Minder (TV Series) Whose Wife Is It Anyway? (1980) User Reviews

Whose wife is it anyway?

[colinprunty-1 · 10/10 · 23 May 2023]

This is a classic Minder episode with all the features that made the series great. Dodgy Arthur scams , Terry punch ups and Terry womanising and bedding a female without any effort whatsoever which was very standard in Minder.

The story involves Arthur selling rather suspect watches and Terry minding a gay partner of a hospitalised pal of Arthur's.

Terry has to mind the gay partner on a live in basis and also deal with the threats from the heavies single handed and also deal with his own issues with the man he is living with.

We see lots of jokes around this and some of the language used would be certain to offend somebody watching this today.

A shame reallybecause this is one of the finest episodes and the scenes are very funny and very much of the time this drama was set in.

Marvellous little scenes throughout this episode in fact so many it's impossible to mention them all .

An easy 10 out of 10.

Whose Wife Is It Anyway?

[Prismark10 · 4/10 · 9 October 2019]

An episode of its time and it turns out to be rather a frivolous one.

Arthur visits the hospital to see a reformed old lag Alex Brompton who has been severely injured in a hit and run accident. Arthur is also surprised that Alex has split up with his wife.

Although it just might be that it was no accident. Terry is sent to mind the antique shop that Alex runs with a young friend called Jim.

Arthur spends his time selling dodgy watches in this episode, when two heavies come into the antiques shop, they rough up Arthur. Terry went out to see Alex's estranged wife at the time and he ended up in bed with her.

The main thrust of the episode is that Alex and Jim are an item and Alex left his wife for another man. It does leave the episode venturing close to homophobia with cockney rhyming slang of Iron Hoof being bandied about.

This is a slim tale with Terry and Arthur unsure whether or not they mind gays.