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- Ken and Harry were reluctant
to employ Alex because of her criminal record. What offence had she
committed?
Cheque fraud.
- What is Ken’s middle name? He
mentions it in “Never Say Trevor Again”.
Winstanley.
- In “Trouble In The Fields”, when
Laura was singing in the talent contest at “The Drum”, how did Rocky
(with some geographical imprecision) describe her?
Laura Meatloaf, The Bat
out of Hull.
- In “The Belles Of St. Godwalds”,
how was Perry (the man who stole the painting) eventually prevented from
escaping?
He tried to escape in a
CBS van which had a guard dog in the back that snarled at him and
threatened to bite him every time he moved.
- What were the “Sandcastles” that
were referred to in “Message In A Bottle”?
Power station cooling
towers.
- How did Laura discourage the
attentions of a teenage girl who was plaguing Rocky in “Pillow Talk”?
She told the girl that
Rocky was gay.
- Under what circumstances did Ken
and Margaret first meet?
Margaret, who used to
work as detective with the Vice Squad, arrested Ken outside a sex-aid
shop, in possession of “free samples” that the owner had given him.
- What loyal action nearly cost Alex
her job at CBS?
She organised a walkout
of CBS staff in support of Rocky after Harry had sacked him on suspicion
of stealing a client’s jewellery.
- When Ken went “Undercover”, what
did he promise to bring back for Harry?
A virgin – as used in
“satanic rituals” by Hells Angels.
- In “Big Game Hunt”, what was the
name of the Freemason-style organisation, of which Harry (inevitably!)
was a member, that met at Woodcote Park.
The Bisons.
- In Series 1, what was Doreen’s
occupation?
She was an accountant
who audited the accounts for Harry’s hotel.
- In “Burning Ambition”, why was
Lorraine Simpson so keen to frame Ken?
When he was a fireman,
he had caught her starting a fire that had killed a colleague. It was
his evidence that had convicted her and sent her to jail.
- Also in “Burning Ambition”, what
did Len Drumgold ask Harry to store in his warehouse?
Some “furs” – these
turned out to be live rabbits which he was going to sell to a cosmetics
company for testing their products.
- In “Never Say Trevor Again”,
where were the two place that Ken tried unsuccessfully to serve Charles
Henry Marquis with the writ?
1) In the window of a
shop selling wedding dresses.
2) In the street when Marquis was on
the way to a fancy-dress party dressed as a bear.
- What was the name of the
narrowboat that Ken bought at the beginning of Series 5 to use as a
houseboat?
Chaste Tramp.
- What were the “silver stars” that
Rocky and Laura were searching for in “Lie Of The Land”.
Images of the moon
shining onto the ground through the arm-holes of the village stocks.
- In “Daddy’s Girl”, what did Ken
and Harry see (causing them much amazement!) when they looked in the
disused church late at night?
Rocky was holding up a
bible and reading a passage from it while helping Kate Bolton rehearse
for her wedding.
- What fact about her husband did
Ken, Harry and Doreen hide from Meg Lucie in “Grass Widows”.
Meg’s husband had been
having an affair: he used to spend the night with his mistress in one of
Harry’s hotel bedrooms.
- What car did Harry drive before
he got the blue Jag?
A green Rover.
- In “Beef Encounter”, Harry was
briefly reunited with Yvonne Higgins, “the first woman that I ever
proposed to”. Whereabouts did they indulge in a bit of impromptu jiving
as they relived their lost youth?
On the top storey of a
children’s climbing frame in an adventure playground, watched by a group
of very bemused teenagers on bikes.