Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): Season 2 (2001)

• Season 2 Episode 7: Two Can Play at That Game

  A laid-up Jeff sends Jeannie to investigate a case involving an old school friend : whose sinister father later returns from the dead and traps her in his department store. Meanwhile, Marty finds himself banished to a sinister afterlife seaside resort following his fall-out with his living partner. Comedy drama, guest starring Reece Shearsmith of The League of Gentlemen fame. Last in series

• Season 2 Episode 6: The Glorious Butranekh

  Jeff, Marty and Jeannie travel to Latvia, where a woman claims her baby has been kidnapped, and find themselves embroiled in a plot involving a religious cult who believe the youngster to be the reincarnation of a 14th-century warlord : can they prevent female assassins killing the grief-stricken mother? Pauline Quirke guests

• Season 2 Episode 5: Marshall and Snellgrove

  The duo discover a twin murdered his father and intends to do the same to his brother, but can't figure out which sibling is the guilty party : and what's more, a rival detective agency is assigned to the same case. Comedy drama, starring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer

• Season 2 Episode 4: Pain Killers

  Marty faces a difficult dilemma when Jeff and Jeannie find themselves in mortal danger during an undercover mission to infiltrate a secret laboratory run by a pain research specialist : and one of his fellow scientists soon takes a shine to the surviving half of the detective duo. Derek Jacobi and Dervla Kirwan guest

• Season 2 Episode 3: O Happy Isle

  A gay man is found dead on a remote Scottish island, and Jeff and Jeannie are sent to investigate, presuming the tragedy to be murder at the hands of bigots. After further research, and with Marty's help, suspicion soon rests on the manager of the brewery whose beer is thought to contain a secret ingredient that is sending the locals mad. Comedy drama, starring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer

• Season 2 Episode 2: Revenge of the Bog People

  While recovering from an injury, Jeff is visited by his former fiancee, who asks him to reinvestigate the case of her missing father : a request that brings out the green-eyed monster in Jeannie. Meanwhile, a mischievous spirit shows Marty the delights of invisibility. Comedy drama, starring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer

• Season 2 Episode 1: Whatever Possessed You?

  Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer return for the first in a new series of the popular comedy drama, which sees the detective duo called in to investigate when a man encounters spooky goings-on at a hotel boasting haunted weekends. Guest starring John Thomson and Hywel Bennett alongside regulars Tom Baker and Emilia Fox

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): Season 1 (2000)

• Season 1 Episode 6: A Man of Substance

  Marty and Jeff set off on a cross-country trip, leaving Jeannie reluctantly holding the fort at the office : only to stumble on a strange village where nothing is quite what it seems. Vic Reeves, Emilia Fox, Elizabeth Spriggs and Bob Mortimer star. Last in series

• Season 1 Episode 5: A Blast From the Past

  Marty gets a taste of his own medicine when he's terrorised by a dead gangster : can Jeff turn the tables and come to the aid of his ghostly partner? Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Paul Whitehouse, Emilia Fox and Tom Baker star

• Season 1 Episode 4: Paranoia

  Jeff and Jeannie protect an ex-government employee on the run from a gang of ruthless assassins hired by crime lords intent on avoiding a scandal, while Marty attempts to influence the mortal realm by perfecting the art of psychic wind-blowing. Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Tom Baker, Emilia Fox, Simon Pegg, Paul Rhys and Arabella Weir star

• Season 1 Episode 3: The Best Years of Your Death

  Jeff and Jeannie pose as a married couple in order to investigate murderous goings-on at a sinister public school run by a zealous headmaster (Peter Bowles), and both start working undercover as members of staff. But how will green-eyed Marty react to the discovery that they are sharing a cramped bed in the housemaster's quarters? Starring Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Emilia Fox and Tom Baker

• Season 1 Episode 2: Mental Apparition Disorder

  During an investigation into thefts at a local casino Jeannie begins to have severe doubts about Jeff's sanity and persuades him to book into a clinic, only to find the treatment is a little unorthodox : could a doctor's strange behaviour hold the key to the robberies? Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer and Hugh Laurie star

• Season 1 Episode 1: Drop Dead

  Comedy duo Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer make their acting debut in this adaptation of the cult Sixties detective drama, written by The Fast Show's Charlie Higson. Marty Hopkirk's (Reeves) wedding day takes a disastrous turn when he is murdered. His ghost returns, sporting a smart white suit, to solve the mysterious crime with partner Jeff Randall (Mortimer), leading to a madcap finale involving robots, cross-dressing and a large amount of red paint. Also starring Emilia Fox, Charles Dance and David Tennant