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Series Name:    Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased) Format: TV Series IMDB: IMDB Page Years: 1969 - 1970 Country:   UK Language: English Genre: Comedy, Crime, Action Rating: 8.0  Rate Collection:   Seen It     Wishlist  Community:  26 Have Seen » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

Selected Cast	Mike Pratt as Jeff Randall
	Kenneth Cope as Marty Hopkirk
	Annette Andre as Jeannie Hopkirk
	Ivor Dean as Inspector Large

Notes

An ITC colour film series which lasted for just one run of 26 episodes, partly since it didn't go down too well in America where they didn't find the concept of a Private Detective helped by the ghost of his deceased partner at all amusing. It was an amusing concept but the lead actors were frustrated at how ITC wanted it to be taken seriously since Pratt and Cope knew it had much comedy potential and much of the humour is attributed to them. It's now regarded as a cult classic and ended up being remade many years later with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer in the leading roles.

On DVD & Blu-ray World

Blu-ray Box Set

Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased) - Network - UK (2017)

Blu-ray

Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased) - Network - UK (2017)

DVD Box Set

Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased): The Complete Series - Network - UK (2009)

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Comments and Reviews

MR B PAGE 12th Sep 2024		R.I.P. Kenneth Cope.
Robert Goodchild 2nd Jan 2022		There is a scene in one episode when they are in a tea room. Where the the street scene outside the tea shop was Denham Village in Buckinghamshire. Its great seeing places you know on films and TV programs from yesteryears.
Quad5point1 3rd Oct 2019		Added Episode 1 Titlescreen from the Blu-Ray
Neil Forbes 20th Oct 2015		Now, now RC, are you trying to "buck" the system? ha-ha.
Record Collector 19th Oct 2015		what you trying to say neil it dosnt make any cents haha
Neil Forbes 19th Oct 2015		RC, please try to catch up! We've been decimalised since 14th February, 1966, So I can't be sent to the "Pound" It'd have to be the Dollar!" ha-ha!
Record Collector 18th Oct 2015		Neil you better be careful with that bea smith joke or you will and up in the pound hehe
Record Collector 18th Oct 2015		Watching a old Marx brothers Movie in 4:3 on wide screen
Neil Forbes 18th Oct 2015		Henry29: What about Me. I have to watch In 4.3 as If I stretch It out It would look Horrible. As I have a 21:9 TV Er... you got problems! ha-ha!
Neil Forbes 18th Oct 2015		RC: I'm watching prisoner right now 4:3 format converted to wide screen Geez! Bea Smith would look like she was gorging herself from the Wentworth kitchen larder! ha-ha....*Roley Poley, ba-ba-ba-bom....!(*part of chorus from song by Stanford Bridge).
henry29 18th Oct 2015		What about Me. I have to watch In 4.3 as If I stretch It out It would look Horrible. As I have a 21:9 TV. H.
Record Collector 17th Oct 2015		I'm watching prisoner right now 4:3 format converted to wide screen
Neil Forbes 17th Oct 2015		I've seen 4:3 when it's stretched out to 16:9, not a pretty sight... Hey, fatso!(not referring to you, directly, RC, just characters who've been "stretched sideways on screen).
Record Collector 17th Oct 2015		Well not really you in wide screen you don't really notice it
Neil Forbes 17th Oct 2015		RC: "Well some old are 4:3 but I have a feature on my television that make it into wide screen" ....At the expense of making Pratt, Cope and Andre look like they've been on an eating binge, "pigging out!"
Record Collector 17th Oct 2015		ooh I love it
Record Collector 17th Oct 2015		Well some old are 4:3 but I have a feature on my television that make it into wide screen
Neil Forbes 17th Oct 2015		This show deserves another outing on Aussie TV, even if it is only in 4:3 aspect ratio. Perhaps ABC here could schedule it on a Friday night, gosh, there's precious little else worth watching at the moment, this show would be a great boost to ABC's Friday line-up.
henry29 16th Oct 2015		Image Added. Two of the most Beautiful Girls on TV at the Time. In one Scene Together. Enjoy. H.
zabadak 10th Jul 2015		Sure does!!! :thumbsup:
the Flea 10th Jul 2015		Used to watch this every week when it first aired, was too young to understand it but it looked fun. Watched the re-runs in the mid 70's when I was old enough and it still held up.
Neil Forbes 25th Jun 2015		Yeah.... back in the days long before market aggregation, when regional TV stations only had a still-very-elitist ABC to rival them. They weren't tied to any of the three Sydney stations, SBS was still radio-only and 2NUR-FM was still a year away.... Aah, those were the days.....! Quick RC, stop me before I start channelling Barbra Streisand.... Mem'ries, like the corners...Oops! too late!
Record Collector 25th Jun 2015		I got a copy of TV Week 15th of January 1977 Monday evening on NBN right after A Current Affair the bionic woman followed by kojak now that's some viewing
Neil Forbes 25th Jun 2015		I've got to watch my use of You-Tube, it sucks up my data reserve like you wouldn't believe! I was watching so many ghost segments(Richard Felix, eps of Most Haunted & Great British Ghosts among others), and before I knew it, my data reserve had just about run out. Ouch! I do have copied DVDs of this show stored(made from a friend's original) somewhere about, I'll dig 'em out and give 'em another viewing, some time.
Record Collector 25th Jun 2015		Watched a episode of this series on YouTube another show I have vivid memory of is Callan classic television
Pridesale 14th Jun 2015		Re-run a while back on ITV4 mornings (I was off sick so part paid attention). The locations were interesting to view , mostly Hertfordshire I guess with bits of central London, the buses , cars, trucks and supermarkets of the time being of great interest. Could only remember bits from the originally airings as probably on when our telly could not get ITV, but remember reading a few bits in Look-In.
