Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Early years Ken Boon (Elphick) and Harry Crawford (Daker) were both old-fashioned 'smokeys' (firemen) in the. In episode 1 we see that Crawford takes early retirement and moves to to open a bar, leaving Ken behind. In the same opening episode, Ken attends a house fire where a child is trapped upstairs. Realising he must act quickly he goes into the house without breathing apparatus and rescues the child but is severely injured by inhaling toxic smoke. He attempts to prove he can still make it but he is declared unfit for duty after collapsing during a drill because his lungs have been permanently damaged, and he is retired from the fire service for good.

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He started a market garden called 'The Ponderosa' in a village about ten miles outside but found that it wasn't working out. As he struggled to pay bills and keep afloat, he was surprised when a visitor arrived at the garden: Harry had returned from Spain to Birmingham, after his wife Alison had left him for a young hairdresser. Harry had acquired a hotel in Birmingham and offered a port in a storm for Ken. In episode in 'Box 13', Harry persuaded Ken to place a PO box advert saying “Ex-fireman seeks interesting work. Anything legal considered.” From these humble beginnings, his career as a courier, minder and private investigator began. During the time that Ken and Harry worked together, Between series 1-3 Harry ran two hotels (The Grand Hotel and The Coaching Inn), a ballroom (The Plaza Suite), and from series 4 a country club (Woodcote Park) and later a security firm (CBS - Crawford Boon Security). Ken ran a motorbike courier firm (Texas Rangers), two private investigation firms (BDI - Boon-Daly Investigations - and Boon Investigations) and CBS.

CBS was a joint venture, with Ken being responsible for private investigations and Harry for security. Crack Opus Ole 2.0 Espaol. The series moved away from to at the beginning of series 4, with production of the show being based at Central's studio in Nottingham.

The Birmingham episodes (Series 1–3) were made on film whereas the Nottingham episodes (Series 4–7) were made on video. Apart from studio interiors of Series 1, all filming was done on location. Later Years At the end of the final series, in episode 'Shot in the Dark', Harry got engaged to an Irish woman whom he met during a case, and Ken and Alex seemed to be becoming romantically attached after she tenderly read him poetry while was in hospital recovering from gunshot wounds. Neither of these plot developments were referred to during the special episode 'Thieves Like Us', broadcast three years later on 1 May 1995. This episode, although thought to be part of an eighth series which was cancelled, was actually an episode from the final series which had not been aired.

In all, seven series, each of which consisted of 13 episodes (apart from the last two series which had 14) were filmed. The sixth series featured a 90-minute Christmas special which was dedicated to the memory of Bill Stair, one of the show's creators. Joined in the second series as Rocky; this was his first major television role. Other regular characters were played by (Doreen Evans), Lesley-Anne Sharpe (Debbie Yates), (Margaret Daly), (Laura Marsh), (Helen Yeldham) and (Alex Wilton). Advertisements Series 1 • 'Box 13' (14 January 1986) • 'Fools Rush In' (21 January 1986) • 'Answers to the Name of Watson' (28 January 1986) • 'Grass Widows' (4 February 1986) • 'Unto Us Four a Son' (11 February 1986) • 'Glasshouse People' (18 February 1986) • 'Northwest Passage to Acock's Green' (25 February 1986) • 'Something Old, Something New' (4 March 1986) • 'For Whom the Chimes Toll' (11 March 1986) • 'Jack of All Tradesmen' (18 March 1986) • 'Billy the Kid' (25 March 1986) • 'Grand Expectations' (1 April 1986) • 'Full Circle' (8 April 1986). Series 2 • 'Texas Rangers' (17 February 1987) • 'Special Delivery' (24 February 1987) • 'Day of the Yokel' (3 March 1987) • 'Smokey and the Band' (10 March 1987) • 'Taken for a Ride' (17 March 1987) • 'Wheels of Fortune' (24 March 1987) • 'A Ride on the Wild Side' (31 March 1987) • 'Credit Where It's Due' (27 October 1987) • 'Trudy's Grit' (3 November 1987) • 'A Fistful of Pesetas' (10 November 1987) • 'Paper Mafia' (17 November 1987) • 'Fiddler Under the Roof' (24 November 1987) • 'Once a Fluid Man' (1 December 1987).