As a Minder aficionado, I believe, in hindsight, the first series was not great. But, it is was really getting into it's stride by this episode in series 2. However, the sublime character of Auther Edward Daley had not yet been completely matured, The fully formed, prudish version would never have indulged in innuendo about massages, nor resorted to outright nastiness as he did in with Bettina at the end of this episode. Having said that, this was thoroughly enjoyable and it was onwards and upwards from here.
Review of A Nice Little Wine
