Oct 1979 - Mar 1994
6.5
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This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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S10 Ep10
10.0
10th Mar 1994
Café owner Luigi is opening a mafia-themed restaurant, the ‘Cosa Noshtra’ with Arthur’s financial backing. On the evening before the grand opening, ‘Cranky Frankie’ Connor escapes from prison and holds Arthur at gunpoint in his lockup. He demands to see Rosie, his wife, whom he suspects of having an affair with Luigi. Luigi’s wife Carla also has her suspicions.
S10 Ep8
10.0
24th Feb 1994
Arthur is forced to broadcast his first ever commercial on pirate radio when a rival car dealer tries to put him out of business with a nightmare test drive.
S10 Ep7
10.0
17th Feb 1994
Arthur spots a way to make money out of his brother-in-law Brian's misery.
S10 Ep6
10.0
10th Feb 1994
Arthur's venture into corporate hospitality takes him and Ray into company that's glamorous and dangerous.
S10 Ep3
10.0
20th Jan 1994
Arthur's chum Sidney comes to him for protection from a murderer. Unfortunately, Arthur's idea of a safe house is a caravan.
S9 Ep13
10.0
1st Apr 1993
Having hit rock bottom in Australia, penniless and under the threat of deportation, Ray and Arthur try to raise the funds for a return air fare home.
S9 Ep12
10.0
25th Mar 1993
Arthur comes back to earth with a bump when he learns that he faces tough opposition for the Daley inheritance.
S9 Ep11
10.0
18th Mar 1993
Arthur's eyes light up with pound signs when he learns he may be in line to inherit a fortune.
S9 Ep9
10.0
4th Mar 1993
The Winchester Club is faced with permanent closure when one of Arthur's money-making schemes backfires badly.
S9 Ep8
10.0
25th Feb 1993
With typical aplomb, Arthur announces the launch of Daley Into Space to flog some satellite dishes.
S9 Ep7
10.0
18th Feb 1993
When Arthur allows himself to be persuaded into retirement, Ray quickly steps into his shifty uncle's shoes.
S9 Ep6
10.0
11th Feb 1993
Arthur falls out with Dave when a member of their boyhood gang re-appears on the scene.
S9 Ep5
10.0
4th Feb 1993
Arthur and Ray swap the contents of the lock-up for a fruit machine full of stolen money.
S8 Ep13
10.0
25th Dec 1991
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...
S8 Ep12
10.0
21st Nov 1991
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.
S8 Ep10
10.0
7th Nov 1991
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.
S8 Ep9
10.0
31st Oct 1991
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.
S8 Ep8
10.0
24th Oct 1991
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.
S8 Ep7
10.0
17th Oct 1991
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.
S3 Ep2
9.7
20th Jan 1982
Terry aids Des with a debt collection, but suffers a broken hand in a fight. Arthur has a special job lined up, and with his man out of action, has to hire another minder...
S10 Ep9
9.5
3rd Mar 1994
Arthur is targeted by violent criminal Charlie Knowles, who blames him for his incarceration.
S10 Ep5
9.5
3rd Feb 1994
A nun buys an Austin Allegro from Arthur’s car lot, despite Arthur knowing it’s clapped out and overpriced, then everything in his life starts to go wrong. Could it be divine retribution?
S5 Ep7
9.5
17th Oct 1984
Arthur and Terry help Dr. Sudbury and his teenage fiancé, Rita, an heiress about to inherit a great deal of money, escape her disapproving family who say the doctor has hypnotised Rita into falling for him so he can claim her money.
S5 Ep5
9.5
3rd Oct 1984
Due to mix up, Terry is left in a large industrial meat freezer and decides to leave Arthur's employ, obtaining work helping out an old friend who is in the second hand furniture business.
S3 Ep8
9.3
3rd Mar 1982
When a school boy is terrorised by local thugs, his mother hires Terry to protect him. It turns out that the thugs have been hired by his father's ex partner, who is just out of jail and has been cheated out of his promised windfall.
S2 Ep13
9.3
4th Dec 1980
Terry is tasked with looking out for a punter who is threatening the girls at a local strip club, and also suspects trouble when strangers hire him and Arthur to repossess a bull...
S4 Ep11
9.3
21st Mar 1984
When Arthur tries to sell some fake dresses to a fashion agent, he refuses, but offers Terry a job guarding his warehouse. Having already promised a pub owner that he will work for him, Arthur stands in...
S10 Ep4
9.0
27th Jan 1994
Whilst his parents are on holiday in Spain, Ray, driving Bert’s taxi, picks up Susie, an attractive girl who claims to be on the run from a violent husband. Arthur, scenting a ‘nice little earner’, installs her in Bert and Doreen’s house.
