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Boon : Season 8
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Air date: 08 Sep '92 - 14 episodesBoon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker, and later Neil Morrissey. It was created by Jim Hill and Bill Stair and filmed by Central Television for ITV. It revolved around the life of a modern-day Lone Ranger and ex-firefighter, Ken Boon.
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List of Episodes (14)
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Boon (1986)
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1. MacGuffin's Transputer
08 Sep '92Laura 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
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Boon (1986)
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2. Queen's Gambit
15 Sep '92At 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
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Boon (1986)
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3. Walkout
22 Sep '92Mrs 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
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Boon (1986)
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4. Deadline
29 Sep '92Protecting a woman from her nuisance husband appears to be a straightforward assignment until strange things begin to happen.
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Boon (1986)
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5. Away from It All
06 Oct '92Ken 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.
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Boon (1986)
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6. Message in a Bottle
13 Oct '92Ken investigates the case of a larger-than-life businessman who is accused of kidnapping a young child.
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Boon (1986)
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7. The Sharp End
20 Oct '92While Ken helps the traders, Harry and Alex try to win a big security contract and find themselves at odds with their partner.
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Boon (1986)
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8. Is There Anybody There?
27 Oct '92Ken has a spine-chilling confrontation with the supernatural when he is called in to guard expensive antique fittings in an eerie manor.
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Boon (1986)
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9. Minder
03 Nov '92Rocky 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.
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Boon (1986)
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10. Love or Money
10 Nov '92Ken gets emotionally involved with a wealthy woman - a 65-year-old pools winner.
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Boon (1986)
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11. Blackballed
17 Nov '92Ken and Harry's close and loyal relationship comes under severe strain when Harry is arrested on suspicion of fraud.
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Boon (1986)
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12. Whispering Grass
24 Nov '92Boon's ""Girl Friday"" Alex is in love with a man who has just been released from prison. Will he slip back into crime?
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Boon (1986)
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13. Shot in the Dark
01 Dec '92Harry falls hopelessly in love with a woman he meets at a fair, but his boasting lands him in hot water.
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Boon (1986)
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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""
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