Boon

Épisode 1 - Box 13

14 janvier 1986 - 3/5

Harry retires from the fire brigade and Ken is invalided out after his lungs are damaged while rescuing a boy from a fire. Harry buys a seedy hotel, The Grand. Ken buys a caravan, The Ponderosa, and tries to make a living as a market gardener. Harry suggests that Ken should supplement his income by offering to do odd-jobs for people - he places an advert in the local paper. His first client is Barney Spitz, a pop music promoter who wants Ken to dress up in an old fireman's uniform and star in a pop video!

Épisode 2 - Fools Rush In

21 janvier 1986 - 3/5

Épisode 3 - Answers to the Name of Watson

28 janvier 1986 - 3/5

Elena and Arturo Sandini (aka Helen and Arthur Sanders) run a circus lion-taming show. They ask Ken to recover their lion, Watson, which has been stolen by a group of animal-rights campaigners who want to use it to publicise their cause.

Épisode 4 - Grass Widows

4 février 1986 - 3/5

While sorting out unpaid bills at The Grand, Doreen find s one relating to a man who has since died. Ken, Harry and Doreen visit his widow, Meg Lucie, and find that she is coping very badly, both with looking after the garden and with the paying of the bills. Ken and Harry sort out the garden while Doreen sorts out Meg's bills. They decide not to tell Meg that they suspect her husband was having an affair while staying at The Grand. Harry falls for Meg but she decides to sell up and move away from the area. Harry employs a new barman, Lionel Blakey, but soon discovers that his racist comments are offending both Hanif and the Asian guests. After an argument, Blakey resigns, which prevents Harry having to decide how to sack him!

Épisode 5 - Unto Us Four a Son

11 février 1986 - 3/5

Laurie Langley, a has-been pop singer, employs Ken to look after her son after she suspects that her ex-husband, Geoff Greenaway, is trying to kidnap him.

Épisode 6 - Glasshouse People

18 février 1986 - 3/5

Patsy, a young woman who is staying at The Grand, befriends Sidney Garbutt, another guest who has lost his memory. But what has caused Sidney to lose his memory in the first place?

Épisode 7 - Northwest Passage to Acock's Green

25 février 1986 - 3/5

Ken is employed by a genial Irishman, Erroll McLaverty, to bring a canal boat back to Birmingham from near London. He takes Doreen and plans a romantic weekend. But two scruffy men, Appleby and Laing, are following the boat. Then Ken and Doreen hear strange sounds from the boat's cargo hold. They discover that an escaped convict, Alan Prendergast, is hiding in the boat - McLaverty had employed Ken to smuggle Alan back to his father, Walter Prendergast.

Épisode 8 - Something Old, Something New

4 mars 1986 - 3/5

Ken recovers the antiques that Philip Banks and Georgina Pemberton, a couple of corrupt antique dealers, have defrauded from an old man, Murdoch Johnstone. Harry is worried that Mr Dudley, an officious and demanding guest, might be a hotel inspector who will decide whether The Grand will be given a contract for housing homeless people.

Épisode 9 - For Whom the Chimes Toll

11 mars 1986 - 3/5

Major Hopkinson, an old man who collects chiming clocks asks Ken for help after he is terrorised by some thugs to whom he owes money. But has he been completely honest with Ken?

Épisode 10 - Jack of All Tradesmen

18 mars 1986 - 3/5

Épisode 11 - Billy the Kid

25 mars 1986 - 3/5

Harry is organising a charity football match between the firemen and the All Stars. Billy ""The Kid"" Buchan, an out-of-work Scottish footballer, has flown over from Hong Kong to play in the match. Harry organises a press conference at The Grand, where Billy will be staying. Billy is a notorious alcoholic, so his manager, Peter Grant, asks Ken to act as his minder and prevent him from drinking. This is particularly important because Wally Patterson, manager of the Saudi Arabian national team, and Abdul Ibrahim, one of the team's sponsors, are coming to the match. They want Billy to act as captain and coach for the Arabian team. Grant, who has an agreement to take 25% of Billy's takings, threatens him: ""If you screw this up for me, I'll see you never play for another British club"". Ken collects Patterson and Ibrahim from the airport and takes them to the hotel, but meanwhile Billy has drunk a whole bottle of vodka and is in no state to meet them, particularly in view of the Saudis' disapp

Épisode 12 - Grand Expectations

1 avril 1986

Ken falls off his bike while he is riding along a snowy country lane. The bike is damaged and needs a new rear suspension. Neighbour Ben Gibbs helps to recover the bike in his horsebox. After a lot of futile phoning around, Ken finds a motorbike repair shop, Alpha Bikes, which can get hold of the suspension unit. Alpha Bike is run Narain Singh and his nephew Ranjit. Narain offers Ken the use of his workshop. While working there one evening, Ken hears Ranjit and his wife Surinder arguing violently. Ranjit yells ""You are my wife. You will do as I say."" Surinder screams and runs away, pursued by Ranjit. She and Ken escape on one of Narain's bikes, and Harry reluctantly offers to put her up in a spare bedroom at The Grand. When Ken returns the bike to Narain, he offers to bring Surinder back, although he tells Narain how his nephew has treated his wife. Narain resents the fact the Ken is ""interfering"". He says that Ken will only get his bike when he returns Surinder. Back at The Grand, Ken

