The WORST episodes of Minder

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

Last Updated: 4/25/2025Network: ITV1Status: Ended
Another Bride, Another Groom
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#1 - 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
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Get Daley
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#2 - Get Daley

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/14/1984

When an illegal bookie threatens a customer who owes him money, the customer collapses and dies of a heart attack. Arthur, who is about to go into hospital for an operation, is an eye witness to the event and in no time he is being chased by the police, the bookie and the customer's family.

Directors: Ian Toynton
Writer: Andrew Payne
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Windows
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#3 - Windows

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/7/1984

Arthur gets in on the keep fit fashion by opening an aerobics studio.Terry gets involved with two Italian families when the daughter of one family walks out on her husband, who is from the other family.

Directors: Robert Young
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Sorry Pal, Wrong Number
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#4 - 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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High Drains Pilferer
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#5 - High Drains Pilferer

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/25/1984

Terry is helping out a local gangster as a driver when they come back to the flat of his mistress and find that she has been robbed of her jewels. Terry knows who the thief is and tries to get the jewels back.

Directors: Robert Young
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Senior Citizen Caine
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#6 - Senior Citizen Caine

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/18/1984

When a wealthy garage owner's wife dies he retires and leaves the business to his children, while he hires Terry as a bodyguard to move money out of the business before the VAT man move in.

Directors: Robert Young
Writer: Andrew Payne
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Rocky Eight and a Half
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#7 - 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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In
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#8 - 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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Back in Good Old England
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#9 - Back in Good Old England

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/31/1982

Jack Rag a villain who fled the country after a bank robbery is back to see old friends and to see his former gang members, to see if they are willing to come on in on another bank robbery that he has planned.

Directors: Francis Megahy
Writer: Andrew Payne
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Poetic Justice, Innit?
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#10 - Poetic Justice, Innit?

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/24/1982

While Arthur gets to serve on a jury, he leaves Terry in charge at the lock up. Debbie (Terry's friend) goes into the business of home hair cutting and on her first job, the clients house is robbed and as she is a witness, she tells Terry and they both go to the police, only to fall under suspicion.

Directors: Terry Green
Writer: Tony Hoare
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Broken Arrow
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#11 - Broken Arrow

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/17/1982

Arthur finds a potential darts champion playing for peanuts in a local pub, and enters him in a local competition, but his man is nobbled, but Arthur has seen enough to organize his own tournament., but he has a novel way to make sure he makes money, no matter who wins the match.

Directors: Roy Ward Baker
Writer: George Day
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Why Pay Tax?
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#12 - 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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The Son Also Rises
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#13 - 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
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The Birdman of Wormwood Scrubs
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#14 - The Birdman of Wormwood Scrubs

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/24/1982

An old friend of Arthur's gets out of prison, and hopes to pick up a large amount of money left over from a bank robbery, but things start to go wrong when the retired policeman who was in charge of the case, a warden from the prison, and the other member of the gang learn of the mans release, and try and get a share of the money.

Directors: Ian Toynton
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The Second Time Around
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#15 - The Second Time Around

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/26/1984

When an old author friend of Arthur's comes back to town to write a book,and sell her house.When she learns that her ex husband has sold the house without her permission, she hires Terry, and a secretary to help with ideas, and Arthur to help get the money from her husband.

Directors: Francis Megahy
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Dreamhouse
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#16 - Dreamhouse

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/10/1982

Terry house sits for a rock star who has gone on tour, but it turns out that the star is broke and the bailiffs turn up to take the furniture away.

Directors: Tom Clegg
Writer: Andrew Payne
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Looking for Mickey
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#17 - Looking for Mickey

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/3/1982

Mickey Dixon breaks out of jail in order to publicise his innocence, Terry looks after him while the press try and hunt him down.

Directors: Tom Clegg
Writer: Tony Hoare
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Rembrandt Doesn't Live Here Anymore
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#18 - 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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You Need Hands
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#19 - 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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Dead Men Do Tell Tales
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#20 - 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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A Lot of Bull and a Pat on the Back
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#21 - 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
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Caught in the Act, Fact
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#22 - 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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All About Scoring, Innit?
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#23 - All About Scoring, Innit?

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/20/1980

A young footballer Danny Varrow wants to sell his story to the press, so Terry to minds him until Arthur can arrange a deal. Unfortunately Varrow is in debt to the local bookie, and the father of his latest conquest is also looking for him to talk about the little matter of sleeping with his daughter.

Directors: Martin Campbell
Writer: Willis Hall
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Diamonds Are a Girl's Worst Enemy
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#24 - Diamonds Are a Girl's Worst Enemy

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/6/1980

While working for a gangsters wife,Rose Mellors the car Terry is driving is stolen along with a bag of diamonds which are hidden in the car, then follows a race to recover the diamonds before the police can trace the car.

Directors: Chris King
Writer: Paul Wheeler
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All Mod Cons
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#25 - All Mod Cons

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/1980

Arthur tries to sell Terry's flat out from under him. Meanwhile guest star Toyah Wilcox plays an unscrupulous landlady who is trying to evict a young couple from a house so she can sell it to a developer.

Directors: Ian Sharp
Writer: Andrew Payne
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