Boon

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  • TV-PG
  • 1986
  • 7 Seasons
  • 6.4  (1,015)

Hi Ho Silver! Family favourite Michael Elphick stars as Ken Boon. Several years after being invalided out of the fire service, Boon joins forces with old workmate Harry Crawford (David Daker) to form a considerably unconventional private investigation service.

Made by Central Independent Television for the ITV Network.

Boon is a series that ran for 7 seasons (91 episodes) between January 14, 1986 and on ITV1

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Shot in the Dark
13. Shot in the Dark
December 1, 1992
Harry falls hopelessly in love with a woman he meets at a fair, but his boasting lands him in hot water.
Whispering Grass
12. Whispering Grass
November 24, 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?
Blackballed
11. Blackballed
November 17, 1992
Ken and Harry's close and loyal relationship comes under severe strain when Harry is arrested on suspicion of fraud.
Love or Money
10. Love or Money
November 10, 1992
Ken gets emotionally involved with a wealthy woman - a 65-year-old pools winner.
Minder
9. Minder
November 3, 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 ?EUR" not realizing that he really is in danger.
Is There Anybody There?
8. Is There Anybody There?
October 27, 1992
Ken has a spine-chilling confrontation with the supernatural when he is called in to guard expensive antique fittings in an eerie manor.
The Sharp End
7. The Sharp End
October 20, 1992
While Ken helps the traders, Harry and Alex try to win a big security contract and find themselves at odds with their partner.
Message in a Bottle
6. Message in a Bottle
October 13, 1992
Ken investigates the case of a larger-than-life businessman who is accused of kidnapping a young child.
Away from It All
5. Away from It All
October 6, 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 ?EUR" where life is anything but relaxing.
Deadline
4. Deadline
September 29, 1992
Protecting a woman from her nuisance husband appears to be a straightforward assignment until strange things begin to happen.
Walkout
3. Walkout
September 22, 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
Queen's Gambit
2. Queen's Gambit
September 15, 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
MacGuffin's Transputer
1. MacGuffin's Transputer
September 8, 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
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Where to Watch Boon
Boon is available for streaming on the ITV1 website, both individual episodes and full seasons. You can also watch Boon on demand at Prime Video and Tubi TV.
  • Premiere Date
    January 14, 1986
  • IMDB Rating
    6.4  (1,015)