📺 Minder: Season 4 from 1984
Stars George Cole as Arthur Daley, Dennis Waterman as Terry McCann and Glynn Edwards as Dave Harris.
Minder: Rocky Eight And A Half (1984)
Season 4 episode 1.
When Arthur finds out that there’s big money to be made from boxing, he starts to work towards a Terry comeback.
Terry himself isn’t interested at first, but when he realises that it’s against an old adversary, he knuckles down to some serious training.
Meanwhile, Arthur buys a flat, only to find out that Dirty Harry has ripped him off as it’s a council property.
Minder: Senior Citizen Caine (1984)
Season 4 episode 2.
Cecil Caine loses his wife and divides his business between his family before taking off to live on a boat.
It turns out that he’s been involved with his secretary and they escape on a motorbike.
Minder: High Plains Pilferer (1984)
Season 4 episode 3.
Terry is assigned to drive for Mickey The Fish, a criminal boss.
When his mistresses’ jewellery is stolen in a robbery, the finger of accusation points to an innocent Terry.
In the end, after a big fight where the police turn up, the real burglar is arrested.
Running alongside the main story is Arthur’s dodgy excursion into car insurance, which naturally goes pear-shaped.
Minder: Sorry, Pal, Wrong Number (1984)
Season 4 episode 4.
Arthur goes into business with a conman, as they set out to rip people off via horse racing tips.
He sets up his office in three public telephone boxes outside Acton Green railway station.
Alongside the ongoing disaster from that, is Arthur being hounded by the taxman.
Minder: The Car Lot Baggers (1984)
Season 4 episode 5.
Wally West’s car lot is vandalised several times and Terry minds the premises.
A crooked councillor and businessman are trying to drive Wally out so they can develop the land.
They try to blame travellers. Led by Jimmy Nail, who joins forces with Terry, they solve the problem.
Minder: If Money Be The Food Of Love, Play On (1984)
Season 4 episode 6.
An Australian couple turn up at The Winchester, looking for Gary Mitchell.
Arthur decides to help them, for a fee, of course.
In spite of a gun being pulled, it’s an amicable ending for most.
Mournful and the other two Australians, who were shoplifters, get arrested though.
Those were the days when the police actually arrested shoplifters…
Minder: A Star Is Gorn (1984)
Season 4 episode 7.
Arthur comes across a master tape from a singer called Zac Zolar.
He thinks it’s all rubbish until he finds out that Zac has just died and he’s now become a big star following his death.
That changes things for Arthur and he attempts to sell the tape for big money.
As always, everything goes downhill and Arthur ends up losing rather than winning.
Minder: Willesden Suite (1984)
Season 4 episode 8.
More big plans for Arthur, this time supplying hotels with jam and toilet rolls, which he gets from Pongo (played by William Simons, Alf Ventress from Heartbeat).
Initially it goes well until Pongo is arrested…. for stealing jam and toilet rolls…
Minder: Windows (1984)
Season 4 episode 9.
As is often the case, two stories run alongside each other.
Arthur sets up a fitness business but it doesn’t get very far when he is ordered to fit toilets and other such necessities by the authorities.
A friend of Terry’s gets into trouble when his wife leaves him.
It kicks off a feud between two Italian families and a Scottish one.
Minder: Get Daley (1984)
Season 4 episode 10.
Arthur is witness to a gun threat on a business deal of his that ends in the person having a heart attack and dying.
He then gets hassled by one and all for various reasons, and whether the police or criminals, they all think he’s involved.
The side story is Arthur in hospital for an ingrowing toenail operation, or as he calls it, major surgery.
Minder: A Well Fashioned Fit-Up (1984)
Season 4 episode 11.
Arthur gets involved in top fashion, except he’s trading in cheap and tacky copies.
He then loans Terry to a designer boss who is worried about his stock being stolen and copied.
It turns out that it’s the boss who is doing dodgy dealings but Terry and Zoe (the designer) get their own back in the end.