Minder is a British comedy-drama about the London criminal underworld. The show ran for ten series on ITV in the UK from 29 October 1979 to 10 March 1994, and starred Dennis Waterman as Terry McCann, an honest and likable bodyguard (minder in London slang), and George Cole as Arthur Daley, a well-dressed but unscrupulous importer-exporter, wholesaler, used-car salesman, and anything else from which there was money to be made whether inside the law or not. Starring Dennis Waterman as the freelance "heavy" Terry McCann and George Cole as the unscrupulous and amusing Arthur Daley.