seeformiles
Lost in the wood
Dennis Waterman: Minder and New Tricks star dies aged 74
The British star was known for his roles in TV shows including Minder, New Tricks and The Sweeney.
www.bbc.co.uk
RIP Dennis Waterman
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The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Minder, Sweeney , New Tricks all great TV imo
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Didn't know you were a youngster, this marks you out as one. I am your dad by the way.
On Minder and The Sweeney he came across as one of us, he even looks a bit like my brother. Most other stuff on TV then just had posh people in. So yeah, icon of a sort for those of a certain age. Shame he hit his wife.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
I was just doing some washing-up and Radio Caroline mentioned this and played 'I Could Be So Good For You' as a tribute, on finding it on youtube, I was shocked that it was released in 1979, the year I left school. 
RIP.
RIP.
Indeliblelink
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Aaah no. 
Minder is my all time fav programme.
RIP. Cheers for the laughs.
Minder is my all time fav programme.
RIP. Cheers for the laughs.
ska invita
back on the other side
He wrote the theme tune, he sang the the theme tune...
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Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Regan and carter ride again
Loved him in Gentle Ben.
Oh that was Dennis Weaver.
Oops.
Oh that was Dennis Weaver.
Oops.
still holds up well , loved Minder as well , but that hasn't held up well. RIP
ElizabethofYork
Old Crone
Fuck him then.
I’m glad he wasn’t on Gentle Ben.
I’m glad he wasn’t on Gentle Ben.
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
Yep he definitely had many failings as a human being but, given his contribution to popular culture, I thought that on balance he deserved a thread
hash tag
Reaching out
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farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Never liked Minder - it was one of those annoying things my parents watched. Telly was as shit back then as it is now really.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Juliet Bravo was alright though? And The Gentle Touch.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Juliet Bravo was even worse - my mam loved that for some inexplicable reason.
The Gentle Touch rings a bell for some reason, but I can't remember anything beyond that - so it was probably shit too.
I loved it. I got to discover what glue sniffers were and then feared them.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
We had a glue sniffers corner at secondary school so it didn't bother me. I didn't partake, and oddly the teachers seemed to turn a blind eye. The local chip wagon used to sell bags of glue to the pupils at dinnertime.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
Same at my school, evostik was a fave amongst some .
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Yeah, every dinnertime it parked about five minutes from the school and loads of us trooped over for a chip butty - some wrong 'uns asked to see the glue menu instead though. He was there for a long time until he suddenly disappeared - I suspect either the teachers or a parent in the estate found out and grassed him up. We were bereft of chips after that for the rest of our time in school.
