Episode 36 Whose Wife Is It Anyway? (Steptoe’s Iron Hoof)

The Minder Podcast

In this episode, we look at the classic episode Whose Wife Is It Anyway? from Series 2.

This is, as you will know if you listen to the Top Ten episodes show, my favourite all time episode of Minder. I know it is for some of you too or at the very least, an episode you like a lot. I’ve wanted to do this one for a while and have been building up titbits here and there ready to get down and look into it all at some point. As we featured location manager Dave Shanks last episode, I wanted to follow up with this one.

And so I have put together as much as I can find regarding this episode and have – pardon the expression – blown myself away in terms of what I discovered. As usual with many Minder episodes, there was much more than met the eye. What appeared to be a straightforward comedy drama was anything but.

This show is in three sections. Episode description, writing inspiration and finally we will cover the unusual material which links to the episode, including insight into the location used and why this was used, as well as lots of trivia relating to the episode.

You may be wondering why the reference to Steptoe and Son so go ahead and listen in to find out all of the writing inspirations for Tony Hoare, as long as you’ve got nothing against irons.

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