The
Series:The twist of this private-eye show is that in the first episode,
gumshoe Marty Hopkirk (Kenneth Cope) is killed off by the villains, only to pop
up in an immaculate white suit as a ghost visible only to his hardboiled partner,
Jeff Randall (Mike Pratt). In theory, the supernatural streak - which meant
a complex set of rules about Marty's appearances and effects on the physical world
- should lead the show into wilder territory, but most episodes squander the team's
unique abilities on ordinary cases about blackmail and murder-for-profit. A persistent
subplot has the living Jeff getting cozy with the dead Marty's widow Jean (Annette
Andre) to the discomfort of her late husband. The elementary effects and
the nice underplaying of the leads have a certain period charm, and the show was
able to afford a high caliber of special guest villains and beautiful women.
- Starring:
Mike Pratt as Jeff Randall
Kenneth Cope as Marty Hopkirk
Annette Andre as Jeannie Hopkirk
Ivor Dean as Inspector Large - Format:
Color
The DVD - Available Audio Tracks: English
- Dolby
Digital 2.0 Stereo
- 26 episodes on seven discs
- Encoding: (Read
more about DVD formats.)
- DVD Released: 7 February 2002
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