Here are twenty questions
to see how good your knowledge of Boon is. No cheating by looking at the plot summaries
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- 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.