

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
“Murder Ain't What It Used To Be!”
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) is a British private detective television series. In the initial episode Hopkirk is murdered during an investigation, but returns as a ghost. Randall is the only main character able to see or hear him, although certain minor characters are also able to do so in various circumstances throughout the series.
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1.My Late Lamented Friend and Partner
21-09-1969In the pilot episode Marty Hopkirk is murdered by the husband of a client but returns as a ghost to help Jeff bring the man responsible for his murder to justice.

2.A Disturbing Case
28-09-1969Concerned for Jeff's mental health Jeannie sends Jeff to Dr. Conrad at the Lambert Clinic where it turns out he is the mastermind of a series of robberies of his patients using hyp...

3.All Work and No Pay
05-10-1969Two eccentric conmen brothers (The Foster Brothers) who claim to be spiritualists try to convince Jeannie that Marty is haunting her as a poltergeist using electronic equipment

4.Never Trust a Ghost
12-10-1969Two enemy agents murder a high British Secret Service official and his wife and pass themselves as their impostors in their own home to steal important documents

5.That's How Murder Snowballs
19-10-1969When a theatre performer is murdered by a loaded gun during one of his acts Jeff joins the theatre as a mind reader to investigate his murder and hunt down the killer. David Jason...

6.Just for the Record
26-10-1969Aristocrat Harold Pargiter and his Lords rob the British vault for a document proving that his family titles and deeds were stolen by King John in the 13th century and his successi...

7.Murder Ain't What it Used to Be!
02-11-1969Notorious American crime boss Paul Kirstner travels to London for "business" and hires Randall to take care of his daughter. However his wicked past and his haunting by the 1920s C...

8.Whoever Heard of a Ghost Dying?
09-11-1969Knowing about Marty, a crime syndicate, in disguise, hire Jeff to begin surveillance on a gang of criminals (themselves), knowing that he will use Marty. Using an elderly psychic t...

9.The House on Haunted Hill
16-11-1969Jeff investigates a diamond theft in which the manager is implicated who threatens Jeff to lie about his investigation. Whilst also investigating a haunting at a country manor in t...

10.When did You Start to Stop Seeing Things?
23-11-1969Jeff is hired by a company to find out who is leaking information in the stock market. Finding Jeff suspiciously out of character — and also now being unable to see him — Marty fin...

11.The Ghost who Saved the Bank at Monte Carlo
30-11-196952mMarty's Aunt Clara hires Jeff as a bodyguard for a trip to Monte Carlo where she plans to win £100,000 on her self-devised gambling system. Closely followed and watched by several...

12.For the Girl who Has Everything
07-12-196951mJeff is hired by a ghost hunter to investigate at a manor where the lady appears to be haunted. When the ghost hunter is murdered whilst on night watch Jeff investigates. When the...

13.But What a Sweet Little Room
14-12-196951mJeff investigates the disappearance of a wealthy young heiress's aunt. When she is then killed by a hit and run driver he is led to a medium previously visited by the aunt and uses...

14.Who Killed Cock Robin?
21-12-196951mIn this murder mystery, Jeff is hired by a large estate manager to investigate a series of bird shootings in the manor aviary. Under the terms of the will of the manor's late owner...

15.The Man from Nowhere
28-12-196951mA man enters Jeannie's life pretending that he is Marty returned from the dead. As he gradually builds Jeannie's trust with his alarming knowledge of Marty's life, Jeff, suspicious...

16.When the Spirit Moves You
02-01-1970Jeff becomes involved with a conman and a stash of $125,000 of stolen bonds from the United States that a criminal racket are after. Anton Rodgers appears as Calvin P. Bream. NOTE:...

17.Somebody Just Walked Over My Grave
09-01-1970Marty finds somebody digging around his grave. He sends Jeff to investigate the cemetery and in doing so is knocked unconscious several times by a masked 18th century axe wielder....

18.Could You Recognise The Man Again?
16-01-1970When Jeff and Jeannie find a dead body in their car unknown to them at the time that the man they met outside was a killer, Jeannie is held hostage to keep Randall from confessing...

19.A Sentimental Journey
23-01-1970A reluctant Jeff agrees to take a valuable item worth £10,000 from Glasgow to London on the overnight express. When the consignment turns out to be an attractive blonde, Jeff initi...

20.Money to Burn
30-01-1970Randall is offered by a dodgy friend to take part in a money salvaging operation whereby £500,000 of old money is to be incinerated but is replaced with newspaper pieces. Not infor...

21.The Ghost Talks
06-02-1970With Jeff in a hospital bed with an arm and a leg in plaster, having fallen off a balcony while attempting to apprehend a safe-cracker, Marty seizes the opportunity to tell him abo...

22.It's Supposed to be Thicker than Water
13-02-1970Playing postman to deliver an envelope to an escaped convict strikes Jeff as simple until he finds out it contains an invitation to murder and before long his own life is on the li...

23.The Trouble with Women
20-02-1970Jeff is hired by a woman and deliberately set up her husband's murder. In disguise she misleads Randall with her club owner boyfriend she is secretly having an affair with, almost...

24.Vendetta for a Dead Man
27-02-1970A vengeance-seeking escaped convict decides that since Marty Hopkirk, the man who put him behind bars is dead then his widow Jeannie will have to suffer. George Sewell and Timothy...

25.You Can Always Find a Fall Guy
06-03-1970Jeff is hired to retrieve stolen funds by a nun, only to discover the nun is not what she seems to be and he is being set up.

26.The Smile Behind the Veil
13-03-1970Only a ghost would notice the smile behind the veil of a funeral mourner. Marty stumbles upon a hidden murder mystery.
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