Épisode 13 - Full Circle

8 avril 1986

The Karadia brothers run a carpet factory which has suffered more than its fair share of fires. The police, fire brigade and insurance company suspect arson. One of the carpets which is destroyed in the latest fire belongs to Harry - he has ordered it for The Grand and is worried because he has over-estimated its value on his insurance claim. Ken follows the suspected arsonist to a new hotel that Harry is about to buy and catches him in the act of setting a fire. Both Ken and the arsonist narrowly escape with their lives.

Épisode 1 - Texas Rangers

17 février 1987

Harry has sold the Grand Hotel and bought a much more prestigious hotel, The Coaching Inn in Edgbaston. Doreen has moved to Spain and out of Ken's life. Harry is trying to raise some publicity for the grand opening that he has planned at The Coaching Inn, but the newspaper reporter isn't very interested. However Harry persuades them to print a photo if he can get it to the newspaper by their deadline. But who can perform the opening ceremony, now that the mayor isn't able to attend. By chance Emlyn Price Jones, a fiery red-haired Welsh MP, who is somewhat the worse for drink, is staying in the hotel so Harry gets him to do the honours. While Ken is taking the film of the grand opening to the newspaper office, he is ambushed by a gang of Hells Angels. Ken is starting up a motorcycle courier firm, Texas Rangers, which will operate out of the stables at the Coaching Inn, in which he has a financial stake. He is living in a flat above the stables. He has bought an ancient trans

Épisode 2 - Special Delivery

24 février 1987

Harry is thinking of extending the Coaching Inn and entertains a local councillor, James Petherbridge, to lunch in the hope that he will put in good word for Harry at the planning meeting. Unfortunately for Ken, the plans would involve the demolition of the stables used as Texas Rangers' office. Petherbridge is being pursued by an over-ambitious TV journalist, Linda West, who is determined to prove that he is corrupt and is accepting gifts in exchange for ensuring that applicants' plans are passed. Things look bad when it is revealed that he has just returned from a holiday in Sardinia. Then he receives a package of pornographic books, unwittingly delivered by Ken. The police arrive as Ken hands over the package. Because Texas Rangers is implicated by delivering the package, Ken investigates- to clear his own name as well as Petherbridge's. He discovers that the pornographic magazines have come from a seedy club run by Sillitoe, a florid-faced, fruity-voiced man who reluctantly reveals

Épisode 3 - Day of the Yokel

3 mars 1987

Debbie thinks that Ken is getting very unfit so she takes him out jogging. A spirited elderly woman, Irene Maplethorpe, is being victimised by pranks at Moat Farm where she lives. A dead sheep is found in a water-trough; cattle get loose; the farmyard is flooded; she gets anonymous phone calls and finally a barn is "accidentally" demolished by a JCB. A consortium of unscrupulous property developers, Rathbone, Keen and Blackwater (RKB), has designs on the land where Moat Farm is situated. They are planning to build ""luxury dwellings"" there, even though they don't yet own the land. RKB put pressure on Irene's wimpish nephew, Philip Lainchbury, who runs a sawmill that is in financial difficulties, to get him to persuade Irene to move. RKB offer Harry the chance to invest in the consortium and take him shooting on the land next to Moat Farm. Irene demands that they leave her alone - and shoots out the tyres of Rathbone's car to emphasise her point. Irene suspects that her nephew is involve

Épisode 4 - Smokey and the Band

10 mars 1987

Harry is searching for a group to provide entertainment at the Coaching Inn. He approaches Frankie Bass, a theatrical agent, who recommends a Country and West band, Bronco Billy's Boys. Harry hires them privately, bypassing Frankie's agency fee. Ken falls for Bebe McLintock, their raunchy blonde singer, after he has to rescue the band when they break down on their way to the Coaching Inn. Frankie Bass turns up and demands her share of the takings. Bronco and Bebe are forever arguing and Bebe is angry that she is not given sufficient chance to sing her own songs. She runs away from the band - and ends up in Ken's bed! She is on the point of leaving the band and living with Ken. However Ken's luck does not last: before long Bebe (who turns out to be Billy's wife) goes back to the band after Billy decides her needs her to stay. He is prepared to give her top billing and to let her sing her own songs. When White Lightning (Ken's beloved bike) is stolen, it is another member of the band, P

Épisode 5 - Taken For a Ride

17 mars 1987

Albion Firetrucks, a local company which makes fire engines, has the computer plans for its new high-tech prototype stolen, when Ken is knocked off his bike while couriering them to the managing director. He is rescued by Shandy Tremblett, a platinum-blonde Page 3 girl who is staying at the Coaching Inn while trying to "improve her education". When the prototype itself is stolen, Ken investigates. He uncovers a conspiracy between an American consortium, led by Ed Slatterley, and Albion's director, Sir Freddie Blackton MP. The intention is for Slatterley to buy Albion at a knockdown price (because the prototype and its plans are missing) and then, having asset-stripped the company, to close it down. Ken finds the prototype hidden in a barn. Ken, wearing a brass fireman's helmet, and Shandy, dressed in a Union Jack robe, stage a publicity stunt on top of the fire engine to raise public awareness and to persuade the government to allow a management buy-out to take place.

