Mueller

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Episode 6

Waiting for Goddard

1h

A lawyer comes to see Arthur for some help in tracing an old man who has come into a considerable amount of money.

Directed by Roy Ward BakerWritten by Leon GriffithsGuest stars Kenneth Cope, Ronald Fraser, Mel Martin, Donald Douglas, Dimitri Andreas, Hilary Whitehall, Douglas Milvain, Sean Barrett

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Episode 7

Minder on the Orient Express

1h 46m8.0 / 10

When a gangster passes away, he leaves his daughter with clues to the location of his ill-gotten gains. She offers Terry tickets to the Orient Express, and Terry and Arthur spot underworld business on the luxury train to Venice.

Directed by Francis MegahyWritten by Andrew PayneGuest stars Ralph Bates, Robert Beatty, Honor Blackman, James Coombes, Maurice Denham, Adam Faith, James Faulkner, Ronald Lacey

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Episode 8

An officer and a car salesman

1h 30mFinale

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!

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