The Larkins (TV Series) Minders Keepers (1964) User Reviews

Osbert gets a job.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 6/10 · 30 April 2024]

Ada receives a letter from Osbert's cousin, it details Osbert's demand for money, and complains about his poor treatment by his bossy landlady. Incensed by Osbert's devious behaviour, Ada insists Osbert gets a job.

This has to be one of the zaniest episodes to date, somehow this one feels a little ahead of its time, the sort of plotline that would come many years later, does it work? Sort of.

Seeing a work obsessed Osbert was amusing, and it was always going to interesting to learn if he'd turned over a new leaf or not, surely we all knew the answer.

Favourite scene had to be a hysterical Ada, that's the first time we've seen the beloved battleaxe pushed to breaking point.

6/10.

Minders Keepers

[Prismark10 · 3/10 · 24 December 2023]

Ada gets a letter containing £20 from a preacher cousin of lazy Osbert Rigby-Soames.

Ada discovers that each time Osbert is behind on the rent. He writes to a family member and threatens to come and stay with them unless they send him money to pay off the arrears.

A shocked Ada gives Osbert an ultimatum. Get a job and stop sponging off his relatives.

So Osbert starts his own business. He minds other people's things and uses the cafe as a palace of storage. The first item of business are lots of big ticking clocks. Then rabbits and later a bunch of lost Chinese tourists.

Alf and Ada are sent around the twist as Osbert has become a workaholic.

Although the final series had been better. This was a bit to silly and far fetched. Ada should had realised that Osbert was up to no good.

Gives the Major an ultimatum after his cousin writes directly to her, a day searching for a job leads to nothing but an idea for a new business, and Alf's not too happy when he finds his home filled with ticking clocks.