Épisode 6 - Wheels Of Fortune

24 mars 1987

Rocky has his bike stolen by an opportunist thief, Nick, while he is collecting a package from an office in the city centre... and being chatted up by the doe-eyed receptionist! To make matters worse, he has forgotten to renew the road tax and insurance on the bike. Harry's 84-year-old Aunt Lill has had a stroke and is found lying on her hall floor. The ambulance drivers are on strike so her neighbours, Margaret and Sam Green, have to take her to hospital by car. Harry is furious at what he sees as the drivers' selfish attitude: "What's the world coming to when the unions can use a crippled old woman to bump up their pay packets?" he asks Ken. He vents his frustration on the casualty registrar, Dr Hamill, but she lectures him about the dire financial state of the Health Service and tells him how the ambulance strike is affecting deliveries of drugs and medical samples. Somewhat chastened, Harry offers Ken's services free of charge if the hospital needs any supplies collecting or delivered.

Épisode 7 - A Ride on the Wild Side

31 mars 1987

Ken makes a delivery to a house which is being used as a studio for the making of pornographic films. When Barry Drinkwater, the film director, hears about Ken's association with 'The Coaching Inn', he decides he wants to make a film there. Despite Ken's warnings, Harry persists in believing that it will be good publicity for the hotel! Debbie's younger sister, Lindy, arrives unannounced from Liverpool - she has run away from home. Debbie tries to persuade her to go back home, but Lindy complains that there's nothing to go back for and that she is fed up of being treated as a child. Harry gives her a part-time job working behind the hotel bar, but Drinkwater entices her away to give her a part in one of his films. Ken and Debbie can guess exactly what this will involve Lindy doing! They track her down and take her away from the flat over a sex-shop where Drinkwater has taken her.

Épisode 8 - Credit Where It's Due

27 octobre 1987

The episode starts with a bang as Rocky suspects that Texas Rangers is delivering IRA bombs. Explosions aren't the only thing in the air as Ken copes with Harry's passion for a beautiful artist.

Épisode 9 - Trudy's Grit

3 novembre 1987

A new recruit is oblivious of the jealousy around her as she concentrates on the man who intends to repossess her father's stately home - a man who just happens to be staying at 'The Coaching Inn'.

Épisode 10 - A Fistful of Pesetas

10 novembre 1987

An unwelcome guest checks in at the Inn - Harry's Ex-wife, who is then kidnapped ! Meanwhile, Ken, Rocky and their new van attempt to deliver a large statue in which no-one seems to be interested.

Épisode 11 - Paper Mafia

17 novembre 1987

Rocky's in love again. This time it's with the delectable Guiseppina, daughter of the owner of 'The Pizza Palace', an establishement so fortified that Rocky jokes about mafia connections... Harry, meanwhile, is planning a trip to Las Vegas, and Ken is involved in a number of mysterious parcels.

Épisode 12 - Fiddler Under the Roof

24 novembre 1987

A huge wedding reception at 'The Coaching Inn' gets out of hand when the bride's family discovers the groom's identity.

Épisode 13 - A Once Fluid Man

1 décembre 1987

Ken encounters an old friend and meets up with a former love, Detective Constable Margaret Daly, at an aerobics class.

Épisode 1 - Charity Begins At Home (Part One)

1 novembre 1988

Harry organises a charity ball with a dodgy character who runs off with all the money, leaving Harry to face an investigative journalist's cameras; he is forced into promising to replace the enire sum. The Texas Rangers, meanwhile, are thought responsible for some industrial espionage - which threatens to close them down. Rocky helps uncover the real leak, and Boon re-establishes relations with Margaret.

Épisode 2 - Charity Begins At Home (Part Two)

8 novembre 1988

Ken and Margaret finally track down the runaway Jay, but not before he's spent all the money. During the course of an unusual blackmail case, Margaret discovers that her new boyfriend is a liar. In the end, Boon does so well at both cases that she asks him to be her partner.

Épisode 3 - Topspin

15 novembre 1988

Ken becomes a minder for a spy who has just been released from prison - a newspaper has an exclusive story contract and wants to protect its investment. It's not easy, however: rival newshounds are soon on the scent, and even the secret services are traling behind...

Épisode 4 - Have a Nice Day

22 novembre 1988

Ken and Margaret try to trace a missing husband who has absconded with his firm's money. Meanwhile, Harry holds an Australian Evening at 'The Plaza'.

