Boon

- Season 3

(1988)

Harry has bought The Plaza Suite ballroom and has organises a charity ball with a dodgy character Richard Jay who runs off with all the money, leaving Harry to face an investigative journalist's cameras; he is forced into promising to replace the entire sum. The Texas Rangers meanwhile, are thought responsible for some industrial espionage- which threatens to close them down. Rocky helps uncover the real leak, and Ken re-establishes relations with Margaret.

Ken and Margaret finally track down the runaway Jay, but not before he's spent all the money. During the course of an unusual blackmail case, Margaret discovers that her new boyfriend is a liar. In the end, Ken does so well at both cases that she asks him to be her partner.

Ken becomes a minder for a spy who has just been released from prison - a newspaper has an exclusive story contract and wants to protect it's investment. It's not easy, however rival newshounds are soon on the scent, and even the secret services are trailing behind.

Ken and Margaret try to trace a missing husband who has absconded with his firm's money. Meanwhile, Harry holds an Australian Evening at the Plaza Suite.

An unscrupulous fast-food King gets his comeuppance for exploiting his young employees, in spite of Ken's attempts to keep the peace. Harry relives his past when he meets a long-lost love.

Margaret and Ken try to nail a gangster with a little success, but they do manage to deliver a writ and help a boy when his mother decides to marry his best friend.

Ken is involved with the fire service again - this time in the pursuit of a bent fireman turned arsonist. Harry, meanwhile embarks on a self-assertiveness course.

Margaret is hired to find a runaway rock star, and finally gets him back with Rocky's help. Ken, meanwhile is following a man who is supposedly cheating on his ex-wife's alimony payments. Getting to know and like the man, he finds that he is indeed cheating - but that his wife is also secretly living with a rich man. Ken is faced with a dilemma: does he betrays the ex-husband, or lie to his client?

When Ken and Margaret are used to provide a false alibi for a robber, they find themselves under suspicion from the police. Harry helps a fellow restaurateur to recover from damaging reviews of a nasty food journalist.

Sheep rustlers and rare-egg smugglers are tracked down, while Harry has to deal with unwanted attentions from a besotted admirer.

Ken is hired by a American evangelical preacher to find out who is sabotaging his show in Birmingham and ruining his chances of winning a cable TV contract. Ken discovers that the culprits are the brothers of a rival preacher on the cable TV shortlist, but his sympathy for his client is short-lived when a friend of Harry's is left suffering from the effects of his faith-healing.

While Harry has to contend with mice, Ken is hired to keep an ex-con out of trouble; the ex-con turns out to be more than capable of looking after himself.

Ken and Margaret help a jockey whose wife has been kidnapped to force him to lose a race. Rocky tracks down a beautiful graffiti artist, and Harry faces the nightmare of the Birmingham Trivial Pursuit Championship at the Plaza Suite.