CLASSIC ITV comedy-drama Minder now has a trigger warning over the “outmoded and offensive” language used by Arthur Daley and sidekick Terry.
Episodes on the streaming service warn the show “contains offensive language, outmoded sexual stereotypes and some violence”.
, featured wheeler-dealer Arthur, played by George Cole, and bodyguard Terry McCann, played by .
In 1980 episode Whose Wife Is It Anyway?, Arthur instructs his muscle, Terry, to protect a gay couple who run an antique shop.
Terry calls one half of the couple a “raving iron” - a reference to a Cockney rhyming slang term for gay men.
Other homosexual slurs are also used.
Terry taunts Arthur when he goes to visit one of the men in hospital, saying: “Give him a kiss from me.”
And he tells Arthur - known for his catchphrase “Er indoors” - he will not stay at the couple’s flat as he wants to “enjoy a few drinks” and “pull a bird”.
Terry later beds an older married woman, telling her the sex was “smashing”.
And there is violence when Arthur is punched in the stomach by a thug, while Terry also gets into a dramatic rooftop dust-up.
Nineties sketch for “discriminatory language”, including for its infamous Suit You Sir sketches.
And classic Ronnie Barker sitcom -over lusty references to Nurse Gladys Emmanuel.
ITV was contacted for comment.