Épisode 5 - Beef Encounter

29 novembre 1988

An unscrupulous fast-food king get his comeuppance for exploiting his young employees in spite of Ken Boon's attempts to keep the peace. Harry relives his past when he meets a long-lost love.

Épisode 6 - Never Say Trevor Again

6 décembre 1988

Margaret and Ken try to nail a gangster with little success, but they do manage to deliver a writ and help a boy when his mother decides to marry his best friend!

Épisode 7 - Honourable Service

13 décembre 1988

Ken is involved with the fire service again - this time in the pursuit of a bent fireman turned arsonist. Harry, meanwhile, embarks on a self-assertiveness course.

Épisode 8 - Peacemaker

20 décembre 1988

Margaret is hired to find a runaway rock star, and finally gets him back with Rocky's help. Ken, meanwhile, is following a man who is supposedly cheating on his ex-wife's alimony payments. Getting to know and like the man, he finds that he is indeed cheating - but that the wife is also secretly living with a rich man. Ken is faced with a dilemma: does he betray the ex-husband, or lie to his client?

Épisode 9 - The Devil You Know

27 décembre 1988

When Ken and Margaret are used to provide a false alibi for a robber, they find themselves under suspicion from the police. Harry helps a fellow restaurateur recover from the damaging reviews of a nasty food journalist.

Épisode 10 - Banbury Blue

3 janvier 1989

Sheep rustlers and rare-egg smugglers are tracked down, while Harry has to deal with unwanted attentions from a besotted admirer.

Épisode 11 - One Reborn Every Minute

10 janvier 1989

Ken is hired by an American evangelical preacher to find out who is sabotaging his show in Birmingham and ruining his chances of winning a cable television contract. Ken discovers that the culprits are the brothers of a rival preacher on the cable television shortlist, but his sympathy for his client is short-lived when a friend of Harry's is left suffering from the effects of his faith-healing.

Épisode 12 - The Fall & Rise Of The Bowman Empire

17 janvier 1989

While Harry has to contend with mice, Ken is hired to keep an ex-con out of trouble; the ex-con turns out to be more than capable of looking after himself.

Épisode 13 - The Not-So-Lone Ranger

24 janvier 1989

Ken and Margaret help a jockey whose wife has been kidnapped to force him to lose a race. Rocky tracks down a beautiful graffiti artist, and Harry faces the nightmare of the 'Birmingham Trivial Pursuit Championship' at 'The Plaza'.

Épisode 1 - Walking off Air

2 octobre 1989

In Nottingham, Ken Boon first assignment is to act as bodyguard for outspoken local DJ Eddie Cotton. Harry has gone into partnership with Helen Yeldham,owner of the Woodcote Park Country Club. Unfortunately Eddie gets himself into a compromising situation, and a rare toad threatens to scupper Harry's redevelopment plans.

Épisode 2 - The Relief of Matty King

9 octobre 1989

Marty King, a local comedian staying at Woodcote Park, has a gambling habit that has left him heavily in debt to two young men, Rupert Cole and Tony Lawrence. Meanwhile, Ken is engaged by club owner Dick Vaughan to find out why his licence has not been renewed - and uncovers a connection to Cole and Lawrence.

Épisode 3 - Vallence's Liberty

16 octobre 1989

A Tyrolean night at Woodcote Park is used as a clever for a gang of criminals to gain access to a house where they believe some plans are hidden; and Helen loses a 'daughter ' but gains a son when she takes Rocky under her wing following the sale of Texas Rangers.

Épisode 4 - Of Meissen Men

23 octobre 1989

Ken is engaged by Marion Kershaw to search for her missing husband, a businessman involved in the import/export trade. Ken and Harry find themselves handling stolen goods when they try to assist the police in a case involving the international theft of antiques.

Épisode 5 - Arms and the Dog

30 octobre 1989

Ben Fowkes, a young army demolition export, has deserted, and his father hires Ken to try and find him; Ben is now involved in an illegal boxing match in order to raise money to buy himself out, and Ken tries to stop the fight. Harry and Rocky, meanwhile are busy looking after Tinkerbell - a Champion greyhound.

Épisode 6 - Sickness and Health

6 novembre 1989

Helen gives shelter to a battered wife and two sons . The woman's doctor husband almost convinces Ken that his wife is having a nervous breakdown, but hie true character is revealed when he attempts to abduct the boys. Harry, meanwhile, is investigating thefts from patients rooms in a nursing home.

Épisode 7 - In It for the Monet

13 novembre 1989

Ken is on the two brothers who have each been left a half - share in their father's classic car - literally. At the same time, he assigns Rocky to trail an attractive young university student who seems to be suddenly in possession of a great deal of money. After suspecting her of selling her body for drugs, he discovers a more mundane source of income.

Épisode 8 - Do Not Forsake Me

20 novembre 1989

Ken is hired as a bodyguard by Bob Messener, a club owner on the run from brothers of his ex - partner Sammy Robinsonwho is in prison - of so Bob thinks. Harry meanwhile, has a nasty environmental problem apparently caused by his farmer neighbour.

