The Wrong Goodbye (Minder), an episode of the British comedy-drama series, Minder.
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Thames Television's film division Euston Films used the Danebury Avenue area of the estate to film the opening scene's of Sweeney 2 (1978) – the sequel to the film Sweeney! (1977) itself spun off from the hugely popular British TV show The Sweeney, and the first episode of Minder, Gunfight at the O.K. Laundrette (1979).
His composition "I Could Be So Good For You" was recorded by Dennis Waterman for the theme tune of the ITV series Minder and became a Top 10 hit single in the United Kingdom during 1980.
More characteristically, he was cast in Jack Rosenthal's one-man show Bar Mitzvah Boy (BBC, 1976); played one of Arthur Daley's crooked cronies in Minder (1982), and has had roles in Bergerac (1987); Howards' Way (1985); You Rang, M'Lord? (1990) and Jeeves and Wooster (1991).
He has appeared in TV dramas and films such as Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Adam Smith, Gregory's Girl, Minder, Tutti Frutti, Rab C. Nesbitt, Heavenly Pursuits, Takin' Over the Asylum, Hamish Macbeth, Taggart and Still Game.
He, Frank Mills and Paul Brooke are the only actors to appear in both the Classic and New series of Minder, but starring in different roles in each.
After his footballer career was over, he became a minder for snooker players, including Steve Davis at the time of his loss to Dennis Taylor in 1985 World Snooker Championship final.
His rugged features have led to parts in numerous crime dramas: The Sweeney, The Bill, Minder in the Series 1 episode Monday Night Fever, C.A.T.S. Eyes, Campion, The Chinese Detective, Dempsey and Makepeace, Rumpole of the Bailey, Inspector Morse, Maigret, The Detectives, Daylight Robbery and New Tricks.
He also acted as a "minder" for a number of celebrities, including John Paul Getty and Sammy Davis, Jr.
With no PA system available in Salisbury, Roskilly was sent to London with a government minder in tow to buy the relevant necessary PA equipment.
Other television credits include, Minder, Bergerac, The Kenny Everett Television Show and Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected.
Back in Berlin, Quiller shakes off someone following him, then confronts the tail in a pub, only to discover that the man is his minder, Hengel (Peter Carsten).
Minder grew up in Neuhausen, attended secondary school at Rosenberg, college at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Neuchâtel and Fordham University, where he obtained an MBA.
For two weeks prior to the 2004 Heineken Cup final, he was famously assigned a round-the-clock minder by the Wasps management, in order that he could be prevented from indulging his passion for buckets of KFC.
He has appeared in many TV programmes since the 1960s, such as The Avengers, Callan, Doctor Who (credited in the TV serial The Crusade), Space: 1999, The Professionals, Minder and Dempsey and Makepeace.
Other roles have included parts in Coronation Street, Crown Court, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries, The Sweeney, Cribb, Minder, Dempsey & Makepeace, the 1977 Doctor Who story The Sun Makers, Last of the Summer Wine and The Darling Buds of May.