![]() ![]() On Ken's behalf, and without his knowledge, Harry places a box-number advertisement in a newspaper stating: "Ex-fireman seeks interesting work. Harry has acquired a hotel in Birmingham and offers Ken a job and a home there. Harry returns from Spain after his wife leaves him for a young hairdresser. He starts a market garden, the Ponderosa, in a village about ten miles outside Birmingham, but finds that it isn't working out. He attempts to prove that he can still make it, but he is declared unfit for duty after collapsing during a practice simulation because his lungs have been permanently damaged, and he is forced to leave the fire service. Realising that he must act quickly, he goes into the house without breathing apparatus and rescues the child, but he is severely injured by inhaling toxic smoke. Ken attends a house fire in which a child is trapped upstairs. In episode 1 Crawford takes early retirement and moves to Spain to open a bar, leaving Ken behind. Ken Boon (Elphick) and Harry Crawford (Daker) are both old-fashioned 'smokeys' (firemen) in the West Midlands Fire Service. ![]()
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