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Minder: Season 4

11 episodes Premiered Jan 11, 1984
Previously on Minder

Season 4 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 3.
  • ⚡ 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 4 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 4: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (7): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S4·E1 Mytharc

Rocky Eight and a Half

Jan 11, 1984

Arthur persuades Terry into donning his boxing gloves once more. Meanwhile, 'Dirty Harry' lives up to his name when he sells Arthur's council flat.

S4·E2 Mytharc

Senior Citizen Caine

Jan 18, 1984

When a wealthy garage owner's wife dies he retires and leaves the business to his children, while he hires Terry as a bodyguard to move money out of the business before the VAT man

S4·E3 Core

High Drains Pilferer

Jan 25, 1984

Terry is helping out a local gangster as a driver when they come back to the flat of his mistress and find that she has been robbed of her jewels. The thief is known to him, and he

S4·E4 Core

Sorry Pal, Wrong Number

Feb 1, 1984

Arthur joins up with legendary con artist J.J. Mooney, in a racing scam. They hire a postal address and Terry gets to mind three public phone boxes, and then they sit back and wait

S4·E5 Core

The Car Lot Baggers

Feb 8, 1984

When an unscrupulous builder wants a piece of land that is occupied by a local car dealer he hires a gang of thugs to move him out, and tries to lay the blame at the door of the lo

S4·E6 Core

If Money Be the Food of Love, Play On

Feb 15, 1984

Arthur is tricked by a young Australian girl into helping find her boyfriend who has gone missing, with her share of some fraudulent loot.

S4·E7 Core

A Star is Gorn

Feb 22, 1984

Terry protects a rock star who has faked his death. His manager and producer want a share of the profits from his last record. Fortuitously, the tape has landed in Arthur's safe ha

S4·E8 Core

Willesden Suite

Feb 29, 1984

Arthur gets in on a deal to provide a hotel with provisions. Terry helps out a young girl from Liverpool who wants to be a model but is ripped off by the photographer.

S4·E9 Core

Windows

Mar 7, 1984

Arthur tries a new scheme in keep fit fashion, opening an aerobics studio. Terry disrupts his plans when he intercedes in a lovers' quarrel.

S4·E10 Mytharc

Get Daley

Mar 14, 1984

When an illegal bookie threatens a customer who owes him money, the customer collapses and dies of a heart attack. Arthur, who is about to go into hospital for an operation, is an

S4·E11 Mytharc

A Well Fashioned Fit-Up

Mar 21, 1984

When Arthur tries to sell some fake dresses to a fashion agent, he refuses, but offers Terry a job guarding his warehouse. Having already promised a pub owner that he will work for