"Thank you, God," DS Morley says, as he looks to the heavens after a sweet nick.
"Nuh, nuh, no, Mr. Morley, we're over here," says Arthur, in the car with Ray across the street.
It takes a while to get to that punchline but it's worth the trip.
Premise is good. Daley starts a courier business. The dodgy Warnock brothers come calling and convince Daley to handle some of the shady bits of their own courier business. They use flattery (and lies) and of course Arthur's vanity and greed get the best of him.
Ray gets some nice looks from a tasty bird. And gets to punch another geezer in the boat race.
Naturally, DS Morley is hot on the trail of the Warnocks and Daley. As much as I am convinced Patrick Malahide's DS Chisholm was the under-rated star of the Waterman era of Minder, and I really enjoyed Peter Childs as Rycott, Nicholas Day's portrayal of a competent, no-nonsense copper was the right move for the Gary Webster era of the show. And here, Morley gets a result, which Malahide and Rycott almost never got from their writers.
George Cole gets an amusing set piece with a couple of door-to-door JWs. And Gary Webster's Ray Daley not only deploys his good looks but he also uses his brain to get Uncle Arthur out of a jam.
The bikers/employees got on my nerves. Especially all the yelling by the dispatcher. The creepy boyfriend was even more irritating. But the writers must have sensed it because by the end they had taken up only a bit of screen time.
"Nuh, nuh, no, Mr. Morley, we're over here," says Arthur, in the car with Ray across the street.
It takes a while to get to that punchline but it's worth the trip.
Premise is good. Daley starts a courier business. The dodgy Warnock brothers come calling and convince Daley to handle some of the shady bits of their own courier business. They use flattery (and lies) and of course Arthur's vanity and greed get the best of him.
Ray gets some nice looks from a tasty bird. And gets to punch another geezer in the boat race.
Naturally, DS Morley is hot on the trail of the Warnocks and Daley. As much as I am convinced Patrick Malahide's DS Chisholm was the under-rated star of the Waterman era of Minder, and I really enjoyed Peter Childs as Rycott, Nicholas Day's portrayal of a competent, no-nonsense copper was the right move for the Gary Webster era of the show. And here, Morley gets a result, which Malahide and Rycott almost never got from their writers.
George Cole gets an amusing set piece with a couple of door-to-door JWs. And Gary Webster's Ray Daley not only deploys his good looks but he also uses his brain to get Uncle Arthur out of a jam.
The bikers/employees got on my nerves. Especially all the yelling by the dispatcher. The creepy boyfriend was even more irritating. But the writers must have sensed it because by the end they had taken up only a bit of screen time.