Just Good Friends (1983–1986)

Shaun Curry: Les Pinner, Mr. Pinner, MrPinner

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• Les Pinner : You mollycoddle that boy too much, Reet. It's unhealthy.

  Rita Pinner : What do you mean unhealthy?

  Les Pinner : He's developing one of them oedipus complexes.

  Rita Pinner : I don't care what's wrong with him as long as he loves his mum.

• [Les is telling Vince about a villain that he stood up to] 

  Les Pinner : He used to be an enforcer for the Kray Brothers - till they sacked him for being too aggressive. He knew I was earning and he wanted his cut. Now unlike you, Vincent, I ain't never been a fighting man. But I knew I had a straight choice. I either paid him what he wanted and had him on my back for the rest of my natural, or I fronted him out. And that's what I did. I was scared, petrified, but I stood up to him. And do you know what? I discovered I had an inner strength. It was as if it weren't me fighting - it was another feller, stronger than me, who had no fear. Every blow was considered in a calm and clinically violent way. George Fimbo never came near or by that yard again.

  Vince Pinner : And were you hurt?

  Les Pinner : Hurt? Three months in a convalescent home, eighteen months before I could walk without a stick!