Épisode 9 - Love Letters from a Dead Man

27 novembre 1989

Barbara Lake hires Ken to find out why she is receiving letters signed by her husband, who died in a plane crash six months ago. The letters leads her to a large amount of hidden money,but someone is watching her every move, meanwhile Helen's cycling nephew Ian is being blackmailed by a doctor of a rival cycling team.

Épisode 10 - Big Game Hunt

4 décembre 1989

Ken uncovers the secret life of Nina, wife of the unpleasant, violent and scheming Detective Sergeant Brock. Meanwhile Harry's plans a medieval banqueting tents at Woodcote Park do not meet with universal approval.

Épisode 11 - Don't Buy from Me, Argentina

11 décembre 1989

An Argentinian polo team are practising at Woodcote park while Helen makes eyes at the captain , Ken keeps his on Merrily Curtis, an English girl involved in a insurance scam over a brood mare. Back at the office Rocky agrees to collect a valuable painting for a client; he is about to become a pawn in a war between a husband and wife.

Épisode 12 - All in a Day's Pork

18 décembre 1989

Ken is hired by the secretary of Sanderson Meats to find out who is stealing dictaphone tapes from her desk, and uncovers scheme by Mr Sanderson and his son-in-law to import pornography. Meanwhile, Harry has a spot of bother with has latest acquisition - a talking parrot.

Épisode 13 - The Eyes of Texas

20 décembre 1989

Ken has spent the night with Rebecca, while burglars have vandalised his office. Harry is looking at buying a club,but is warned off by his accountant, who tells him that his finances are in a bad way. Both men seem to be facing an uncertain future.

Épisode 1 - Trouble in the Fields

25 septembre 1990 - 5/5

Harry has evidently gone up in the world since he sold Woodcote Park because he now drives a Jaguar XJ6. He is planning to start a security business from offices at a canal basin by the Trent but his bank manager, Mr Statter, refuses him a loan. Ken, Rocky and Laura have moved from Royal Hill and are temporarily working out of a very tacky caravan. Ken is on horseback, investigating water pollution and dead fish at a quarry near Dornford Hall for his clients, the peremptory and patronising Dr Sinclair Lewis, and Simon, a member of an ecological pressure group. They believe that the pollution is due to the dumping of toxic waste, possibly solvents used in the production of ceramics. Suddenly an air-rifle pellet is fired at Ken's horse, throwing him off. A beautiful Polish woman, Irena Tadeusz, who lives at Dornford Hall, rescues him. She tells him about a friend, Brigadier Charles, who was beaten up in a robbery. She is very frightened, so Ken offers to do a free survey with a view to f

Épisode 2 - Tales from the River Bank

2 octobre 1990

Ken is asked to investigate the fiancée of Lawrence Varlish. He suspects that she might be having an affair with her hypnotherapist, Geoffrey Phillips. Harry goes to see Phillips, posing as an anxious patient, and soon discovers that Varlish is worrying over nothing. Two suspicious-looking South African men are waiting in the car park of the newly-opened CBS offices. They are anxious to collect something from a boat on the river. Nearby a narrow-boat belonging to a certain Mrs Walters is commandeered at gunpoint by Hobson, a suave man with a painfully cultured accent, accompanied by a Scotsman called Dilkes. They urgently need transport because their own boat has broken down. That night, when Ken is asleep on his yacht, he is woken up by the sound of heavy objects being thrown in to the water. Still half asleep, he peers out of the window but can't see anything and soon goes back to sleep. After advertising in the local paper, Ken and Harry are inundated with enquiries for missing pers

Épisode 3 - Work, Rest & Play

9 octobre 1990

Harry has a contract to guard the puppies that a pedigree Afghan hound is expecting. When the puppies are born, it turns out that the father was a mongrel! Because the puppies are not pedigrees, the contract falls through and Harry is left with a lot of surplus surveillance equipment. A Scottish footballer from Dundalk, Willie Connolly, wants Ken to act as his minder. Shortly after moving down to play in a local Nottingham team, his car was vandalised by a gang of thugs. Ken is warned off by a Glaswegian who freely admits smashing up the car and tells Ken to pass on the message to Willie that ""he's got twenty-four hours"". Willie and his girlfriend, Belinda, are planning to buy a house nearby. While they are looking round the house before buying it, a woman arrives and catches Willie and Belinda kissing... she is Willie's wife, Moira! Willie was separated from Moira whom he had left in Scotland. The ""mad Glaswegian bookie"" who smashed up the car is Moira's father, Donny McGregor, who is

