Harry has sold the Grand Hotel and bought a much more prestigious hotel, The Coaching Inn in Edgbaston. Doreen has moved to Spain and out of Ken's life. Harry is trying to raise some publicity for the grand opening that he has planned at The Coaching Inn, but the newspaper reporter isn't very interested. However Harry persuades them to print a photo if he can get it to the newspaper by their deadline. But who can perform the opening ceremony, now that the mayor isn't able to attend. By chance Emlyn Price Jones, a fiery red-haired Welsh MP, who is somewhat the worse for drink, is staying in the hotel so Harry gets him to do the honours. While Ken is taking the film of the grand opening to the newspaper office, he is ambushed by a gang of Hells Angels. Ken is starting up a motorcycle courier firm, Texas Rangers, which will operate out of the stables at the Coaching Inn, in which he has a financial stake. He is living in a flat above the stables. He has bought an ancient trans
Harry is thinking of extending the Coaching Inn and entertains a local councillor, James Petherbridge, to lunch in the hope that he will put in good word for Harry at the planning meeting. Unfortunately for Ken, the plans would involve the demolition of the stables used as Texas Rangers' office. Petherbridge is being pursued by an over-ambitious TV journalist, Linda West, who is determined to prove that he is corrupt and is accepting gifts in exchange for ensuring that applicants' plans are passed. Things look bad when it is revealed that he has just returned from a holiday in Sardinia. Then he receives a package of pornographic books, unwittingly delivered by Ken. The police arrive as Ken hands over the package. Because Texas Rangers is implicated by delivering the package, Ken investigates- to clear his own name as well as Petherbridge's. He discovers that the pornographic magazines have come from a seedy club run by Sillitoe, a florid-faced, fruity-voiced man who reluctantly reveals
Debbie thinks that Ken is getting very unfit so she takes him out jogging. A spirited elderly woman, Irene Maplethorpe, is being victimised by pranks at Moat Farm where she lives. A dead sheep is found in a water-trough; cattle get loose; the farmyard is flooded; she gets anonymous phone calls and finally a barn is "accidentally" demolished by a JCB. A consortium of unscrupulous property developers, Rathbone, Keen and Blackwater (RKB), has designs on the land where Moat Farm is situated. They are planning to build ""luxury dwellings"" there, even though they don't yet own the land. RKB put pressure on Irene's wimpish nephew, Philip Lainchbury, who runs a sawmill that is in financial difficulties, to get him to persuade Irene to move. RKB offer Harry the chance to invest in the consortium and take him shooting on the land next to Moat Farm. Irene demands that they leave her alone - and shoots out the tyres of Rathbone's car to emphasise her point. Irene suspects that her nephew is involve
Harry is searching for a group to provide entertainment at the Coaching Inn. He approaches Frankie Bass, a theatrical agent, who recommends a Country and West band, Bronco Billy's Boys. Harry hires them privately, bypassing Frankie's agency fee. Ken falls for Bebe McLintock, their raunchy blonde singer, after he has to rescue the band when they break down on their way to the Coaching Inn. Frankie Bass turns up and demands her share of the takings. Bronco and Bebe are forever arguing and Bebe is angry that she is not given sufficient chance to sing her own songs. She runs away from the band - and ends up in Ken's bed! She is on the point of leaving the band and living with Ken. However Ken's luck does not last: before long Bebe (who turns out to be Billy's wife) goes back to the band after Billy decides her needs her to stay. He is prepared to give her top billing and to let her sing her own songs. When White Lightning (Ken's beloved bike) is stolen, it is another member of the band, P
Albion Firetrucks, a local company which makes fire engines, has the computer plans for its new high-tech prototype stolen, when Ken is knocked off his bike while couriering them to the managing director. He is rescued by Shandy Tremblett, a platinum-blonde Page 3 girl who is staying at the Coaching Inn while trying to "improve her education". When the prototype itself is stolen, Ken investigates. He uncovers a conspiracy between an American consortium, led by Ed Slatterley, and Albion's director, Sir Freddie Blackton MP. The intention is for Slatterley to buy Albion at a knockdown price (because the prototype and its plans are missing) and then, having asset-stripped the company, to close it down. Ken finds the prototype hidden in a barn. Ken, wearing a brass fireman's helmet, and Shandy, dressed in a Union Jack robe, stage a publicity stunt on top of the fire engine to raise public awareness and to persuade the government to allow a management buy-out to take place.
Rocky has his bike stolen by an opportunist thief, Nick, while he is collecting a package from an office in the city centre... and being chatted up by the doe-eyed receptionist! To make matters worse, he has forgotten to renew the road tax and insurance on the bike. Harry's 84-year-old Aunt Lill has had a stroke and is found lying on her hall floor. The ambulance drivers are on strike so her neighbours, Margaret and Sam Green, have to take her to hospital by car. Harry is furious at what he sees as the drivers' selfish attitude: "What's the world coming to when the unions can use a crippled old woman to bump up their pay packets?" he asks Ken. He vents his frustration on the casualty registrar, Dr Hamill, but she lectures him about the dire financial state of the Health Service and tells him how the ambulance strike is affecting deliveries of drugs and medical samples. Somewhat chastened, Harry offers Ken's services free of charge if the hospital needs any supplies collecting or delivered.
