Wednesday, 17 January 2018
897 Randall and Hopkirk ( Deceased )
First viewed : March 1989
When I was working full time, I invariably ended up with a lot of leave to take in March having saved it up both to cover midweek away games and in the always forlorn hope that someone might come up with an interesting holiday proposition. As the weather often wasn't that good, I'd end up mooching around at home to no real purpose.
I checked out the afternoon repeats of Randall and Hopkirk ( Deceased ) after a reference to the series' premise on Telly Addicts intrigued me.
The series was made in 1969 and concerned a pair of private detectives , one of whom , Marty Hopkirk, was killed in the pilot episode. He returns in a white suit to advise and look after his partner ( the only person who can see and hear him ) and look in on how his widow, the firm's secretary Jeanie, is doing. Only one season of 26 episodes was made. Despite the tragic events of the first episode, the series was generally quite comic in tone.
I thought the episode was OK but very dated.
With inevitable irony, Kenneth Cope who played Hopkirk , ( an unusually sympathetic role for the actor ) has long outlived his screen partner. Mike Pratt ( father of top session bassist Guy ) died of lung cancer in 1976.
The series was remade for the BBC by Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer in 2000. Cope declined the offer of a cameo role. It ran for two seasons but only had half the number of episodes of the original.
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