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He employs Rocky in the first episode and the basic character dynamic for the series is set up from that point on. The basic setup for the second series has Ken acquiring a courier franchise, Texas Rangers, which he operates, with the help of Scouse motormouth Debbie (Lesley-Anne Sharpe), from the back of a country hotel recently purchased by Harry just outside Birmingham. For better or worse, this brought a then-unknown Neil Morrissey to the public eye and he quickly became a favourite with the audience as Rocky, the lovable gormless bike courier, a character type he was then to develop into Tony in the insanely popular Men Behaving Badly in the 90s. And, as is always the case, some characters from series one were dropped and new characters introduced. This was becoming common practice for the higher-quality popular dramas of the day. For the second series the decision was taken to shoot entirely on location on film. Series one of Boon was shot in the then-usual mixture of location footage on 16mm film and studio interiors on video. He was introduced in the first series as a firefighter invalided out of the service who attempts to set up in business (this is the 80s, after all) with the assistance of his fellow retired firefighter Harry (David Daker). Simultaneously with this he took the lead in Boon which crystallised in the public eye the persona most associated with him, the rough-round-the-edges decent everyman with a soft centre who is buffeted by fate but always lands on his feet. From that he moved on to a romantic sitcom Three Up, Two Down which cast him in an odd-couple will-they-won’t-they relationship with Angela Thorne. He then returned to TV and his first leading role in a series, the eponymous Private Schultz in which he played a Schweyk-like character involved in a Nazi plot to flood the UK with counterfeit sterling during the Second World War. His solid presence and performance anchored a somewhat pretentious directorial technique. If memory serves, the critical reaction at the time was that the film was an interesting curiosity (shot almost entirely at night with a sepia cast to the image) but Elphick acquitted himself well as the down-at-heel private eye sent on an existential quest. It was in 1984 that he undertook his first leading role and arguably his most interesting collaboration playing for a then-unknown Lars Von Trier in his first feature, the dystopian whodunnit Element of Crime. One of his first principal parts was in a play by Dennis Potter called Blue Remembered Hills which took the unusual step of casting all the child protagonists with adult actors. He built up a consistent career in character parts and throughout the 70s and early 80s he popped up regularly on TV. At drama school he was great friends with Bruce Robinson which led to an appearance in Withnail And I. As a teenager working backstage at Chichester Festival Theatre he was encouraged to take up acting by none other than Lord Olivier. However if you survey his career (courtesy of imdb and numerous obits) you’ll find some very interesting collaborations in there. Largely typecast by his imposing physical appearance and gravelly voice with a strong East End accent, most of his career was spent playing heavies, some with a soft centre, some not. It could reasonably be said that the character most associated with the late Michael Elphick is Ken Boon, the retired firefighter and eponymous hero of the popular comedy drama that ran for six seasons on ITV from 1985 to 1993. Les Anderson takes a look at Series 2 on DVD…
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Michael Elphick is back as Ken Boon, the former fireman with the heart of gold, a passion for adventures and his trademark motorbike.