Marina Sirtis On Minder

May 9, 2021

Marina Sirtis On Minder

YouTube just presented me with a long clip of Marina Sirtis playing a foreign barmaid in an episode of the Jim Davidson sitcom Up The Elephant And Round The Castle. She pretty much acts them all off the screen with some brilliant timing, but buggered if I’m going to make you watch the clip here.

Sirtis feels like she could have made her debut on an episode of Grange Hill, but she was probably a little too old for it by 1978. Instead, here she is in an early role on Minder.

And here she is extolling the virtues of Head & Shoulders.

That Thomas Cook ad is remarkably disturbing.

And of course, she was in this.

https://youtu.be/WsWy49T1KfQ

British, Comedy

Marina Sirtis

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