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It is the second episode and is another strong story with more emphasis on humour.

After spending a week in a sauna and getting massaged, Terry is glad to look after Albert Stubbs who has just left prison. Terry just needs to mind Albert for a few days and he will leave the country sharpish.

Albert buried some loot before he went inside for 4 years. The wife of one of his gang members Rose Mellors is after Stubbs so she can make sure he does run off with all the money. Rose is not a woman to be messed with and she has found out that Albert has been released.

Terry finds that Albert Stubbs is not a man who wants to keep his head down. He even enters a radio competition and gives out his address over the airwaves.

It is almost if Albert wants to be caught. Meanwhile Arthur Daley has not told Terry the full facts regarding his latest job.

Nicky Henson is having a good time playing Albert Stubbs, the ex con who cannot keep incognito. There are several twists to the story. Tony Selby plays the clumsy henchman for Rose Mellors.

I do remember at the time watching this and thinking that the money looked old.

While the very first episode of Minder 'Gunfight At the OK Launderette' was a bit off-piste, the second 'Waltham Green' is an altogether lighter, funnier, and more enjoyable affair. Terry McCann is assigned to mind a newly released prisoner who is now eager to collect his ill gotten gains; unfortunately for them a couple of rather tasty firms are also out to get the loot - there follows a terrific episode full of twists & turns and some great one liners.

The magical chemistry between George Cole and Dennis Waterman is apparent from the start, and although they, Nicky Henson and Kenneth Cope are all very good, i think Ann Lynn upstages everyone as a gangster's moll, a performance which earned her a well deserved encore in series two.

In terms of style and humour i think 'Bury My Half at Waltham Green' set the tone for everything that followed.