A detective partnership with a difference, one of them is a ghost!
When Marty Hopkirk is murdered he returns as a ghost to help former partner Jeff Randall catch his killer. Marty's widow Jean becomes the company secretary and is unaware that Jeff can still communicate with her former husband

Jeff Randall - Mike Pratt
Marty Hopkirk - Kenneth Cope
Annette Andre - Jean Hopkirk

RANDALL & HOPKIRK (DECEASED) was originally broadcast in 1969

 

MY LATE LAMENTED FRIEND AND PARTNER

Written by Ralph Smart, Directed by Cyril Frankel
Jeff and Marty's partnership seems to come to a dramatic end when Marty is killed by a hit-and-run driver but Marty is soon back as a white-suited ghost to help solve his own murder

A DISTURBING CASE

Written by Mike Pratt & Ian Wilson, Directed by Ray Austin
Marty's widow Jean happens upon Jeff apparantly talking to himself (he's actually discussing a spate of bizarre robberies with his invisible partner). She immediately seeks medical help in the form of the sinister Dr. Conrad

All WORK AND NO PAY

Written by Donald James, Directed by Jeremy Summers
Poor Jean is plagued by a poltergeist. She is convinced that it is Marty's ghost trying to get in touch with her and hires suspicious spiritualists the Foster Brothers to try establish contact

NEVER TRUST A GHOST

Written by Tony Williamson, Directed by Leslie Norman
Wandering the streets of London one night Marty witnesses a man, Howarth, being shot dead in his home. Jeff summons the police but Howarth appears alive and well...Marty , however is unconvinced

THATS HOW MURDER SNOWBALLS

Written by Ray Austin, Directed by Paul Dickson
A Russian Roulette act at a music hall goes horribly wrong when the mind reader is shot dead in front of the audience including Jeff and Marty!

JUST FOR THE RECORD

Written by Donald James, Directed by Jeremy Summers
Jeff and Jean act as escorts at an international beauty contest. During a sight-seeing tour Marty's suspicions are aroused by Miss london's odd behaviour

MURDER AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE!

Written by Tony Williamson, Directed by Jeremy Summers
Marty has a ghostly rival, Bugsy, a gangster who met his demise in the roaring Twenties. Not only does he have a repertoire of better tricks, he is also out to kill one of Jeff's clients

THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL

Written by Tony Williamson, Directed by Ray Austin
It's a case for Marty when Jeff is asked to investigate the mystery of a "haunted house". It's just as well as Jeff is preoccupied with solving a diamond robbery

WHOEVER HEARD OF A GHOST DYING?

Written by Tony Williamson, Directed by Ray Austin
A criminal mastermind and his clairvoyant, co-conspirator, discover the reason for Randall's recent success at detection - the late Marty Hopkirk. They plot to make the duo fall guys for robberies and even try to exorcise poor Marty!

WHEN DID YOU START TO STOP SEEING THINGS?

Written by Tony Williamson, Directed by Jeremy Summers
The day Randall and Hopkirk have been dreading has arrived. Jeff can no longer see or hear his ghostly partner. To Marty's consternation Jeff doesn't even appeared to be bothered by this!

THE GHOST WHO SAVED THE BANK AT MONTE CARLO

Written by Tony Williamson, Directed by Jeremy Summers
Marty's aunt perfects a winning gambling system in Monte Carlo, placing her at risk from ruthless crooks

FOR THE GIRL WHO HAS EVERYTHING

Written by Donald james, Directed by Cyril Frankel
A wealthy woman starts to believe her castle is haunted and is also upset by her husband's regular absences. Jeff and Marty are called in to investigate

BUT WHAT A SWEET LITTLE ROOM

Written by Ralph Smart, Directed by Roy Ward Baker
After the suspect death of a client, Marty helps Jeff expose a phoney medium, who makes clients believe she can contact the deceased

WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN?

Written by Tony Williamson, Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Jeff is hired to guard an aviary of birds linked to a valuable estate. The birds start to be killed off one by one, and all surviving relatives are now suspects

THE MAN FROM NOWHERE

Written by Donald James, directed by Robert Tronson
Marty becomes alarmed when Jean gets involved with a man claiming to be the reincarnation of the deceased Marty himself

WHEN THE SPIRIT MOVES YOU

Written by Tony Williamson, Directed by Ray Austin
Interesting developments occur when Marty discovers that a criminal posing as a New York detective can see and hear him when he is drunk

SOMEBODY JUST WALKED OVER MY GRAVE

Written by Donald James, Directed by Cyril Frankel
Marty materialises beside his grave one night to find someone digging in it! He summons Jeff, who arrives to see a man dressed in 18th century garb

COULD YOU RECOGNISE THAT MAN AGAIN?

Written by Donald James, Directed by Jeremy Summers
Jean Hopkirk is held hostage to stop her giving evidence in a murder case where the victim is found in Jeff's car and not even the ghostly Marty can find her

A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY

Written by Donald James, Directed by Leslie Norman
A reluctant Jeff agress to take a valuable item from Glasgow to London on the overnight express. When the consignment turns out to be an attractive blond, Jeff concedes that the assignment is to his liking, until doing so takes on muderous implications

THE GHOST TALKS

Written by Gerald Kelsey, Directed by Cyril Frankel
With Jeff confined to a hospital bed, Marty seizes the opportunity to tell his acptive partner about a spy drama he handled while he was still alive involving the MI-5 and a spy ring, the details of which he had never revealed before

MONEY TO BURN

Written by Donald James, Directed by Ray Austin
Hot money proves a big temptation for Jeff Randall but it always puts him in a hot spot. He finds himself accused of stealing £500,000 intended for incineration, and where there's smoke there's fire, this time in the shape of a sultry cabaret singer

ITS SUPPOSED TO BE THICKER THAN WATER

Written by Donald James, Directed by Leslie Norman
Playing postman to deliver an envelope to an escaped convict strikes Jeff as a simple affair - until he discovers that the enverlope contains an invitation to murder and before long, Jeff's own life is on the line

THE TROUBLE WITH WOMEN

Written by Tony Williamson, Directed by Cyril Frankel
Its useful to have a ghost to help you when you are playing cards - but it's a game in which Randall is being framed for murder

VENDETTA FOR A DEAD MAN

Written by Donald James, Directed by Cyril Frankel
A vengeance-seeking escaped prisoner decides that since Marty Hopkirk, the man who put him in jail is dead, his widow Jean will have to be the one to suffer...

YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND A FALL GUY

Written by Donald James, Directed by Ray Austin
You don't expect to be double-crossed by a nun, unless she turns out to be something very different, which the unfortunate Jeff finds out far too late

THE SMILE BEHIND THE VEIL

Written by Gerald Kelsey, Directed by Jeremy Summers
Only a ghost would notice the smile behind the veil of a funeral mourner - but when Hopkirk does so, it reveals a strange murder mystery

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