S7 Ep1
9.0
2nd Jan 1989
Arthur buys a lorry load of electrical goods, but when he finds out that they are stolen, and the police are watching the lorry, the only way out of the problem is to set fire to it...
S5 Ep6
9.0
10th Oct 1984
Arthur and Terry get involved in a scam to sell football tickets to fans, for the clash between England and Scotland. But the scheme doesn't go to plan, and a surprise is in store for Arthur...
S2 Ep12
9.0
27th Nov 1980
Terry helps out Des, delivering a car that that has been used in a robbery, but the police find his fingerprints...
S3 Ep3
8.9
27th Jan 1982
When Arthur finds an artist who can turn out work as good as the originals, he thinks that he can make money, until a crooked art dealer tries to cut in on him.
S5 Ep4
6.8
26th Sep 1984
An old author friend of Arthur's comes back to town to write a book and sell her house. When she learns that her ex husband has sold the house without her permission, she hires Terry and a secretary to help with ideas, and Arthur to help get the money back.
S1 Ep4
6.8
19th Nov 1979
Terry agrees to guard a middle eastern commodity broker, but he and Arthur get more than they bargained for.
S1 Ep7
7.0
10th Dec 1979
Terry minds a newspaper shop, from a group of Indians bent on revenge, over the shop owner's daughter and an arranged marriage.
S3 Ep5
7.0
10th Feb 1982
Terry house sits for a rock star who has gone on tour, but it turns out that the star is broke and the bailiffs arrive to take the furniture away.
S4 Ep9
7.0
7th Mar 1984
Arthur tries a new scheme in keep fit fashion, opening an aerobics studio. Terry disrupts his plans when he intercedes in a lovers' quarrel.
S5 Ep8
7.0
31st Oct 1984
When Arthur's car lot is compulsory purchased by the council, he decides to run as an independent candidate in the local by-election. Terry and a reporter help out, but just as he is about to win, the opposition want him barred for overspending during his campaign.
S8 Ep2
7.0
12th Sep 1991
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.
S1 Ep1
7.1
29th Oct 1979
Terry is caught inside a launderette, while it is being robbed. As the police gather outside, Arthur tries to make some money by selling Terry's life story to the press.
S5 Ep2
7.2
12th Sep 1984
Arthur is repaid a debt in dodgy £20 notes, but by the time it comes to light they are counterfeit his creditor is heading on a flight to India.
S5 Ep3
7.3
19th Sep 1984
Arthur gets involved with Clive Cosgrove, who has several businesses which are all run by women but it turns out that he is married to all of them.
S1 Ep3
7.3
12th Nov 1979
Scotch Harry arrives from the airport where he has been looking for easy pickings. He has struck lucky by stealing a suitcase full of banknotes, but unknown to him they are forged. Arthur hides him, until he can come to some agreement with the rightful owner.
S1 Ep10
7.4
14th Jan 1980
Terry gets a job minding a Greek restaurant after saving a relation of the owner from being beaten up.
S2 Ep3
7.4
25th Sep 1980
Terry guards a group of people that Maurice the gambler has put together to win at roulette. When the casino starts to protest, he hides them out at his flat, but this upsets his girlfriend Penny, who has taken the week off to be with him.
S3 Ep7
7.7
24th Feb 1982
An old friend of Arthur's, released from prison, hopes to pick up a large amount of money left over from a bank robbery. Things start to go wrong when the retired policeman who was in charge of the case, a warden from the prison, and the other member of the gang learn of his release, and try and get a share of the loot.
S5 Ep1
7.7
5th Sep 1984
When Arthur is stuck with 1,500 pairs of imported shoes, he and Terry find themselves on a boat being chased by the Customs and Excise.
S8 Ep1
7.7
5th Sep 1991
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.
S8 Ep5
7.7
3rd Oct 1991
At Charlie Johnson's funeral, a friend of Arthur's persuades him to help with the next 'big one'.
S8 Ep6
7.7
10th Oct 1991
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.
S1 Ep2
7.7
5th Nov 1979
After ex bank robber George is released from prison, Arthur gets Terry to mind him, until the whereabouts of a large amount of hidden cash is found. The only problem is that Arthur forgot to tell Terry that George is a decoy laying a false trail, while the real bank robber is released, and then he and Arthur will be free to find the money - but they all have a surprise in store...
S2 Ep6
7.8
16th Oct 1980
Arthur meets his old army mate Yorkie. After a night on the town, Terry drives them home, but Yorkie goes missing...
S2 Ep7
7.8
23rd Oct 1980
Arthur gets into the wine business, but Clive, his supplier, is robbed, and with Terry's help they must track down the thieves.