Épisode 4 - The Belles of St. Godwalds

16 octobre 1990

Justina Bradleigh is a beautiful but spoilt 18-year-old pupil at St Godwald's, a girls' public school. She is secretly going out with Perry, a cocky young man who is constructing the school's new swimming pool. She is very bitchy to Deborah, her father's new girlfriend. Ken and Harry are employed to guard a fashion show and charity gala that the school will shortly be starting. The school receives a bomb threat, which the headmistress, Hester McCullock, says is just the latest in a long line of pranks which are starting to affect the reputation of the school. Hsster asks Ken to investigate before parents start threatening to take their girls away. Harry is keen to join the local branch of the Conservative party, of which Simon Bradleigh is the chairman. Simon tells Harry that ""the party takes a dim view of confirmed bachelors"", so Harry is under pressure to find himself a wife! Simon tells him that he knows of ""an exclusive introduction bureau"" run by Davina Barclay. Harry is very scep

Épisode 5 - Rival Eyes

23 octobre 1990

Harry has just moved to the peaceful village of Upper Ridley and Rocky is lodging with him. They help Sylvia Clayborough, a young widow, who has taken over her husband's fishmongering business but is plagued by vandalism: the fish-van's tyres are let down and graffiti is sprayed over it. When Sylvia and another widow, Vivienne Blake, start to compete with each other to welcome Harry to the village, Harry begins to realise that he has uncovered a hotbed of rivalry, jealousy and frustrated passion. Harry and Rocky eventually track down the vandal: Vivienne's wayward nephew who is staying with her. Thomas O'Rourke, an Irish builder, asks Ken to investigate a break-in and theft of cash at his office. He suspects Brian Jonson, another builder. He thinks it is a dispute between Catholic (himself) and Protestant (Jonson). O'Rourke tries to settle his score with Brian by demolishing his office with a JCB. However O'Rourke's daughter, Caitlin, thinks the real culprit is her elder sister, Bernad

Épisode 6 - Burning Ambition

6 novembre 1989

Lorraine Simpson is a red-headed young teenager who has just been released from borstal after serving a sentence for arson. Why has she kept a newspaper cutting which announces Ken's transition from fireman to private detective? Fiona Harper, a guest at a nearby hotel, wants Ken to get evidence that her husband, Dennis, is having an affair. She tells him a sob-story about how he has moved his girlfriend into their house after kicking her out in to the street with only the clothes she is wearing. Ken, who can never resist a pretty damsel in distress, falls for this story hook, line and sinker. In fact ""Fiona"" is none other than Lorraine Simpson, who works at the hotel as a chambermaid. But it is a long time before Ken discovers this! Ken watches the Harpers' house and sees Harper with his ""girlfriend"" (who is really his wife, Sue). He agrees to help ""Fiona"" break into the house while the Harpers are out so she can reclaim her possessions. While there, she fakes evidence of a burglary an

Épisode 7 - Bully Boys

13 novembre 1989

Laura is looking after Greg Willis, the ten-year-old son of Harry's friends who are away on holiday. Greg is very withdrawn and doesn't want to got to school. While waiting to collect him, Laura sees Greg's games teacher, Nick Fuller, bullying him. Laura and Rocky decide to give Nick a taste of his own medicine. Rocky arranges a rugby match, with his friends acting as players in both teams. Taking advantage of the fact that Nick fancies her, Laura invites him to the match, saying that a friend (Rocky) will be playing. Rocky claims he has just twisted his ankle and cannot play. A substitute is needed and Nick is the only person they have got. With Greg surreptitiously watching from the touch-line, Rocky's mates in the opposing team take great delight in tackling Nick as violently as possible and roughing him up at every opportunity, just to let him know what it feels like to be on the receiving end of bullying. Ken and Harry are involved in a more serious case of bullying. Beth Benson,

Épisode 8 - A Night at the Ballet

20 novembre 1989

CBS are looking after security at the Theatre Royal for a charity gala. One of the ballet dancers, Jan Melzer, is quite obviously scared stiff of her agent, Eckford, and Kelp, a thug who is working for him. At the party after the performance, Jan tells Laura that she and her fellow dancer Peter Sorreno desperately need help to escape from Eckford and Kelp. Harry is captivated by Enrica Montanini, an opera singer at the gala. He persuades her to give an impromptu performance at the party to distract Eckford's attention. Acting as decoys, Rocky and Laura dress up as Peter and Jan, and Eckford chases them through the empty auditorium. Meanwhile Peter and Jan escape to Ken's boat. Jan tells Ken that Eckford is threatening to reveal that Peter was arrested for drugs offences when he was younger - unless she co-operates with him. She says that the only person who might be able to help is her uncle, Tony Margiotta, who fled from America to Britain after a family argument. Ken traces him to a

Épisode 9 - Undercover

27 novembre 1989

Laura and Rocky have been given the task of tailing Victor Howells, a young man who has just been released from prison. He is described by Ken's client, Mr Pollock, as ""a vindictive and disturbed man"" and is expected to try to attack Mr Pollock's client who wants to remain anonymous. Pollock won't even reveal his client's exact address but wants 24-hour surveillance so he will know if Howells goes anywhere in the same district. Howells sees Laura and Rocky, so, with their cover blown, they try the direct approach and talk to him, telling him that they have no idea why they have been asked to follow him. Howells tells them that he was imprisoned for stealing watches from a jeweller, Mr Sinton, although he claims that Sinton framed him for the theft. The three of them plan to flush Sinton into the open by warning Pollock that Howells has given them the slip. They soon discover that Pollock and Sinton are one and the same! They lure him to a deserted boathouse where Howells confronts Sint

