Minder was a British
comedy-drama about the London
criminal underworld. Initially produced by
Verity Lambert, it was made by
Euston Films, a subsidiary of
Thames Television (later,
Central Independent Television in 1993 and 1994) and shown on
ITV. The original show ran for ten series between 29 October 1979 and 10 March 1994, and starred
Dennis Waterman as Terry McCann, an honest and likable bodyguard (
minder in
London slang) and
George Cole as Arthur Daley, a socially ambitious, but highly unscrupulous importer-exporter, wholesaler, used-car salesman and purveyor of anything else from which there was money to be made, whether inside the law or not.