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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.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Boon Season 7 Episode 3 - Walkout
    8.8/10(8 votes)

    #1 - Walkout

    S7:E3

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Boon Season 7 Episode 13 - Shot in the Dark
    8.7/10(12 votes)

    #2 - Shot in the Dark

    S7:E13

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Tony Jordan

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  3. Boon Season 6 Episode 3 - Trial and Error
    8.6/10(29 votes)

    #3 - Trial and Error

    S6:E3

    Ken and Harry are involved in a court case, giving evidence against a landlord, Michael Roach who is accused of terrorising his tenants into leaving his houses. Some time ago, Ken had been employed by George and May Jenkins, and Aziz Hussain, Roach's tenants who live on a run-down estate. Jimmy Craven, one of Roach's thugs, had forced his way into the Jenkins' flat and vandalised the furniture, with the George and Mabel looking on in horror. When their neighbour, Aziz Hussain, had tried to intervene, he was beaten up. Roach was clearly behind the attacks: he wanted to redevelop the land on which the flats stood and had resorted to violent tactics after the more subtle approach (eg refusing to carry out repairs) had failed to work. The Jenkins and Hussains wanted Ken to gather evidence that Roach was paying Jimmy Craven. Ken and Rocky waited outside a pub that Craven was known to frequent, and photographed Roach handing over a large envelope of cash. But they were spotted and Craven and

    Director:Laurence Moody
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Boon Season 7 Episode 6 - Message in a Bottle
    8.6/10(33 votes)

    #4 - Message in a Bottle

    S7:E6

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

    Director:Nick Hurran
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Boon Season 6 Episode 8 - Pillow Talk
    8.5/10(9 votes)

    #5 - Pillow Talk

    S6:E8

    Harry is employed by a lawyer, Caroline Mortlake, to protect her and her 16-year-old daughter Emma. Caroline and Emma are being pestered by a main in a raincoat. He is a reporter, Bill Webster, who works for the local newspaper. Bill's boss, Eddie Morgan, is determined to ""get that woman"". Harry gets Rocky to look after Emma, ferrying her around on his motorbike. Emma takes an instant fancy to Rocky and tries every trick in the book to get him into compromising situations. However he is rather embarrassed by her attentions. He asks Laura to help him fend off Emma by pretending to be his girlfriend. Laura has a quiet word with Emma who immediately leaves Rocky alone. The real reason for this only emerges much later. Bill is watching outside Caroline's office, determined to get his story. His car has been sabotaged by having its brake pipes cut. He storms off to CBS, accusing Ken of being responsible. Ken and Harry confront Caroline and ask her why exactly she is being pursued by Bill. S

    Director:Anthony Garner
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Boon Season 3 Episode 3 - Topspin
    8.4/10(43 votes)

    #6 - Topspin

    S3:E3

    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:Baz Taylor
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Boon Season 5 Episode 13 - The Tender Trap
    8.3/10(10 votes)

    #7 - The Tender Trap

    S5:E13

    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. Rocky assists teen Pandora help track down her long-lost father who abandoned her and her mother shortly before she was born. Harry has problems trying to organize a Christmas party at The Drum when it becomes apparent that none of his friends will attend.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Boon Season 6 Episode 1 - Help Me Make It Through The Night
    8.2/10(17 votes)

    #8 - Help Me Make It Through The Night

    S6:E1

    Ken is in the process of moving into a derelict house in the village of Upper Ridley. He has arranged with the owner that he will live there rent-free in exchange for renovating it. John Pritchard approaches Harry and wants CBS to provide security guards for the launch of his new health club. He wants the guards to wear tracksuits, which he will provide, so they will blend in with the punters. Harry promotes Rocky to ""executive"" and gives him the task of employing suitable college students: no mean feat when all the tracksuits are extra small! One of the students, Vicky ""Mouthpiece"", gives Rocky a hard time, quoting the Factory and Sex Discrimination Acts as she attempts to do as little work as possible. However Rocky soon puts her in her place. John Dewar, the owner of a dairy, suspects that his wife, Melissa, may be having an affair and asks Ken to investigate. Ken is reluctant to do so, firstly because he wants to get on with moving into his new house and secondly because he hates w

    Director:Matthew Evans
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Boon Season 6 Episode 9 - Cab Rank Cowboys
    8.2/10(11 votes)

    #9 - Cab Rank Cowboys

    S6:E9

    Ken discovers that it is hard to find a cab when you need one, particularly when a thief has the same idea.

