Here are twenty questions to see how good your knowledge
of Boon is. No cheating by looking at the plot summaries for the episodes! Feel free to
email the answers to me.
- Ken and Harry were reluctant to employ Alex because of her criminal
record. What offence had she committed?
Cheque fraud.
- What is Ken’s middle name? He mentions it in “Never Say Trevor Again”.
Winstanley.
- In “Trouble In The Fields”, when Laura was singing in the talent contest
at “The Drum”, how did Rocky (with some geographical imprecision) describe her?
Laura Meatloaf, The Bat out of Hull.
- In “The Belles Of St. Godwalds”, how was Perry (the man who stole
the painting) eventually prevented from escaping?
He tried to escape in a CBS van which had a guard dog
in the back that snarled at him and threatened to bite him every time he moved.
- What were the “Sandcastles” that were referred to in “Message In A
Bottle”?
Power station cooling towers.
- How did Laura discourage the attentions of a teenage girl who was
plaguing Rocky in “Pillow Talk”?
She told the girl that Rocky was gay.
- Under what circumstances did Ken and Margaret first meet?
Margaret, who used to work as detective with the Vice
Squad, arrested Ken outside a sex-aid shop, in possession of “free samples” that
the owner had given him.
- What loyal action nearly cost Alex her job at CBS?
She organised a walkout of CBS staff in support of
Rocky after Harry had sacked him on suspicion of stealing a client’s jewellery.
- When Ken went “Undercover”, what did he promise to bring back for
Harry?
A virgin – as used in “satanic rituals” by Hells Angels.
- In “Big Game Hunt”, what was the name of the Freemason-style organisation,
of which Harry (inevitably!) was a member, that met at Woodcote Park.
The Bisons.
- In Series 1, what was Doreen’s occupation?
She was an accountant who audited the accounts for
Harry’s hotel.
- In “Burning Ambition”, why was Lorraine Simpson so keen to frame
Ken?
When he was a fireman, he had caught her starting
a fire that had killed a colleague. It was his evidence that had convicted her
and sent her to jail.
- Also in “Burning Ambition”, what did Len Drumgold ask Harry to store
in his warehouse?
Some “furs” – these turned out to be live rabbits
which he was going to sell to a cosmetics company for testing their products.
- In “Never Say Trevor Again”, where were the two place that Ken tried
unsuccessfully to serve Charles Henry Marquis with the writ?
1) In the window of a shop selling wedding dresses.
2) In the street when Marquis was on the way to a fancy-dress party dressed as
a bear.
- What was the name of the narrowboat that Ken bought at the beginning
of Series 5 to use as a houseboat?
Chaste Tramp.
- What were the “silver stars” that Rocky and Laura were searching
for in “Lie Of The Land”.
Images of the moon shining onto the ground through
the arm-holes of the village stocks.
- In “Daddy’s Girl”, what did Ken and Harry see (causing them much
amazement!) when they looked in the disused church late at night?
Rocky was holding up a bible and reading a passage
from it while helping Kate Bolton rehearse for her wedding.
- What fact about her husband did Ken, Harry and Doreen hide from Meg
Lucie in “Grass Widows”.
Meg’s husband had been having an affair: he used to
spend the night with his mistress in one of Harry’s hotel bedrooms.
- What car did Harry drive before he got the blue Jag?
A green Rover.
- In “Beef Encounter”, Harry was briefly reunited with Yvonne Higgins,
“the first woman that I ever proposed to”. Whereabouts did they indulge in a bit
of impromptu jiving as they relived their lost youth?
On the top storey of a children’s climbing frame in
an adventure playground, watched by a group of very bemused teenagers on bikes.