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Waterman's final broadcast episode, Series 7's coincidentally titled "The Wrong Goodbye", had closed as a standard episode, filmed before Waterman announced his departure and so with no clue as to Terry's forthcoming departure. This seemed to signify the end, but the series made another return in 1991, with another character replacing Terry. In 1989, after filming the seventh series, Waterman announced he had left the programme, feeling that the character had run its course and that it was becoming harder for the writers to come up with plots as sharp as had been customary in the earlier series. In Series 7, the final series to feature Dennis Waterman as Terry and thus the last to feature the original opening credits, the sequence was modified very slightly to include shots of Terry, Arthur and Dave at the Winchester, giving Edwards his own billing rather than among the guest cast. Barman Dave Harris at first made only occasional appearances, but the rapport between Arthur, Terry and Dave also become popular and by the second series he too was given more screen time. It shares strong similarities with Only Fools and Horses and Steptoe and Son in the sense that much of the storyline revolves around a dysfunctional, co-dependent relationship between the two protagonists.Īlthough initially developed to focus on Terry's character, as the series progressed, the focus shifted to feature Terry and Arthur more evenly, with more screen time allotted to Arthur and his dealings. Like many British sitcoms, the show is set within a certain social class, in this case working class west London. The characters often drank at the local members-only Winchester Club, where owner and barman Dave Harris ( Glynn Edwards) acted, often unwillingly, as a messenger for Arthur, and turned a blind eye to his shady deals. The series is principally set in inner west London (specifically Shepherd's Bush, Ladbroke Grove, Fulham and Acton), and was largely responsible for introducing the word minder, meaning personal bodyguard, into the UK popular lexicon. The first seven series starred Dennis Waterman as Terry McCann, a Fulham fan, an honest and likeable bodyguard ( minder in London slang) and George Cole as Arthur Daley, a socially ambitious, but highly unscrupulous importer/exporter, wholesaler, used-car salesman and purveyor of anything else from which there was money to be made, legally or not.