8.5/1037 votesLoading...#1 - A Fistful of Pesetas
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 11/10/1987
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...
Director: N/A
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8.4/1028 votesLoading...#2 - Work, Rest & Play
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1990
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
Director: Bill Hays
Writer: N/A
8.4/1032 votesLoading...#3 - Lie of the Land
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1991
CBS have been employed to guard the pheasants in a wood owned by Lord Melverley of Whitley Hall, in preparation for the annual Shoot on the day of the Feast of Mortimer. Lord Melverley is worried about hunt saboteurs. When Ken is on his way to join Rocky and Laura in the wood, he discovers an old Morris Minor Traveller van parked nearby, with a shotgun in the back. Could it belong to the saboteurs. The following day, his bike breaks down outside the church. The vicar, Rev Peter Bradshaw, is a keen bike enthusiast and mechanic, and gets the bike going again. He happens to mention that he also maintains the van, a Morris Traveller, belonging to Ralph Cotterell, the former gamekeeper. Lord Melverley sacked Cotterell recently after twenty-five years and Cotterell is now reduced to working as part-time groundsman for a nearby school. Ken talks to Cotterell who is indeed very bitter about the way that he was sacked, in connection with an incident when sheep belonging to a neighbour, Chris Sh
Director: John Strickland
Writer: N/A
8.0/109 votesLoading...#4 - Stamp Duty
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 12/17/1991
No description available
Director: N/A
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- 7.9/1012 votesLoading...
#5 - Credit Where It's Due
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/27/1987
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.
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- 7.8/1011 votesLoading...
#6 - Paper Mafia
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/17/1987
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tony McHale
- 7.7/1011 votesLoading...
#7 - Fiddler Under The Roof
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 11/24/1987
A huge wedding reception at 'The Coaching Inn' gets out of hand when the bride's family discovers the groom's identity.
Director: Sarah Hellings
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/108 votesLoading...
#8 - In It For The Moment
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1989
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1013 votesLoading...
#9 - Trouble in the Fields
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1990
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
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- 7.5/1012 votesLoading...
#10 - Taken for a Ride
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 3/17/1987
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.
Director: Robert Tronson
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/108 votesLoading...
#11 - The Not-So-Lone Ranger
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/24/1989
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'.
Director: Laurence Moody
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1011 votesLoading...
#12 - Something Old, Something New
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/4/1986
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/109 votesLoading...
#13 - The Night Before Christmas
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 12/24/1991
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1015 votesLoading...
#14 - Unto Us Four a Son
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/11/1986
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.
Director: Laurence Moody
Writer: N/A
7.2/1012 votesLoading...#15 - Glasshouse People
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/18/1986
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?
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- 7.2/108 votesLoading...
#16 - Charity Begins At Home (Part One)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 11/1/1988
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tony McHale
- 7.2/107 votesLoading...
#17 - Fiddler Under the Roof
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/24/1987
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.
Director: Sarah Hellings
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/107 votesLoading...
#18 - Walking off Air
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1989
Ken has moved to Nottingham and has set up Boon Investigations, operating out of a small office near the Castle. His first case involves him being employed by Gerry Anscomb, manager of a local radio station, Sherwood Sound. He wants Ken to act as minder for Eddie Cotton, ""The Man You Love To Hate"", a brash loud-mouthed young DJ who has a habit of turning up for work drunk... or not even turning up at all. They want to make sure he will not let them down at a Charity Telethon this coming weekend. Eddie gives Ken chance to plug Boon Investigations on the radio. Ken and Eddie go to a snooker club where Eddie gives Ken the slip and picks up Donna Delaney, a leggy young woman who wears cowboy boots and has closely-cropped blonde hair. Eddie and Donna go to a night club where she drugs him. He makes something of a spectacle of himself and gets his photo printed in the gossip column of the local paper. He misses his show and a fellow DJ, Tony Lyons, has to stand in for him. He eventually turn
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- 7.1/1020 votesLoading...
#19 - Fools Rush In
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/21/1986
No description available
Director: N/A
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- 7.1/1013 votesLoading...
#20 - Northwest Passage to Acock's Green
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/25/1986
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.
Director: Laurence Moody
Writer: Douglas Watkinson
- 7.1/1011 votesLoading...
#21 - Full Circle
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/8/1986
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.
Director: Laurence Moody
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1014 votesLoading...
#22 - Texas Rangers
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/17/1987
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
Director: N/A
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- 7.0/109 votesLoading...
#23 - The Fall & Rise Of The Bowman Empire
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/17/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/107 votesLoading...#24 - Vallence's Liberty
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1989
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/107 votesLoading...#25 - The Not So Lone Ranger
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/24/1989
No description available
Director: N/A
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The Best Episodes of Boon
Every episode of Boon ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Boon!
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...
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Best Episodes Summary
"A Fistful of Pesetas" is the best rated episode of "Boon". It scored 8.5/10 based on 37 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/10/1987. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Work, Rest & Play".