Épisode 10 - Daddy's Girl

4 décembre 1989

Ken and Harry are guarding Upper Ridley Hall, near where Harry lives, and where a big Society wedding will be taking place between Sir Alan and Lady Tessa Bolton's daughter, Kate, and Rupert de Borchgrave, a Belgian Count. Sir Alan asks Ken to keep a discrete watch on one of his houseguests, Johnny Hunter, a suave gentleman who drives an Austin Healey sports car. Ken senses a tension in the house: why is Hunter nosing around the house and taking such an interest in Kate, and why is Lady Tessa so evasive about him. Why is Kate secretly making furtive phone calls and who is the man who she meets late at night? While patrolling the grounds, Harry spots two men behaving very suspiciously and stalking one of Sir Alan's stags. He reports this to Philip Braithwaite, Sir Alan's Estate Manager, who doesn't seem to take the matter seriously. Harry suspects that Braithwaite himself might be involved in the stag poaching. He follows one of the estate vans to a ruined chapel which he discovers the

Épisode 11 - Best Left Buried

11 décembre 1989

CBS has been given the contract to guard a building site - a derelict church which is due to be demolished and replaced with luxury flats by a local builder, Donald Bannerman. During a violent thunderstorm, there is an earth movement and some ancient statues are uncovered. Dr Freda Butler, an archeologist at the university, insists on being given access, saying that the statues date back to the time when there was a Cistercian monastery on the site. Bannerman refuses, but Ken decides to let her have a quick look at the statues while Bannerman isn't there. During the night, one of Bannerman's JCBs is sabotaged when sand is poured in the fuel tank. Freda and her students are blamed. Bannerman threatens to hand over the security contract for guarding all his sites to Jack Fentiman, one of Harry's rivals. Harry wants to sack Frank, the security guard who was on duty at the site. However Ken feels sorry for Frank, who is the rather simple brother of another CBS guard, Bertie, and insists on

Épisode 12 - Thicker Than Water

18 décembre 1989

Margery Keeverton is looking after the estate of her uncle, Geoffrey Keeverton, who has just died. He had made a considerable amount of money from a fairground amusement arcade and has now left it all to her. While staying at her late uncle's house, she starts to receive nuisance phone calls which make it clear that she is being followed and which referred to an unpaid debt. Ken and Harry are asked to help. Because Harry rather fancies Margery, he is keen to help and even takes a week off work. Margery's solicitor, Peter Haymon, has very little confidence in Ken's abilities as an investigator. Harry takes Margery to the races but they happen to meet Haymon, spoiling Harry's plans for a romantic day out. A friend tells Harry that Haymon is ""one of the shiftiest lawyers in the Midlands"". Ken and Harry keep watch on the house each night and their patience is eventually rewarded when they see a shady figure prowling round in the garden. They give chase but the man escapes, after giving Har

Épisode 13 - The Tender Trap

20 décembre 1989

In the weeks leading up to Christmas, Lawrence Drake, a rich ex-racing driver, asks Ken to watch his wife, Pamela, whom he suspects is having an affair. Lawrence feels that he has nothing to offer Pamela because he is now crippled after an accident on the racetrack. Pamela and her boyfriend, Alex Cavendish, are robbed at gunpoint while driving home from a restaurant late at night. Pamela's jewellery is stolen and she receives a blackmail request: ""pay up and you'll get the jewels back"". She starts to gamble heavily and tries to borrow money from loan sharks in order to raise the blackmail money. Ken follows Pamela and sees her with her lover. He then gets Laura to visit Alex, posing as ""Briony Carling"", a magazine researcher, and soon learns his name and that he is a wine importer. Later, Pamela sees Ken while he is following her again. She pleads with him not to tell Lawrence about Alex or the jewellery because she doesn't want to hurt him. Alex is in league with the thieves. At a win

Épisode 1 - Help Me Make It Through The Night

25 septembre 1990

Ken and Harry investigate a woman whose husband believes she's having an affair. Indeed she is - and unknown to Ken, she and her lover also intend to rob the husband's dairy.

Épisode 2 - Two Men in a Vault

2 octobre 1990 - 5/5

Ken and Harry inadvertently interrupt a robbery and find themselves locked in the vault of a security deposit centre. Fortunately, Laura's suspicions lead her and Rocky to the trapped duo, while the robber is double-crossed by his wife.

Épisode 3 - Trial and Error

9 octobre 1990 - 5/5

Ruthless landlord Mr Roach is trying to harass his tenants into leaving, so that he can redevelop the site. The tenants hire Ken to gather the evidence they need to have him convicted, and Ken provides it - but will it stand up in court?

