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Your first encounter...

posted 16 years ago by driscolldoll
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I have only just seen 'Minder' and have fallen in love with it after just one episode. I can't wait to see more on ITV4. It was the episode 'Whose Wife is it Anyway?'.

Do you remember the first episode you saw? And what did you think of it!

Did anyone watch it from the very beginning when it was released?

[–] mickeykost 16 years ago

I think I saw "Gunfight At The OK Laundrette" when it first aired in Canada. I watched from my first episode on. Only got the Dennis Waterman episodes, plus "Minder On The Orient Express".

[–] NothingButTheBest 16 years ago

I think it was "The Bengal Tiger" for me on Paramount Comedy a few years ago, love it now and have all the complete and uncut dvd's from Australia.

"The World is Your Lobster My Son!"-Arthur Daley, Minder.

[–] mickeykost 16 years ago

Where did you get them from Australia, sfordcar?

[–] NothingButTheBest 16 years ago

"Where did you get them from Australia, sfordcar?"

Theres a couple of Australian shops you can get them from such as Sanity, play4me and ezydvd, just search for them and you should find them. They also pop up on eBay from time to time.

"The World is Your Lobster My Son!"-Arthur Daley, Minder.

[–] mickeykost 16 years ago

Thanks!

[–] shopoholic_gal-1 16 years ago

I used to watch the Dennis Waterman ones through my dad's recorded copies, first 'live' one i watched would have been Ray's first one (the Wedding episode).

[–] remy_hunter 15 years ago

The first episode I watched was back in the summer of 1999 when I was at university. It was The Birdman of Wormwood Scrubs and it was shown on the now defunct Granada Plus channel. I love it straight away, especially the use of London locations many of which I recognised. Granada Plus showed aired an episode a day so I spent a glorious summer holiday watching a new episode a day of this classic series. Happy days!

[–] simonkevnorris 13 years ago

I watched them when they were originally broadcast back in Australia.

I believe they were shown on the ABC so there were never any advert breaks.

I bought the whole series in various DVD box sets a long time ago (2001). I also have the four specials on two DVD releases ('Early Years Bonus' and 'Around The Corner' on one disc and 'An Officer and a Car Salesman' and 'The Cruel Canal' on the second disc).