    Director:Michael Winterbottom
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Boon Season 5 Episode 9 - Undercover
    8.0/10(12 votes)

    #10 - Undercover

    S5:E9

    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

    Director:Graeme Harper
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Boon Season 6 Episode 5 - The Barefaced Contessa
    8.0/10(9 votes)

    #11 - The Barefaced Contessa

    S6:E5

    A mother and daughter, Jean and Isabella di Cesare, are staging a fashion show on board a boat and taking money for the dresses that they are exhibiting. But they have no intention of delivering - it is all a scam. They are also planning to stitch up Ken. CBS are proving the security at a charity antiques auction at Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire. Ken is expecting Jean to arrive soon. Jean is one of Ken's old flames: Harry's ex-wife had once described them as ""the Siamese twins - joined at the lips"". However Jean left Ken ten years ago and later married an Italian Count, Vincenzo di Cesare. Jean and Isabella are being followed by a scruffy man in an even scruffier car. Jean tells Ken that she has recently left the Count because he was beating her up. She bought her sports car with the money that she took when she left the Count, but now he is claiming that the car belongs to him. He wants it back and is threatening to get violent. Isabella is also being followed by Enzo, a ""lovesick Ital

    Director:Nicholas Laughland
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Boon Season 6 Episode 7 - Lost on the Range
    8.0/10(8 votes)

    #12 - Lost on the Range

    S6:E7

    A prize stallion goes missing while Ken and his faithful posse are called upon to provide security for some local stables.

    Director:Laurence Moody
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Boon Season 5 Episode 1 - Trouble in the Fields
    7.8/10(13 votes)

    #13 - Trouble in the Fields

    S5:E1

    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

    Director:Anthony Garner
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Boon Season 6 Episode 10 - Houseguests
    7.8/10(11 votes)

    #14 - Houseguests

    S6:E10

    Harry is taken for a ride when he accepts a job minding a country mansion and discovers uninvited guests in his flat.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Boon Season 7 Episode 8 - Is There Anybody There?
    7.8/10(11 votes)

    #15 - Is There Anybody There?

    S7:E8

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Boon Season 5 Episode 6 - Burning Ambition
    7.7/10(12 votes)

    #16 - Burning Ambition

    S5:E6

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Andy de la Tour

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  17. Boon Season 6 Episode 4 - Coverup
    7.7/10(10 votes)

    #17 - Coverup

    S6:E4

    Ken makes a start on renovating Orchard Cottage. Pam Strong, one of his neighbours and the widow of a fireman, tentatively asks him for help because her son John has changed suddenly: he has dropped out of college, become sullen and uncommunicative and has started locking himself in his room. She also suspects that he may be stealing from her. Something is wrong - could it be drugs, Pam wonders. John has become friendly with another teenager called Mark who rents room at a nearby farm. Mark and John steal a car and drive around, terrifying the locals. The car hits a man and woman on a bridge, but Mark drives on, dumping the car in a quarry and swearing John to silence. But John later recognises the man that was knocked down as a local doctor, James Harlon. It was Harlon who got John his part-time job as a porter at the hospital. Ken visits Dr Harlon, not realising that connection with John and the accident. Dr Harlon describes John as quiet and a bit of a loner, but not the sort to be

    Director:Matthew Evans
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Boon Season 4 Episode 4 - Vallance's Liberty
    7.6/10(11 votes)

