“Hi Ho Silver” (title song) |
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“Boon Walking Theme” (bass-guitar theme) † The theme occurs in many episodes but this is the only one which isn’t marred by ambient sound. |
“Arms And The Dog” | ![]() |
“Nervous Nelly” (kazoo music) † |
“Arms And The Dog” | ![]() |
“We’ll Be Friends” † |
“All In A Day’s Pork” | ![]() |
“I Can’t Stop Thinking About You” † (aka “Well I’ll Try”) This poignant song plays over the end credits as Ken and Harry are walking away from the police station after seeing Rebecca Patterson charged with her husband’s murder, and Ken is left feeling that the bottom has dropped out of his world. |
“The Eyes Of Texas” | ![]() |
“She Moved Through The Fair” Sung by Bernadette O’Rourke [Emer McCourt]. |
“Rival Eyes” | ![]() |
“He’s My Friend, He’s My Buddy” † |
“Thicker Than Water” | ![]() |
Boon Waltz This version is from the opening scenes of “Thieves Like Us”. The background noise is the rain, as Ken and Harry drive up to the hotel entrance and take their luggage inside. |
“Thieves Like Us” | ![]() |
† These songs/instrumentals are also available on Dean Friedman’s CD “Music from ‘Boon’ TV Soundtrack”. |
The Boon Remix Some of the following classic Boon quotes, against a background of “Hi Ho Silver” |
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“I can always tell when you’ve got bad news. Your eyes go all small – like a gerbil’s” Ken knows that Harry’s got bad news for him. |
“Special Delivery” | ![]() |
“After half an hour with one of his needles I feel like a new woman” Glynis at her squeakiest! |
“Wheels Of Fortune” | ![]() |
“Pack up and bugger off!” Harry loses his temper when he finds Viscount Blackwater digging in the fields of Woodcote Manor. |
“Of Meissen Men” | ![]() |
“Harry, could you get that muck out of here. I find it extremely upsetting.” Helen is very shocked when Ken and Harry find hard-core pornography hidden inside a box of frozen bacon that was being smuggled in from The Netherlands. |
“All In A Day’s Pork” | ![]() |
“I’ll bring you back a virgin!” Harry is worried about the dangers of Ken going undercover with a group of Hells Angels. Ken offers to bring him back an appropriate present! |
“Undercover” | ![]() |
“Lionel! Do I look like a Lionel?” Harry is not pleased with the name that Laura invents for him. |
“The Tender Trap” | ![]() |
“I’m going to take one of your CBS mugs and shove it right up your…” Ken is not happy with Harry for lumbering him with a job trying to track down a witness who doesn’t want to be found. |
“Stamp Duty” | ![]() |
“Kick him in the goolies and run like bloody hell.” Alex is teaching Rocky about unarmed combat. |
“Queen’s Gambit” | ![]() |
“How about sticking a ‘Sir’ on the end of that?” Ken is ready with the witty retort when Joe Green patronises him. |
“Queen’s Gambit” | ![]() |
“He’s a bit of a rough diamond but his heart’s in the right place.” Harry’s description of Ken to a client. |
“Walkout” | ![]() |
“How dare you!” Alex comes to Harry’s defence after he is accused by the golf club committee of stealing their money. |
“Blackballed” | ![]() |
“Size isn’t important: it’s what you do with it” Alex being catty to Kevin Tracken, owner of a rival security firm. |
“Whispering Grass” | ![]() |
“We can all have ambitions, Ken” Ken and Alex in a light-hearted mood while judging the dog show at the fair. |
“Shot In The Dark” | ![]() |
Alex’s poem Alex reads this poem tenderly to Ken when he is recovering in hospital after being shot. Its author is unknown. |
“Shot In The Dark” | ![]() |
Notes and episode list © Martin Underwood, 18 July 1999
Sound excerpts © Central Independent Television plc, 1986-1992; Dean Friedman, 1986-1992
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