One episode of Minder has never been shown on
national television. Produced in 1986 and just 28 minutes in length,
A Little Bit Of Give & Take was a one-off
special intended for UK school children about the dangers of drugs.

This was sent to schools and health authorities as
part of a package called Double Take.
It covers how young people might react to situations when they are offered drugs and how they might cope with overcoming this. Without doubt,
the rarest Minder episode around, thanks to fellow fan
Remy Hunter, we can provide you with an insight to the episode and the
schools package on this page!
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DOUBLE
TAKE PACKAGE:
PART 1:
PART 2:
This episode shows Arthur in a cream/beige suit with matching hat, rarely seen in the whole series. It starred young actor Chris Routh - be sure to read the Christopher Routh Interview on this site! (see left menu) |
TEACHING MATERIALS
A sample of some of the
material contained within the schools
pack is shown here, though you can download more excerpts, including parts of
the script, activity sheets (including interesting portraits of Arthur and
Terry) for sampling only by clicking
here
(1.08Mb k zip file)- by clicking this link you are
agreeing to the
DISCLAIMER below.

On the whole this 28 minute episode is very good, the best parts being the
exchanges between Arthur/Dave and Arthur/Terry. Two of the best:
DAVE: You goin' away then?
ARTHUR: Two weeks in Gisolo, oyster of the Adriatic
ARTHUR: His dad (Shaun's) was good to me.
TERRY: So you look after him then.
ARTHUR: I can't take him to the Costa packet.
Minder.org campaigned for a long time for an official release of this episode and thanks to the great guys from Umbrella DVD down under, we can enjoy this episode at last (see "Buy Minder DVDs" link on the left).
The star of this episode, a
young
Christopher Routh kindly agreed to be interviewed about this episode by
minder.org in May
2004.
If you would like to read this and more about the background to this episode click
here.
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