    #18 - Vallance's Liberty

    S4:E4

    A middle-aged couple, Terry and Gill Conroy, driving an expensive Jaguar, break down in a residential street, outside the house owned by George and Irene Boxall. The Boxalls offer them a cup of tea while the Conroys wait for the breakdown truck to arrive. In recompense, Terry Conroy invites the Boxalls to join them at a Tyrolean night. But all is not as it seems. When the Conroys never turn up at the Tyrolean night (which is being held at Woodcote Park), George and Irene become suspicious and ask Ken for help. A mysterious young woman, Meryl Spicer, turns up at Woodcote Park, looking for Helen. She claims to be Helen's long-lost daughter whom Helen had given away for adoption (!) It turns out that the Conroys used the Tyrolean invitation simply as an excuse to get the Boxalls out of their house, with Meryl at Woodcote Park to alert the Conroys as soon as the Boxalls leave to come home. The reason for this subterfuge is that Tom Vallance, a bank robber, had hidden some plans in the Boxa

    Director:Christopher Baker
    Writer:Douglas Watkinson

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  19. Boon Season 1 Episode 6 - Glasshouse People
    7.5/10(19 votes)

    #19 - Glasshouse People

    S1:E6

    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?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Boon Season 1 Episode 8 - Something Old, Something New
    7.5/10(15 votes)

    #20 - Something Old, Something New

    S1:E8

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Boon Season 2 Episode 8 - Credit Where It's Due
    7.5/10(20 votes)

    #21 - Credit Where It's Due

    S2:E8

    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.

    Director:Alex Kirby
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Boon Season 4 Episode 8 - In It for the Monet
    7.5/10(16 votes)

    #22 - In It for the Monet

    S4:E8

    Mr and Mrs Sheridan, parents of Isobel, a university student studying Art History, ask Ken to investigate why their daughter has changed and why she suddenly seems to be suspiciously wealthy. Ken talks to her former boyfriend, Geoff, and learns that she used to be very keen on rowing but then suddenly gave it up a year ago and now has a new set of friends. Laura and Rocky go undercover, posing as students. They see Isobel and a friend, Dominique, all dolled-up and getting into a brand new flashy convertible. They follow her to a hotel. When Rocky sees the women leaving a hotel bedroom after a little while, and an Italian man gratefully handing over money, he jumps to the obvious conclusion - that they are on the game! Then, outside Isobel's room, Laura finds syringes and a note referring to poppies - perhaps she is a drug dealer. What should Ken tell her parents? Ken eventually discovers that Isobel is selling her essays to less able students - with the knowledge of her tutor, Dr Micha

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Boon Season 2 Episode 12 - Fiddler Under the Roof
    7.4/10(19 votes)

    #23 - Fiddler Under the Roof

    S2:E12

    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:Unknown

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  24. Boon Season 4 Episode 13 - The Eyes of Texas
    7.4/10(12 votes)

    #24 - The Eyes of Texas

    S4:E13

    Harry is making plans to sell his stake in Woodcote Park because it is losing money. He is thinking of buying ""Hugo's"", a nightclub and disco, but is warned off by a ruthless Scottish businessman, Vic Carpenter, who also wants to buy it. Eventually Harry and Helen sell Woodcote so it can be turned into timeshare apartments. Ken is seriously considering moving to Texas with Rebecca Patterson. Rebecca reveals that she is over in England to divorce her estranged husband, Terry. Having stolen nearly 100 thousand from his family firm, Terry had fled to America and married Rebecca. However five years later he has now left her and returned to England. Although he has been hiding from his brother since then, Ken reasons that he will come to his father's funeral. Ken arranges to meets him at Sneinton Windmill late at night for him to sign the divorce papers. However Rebecca turns up and, shouting ""Nobody walks out on me"", shoots Terry... dead! For a while, Ken is accused by the police of being

    Director:Christopher Baker
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Boon Season 7 Episode 7 - The Sharp End
    7.4/10(11 votes)

    #25 - The Sharp End

    S7:E7

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

    Director:Matthew Evans
    Writer:Tony Jordan

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Best Episodes Summary

"Walkout" is the best rated episode of "Boon". It scored 8.8/10 based on 8 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/22/1992. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Shot in the Dark".