Ken makes a delivery to a house which is being used as a studio for the making of pornographic films. When Barry Drinkwater, the film director, hears about Ken's association with 'The Coaching Inn', he decides he wants to make a film there. Despite Ken's warnings, Harry persists in believing that it will be good publicity for the hotel! Debbie's younger sister, Lindy, arrives unannounced from Liverpool - she has run away from home. Debbie tries to persuade her to go back home, but Lindy complains that there's nothing to go back for and that she is fed up of being treated as a child. Harry gives her a part-time job working behind the hotel bar, but Drinkwater entices her away to give her a part in one of his films. Ken and Debbie can guess exactly what this will involve Lindy doing! They track her down and take her away from the flat over a sex-shop where Drinkwater has taken her.
The episode starts with a bang as Rocky suspects that Texas Rangers is delivering IRA bombs. Explosions aren't the only thing in the air as Ken copes with Harry's passion for a beautiful artist.
A new recruit is oblivious of the jealousy around her as she concentrates on the man who intends to repossess her father's stately home - a man who just happens to be staying at 'The Coaching Inn'.
An unwelcome guest checks in at the Inn - Harry's Ex-wife, who is then kidnapped ! Meanwhile, Ken, Rocky and their new van attempt to deliver a large statue in which no-one seems to be interested.
Rocky's in love again. This time it's with the delectable Guiseppina, daughter of the owner of 'The Pizza Palace', an establishement so fortified that Rocky jokes about mafia connections... Harry, meanwhile, is planning a trip to Las Vegas, and Ken is involved in a number of mysterious parcels.
A huge wedding reception at 'The Coaching Inn' gets out of hand when the bride's family discovers the groom's identity.
Ken encounters an old friend and meets up with a former love, Detective Constable Margaret Daly, at an aerobics class.
Harry organises a charity ball with a dodgy character who runs off with all the money, leaving Harry to face an investigative journalist's cameras; he is forced into promising to replace the enire 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 Boon 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, Boon 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 its investment. It's not easy, however: rival newshounds are soon on the scent, and even the secret services are traling 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'.
An unscrupulous fast-food king get his comeuppance for exploiting his young employees in spite of Ken Boon'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 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 the wife is also secretly living with a rich man. Ken is faced with a dilemma: does he betray 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 recover from the 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 an American evangelical preacher to find out who is sabotaging his show in Birmingham and ruining his chances of winning a cable television contract. Ken discovers that the culprits are the brothers of a rival preacher on the cable television 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'.
In Nottingham, Ken Boon first assignment is to act as bodyguard for outspoken local DJ Eddie Cotton. Harry has gone into partnership with Helen Yeldham,owner of the Woodcote Park Country Club. Unfortunately Eddie gets himself into a compromising situation, and a rare toad threatens to scupper Harry's redevelopment plans.
Marty King, a local comedian staying at Woodcote Park, has a gambling habit that has left him heavily in debt to two young men, Rupert Cole and Tony Lawrence. Meanwhile, Ken is engaged by club owner Dick Vaughan to find out why his licence has not been renewed - and uncovers a connection to Cole and Lawrence.
A Tyrolean night at Woodcote Park is used as a clever for a gang of criminals to gain access to a house where they believe some plans are hidden; and Helen loses a 'daughter ' but gains a son when she takes Rocky under her wing following the sale of Texas Rangers.
Ken is engaged by Marion Kershaw to search for her missing husband, a businessman involved in the import/export trade. Ken and Harry find themselves handling stolen goods when they try to assist the police in a case involving the international theft of antiques.
Ben Fowkes, a young army demolition export, has deserted, and his father hires Ken to try and find him; Ben is now involved in an illegal boxing match in order to raise money to buy himself out, and Ken tries to stop the fight. Harry and Rocky, meanwhile are busy looking after Tinkerbell - a Champion greyhound.
Helen gives shelter to a battered wife and two sons . The woman's doctor husband almost convinces Ken that his wife is having a nervous breakdown, but hie true character is revealed when he attempts to abduct the boys. Harry, meanwhile, is investigating thefts from patients rooms in a nursing home.
Ken is on the two brothers who have each been left a half - share in their father's classic car - literally. At the same time, he assigns Rocky to trail an attractive young university student who seems to be suddenly in possession of a great deal of money. After suspecting her of selling her body for drugs, he discovers a more mundane source of income.
Ken is hired as a bodyguard by Bob Messener, a club owner on the run from brothers of his ex - partner Sammy Robinsonwho is in prison - of so Bob thinks. Harry meanwhile, has a nasty environmental problem apparently caused by his farmer neighbour.
Barbara Lake hires Ken to find out why she is receiving letters signed by her husband, who died in a plane crash six months ago. The letters leads her to a large amount of hidden money,but someone is watching her every move, meanwhile Helen's cycling nephew Ian is being blackmailed by a doctor of a rival cycling team.
Ken uncovers the secret life of Nina, wife of the unpleasant, violent and scheming Detective Sergeant Brock. Meanwhile Harry's plans a medieval banqueting tents at Woodcote Park do not meet with universal approval.
An Argentinian polo team are practising at Woodcote park while Helen makes eyes at the captain , Ken keeps his on Merrily Curtis, an English girl involved in a insurance scam over a brood mare. Back at the office Rocky agrees to collect a valuable painting for a client; he is about to become a pawn in a war between a husband and wife.
Ken is hired by the secretary of Sanderson Meats to find out who is stealing dictaphone tapes from her desk, and uncovers scheme by Mr Sanderson and his son-in-law to import pornography. Meanwhile, Harry has a spot of bother with has latest acquisition - a talking parrot.
Ken has spent the night with Rebecca, while burglars have vandalised his office. Harry is looking at buying a club,but is warned off by his accountant, who tells him that his finances are in a bad way. Both men seem to be facing an uncertain future.