Boon
TV ShowEnded

Boon

5.7 / 10
1986
7 seasons
93 episodes
ComedyDramaCrime

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. It revolved around the life of a modern-day Lone Ranger and ex-firefighter, Ken Boon.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Box 13

    14-01-198660m

    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,...

  • Ep 2

    2.Fools Rush In

    21-01-198660m
  • Ep 3

    3.Answers to the Name of Weston

    28-01-198660m

    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...

  • Ep 4

    4.Grass Widows

    04-02-198660m

    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 v...

  • Ep 5

    5.Unto Us Four a Son

    11-02-198660m

    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.

  • Glasshouse People

    6.Glasshouse People

    18-02-198660m

    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?

  • Ep 7

    7.Northwest Passage to Acock's Green

    25-02-198660m

    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...

  • Ep 8

    8.Something Old, Something New

    04-03-198660m

    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...

  • Ep 9

    9.For Whom the Chimes Toll

    11-03-198660m

    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?

  • Ep 10

    10.Jack of All Tradesmen

    18-03-198660m
  • Ep 11

    11.Billy the Kid

    25-03-198660m

    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 p...

  • Ep 12

    12.Grand Expectations

    01-04-198660m

    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 hors...

  • Ep 13

    13.Full Circle

    08-04-198660m

    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 whi...

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