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The Minder Podcast
May 8th is of course the one year anniversary of Dennis
Waterman’s passing. If you haven’t already done so you might want to
listen to the tribute to Dennis released in June last year.
In this episode we are going to look back at Dennis’ 2000 autobiography, Reminder, specifically the chapter on Minder.
The book, written with Dennis’ manager Deke Arlon’s wife Jill was, as
I mentioned in the tribute episode, a little disappointing at the time
of release. It seemed to have too many contributions from others for an
autobiography and it was very light on the Minder material.
However, I reread the book at the beginning of the year and enjoyed
it much more than previously. Perhaps with having more context myself it
just made a little more sense.
By and large the contributions from others do help the story Dennis
tries to tell though often the book is at its best when the subject
takes over and reveals his own experiences.
What disappointed me initially was the fact there were only
recollections from a few episodes and very little from behind the
scenes. This is still quite disappointing but it’s still a useful
overview of the show and how it came to be made.
In this episode I read the Minder chapter in full so if you don’t
have th
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Minder (TV series)
British TV comedy-drama series (1979–1994, 2009)
Minder is a British comedy-drama series about the London criminal underworld. Initially produced by Verity Lambert, it was made by Euston Films, a subsidiary of Thames Television, and shown on ITV for ten series between 29 October 1979 and 10 March 1994.
The series was revived by Channel 5 in 2009 but was discontinued after only six episodes. It was nominated three times for Best Drama Series or Serial at the British Academy Television Awards.
Plot
[edit]The first seven series starred Dennis Waterman as Terry McCann, an honest and likeable former boxer turned bodyguard (minder in Cockney parlance), and George Cole as Arthur Daley, an ageing chancer and petty schemer, importer/exporter, wholesaler, used-car salesman and purveyor of anything else from which there was money to be made, legally or not.
The series is principally set in working class west London (specifically Shepherd's Bush, Ladbroke Grove, Fulham and Acton), and was largely responsible for introducing the word minder, meaning personal bodyguard, into the UK popular lexicon.[citation needed] The characters often drank at the local members-only Winchester Club, where owner and barman Dave Harris (Glynn Edwards) acted,
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