Neil Forbes 12th Jun 2015		A friend of mine has this series(all 26 episodes) on a DVD boxed-set. I must borrow it again from him, so I can enjoy yje show again(remember watching this way back in 1969 in what was my last full year of high school - aah, memories...no, no! DON'T YOU DARE START SINGING THAT SONG!!!(ha-ha)
Neil Forbes 20th May 2015		I may have veered off the topic of Randall & Hopkirk a bit, but as I have not yet put up a frame for "Most Haunted", I just though I'd mention it here. I haven't uploaded any images in a while, as I maxed out on my data allotment(4Gb every 45 days) from Virgin Broadband and I'm trying to build it back up, byte by byte, so-to-speak(ha-ha). By then this TV thread will be out of its beta test mode and fully up-and-running. My quip about Most Haunted being aired on Living TV shows the irony - a TV station with such a name(station identification) airing shows about ghosts and dead people was enough to tickle this little black duck's funny-bone!
Neil Forbes 17th May 2015		I've got the first three seasons of Most Haunted stored on one of my external hard-drives. It was a good show at the start, though host Yvette Fielding's nerves must've been sorely tested by some of the locations she and her team had visited, but I can understand why Richard Felix left the show after about the sixth season, claiming the show had become like "Scooby-Doo"(cartoon ghost-chasing dog), the substance gave way to showiness.
Neil Forbes 15th May 2015		By the way, who in Britain watched Most Haunted on Living TV? That had to be the biggest joke ever played on TV viewers ever! A TV station calling itself "Living TV" yet its shows are all(or mostly) about ghosts and dead people! Aaaah dear, really cracks me up!
Neil Forbes 15th May 2015		I know how many of you in the UK feel, a similar situation existed here in Australia and Record Collector, as a fellow Australian can attest to this as well. In NSW, Victoria and Queensland, outside the respective state capital cities, there was only the ABC(national non-commercial) and one incumbent local commercial station. This applied from 1956(and as more regional commercial and ABC stations were established) until a roll-out of what was called "market aggregation" from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s where one station, aligned with one of the three capital city commercial stations, would enter the markets of two other stations in neighbouring markets, and the local stations from those other markets would do likewise. However, the unseen trap was sprung about five years into the last round of aggregations(Northern NSW) where the local station on the North Coast, NRTV(Northern Rivers Television) lost its "local" identity to its Sydney affiliate, TEN, which spelled out the channel it transmitted on instead of identifying the station itself, the operators of that station are United Telecasters Ltd. Aggregation was a huge mistake, to be honest. What should've happened was each station stay within its own market and retain its autonomy while a second new station was opened up in each market, then the two regional stations would then take their choice of shows on offer from each of the three capital city stations - and when digital came along and each regional broadcaster had those extra two "platforms" to provide shows for, then the capital city stations could supply them thus.
BiggieTembo 15th May 2015		HTV showed it too, in the afternoons, in the 80s. That's where I discovered this great show as well. Me and me mate used to skip off school for a whole afternoon on Tuesdays and watch it 'cause he'd videotaped it on the timer. When my school report came out, it said impossible to comment due to absence. Me Mum laughed her ass of when she saw it! Flippin' eck Tucker!
carryonsidney 15th May 2015		I wonder if many of our American friends have twigged yet about how few TV channels there were here in the UK in the 60/70's/80's! ? This program was endlessly repeated in the South West during the 70's I remember watching it as little lad, one of my favourites.
Record Collector 15th May 2015		It's not just Australia Neil other countries have it to
Neil Forbes 15th May 2015		It's shows like this that TV stations in Australia ought to be showing more of, and a hell of a lot less of those crappy "reality" shows!
Record Collector 15th May 2015		Watched a episode of the series was thinking look what I missed from the good old days of classic television
Neil Forbes 15th May 2015		Well there ya go, Biff! Learn something new all the time on this fantastic website, as did I! Edwin Astley as Pete(Who?) Townshend's dad-in-law? That one snuck up on me from behind! Cheers!
zabadak 14th May 2015		One of the best TV themes ever! Some of the external shots of the first episode were filmed near where I ended up working many years later, close to a building site of what would become The Barbican in the City of London. If you watch, you can see them both outside a building called Roman House which is where the programmers were "kept"... :thumbsup:
Neil Forbes 13th May 2015		I really liked the theme music! Really was a perfect fit for the show! Did you know Annette Andre was an Aussie?
Neil Forbes 13th May 2015		I think you may have the year wrong. From blurb printed with the box-set of DVDs which carry then tire series(a friend of mine has a copy), shows this to be produced entirely within the calendar year, 1968. But, having said that, this is the show that kept me up late at nights watching in black & white(as Colour TV was still three years away in 1972 when the Newcastle[Australia] station, NBN was airing this already-by-then-four-year-old show) I loved it. It was great seeing it in colour when I borrowed my friend's DVD set. A remake years later was apparently panned by the critics, which goes to show, the original is best!

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