If you wanted to introduce someone new to Minder, this might be the perfect place to start.
All the classic Minder elements:
A solid scheme - touting race horse winners - cooked up by a guest star, with greedy Arthur Daley in on it.
Terry McCann being initially reluctant, but then playing a key role and providing the human centre of the show. He even gets in his obligatory fight scene with creative use of a phone booth door.
George Cole's hilarious interplay with Dave behind the bar, a train station manager, some street kids, a bent cop, and a couple of locals that Terry hires to handle some of the phone work. Whatever Cole was paid for this episode he earned triple.
All of that would be enough in itself, but the cherry on the sundae is D. S. Chisholm chasing down the guest con man, and his former colleague chasing down Daley.
Every scene, every line of his episode lands.
All the classic Minder elements:
A solid scheme - touting race horse winners - cooked up by a guest star, with greedy Arthur Daley in on it.
Terry McCann being initially reluctant, but then playing a key role and providing the human centre of the show. He even gets in his obligatory fight scene with creative use of a phone booth door.
George Cole's hilarious interplay with Dave behind the bar, a train station manager, some street kids, a bent cop, and a couple of locals that Terry hires to handle some of the phone work. Whatever Cole was paid for this episode he earned triple.
All of that would be enough in itself, but the cherry on the sundae is D. S. Chisholm chasing down the guest con man, and his former colleague chasing down Daley.
Every scene, every line of his episode lands.
