Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) - Complete Series 1 & 2 - 4-DVD Set ( Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased): Complete Series 1 & 2 )

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) - Complete Series 1 & 2 - 4-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased): Complete Series 1 & 2
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
630 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2000 - 2001 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Charlie Higson
Mark Mylod

Written By:
Charlie Higson
Jeremy Dyson

Actors:
Vic Reeves ..... Marty Hopkirk (13 episodes, 2000-2001)
Bob Mortimer ..... Jeff Randall (13 episodes, 2000-2001)
Charlie Higson ..... Bulstrode / ... (12 episodes, 2000-2001)
Emilia Fox ..... Jeannie (11 episodes, 2000-2001)
Tom Baker ..... Prof. Wyvern (10 episodes, 2000-2001)
Melissa Knatchbull ..... Wendy Gill / ... (5 episodes, 2000-2001)
Jessica Hynes ..... Felia Siderova (2 episodes, 2000)
Tim Wallers ..... Lacey (2 episodes, 2000-2001)

Synopsis:

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)' stars Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer as the dead detective and his hapless but very much alive partner. Mad ghosts, mummified bodies, experiments that mysteriously change a person's gender; nothing it seems is beyond the perlexing world inhabited by super-sleuth characters Jeff Randle and Marty Hopkirk, aided and abetted by ghost-busting glamour girl Jeannie (Emilia Fox) and Hopkirk's mentor Wyvern (Tom Baker). Features every episode from series 1 & 2.
Series 1
1. Drop Dead
2. Mental Apparition Disorder
3. The Best Years Of Your Death
4. Paranoia
5. A Blast From The Past
6. A Man Of Substance

Series 2
1. Whatever Possessed You
2. Revenge Of The Bog People
3. O Happy Isle
4. Painkillers
5. Marshall & Snellgrove
6. The Glorious Butranekh
7. Two Can Play That Game

The Best Programme the BBC have made in years - The SunBased on the classic '60s detective series of the same name Vic Reeves takes on the role of Marty Hopkirk a ghost who can only be seen by his former colleague Jeff Randall (Bob Mortimer).The new production brilliantly maintains the spirit (!) of the original whilst bringing it up to date with some state of the art special effects and the introduction of such brilliant characters as Wyvern Marty's ghostly mentor played by Tom Baker (Little Britain Doctor Who).Written and produced by 'The Fast Show''s Charlie Higson who also appears in every episode as a different character this fast-paced drama combines moments of high comedy and thrilling action with cameos from such luminaries as David Tenant Hugh Laurie Steven Berkoff David Walliams Derek Jacobi and Paul Whitehouse.Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk are detective partners who don't let a little thing like murder get in the way of an investigation. Even if the death in question is a little close to home.The action begins a week before Marty's wedding to Jeannie Hurst (Emillia Fox 'Silent Witness') as he and Jeff are hired by famous artist Gordon Stylus (David Tennant 'Dr Who') to watch over Stylus' emotionally unstable wife Annette.Unfortunately during the course of the assignment Marty is hit by a car apparently driven by Annette and the two plunge over a cliff to their deaths.As a grieving Jeff and Jeannie investigate how Marty died so their lives too become endangered. Luckily for Jeff he is helped by the ghost of his dead partner who it transpires is cursed to walk the earth for the duration of Jeff's life.Needless to say solving the crime is just the beginning. With Marty's supernatural powers proving an invaluable help and Jeannie now a fully fledged (if unsuspecting) member of the team it's soon business as usual for Randall & Hopkirk... Mad ghosts mummified bodies dastardly dealings at a boarding school and experiments that mysteriously change a person's gender; no case is too complex - or too bizarre - for these most unconventional of super sleuths.EPISODE LISTINGDrop Dead; Mental Apparition Disorder; The Best Years of Your Death; Paranoia; A Blast From the Past; A Man of Substance; Whatever Possessed You; Revenge of The Bog People; O Happy Isle; Painkillers; Marshall & Snellgrove; The Glorious Butranekh; Two Can Play That Game

Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: Drop Dead
Original Air Date-18 March 2000
Private eyes Randall and Hopkirk are investigating two-timing husband Kenneth Crisby as Marty Hopkirk prepares for his marriage to Jeannie Hurst. Performance artist Gordon Stylus also seeks their help as he believes his wife is suicidal. Marty is killed when a car, apparently driven by Mrs. Stylus, sweeps them both over a cliff. The killer is, in fact, Crisby and Marty's ghost comes to Jeff Randall's aid when Crisby threatens him. However, Marty is destined to remain a ghost with only Jeff being able to see him.
Season 1, Episode 2: Mental Apparition Disorder
Original Air Date-25 March 2000
Marty is taught the tricks of the after-life, such as how to levitate objects, by an elderly ghost called Wyvern. Jeannie, meanwhile, who has taken an active role in the agency, is concerned for Jeff when he is overheard talking to Marty. She has him seek psychiatric aid from Dr. Lawyer, but he is a crook who hypnotises his clients into committing crimes for him. When he realises that Jeff is in contact with Marty he erases Marty from Jeff's memory, so Marty impersonates the doctor's voice and advises Jeff on how to thwart the next crime.
Season 1, Episode 3: The Best Years of Your Death
Original Air Date-1 April 2000
Jeannie's young nephew Daniel is troubled by events at his boarding school following the death of a teacher,Mr. Dawkins. Jeff and Jeannie investigate by securing work at the school, respectively as teacher and nurse. The military style headmaster Captain Graves turns out to have a hand in the skulduggery and Jeannie and Jeff are helped by the pupils, as well as Marty, in overcoming him.
Season 1, Episode 4: Paranoia
Original Air Date-8 April 2000
Ex-government employee and whistle blower Douglas Milton plans to reveal matters of international security at a forthcoming world conference. He has had a dream in which he foresees his own death and so he hires Jeff and Jeannie as his security. In the event there are several groups out to kill him but they end up killing each other instead. Meanwhile Marty perfects a means of literally raising the wind.
Season 1, Episode 5: A Blast from the Past
Original Air Date-15 April 2000
Thirty years previously Marty's father, a policeman, was responsible for the death of a villain called Sidney Crabbe. Now Sidney's ghost has been accidentally re-awakened, and is seeking revenge by going after Marty. In the resultant exchange Jeff is shot and, in his brief time as a ghost, before his revival, he is able to prevent Crabbe from pushing his partner into a flaming pit.
Season 1, Episode 6: A Man of Substance
Original Air Date-22 April 2000
Lauren Dee asks Jeff to locate her husband who went missing in a little village called Preston Storkney. When Jeff and Marty arrive there they are amazed that everybody can actually see Marty. This is because they are ghosts from a past era and the pair have been led into a trap. Wyvern realises that only Jeannie can save them. . .
Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: Whatever Possessed You?
Original Air Date-29 September 2001
Hotelier Virginia Carpenter calls in Jeff and Jeannie to investigate the macabre, mysterious deaths of two of her guests, an event which has caused the hotel to be visited by other interested parties. Margaret is an eccentric medium, Whale a self-satisfied ghost hunter and Lewton a has-been reporter out for a story to kick start his career. Jeannie gets possessed by the ghost of a woman who died in the building fifty years earlier and her boyfriend is all set to inhabit Jeff so that they can both live again.Fortunately Marty is there to save them. (Note: All the main characters are named after horror directors.)
Season 2, Episode 2: Revenge of the Bog People
Original Air Date-6 October 2001
Freya Cargill, an old flame of Jeff's, asks for his help in investigating the death of her father, an archaeologist. There are plenty of eccentric suspects at the museum where he worked as well as the Bog People, the remains of a family perfectly preserved in peat bog for thousands of years but with an apparent life of their own. Jeff gets on the trail of stolen artefacts the theft of which were blamed on Professor Cargill while Marty has to take time off from minding a new ghost called Nesbit to help out.
Season 2, Episode 3: O Happy Isle
Original Air Date-13 October 2001
Jeff and Jeannie visit the remote and forbidding Strait Isle off the Scottish coast to investigate the death of a young gay man, who was working on a project at the local brewery. Jeff is on anti-biotics and refuses a glass of the local brew but Jeannie experiences a very strange reaction when she drinks it. It turns out that an excess of the stuff has a serious effect on the sexuality of those who imbibe it. (Note: In this episode many characters are named after South Devon villages.)
Season 2, Episode 4: Painkillers
Original Air Date-20 October 2001
After an undercover agent is killed by a poison with a very delayed reaction government men ask Jeff and Jeannie to investigate a secret research laboratory built under a golf course. It is run by Colonel Anger,seemingly a harmless eccentric who is reconstructing a portion of the Amazonian rain-forest in his office but Jeff and Jeannie, joined by shape-shifting Marty discover that the team is also working on a new drug, Niarol. It can delay the effects of pain and illness indefinitely and, in theory, could be used to attain immortality.
Season 2, Episode 5: Marshall and Snellgrove
Original Air Date-27 October 2001
Meredith Hortweldine secures the services of Jeff and Jeannie because he suspects his twin brother Jasper is plotting to kill him. Jasper has the same notion about Meredith and employs a rival detective duo called Marshall and Snellgrove. A bomb explodes, killing Meredith and Snellgrove, the latter's ghost teaming up with Marty to unmask the murderer. Marty also discovers that he was claimed before his time and that another Martin Hopkirk should have died in his stead.
Season 2, Episode 6: The Glorious Butranekh
Original Air Date-3 November 2001
Jeff answers a call for help from former secretary Felia Siderova, a Latvian woman, whose husband and infant son have gone missing. Following the trail back to Latvia, Randall and Hopkirk and Jeannie discover that Felia's husband has been killed and that her son has been taken by a cult who believe him to be the reincarnation of an ancient war lord called Butranekh. In his efforts to track down the gang Jeff is caught, along with porn actress Pola Dawn, and taken to the cult's headquarters. It's in situations like these that Marty's help is most appreciated.
Season 2, Episode 7: Two Can Play at That Game
Original Air Date-10 November 2001
Stuart Boyle, who was at school with Jeff, is puzzled by a letter supposedly from his father - who has been dead for some years - asking him to meet him at the Boyle family's department store, which closed when the old man died. He meets Jeannie at the store but it has been taken over by murderous shop window dummies who threaten them. Jeff and Marty arrive to save them but have a disagreement which ends up with Marty getting stuck in a limbo inhabited by ghosts who have fallen out with their nearest and dearest and who try to prevent him from getting back to the store to save his friends.

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