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Boon

1986TV-147 seasons5.8 / 10

Boon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker, and later Neil Morrissey. It was created by Jim Hill and Bill Stair and filmed by Central Television for ITV. It revolved around the life of a modern-day Lone Ranger and ex-firefighter, Ken Boon.

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Synopsis

Boon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker, and later Neil Morrissey. It was created by Jim Hill and Bill Stair and filmed by Central Television for ITV. It revolved around the life of a modern-day Lone Ranger and ex-firefighter, Ken Boon.

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Episode 1

MacGuffin's Transputer

Sep 8, 19921h

Laura has left CBS: according to Rocky this is because she felt that Harry was taking her for granted. Charlie Hardiman is having to answer the phone and act as secretary. Harry is desperate to find a permanent replacement but all the girls that he has interviewed so far are proving to be singularly useless. Robert MacGuffin, a hardware designer who works for a computer company, Pictel, believes that his former secretary, Alexandra Wilton, is stealing the design for the company's latest transputer. He wants Ken and Harry to watch her. He suspects her of industrial espionage because she has just resigned for no apparent reason (or so he says) and she already has a prison record for cheque fraud. Ken and Rocky set up their cameras and binoculars in a disused warehouse opposite the studio flat where she lives. Rocky follows Alex to the ice rink where she meets her boyfriend, Jim Parham. When Ken sees a middle-aged man arrive at Alex's flat and offer her a cheque which she refuses, he trie

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Directed by Nicholas Laughland

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Episode 2

Queen's Gambit

Sep 15, 19921h

At a Rotary Club dinner, Harry meets Joe Green, a local businessman. Joe is at the centre of a hate campaign: his car has been repeatedly sabotaged, he has received a newspaper cutting about himself with a red dagger drawn across it and someone pretending to be his secretary has cancelled the caterers at a Chamber of Commerce dinner that he was organising. He suspects that someone is trying to prevent him going ahead with a business deal to buy a restaurant, ""Maximillians"" in Derby. He asks Harry to investigate. He also wants Harry to invest in the restaurant deal, along with another businessman, Charles Hastings, and promises him a seat in the Star Chamber if this deal goes ahead. Harry persuades Ken to act as Joe's bodyguard. At Joe's house, Ken meets Joe's wife Sheila who seems unexpectedly worried that Joe has engaged a bodyguard. Joe is extremely arrogant and peremptory to Ken, treats him like dirt and can't even be bothered to get his first name right. Ken takes an instant dislik

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Directed by Nick HurranGuest stars Lynsey Baxter, John Nettles

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Episode 3

Walkout

Sep 22, 19921h

Mrs Van Bueren, a middle-aged widow, arrives home to find that she has been burgled. Fortunately the thieves have not taken her jewels. She enlists Ken's help to guard them. Ken takes away the jewellery box, full of tiaras and necklaces, to store it in CBS' safe. Meanwhile, Mr Fraser, a rep from a security firm, is showing Harry his company's products - a mugger-proof briefcase and a safe alar. Harry is not impressed and sends Fraser away with a flea in his ear... but not before he has seen Mrs Van Bueren's jewellery. Rocky is behaving very strangely: his heart isn't in his work any more and he hasn't turned up for work. He has started wearing aftershave and he has bought a clapped-out Ford Capri with a musical horn and a noisy exhaust. All this is because he has fallen madly in love with Melanie King, a demure cashier at his bank. Harry has noticed that Rocky isn't really concentrating and is ""on another planet"", so he gives him an easy job: guarding a sculpture exhibition consisting

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Episode 4

Deadline

Sep 29, 19921h

Protecting a woman from her nuisance husband appears to be a straightforward assignment until strange things begin to happen.

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Episode 5

Away from It All

Oct 6, 19921h

Ken is on the brink of quitting the security business after dealing with a messy adultery case, so Harry sends him to a rural retreat run by his nephew â€” where life is anything but relaxing.

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Episode 6

Message in a Bottle

Oct 13, 19921h

Ken investigates the case of a larger-than-life businessman who is accused of kidnapping a young child.

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Directed by Nick Hurran

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Episode 7

The Sharp End

Oct 20, 19921h

While Ken helps the traders, Harry and Alex try to win a big security contract and find themselves at odds with their partner.

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Directed by Matthew EvansWritten by Tony Jordan

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Episode 8

Is There Anybody There?

Oct 27, 19921h

Ken has a spine-chilling confrontation with the supernatural when he is called in to guard expensive antique fittings in an eerie manor.

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Episode 9

Minder

Nov 3, 19921h

Rocky and Alex are planning a surprise birthday party for Ken. To get him out of the way, Harry pretends that he is being harassed and needs a minder for a weekend trip â€” not realizing that he really is in danger.

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Directed by Anthony Garner

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Episode 10

Love or Money

Nov 10, 19921h

Ken gets emotionally involved with a wealthy woman - a 65-year-old pools winner.

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Episode 11

Blackballed

Nov 17, 19921h

Ken and Harry's close and loyal relationship comes under severe strain when Harry is arrested on suspicion of fraud.

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Directed by Nick HurranGuest stars Philip Whitchurch

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Episode 12

Whispering Grass

Nov 24, 19921h

Boon's ""Girl Friday"" Alex is in love with a man who has just been released from prison. Will he slip back into crime?

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Episode 13

Shot in the Dark

Dec 1, 19921h

Harry falls hopelessly in love with a woman he meets at a fair, but his boasting lands him in hot water.

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Written by Tony Jordan

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Episode 14

Thieves Like Us

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CBS are employed to go undercover in order to solve a jewellery theft from a hotel strongroom. Max Cone, the fiancÃ© of the owner's daughter, was imprisoned for the theft. However the daughter, Claire Walters, and her father, Jeremy Walters, are convinced of his innocence and suspect the hotel's manager, Bruce Aurit and the head of security, Mike Puckett. Ken and Harry ""sack"" all the staff of CBS and put the office up for ""sale"". They then use Lennie, one of the disgruntled ""sacked"" employees, to inform Bruce and Mike that the company is in a very dodgy financial state and that Ken and Harry are planning to raid the safe. Alex and Rocky go to work at the hotel: Alex becomes 'Julia', a chambermaid, and Rocky becomes 'Sandy', a porter. Ken and Harry check in to the hotel as 'Kenneth Smith' and 'Henry Jones' (!), businessmen who want to organise a conference. Ken and Harry drug Bruce to give Alex chance to steal his key to the safe (in doing so, she displays another of her many talents: ca

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Directed by Anthony Garner

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Cast

Michael Elphick

David Daker

Neil Morrissey

Elizabeth Carling

Amanda Burton

Saskia Wickham

Rachel Davies

Credits

Created by: Jim Hill