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The Minder Books

This page details the various Minder books and publications that appeared over the years.
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Minder Annual 1980
ISBN 0862270138
Published by Grandreams Limited

The original Minder Annual, published in 1980 is an excellent source of information for any Minder fanatic. Apart from the exceedingly dodgy cartoon storylines (in which the character of Arthur seems to be sprouting a nice moustache, black shirts and white ties) it provides lots of information on Dennis Waterman. In fact you could think that Arthur is only really an extra in the series if you read this annual from back to front!

The whole annual seems to be dedicated to Dennis Waterman and Terry McCann. That said, you can find out what Dennis thinks about his character of Terry, Dennis Waterman's acting career,  Dennis Waterman - "The Singer", and an insight into how an episode of Minder is made.

The book shows some very good behind the scenes footage, and stories about the production process. The pictures from the Dennis Waterman "Putting On The Style" clothes section of this annual have been left out for obvious reasons.

This book is certainly worth tracking down, originally priced at £1.95 if you only ever buy 1 Minder book, this is the one to get.

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Minder - A Novel By Leon Griffiths
ISBN 0450045684
Leon Griffiths

This book stands out from any other as it is created by the original creator of Minder, Leon Griffiths. The story is centred around Terry, who is sent to prison in this book and comes out trying to avoid Arthur.

As fellow Minder fan Callan explains "The novel is darker than the television series, and Arthur comes across as a more sinister, manipulative character. In the book we get a glimpse of Arthur's early life, of his relationship with 'er indoors, and how Arthur and Terry got together in the first place (how Arthur 'groomed' Terry). "

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Minder / Minder - Back Again / Minder - Yet Again!
"Leave It Out, Arthur!"
ISBN 0727812726
Anthony Masters

Three separate novels written by Anthony Masters were released in the 1980s, originally priced at £7.95.
The three different novels all appeared in various colours over the years though the original versions were produced in Blue, Green and Red.
All three books were later released under the title "Leave It Out, Arthur" which is simply a collection of all three novels in one (picture shown here).

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Arthur Daley's Guide to Doing It Right
ISBN 0006370381
Leon Griffiths

The creator of Minder puts himself in the position of Arthur Daley and tells how to get along in life discussing such great topics as "A gentleman's club", "The Arthur Daley workout", "English as it's spoke and writ" and "The Last Journey". This book contains some very good cartoon illustrations of Arthur and Terry as well as photos from the series.

Two editions exist, the newer version is shown on the right in red.

The recommended selling price of the book when it first appeared was £2.95 and is described on it's back cover as "A personal message from the star of the internationally popular TV series 'Minder'". An excellent cockney rhyming slang guide at the back of this book in the "lexicon" chapter.

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Minder Annual 1985
ISBN 0723567271

This annual contains both pictures and cartoons of Arthur & Terry.



Contents:

The Long Goodbye Day
/Leave It Out/The Phantom of the Gaumont/The Rialto and the Tivoli/The Dogs At War/Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit/The Goons, The Bag And Miss Uttley/Singbad the Salesman/For a Fistful Of Sova/The French Disc Connection/Out of the Frying Pan/Learning the Lingo/The Trouble with Sammy the Trance/Stocking The Lockup

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Minder Annual 1986
ISBN 0723567506

This is one of the more difficult to track down Minder books.

This was published in autumn 1985 for the Christmas of 1985, during which series 6 was being shown. On the front cover we see Arthur as 'The King of Clubs' and Terry as the 'Jack of Hearts'.
 

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Arthur Daley Straight Up
- The Autobiography
Paul Ableman, Leon Griffiths
ISBN 0749311193


Published in 1991 by William Heineman Ltd., Minder's creator Leon Griffiths was also involved in the production of this book.

This book also contains a foreword by one Derek Trotter!

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Back To Basics / Back To Basics Audio Book
Andrew Nickolds
ISBN 0434000213 / 186021908X (Audio Book)

Arthur Daley, a man with a mission to get the country back on its plates!

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 This title was also released in an audio book (double cassette) format read by George Cole himself - a picture of which is shown here.

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Made for Television: Euston Films Limited
ISBN 0423013106
Manuel Alvarado & John Stewart
Published by BFI Publishers.

Not strictly a Minder book, but very much related to the series. This book was first published in 1985 and like most other books mentioned here is now sadly deleted. This book details most of the programmes produced by Euston Films  including The Sweeney, Out, Widows, Special Branch, Reilly-Ace-Of-Spades Fox and Minder.

This book together with photographs charts the beginning of Euston Films and chronicles an in depth look of how the shows are produced from the drawing board to our TV sets. The book is packed with 228 pages of information. A behind the scenes guide on how an episode of Minder was filmed is contained here too! An excellent read!

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Reminder
ISBN 0099280531

Dennis Waterman's Autobiography - first published in 2001 contains a wealth of information on Dennis and his time he spent in The Sweeney and in Minder.  Excellent stuff in here, including a very interesting chapter on him and Rula plus lots of nice behind the scenes photos too!

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Reminder Audio Book
ISBN 1856866912

Dennis Waterman has also recorded this in an audio book format.

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