1969 - "Set 1" - US
1969 - Series 1 - UK
2000 - Series 1 - UK
2001 - Series 2 - UK

2ube Shows:

Blackadder
Firefly
Hitchhikers'
Lazytown
Police Squad!
Randall & Hopkirk
Rockford Files
Top Cat

2ube People:

Peter Cook
Tommy Cooper

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
• 13 episodes on four discs
• Encoding: NTSC Region 1 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• "Haunted History: London" from History Channel's series
• Photo gallery
• DVD Released: 24 February 2004
• Audio Encoding: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Run Time: 663