📺 Minder: Season 10
Stars George Cole as Arthur Daley, Gary Webster as Ray Daley and Glynn Edwards as Dave Harris.
Minder: A Fridge Too Far (1994)
Season 10 episode 1.
Going through financial difficulties, Arthur is juggling bikes for the pizza man and dodgy fridges.
He takes on extra insurance and arranges a robbery so that he claim money to help him through the lean times.
Then, when the staged robbery individuals turn up, he realises that the earlier encounter was a real one.
The fridges are faulty so Arthur takes out insurance on a fire.
He eventually gets a payout and that covers the mopeds.
Minder: Another Case of Van Blank (1994)
Season 10 episode 2.
Once he hears about the big profits to be made on alcohol bought in France, Arthur heads across the English Channel with Dave and Ray in a transit van.
Of course, everything goes wrong, and the bottom line is, following arrest, they head back home empty-handed.
Minder: All Things Brighton Beautiful (1994)
Season 10 episode 3.
Sidney Myers is diagnosed with a terminal illness and he pays a psychopathic skinhead to kill him.
He then finds out that the analysis was wrong so has to go into hiding to avoid the killer.
He turns to Arthur who, for a fee, puts him in hiding in a caravan that he’s just collected, in Brighton.
The caravan rolls down a hill, sets on fire and explodes but Sidney escapes just in time.
They end up in the Salvation Army hostel where they’re tracked down by Bernie the Bosh, who hurts people for fun.
As Sidney has fleeced Bernie, they are frightened.
However, Bernie has become a Christian in prison and he’s there to forgive.
It ends with all of them in a church service singing ‘Onward Christian Soldiers’.
Minder: One Flew Over the Parents’ Nest (1994)
Season 10 episode 4.
When Ray takes his parents to the airport in his dad’s taxi, a lady gets in thinking it’s open for business.
Her name is Susie and she spins a tale about fleeing her abusive husband but in reality she’s a prostitute with some high-flying clients who are after her.
She stays in the empty Daley home, for an Arthur fee, of course.
Arthur is arrested as police think he is a pimp, although the truth comes out in the end.
Minder: The Immaculate Contraption (1994)
Season 10 episode 5.
Arthur takes advantage of a naive nun, Sister Angelica, and rips her off when he sells her a car.
Things start to go wrong, including a clamp and ticket after parking on yellow lines, at which precise moment he hears a church bell.
Looking up, he sees a sign: ‘Be sure your sin will find you out’.
Minder: All Quiet On The West End Front (1994)
Season 10 episode 6.
After realising businessmen will pay £700 for an evening’s entertainment, Arthur enters the world of hospitality himself.
He treads on toes and it gets nasty.
Ray ends up battered and bruised and after all the hassle, Arthur decides to fold Willesden Entertainments Consultancy.
Minder: The Great Depression of 1994 (1994)
Season 10 episode 7.
Ray’s Uncle Brian is depressed, so Ray and Arthur look after him to see if they can help him through.
Always looking to make money, Arthur somehow has the idea that Brian is very low but when he goes on a high, his entrepreneurial streak will kick in.
And make lots of cash for Arthur.
He brings him through but there’s no money to be made.
Then Arthur finds himself helping another depressed man, a retired Detective Inspector, who once arrested Arthur for receiving stolen goods.
Just when you think he has a caring side, Arthur rips the DI off for £500.
Minder: On the Autofront (1994)
Season 10 episode 8.
With business slow, Arthur turns to pirate radio to promote car sales.
Meanwhile, a rival car business is taken over by the owner’s son, who is ruthless.
He pretends to be a customer, goes on a test drive and smashes into an antique shop, where he’s threatening the proprietor for protection money.
With Arthur in the car, he gets the blame, with the owner scared to tell the truth.
It all comes good in the end and Arthur has a big sales surge, courtesy of the advertising campaign.
Minder: Bring Me The Head Of Arthur Daley (1994)
Season 10 episode 9.
Arthur is being framed big time and he finds himself convicted in court on two occasions.
He works out it’s a convict, Charlie Knowles, who got caught because a car he bought from Arthur broke down.
Trying to stave off a third attempt to frame him, which would put him behind bars, Ray and Dave take it in turns sleeping at the lockup to catch the culprit.
In the end they track him down, get him to confess, so Arthur is cleared, and Knowles dies of a heart attack so he’s off their case.
Minder: The Long Good Thursday (1994)
Season 10 episode 10.
Arthur persuades Luigi to go into business with him, starting a restaurant called Cosa Noshtra.
Meanwhile Crankie Frankie Connor escapes from prison and turns up at Arthur’s lockup, where he imprisons him.
He thinks his wife has been playing around and it turns out to be with Luigi.
After drama develops, everyone is arrested and the final Minder episode ends with them all being taken away by the police.