The BEST episodes of Minder

Every episode of Minder ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Minder!

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.

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The Coach That Came in from the Cold
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10.00
1 votes

#1 - The Coach That Came in from the Cold

Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/21/1991

DS Morley is ordered to sell a police bus to Arthur so that their accounts will balance. The latter starts using it for tourist purposes; taking punters through “The London The Tourist Never Sees”. The bus breaks down and the whole tour ends up at the Winchester. They become spectators at a fight between Denny Willis and Ray, which pleases them greatly and they are satisfied to have had their money’s worth. In the meantime, Arthur’s trying to join an exclusive golf club and Ray discovers that the current captain has an underhand scheme to sell the club’s land for executive apartments.

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You Need Hands
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9.50
4 votes

#2 - You Need Hands

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/20/1982

Terry Gives Des a hand collecting a debt but gets his hand broken in a fight just when Arthur has a special job lined up so he has to hire another minder but unknown to Arthur the job involves drugs so Terry and Des come to the rescue.

Directors: Ian Sharp
Writer: Andrew Payne
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The Son Also Rises
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9.00
2 votes

#3 - The Son Also Rises

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/3/1982

When a school boy is terrorised by local thugs, his mother hires Terry to protect him. It turns out that the thugs have been hired by his father's ex partner, who is just out of jail and has been cheated out of his promised windfall.

Directors: Francis Megahy
Writer: Paul Wheeler
A Lot of Bull and a Pat on the Back
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9.00
5 votes

#4 - A Lot of Bull and a Pat on the Back

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/4/1980

Terry and Arthur are hired to move a bull from it's field to the owners new farm. Later they discover that they have stolen the bull, so they decide to find the men who hired them and get the bull returned to the rightful owner. Terry is also hired by his stripper girl friend to discourage a stalker.

Directors: Terry Green
Writer: Tony Hoare
Bring Me the Head of Arthur Daley
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9.00
1 votes

#5 - Bring Me the Head of Arthur Daley

Season 10 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/3/1994

Violent bank robber Charlie Knowles, a life prisoner, has decided to get even with his former partners who all received lighter sentences. Phelan, his former quartermaster and ‘outside man’ sets them all up and they get extra jail time. Arthur, who sold him the getaway car that broke down and allowed police to arrest them, is set up on dangerous driving charges and cops a sentence of 100 hours community service. Despite the evidence, DS Rogerson isn’t convinced of Arthur’s guilt and Ray helps him to expose the set-up. It emerges that Phelan, who originally ‘cooperated’ with police, also double-crossed Knowles. Phelan is arrested, but Knowles dies in prison.

Dead Men Do Tell Tales
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8.50
4 votes

#6 - Dead Men Do Tell Tales

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/13/1982

A crooked travel agent , Monte Wiseman gets Arthur and Terry to pick up a coffin at the airport and store it at the lock up. But when the coroner needs to perform an autopsy, Monte moves it from the lock up and despite Arthur's objections stores it at Terry's flat.

Directors: Robert Young
Writer: Tony Hoare
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Rembrandt Doesn't Live Here Anymore
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8.40
5 votes

#7 - Rembrandt Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/27/1982

When Arthur finds an artist who can turn out work as good as the originals, he thinks that he can make money, until a crooked art dealer tries to cut in on him.

Directors: Tom Clegg
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The Return of the Invincible Man
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8.38
8 votes

#8 - The Return of the Invincible Man

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/18/1985

When the local gents tailor is going out of business, he wants Arthur to get a gang together and rob his safe so he can claim on the insurance. but things start to go wrong, when the leader of the gang, Scotch Harry is accidentally blown up and he goes to Arthur for help.

Directors: Roy Ward Baker
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Rocky Eight and a Half
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8.33
3 votes

#9 - Rocky Eight and a Half

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/11/1984

When Arthur goes to a pirate boxing match, it gives him the idea, of getting Terry back into the ring for a fight with Jackie Wilson the man he fought seven years ago, when Terry threw the fight, and lost his licence. Things start to get complicated when Wilson's wife shows up and suggests that her husband isn't fit to fight.

Directors: Ian Toynton
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Sorry Pal, Wrong Number
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8.33
3 votes

#10 - Sorry Pal, Wrong Number

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/1/1984

Arthur joins up with legendary con artist J.J.Mooney, in a racing scam. They hire a postal address and Terry gets to mind Three public phone boxes, and then they sit back and wait for the money to roll in. Then it all starts to go wrong when J.J. has a heart attack.

Directors: Terry Green
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Minder on the Orient Express
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8.33
9 votes

#11 - Minder on the Orient Express

Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/25/1985

When Terry helps out a girl who was being mugged, she repays him by giving him a couple of tickets for a holiday on the Orient Express. The girl turns out to be Nikki South,the daughter of Jack South, a big time crook who has died, and has left a large amount of money in a Swiss bank account. When Arthur finds out , he cons the other ticket off Terry and the two of them set off for Venice accompanied by several other travelers all of whom are also interested in the Swiss bank account, but the only clue to the money is a locket that Nikki carries around her neck, and a picture of the 1971 Arsenal cup winning football team.