Épisode 4 - Coverup

16 octobre 1990

Suspecting her son, John may be involved in drugs, the widow of an old friend employs Ken's services. He finds that John has indeed fallen into bad company, and it seems inevitable that he will be forced to break a promise not to involve the police.

Épisode 5 - The Barefaced Contessa

23 octobre 1990

Despite Harry's pleas, the ever-trusting Ken allows himself to be swept off his feet for a second time by his former lover, deceptive businesswomen Jean Di Cesare. Is she interested in Ken, or his money?

Épisode 6 - Lie of the Land

30 octobre 1990

Ken and his colleagues are guarding the location of a pheasant shoot, supposedly against hunt saboteurs, and get dragged into a dispute between a landowner and the villagers.

Épisode 7 - Lost on the Range

6 novembre 1990

When Boon and the team are called in to provide security for some local stables, a prize stallion goes missing.

Épisode 8 - Pillow Talk

13 novembre 1990

Solicitor Caroline Mortlake is being hassled by a reporter, and calls in Crawford Boon Security to put a stop to it. But the situation gets decidedly more complicated when Ken discovers Caroline is at the centre of a vicious love triangle.

Épisode 9 - Cab Rank Cowboys

20 novembre 1990

Ken's old friend, taxi firm owner Ray Watts, finds his executive cabs disappearing one by one. Ken suspects garage owner John Blake is stealing them to order - but it takes Rocky and Harry to unmask the real culprit.

Épisode 10 - Houseguests

27 novembre 1990

Harry accepts a job looking after a wealthy couple's country mansion for the weekend, only to find his flat is being used to gain access to the safe next door.

Épisode 11 - Bad Pennies

4 décembre 1990

Convinced criminal Stan Keating is released from prison to find his accomplice and girlfriend is married, his daughter is unaware of his existence and half of his loot is missing. Stan has a large axe to grind as Ken and Harry soon discover.

Épisode 12 - When Harry Met Janice

11 décembre 1990

Hardened criminal Jack Phillips and his wife Janice are planning a robbery at a lingerie warehouse. The plan of a complex security system is vital; unfortunately, it currently resides with Crawford Boon Security.

Épisode 13 - Stamp Duty

18 décembre 1990

Paul Booth is on trial for robbery and his only alibi, Martin Mulholland, has vanished; Crawford Boon Security are hired to find him. An easy job according to Harry - but Mulholland proves particularly slippery.

Épisode 14 - The Night Before Christmas

24 décembre 1991

Harry falls for Jo Beckett (Jill Gascoine), ""The Woman Of My Life"", who owns a jazz club, ""Smoky Jo's"". He plans to marry Jo (he buys her a 2500 engagement ring) and to invest in the club. He even makes preparations to sell his share of CBS to a rival security firm.

Épisode 1 - MacGuffin's Transputer

8 septembre 1992

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

Épisode 2 - Queen's Gambit

15 septembre 1992

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

Épisode 3 - Walkout

22 septembre 1992

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

Épisode 4 - Deadline

29 septembre 1992

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

Épisode 5 - Away from It All

6 octobre 1992

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 — where life is anything but relaxing.

Épisode 6 - Message in a Bottle

13 octobre 1992

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

Épisode 7 - The Sharp End

20 octobre 1992

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

Épisode 8 - Is There Anybody There?

27 octobre 1992

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

Épisode 9 - Minder

3 novembre 1992

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 — not realizing that he really is in danger.

Épisode 10 - Love or Money

10 novembre 1992

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

Épisode 11 - Blackballed

17 novembre 1992

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

Épisode 12 - Whispering Grass

24 novembre 1992

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

Épisode 13 - Shot in the Dark

1 décembre 1992

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

Épisode 14 - Thieves Like Us

24 décembre 1992

CBS are employed to go undercover in order to solve a jewellery theft from a hotel strongroom. Max Cone, the fiancé 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

Épisode 1 - MacGuffin's Transputer

8 septembre 1992

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

Épisode 2 - Queen's Gambit

15 septembre 1992

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

Épisode 3 - Walkout

22 septembre 1992

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

Épisode 4 - Deadline

29 septembre 1992

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

Épisode 5 - Away from It All

6 octobre 1992

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 — where life is anything but relaxing.

Épisode 6 - Message in a Bottle

13 octobre 1992

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

Épisode 7 - The Sharp End

20 octobre 1992

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

Épisode 8 - Is There Anybody There?

27 octobre 1992

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

Épisode 9 - Minder

3 novembre 1992

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 — not realizing that he really is in danger.

Épisode 10 - Love or Money

10 novembre 1992

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

Épisode 11 - Blackballed

17 novembre 1992

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

Épisode 12 - Whispering Grass

24 novembre 1992 - 4/5

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

Épisode 13 - Shot in the Dark

1 décembre 1992

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

Épisode 14 - Thieves Like Us

CBS are employed to go undercover in order to solve a jewellery theft from a hotel strongroom. Max Cone, the fiancé 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