S6 Ep8
7.8
26th Dec 1988
Special feature length edition of the popular TV series. After "minder" Terry McCann does a stretch in prison for getting caught up in one of his boss Arthur Daley's shady deals, their long & turbulent partnership seems to be at an end. But Arthur's dealings with a former army Colonel, Caplan, who is running a "survivalist" centre in suburban England and for whom Arthur is supplying army surplus equipment, reunites the two when they stumble across a plot hatched by Caplan and his "troops" to stage a bullion robbery - the security for which is supervised by their old enemy, former detective sergeant "Charlie" Chisholm!
S1 Ep11
7.8
21st Jan 1980
When some bearer bonds go missing from big time gangster Bobby Altman, the courier Billy Gilpin is a suspect, and he seeks Arthur's help...
S4 Ep3
7.8
25th Jan 1984
Terry is helping out a local gangster as a driver when they come back to the flat of his mistress and find that she has been robbed of her jewels. The thief is known to him, and he tries to get them back.
S6 Ep6
7.8
9th Oct 1985
A lawyer comes to see Arthur for some help in tracing an old man who has come into a considerable amount of money.
S4 Ep2
7.8
18th Jan 1984
When a wealthy garage owner's wife dies he retires and leaves the business to his children, while he hires Terry as a bodyguard to move money out of the business before the VAT man moves in.
S4 Ep10
7.8
14th Mar 1984
When an illegal bookie threatens a customer who owes him money, the customer collapses and dies of a heart attack. Arthur, who is about to go into hospital for an operation, is an eye witness to the event and in no time he is being chased by the police, the bookie and the customer's family.
S6 Ep5
7.8
2nd Oct 1985
Arthur sells tracksuits and watches to some Russian seamen, but one of them goes missing and tries to defect, with the bank refusing to accept the foreign currency. Arthur's nephew Nigel comes to work at the car lot.
S1 Ep8
7.9
17th Dec 1979
When the minicab company he has a share in starts getting trouble from a couple of local louts, Arthur sends in Terry undercover as a driver. But the trouble is coming from an unexpected source...
S1 Ep6
8.0
3rd Dec 1979
Maurice, a professional gambler, is barred from a casino after a large win. Later, he is beaten up and the winnings are stolen. When he hears of a big poker game, he has to sell his car to Arthur to raise the stake money, and gets Terry to guard him.
S2 Ep1
8.0
11th Sep 1980
Arthur gets Terry to guard a racehorse before he runs in a big race, but the owner and trainer are out to con the bookies and leave them out in the cold.
S2 Ep9
8.0
6th Nov 1980
While working for gangster's wife Rose Mellors, the car Terry's driving is stolen, along with its hidden bag of diamonds. The race is on to recover them before the police...
S1 Ep1
7.1
29th Oct 1979
Terry is caught inside a launderette, while it is being robbed. As the police gather outside, Arthur tries to make some money by selling Terry's life story to the press.
S1 Ep2
7.7
5th Nov 1979
After ex bank robber George is released from prison, Arthur gets Terry to mind him, until the whereabouts of a large amount of hidden cash is found. The only problem is that Arthur forgot to tell Terry that George is a decoy laying a false trail, while the real bank robber is released, and then he and Arthur will be free to find the money - but they all have a surprise in store...
S1 Ep3
7.3
12th Nov 1979
Scotch Harry arrives from the airport where he has been looking for easy pickings. He has struck lucky by stealing a suitcase full of banknotes, but unknown to him they are forged. Arthur hides him, until he can come to some agreement with the rightful owner.
S1 Ep4
6.8
19th Nov 1979
Terry agrees to guard a middle eastern commodity broker, but he and Arthur get more than they bargained for.
S1 Ep5
8.3
26th Nov 1979
Terry and Arthur help out a young widow who has been swindled out of her savings.
S1 Ep6
8.0
3rd Dec 1979
Maurice, a professional gambler, is barred from a casino after a large win. Later, he is beaten up and the winnings are stolen. When he hears of a big poker game, he has to sell his car to Arthur to raise the stake money, and gets Terry to guard him.
S1 Ep7
7.0
10th Dec 1979
Terry minds a newspaper shop, from a group of Indians bent on revenge, over the shop owner's daughter and an arranged marriage.
S1 Ep8
7.9
17th Dec 1979
When the minicab company he has a share in starts getting trouble from a couple of local louts, Arthur sends in Terry undercover as a driver. But the trouble is coming from an unexpected source...
S1 Ep9
8.3
7th Jan 1980
Arthur falls for a club singer, and promises to put her in the big time, but falls foul of an unscrupulous club owner. When Terry refuses to help him, he turns to a couple of vicious crooks...
S1 Ep10
7.4
14th Jan 1980
Terry gets a job minding a Greek restaurant after saving a relation of the owner from being beaten up.
S1 Ep11
7.8
21st Jan 1980
When some bearer bonds go missing from big time gangster Bobby Altman, the courier Billy Gilpin is a suspect, and he seeks Arthur's help...
