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Minder: Season 3

14 episodes Premiered Jan 13, 1982
Previously on Minder

Season 3 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Minder Season 2.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (11): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S3·E1 Mytharc

Dead Men Do Tell Tales

Jan 13, 1982

A crooked travel agent, Monty Wiseman gets Arthur and Terry to pick up a coffin at the airport and store it at the lock up. But when the coroner needs to perform an autopsy, despit

S3·E2 Core

You Need Hands

Jan 20, 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...

S3·E3 Core

Rembrandt Doesn't Live Here Any More

Jan 27, 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.

S3·E4 Core

Looking for Micky

Feb 3, 1982

Micky Dixon breaks out of jail in order to publicise his innocence, and Terry looks after him while the press try and hunt him down.

S3·E5 Core

Dreamhouse

Feb 10, 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.

S3·E6 Core

Another Bride, Another Groom

Feb 17, 1982

Arthur's niece is getting married, but Terry, who should be driving the bride to the church, is using the limousine to pick up a load of porn books.

S3·E7 Core

The Birdman of Wormwood Scrubs

Feb 24, 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

S3·E8 Core

The Son Also Rises

Mar 3, 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 ja

S3·E9 Core

Why Pay Tax ?

Mar 10, 1982

Terry helps out Barry, an independent bookmaker, when he has to pay out a large amount of cash to one of his clients, in a deserted car park, but it turns out that he only wants Te

S3·E10 Core

Broken Arrow

Mar 17, 1982

Arthur finds a potential darts champion playing for peanuts in a pub, and enters him in a local competition, but his man is nobbled. Seeing enough to organize his own tournament,

S3·E11 Core

Poetic Justice, Innit ?

Mar 24, 1982

While Arthur does jury service, he leaves Terry in charge at the lock up. Debbie goes into the business of home hairdressing and on her first job, the client's house is robbed, and

S3·E12 Core

Back in Good Old England

Mar 31, 1982

Jack Wragg, a villain who fled the country after a bank robbery, is back to see old friends and his former gang members. Will they be willing to come on in on another heist that he

S3·E13 Mytharc

In

Apr 7, 1982

Arthur gets arrested in a drugs raid after taking possession of a car bought in from Europe. Terry tries to hunt down the seller, and after a long chase he gets the driver, but bac

S3·E14 Mytharc

Christmas Bonus

Dec 26, 1983

This special Christmas episode presents highlights from earlier episodes, linked by some new material set in the Winchester Club.