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The Best Episodes of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)

Every episode of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)!

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...
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Network:ITV1

Best Episodes Summary

"Whoever Heard of a Ghost Dying?" is the best rated episode of "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)". It scored 8.2/10 based on 101 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/9/1969. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Smile Behind the Veil".

  • Whoever Heard of a Ghost Dying?
    8.2/10101 votes
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    #1 - Whoever Heard of a Ghost Dying?

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1969

    Knowing 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 they detect Marty's presence, and deliberately mislead Jeff and the police.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Smile Behind the Veil
    8.2/1093 votes
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    #2 - The Smile Behind the Veil

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/13/1970

    Only a ghost would notice the smile behind the veil of a funeral mourner. Marty stumbles upon a hidden murder mystery.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Never Trust a Ghost
    8.1/1099 votes
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    #3 - Never Trust a Ghost

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1969

    Two 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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • When did You Start to Stop Seeing Things?
    8.1/1090 votes
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    #4 - When did You Start to Stop Seeing Things?

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1969

    Jeff 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 finds out that the real Jeff has been captured and that the fake Jeff is an impostor, using his status to conduct murders of financial personnel. Marty uses a hypnotist to save the day.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • That's How Murder Snowballs
    8.0/10106 votes
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    #5 - That's How Murder Snowballs

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1969

    When 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 appears as Abel

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Ghost Talks
    8.0/1083 votes
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    #6 - The Ghost Talks

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/6/1970

    With 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 about a spy drama that he handled alone (Jeff being out of town at the time) while he was still alive, involving a corrupt MI5 official and spy ring, the details of which he had never revealed before.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Trouble with Women
    8.0/1078 votes
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    #7 - The Trouble with Women

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/20/1970

    Jeff 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 leading to his shooting at a quarry.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Could You Recognise The Man Again?
    7.9/1082 votes
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    #8 - Could You Recognise The Man Again?

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/16/1970

    When 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 to the police and giving a testimony in court. And even the ghostly Marty can't locate her until the very last minute.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • For the Girl who Has Everything
    7.8/1097 votes
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    #9 - For the Girl who Has Everything

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/7/1969

    Jeff 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 man of the house is shot by his wife believing she saw a ghost, Jeff becomes suspicious and discovers that it was part of her plan to get rid of her draining husband and leave the country with her butler toyboy. Lois Maxwell appears as Kim Wentworth. Carol Cleveland appears as Laura Slade.

    Director: Cyril Frankel

    Writer: Donald James

  • The Man from Nowhere
    7.8/1095 votes
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    #10 - The Man from Nowhere

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/28/1969

    A 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 from the beginning finds that he is a runaway member of a gang and has taken Jeannie to the Cotswolds where she and Marty had their honeymoon to dig up something of the past.

    Director: Robert Tronson

    Writer: Donald James

  • Vendetta for a Dead Man
    7.8/1081 votes
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    #11 - Vendetta for a Dead Man

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 2/27/1970

    A 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 West appear as Eric Jansen and Sam Grimes respectively.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • You Can Always Find a Fall Guy
    7.8/1089 votes
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    #12 - You Can Always Find a Fall Guy

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/6/1970

    Jeff 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • My Late Lamented Friend and Partner
    7.7/10138 votes
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    #13 - My Late Lamented Friend and Partner

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1969

    In 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Disturbing Case
    7.7/10109 votes
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    #14 - A Disturbing Case

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1969

    Concerned 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 hypnotic suggestion, forcing Marty to try to find a way to break Jeff from his control before Jeff has been so severely hypnotized that he loses the ability to see Marty. David Bauer stars.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The House on Haunted Hill
    7.7/1098 votes
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    #15 - The House on Haunted Hill

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1969

    Jeff 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 turns out the diamond gang are using it as a hideout. NOTE:- Jeannie Hopkirk, (Annette Andre), does not appear in this episode.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Ghost who Saved the Bank at Monte Carlo
    7.7/1095 votes
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    #16 - The Ghost who Saved the Bank at Monte Carlo

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/30/1969

    Marty'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 different gangs they only lose their would-be robbers by Marty manipulating the final game of roulette losing the money

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • But What a Sweet Little Room
    7.6/10102 votes
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    #17 - But What a Sweet Little Room

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/14/1969

    Jeff 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 Jeannie as a decoy to foil a thieving operation in which middle class men rob wealthy widows by murdering them in the room of the episode title, which then transpires to be a gas chamber in disguise.

    Director: Roy Ward Baker

    Writer: Ralph Smart

  • Money to Burn
    7.6/1089 votes
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    #18 - Money to Burn

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/30/1970

    Randall 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 informing the police nor accepting any part in it, Randall watches from a nearby street and is caught by the police and imprisoned. Using his lady friend lawyer she tracks down his dodgy friend at his London club finding the real culprits are his lady dancers freeing Randall.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Somebody Just Walked Over My Grave
    7.5/1091 votes
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    #19 - Somebody Just Walked Over My Grave

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/9/1970

    Marty 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. Suspecting the gardener, Jeff accepts a job for a wealthy man in the nearby mansion and stumbles on an intricate plot to steal his insane agoraphobic son through an underground tunnel pretending to hold him to ransom. It is all part of a plot to inherit his father's fortune but when he marries his young housekeeper the plan is demised. Geoffrey Hughes appears as Harper. Also Andrew Sachs, appears in a small pre-Fawlty Towers role as the English commentator during the first leg of the international football match that Marty goes to watch.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • When the Spirit Moves You
    7.4/1089 votes
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    #20 - When the Spirit Moves You

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/2/1970

    Jeff 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:- Jeannie Hopkirk, (Annette Andre), does not appear in this episode.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Sentimental Journey
    7.4/1078 votes
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    #21 - A Sentimental Journey

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/23/1970

    A 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 initially concedes that the assignment is to his liking. How gradually becoming suspicious it turns out the blonde is a traitor involved in stealing a highly valuable postage stamp. NOTE:- Annette Andre, (Jeannie Hopkirk), does not appear in this episode.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Murder Ain't What it Used to Be!
    7.3/1096 votes
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    #22 - Murder Ain't What it Used to Be!

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1969

    Notorious 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 Chicago gangster Bugsy catches up with him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • All Work and No Pay
    7.2/1097 votes
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    #23 - All Work and No Pay

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1969

    Two 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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • It's Supposed to be Thicker than Water
    7.2/1079 votes
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    #24 - It's Supposed to be Thicker than Water

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/13/1970

    Playing 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 line.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Who Killed Cock Robin?
    7.1/1094 votes
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    #25 - Who Killed Cock Robin?

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/21/1969

    In 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, the estate is being held in trust for as long as the birds live (which could be twenty years or more), and will be divided up equally among the surviving relatives only when all the birds are dead. While Jeff keeps guard of the valuable birds, he discovers that members of the family of the manor are being murdered one by one, gradually narrowing down the suspects, leaving Jeff with the surprising culprit. Cyril Luckham appears as Laverick. Jane Merrow appears as Sandra Joyce.

    Director: Roy Ward Baker

    Writer: Tony Williamson