Minder Season 8

Season 8

Air date: 1991-09-05

Episodes: 13

Episodes

E1: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Entrepreneur

After Terry marries and leaves for Australia without telling anyone, Arthur appoints his nephew Ray as his new minder and assistant, on similar vague and ungenerous terms. Ray proves himself as physically capable as Terry was, and also finds his French language skills of use when he is sent to Brussels to pick up a car.

Air date: 1991-09-05

E2: A Bouquet of Barbed Wine

Arthur ventures into the wine trade, but when the supplier is taken in for questioning, his wine is locked up by the police and somehow they've got to get it out.

Air date: 1991-09-12

E3: Whatever Happened to Her Indoors

Her indoors has gone missing and Arthur is the police's prime suspect. More importantly, he's got a cash flow problem and his British car sales are being hampered by the Council.

Air date: 1991-09-19

E4: Three Cons Make a Mountain

Arthur keeps acquiring items that won't do his reputation any good. How is he going to off-load them without the rest of the manor finding out he's been conned ?

Air date: 1991-09-26

E5: Guess Who's Coming to Pinner

At Charlie Johnson's funeral, a friend of Arthur's persuades him to help with the next 'big one'.

Air date: 1991-10-03

E6: The Last Temptation of Daley

Arthur’s doctor wants him to give up alcohol and tobacco if he wants to avoid a stomach ulcer, but this causes him even more stress and he begins to believe that everyone's after him. The feeling is reinforced when building contractor Benny McLeish threatens him over a paint deal that goes sour.

Air date: 1991-10-10

E7: A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in Shepherd's Bush

Ray is given the task of minding a racing pigeon due to race from London to Bradford with a prize of 10,000 pounds at stake.

Air date: 1991-10-17

E8: Him Indoors

When Ron the Burglar, now reformed, opens Arthur Daley's lock-up with a metal comb, it's clear to that Daley Enterprises has to strengthen its warehouse security.

Air date: 1991-10-24

E9: The Greatest Show in Willesden

Arthur plans to boost the membership of the Winchester Club with some variety nights, but ends up in a spot of bother over a stolen karaoke machine.

Air date: 1991-10-31

E10: Too Many Crooks

Arthur gets into the food business, but the chef he employs goes on the run from a group of gangsters, leaving him to cater for a policeman's retirement party.

Air date: 1991-11-07

E11: The Odds Couple

Ray is assigned to look after the wife of a casino owner who has become a compulsive gambler. But Arthur finds himself strangely drawn to her husband's casino.

Air date: 1991-11-14

E12: The Coach That Came in From the Cold

As Arthur attempts to ingratiate himself at the local golf club, DS Morley offers to sell him a police transport coach for a knock-down price.

Air date: 1991-11-21

E13: The Cruel Canal

When Ray's van breaks down whilst delivering two hundred video recorders to a client in Limehouse, Arthur needs alternative transport - and fast. He learns they were stolen property, and psychotic Big Dai wants them back...

Air date: 1991-12-25