"Minder" The Car Lot Baggers (TV Episode 1984) Poster

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(1984)

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10/10
Easily my top 5 Minder episode
corgi3724 October 2007
A truly great episode. Jimmy Nail is perfect as the head of the gypsies. I totally love his 1st conversation with Terry.

Q: You want to fight me? I've taken on 10 like you". A: Then 1 shouldn't worry you then".

The episode has it all. Great script and plot. Seedy bad guys. A very young and thin Ray Winstone and a fantastic fight scene.

The episode to me really captures early 80's inner London living, with dodgy characters, rain drizzled, broken and uneven footpaths, and people willing to do anything to survive in (to quote the Young Ones) "Thatcher's bloody Britain".
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10/10
The car lot baggers
colinprunty-120 March 2021
From the opening scene this is a classic Minder episode with traditional settings , the Winchester , scrap yards , dirty pubs , windswept wastelands and grimy cat lots as well as the usual fisticuffs. All things that set the series in its rightful place and time are here with this superb episode which evokes the eighties 'greed is good ' theme with a shady businessman trying to buy a car lot from a friend of Arthur's using a corrupt local councillor. Terry wins the respect of a local gypsy played very well by Jimmy Nail as the leader of his clan. I won't spoil this one for anyone except say this is one of the very best episodes of the entire series , played for laughs and had a great cast but still has a serious And very relevant theme running throughout. Highly recommended.
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