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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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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#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.