The Maryland fifth-year senior was back home in Springfield, Pa., where his high school alma mater hosted a rematch of last year’s NCAA championship final between his Terrapins and Cornell. Kyle Long was all smiles signing autographs for young admirers. The show’s theme song, Hi Ho Silver by Jim Diamond, was a UK Top 5 hit in 1986.SPRINGFIELD, Pa. The series ended in 1992, although one episode remained untransmitted until 1995. Laura was later replaced by resourceful Alex Wilton (Saskia Wickham).Įlphick’s drink problems almost sank the Central Television series in 1988 – ironically while he appeared in television commercials advertising alcohol-free lager. Ken, who was by then working as a private eye with Rocky and new secretary Laura Marsh (Elizabeth Carling), agreed to join Harry in a new venture, Crawford Boon Security.

Ken’s best friend was fireman-turned-hotelier Harry Crawford (David Daker), a businessman of little brain who moved from premises to premises, trading up, until he finally went bust as the owner of a country house hotel.

He soon turned his hobby into a business by opening a courier agency – the Texas Rangers motorbike messengers – and employing a dopey biker by the name of Rocky Cassidy (Neil Morrissey) as his sidekick, and teenager Debbie Yates (Lesley-Anne Sharpe) as his secretary.

His early associates were Doreen Evans (Rachel Davies) and Ethel Allard (Joan Scott).īoon thought of himself as an urban cowboy, cruising the streets of the Midlands on his 650cc BSA Norton motorbike, which he called ‘White Lightning’. But the stocky, lugubrious Boon, with his heart of gold, was a soft touch, committed to his work and unhappy about letting down employers. In response, he was offered a variety of strange jobs, from child-minding to private detective work, not all of them (as he had hoped) legal. After a succession of failed money-making schemes – including a disastrous market gardening venture – he placed an advert in the local press which read, “Ex-fireman seeks interesting work – anything legal considered”. Ken Boon (Michael Elphick) was a fireman who was invalided out of the brigade when he damaged his lungs in a heroic rescue.

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