Directors: Francis Megahy
Writer: Andrew Payne
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Whose Wife Is It Anyway?
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8.14
7 votes

#12 - Whose Wife Is It Anyway?

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1980

When an old friend of Arthur's gets injured in a so-called "hit and run accident" Terry gets involved in minding the villain's antique shop.

Directors: Roy Ward Baker
Writer: Tony Hoare
The Bounty Hunter
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8.11
9 votes

#13 - The Bounty Hunter

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/26/1979

Terry and Arthur help out a young widow forced to drive mini cabs to make ends meet after being swindled out of her savings in a Spanish villa scam by swindler Freddie Fenton.

Directors: Peter Sasdy
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In
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8.00
3 votes

#14 - In

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/7/1982

Arthur gets arrested in a drugs raid after taking possession of a car bought in from Europe Terry tries to hunt down the seller and after a long chase Terry gets the driver but back at the police station Arthur is being released.

Directors: Ian Toynton
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One Flew Over the Parents' Nest
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8.00
1 votes

#15 - One Flew Over the Parents' Nest

Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/27/1994

Whilst his parents are on holiday in Spain, Ray, driving Bert’s taxi, picks up Susie, an attractive girl who claims to be on the run from a violent husband. Arthur, scenting a ‘nice little earner’, installs her in Bert and Doreen’s house.

The Great Trilby
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8.00
1 votes

#16 - The Great Trilby

Season 9 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/18/1993

A private detective, Bill McCabe, arrives from Australia to investigate a claim that Arthur is heir to a fortune left by an distant relative who’s died intestate. Ray and Arthur carry out some genealogical research at the Family Records Centre (then located at St. Catherine’s House and now merged with the National Archives), and also search parish records. They finally locate what appears to be clinching evidence of Arthur’s claim to be the last surviving descendant of the deceased’s family. But the Will requires the inheritor to be ‘of good character’, and Arthur has just been charged with unauthorised use of parking infringement notices (which are also forged).

How to Succeed in Business without Really Retiring
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8.00
1 votes

#17 - How to Succeed in Business without Really Retiring

Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/18/1993

Arthur decides to retire and leaves Ray in charge. He is initially successful, computerising the records and expanding business, but he doesn’t have Arthur’s hard-won knowledge of people and their habits. Ray falls victim to a sting operation involving jewellery and Arthur, who’s become bored with retirement anyway, returns to the business to sort out the mess.

Him Indoors
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8.00
1 votes

#18 - Him Indoors

Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/24/1991

Arthur sets himself up as a 'security consultant', selling security alarms to business premises. He recruits Ron the Burglar, a reformed burglar, for his hard-won expertise, but when Ron installs a system on Arthur's lock-up, it immediately malfunctions. Arthur is unable to leave the premises and he's forced to stay there all night. A series of break-ins at premises that have installed Arthur's equipment soon arouse the suspicions of the police and Morley and Park investigate.

Second Hand Pose
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8.00
1 votes

#19 - Second Hand Pose

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/1984

When due to mix up ,Terry is left in a large industrial meat freezer, he decides to go his own way, and gets work helping out an old friend who is in the second hand furniture business.

Directors: Roy Ward Baker
Writer: Tony Hoare
A Well Fashioned Fit-Up
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8.00
2 votes

#20 - A Well Fashioned Fit-Up

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/21/1984

When Arthur tries to sell some fake dresses to a fashion agent, he refuses, but offers Terry a job guarding his warehouse, but Terry has already promised a pub owner that he will work for him, so Arthur stands in for him.

Directors: Jim Hill
Why Pay Tax?
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8.00
3 votes

#21 - Why Pay Tax?

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/10/1982

Terry helps out Barry an independent bookmaker, when he has to pay out a large amount of cash to one of his clients, in a deserted car park, but it turns out that he only wants Terry as a witness to a fake robbery, to cover up the fact that the bookie is broke.

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Another Bride, Another Groom
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8.00
2 votes

#22 - Another Bride, Another Groom

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/17/1982

Arthur's niece is getting married,But Terry who should be driving the bride to the church is using the limousine to pick up a load of porn books.

Directors: Mike Vardy
Writer: Willis Hall
Caught in the Act, Fact
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8.00
1 votes

#23 - Caught in the Act, Fact

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/27/1980

Terry help's out Des into delivering a car that that has been used in a robbery. The police pick up Terry when they find his fingerprints on the car but Arthur provides an alibi and he is released. Terry also minds a magistrate who is a shoplifter.

Directors: Terry Green
Writer: Tony Hoare
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Aces High and Sometimes Very Low
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7.75
8 votes

#24 - Aces High and Sometimes Very Low

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/3/1979

Professional gambler Maurice is barred from a casino after a large win, Later he is beaten up and the winnings are stolen. When he hears of a big poker game, he has to sell his car to Arthur to raise the stake money and gets Terry to mind him.

Directors: Roy Ward Baker
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Give Us This Day Arthur Daley's Bread
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7.75
8 votes

#25 - Give Us This Day Arthur Daley's Bread

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/4/1985

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'.

Directors: Francis Megahy
Writer: Andrew Payne