Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

- Season 2

(2001)

Hotelier Virginia Carpenter calls in Jeff and Jeannie to investigate the macabre, mysterious deaths of two of her guests, an event which has caused the hotel to be visited by other interested parties. Margaret is an eccentric medium, Whale a self-satisfied ghost hunter and Lewton a has-been reporter out for a story to kick start his career. Jeannie gets possessed by the ghost of a woman who died in the building fifty years earlier and her boyfriend is all set to inhabit Jeff so that they can both live again.Fortunately Marty is there to save them. (Note: All the main ...

Freya Cargill, an old flame of Jeff's, asks for his help in investigating the death of her father, an archaeologist. There are plenty of eccentric suspects at the museum where he worked as well as the Bog People, the remains of a family perfectly preserved in peat bog for thousands of years but with an apparent life of their own. Jeff gets on the trail of stolen artefacts the theft of which were blamed on Professor Cargill while Marty has to take time off from minding a new ghost called Nesbit to help out.

Jeff and Jeannie visit the remote and forbidding Strait Isle off the Scottish coast to investigate the death of a young gay man, who was working on a project at the local brewery. Jeff is on anti-biotics and refuses a glass of the local brew but Jeannie experiences a very strange reaction when she drinks it. It turns out that an excess of the stuff has a serious effect on the sexuality of those who imbibe it. (Note: In this episode many characters are named after South Devon villages.)

After an undercover agent is killed by a poison with a very delayed reaction government men ask Jeff and Jeannie to investigate a secret research laboratory built under a golf course. It is run by Colonel Anger,seemingly a harmless eccentric who is reconstructing a portion of the Amazonian rain-forest in his office but Jeff and Jeannie, joined by shape-shifting Marty discover that the team is also working on a new drug, Niarol. It can delay the effects of pain and illness indefinitely and, in theory, could be used to attain immortality.

Meredith Hortweldine secures the services of Jeff and Jeannie because he suspects his twin brother Jasper is plotting to kill him. Jasper has the same notion about Meredith and employs a rival detective duo called Marshall and Snellgrove. A bomb explodes, killing Meredith and Snellgrove, the latter's ghost teaming up with Marty to unmask the murderer. Marty also discovers that he was claimed before his time and that another Martin Hopkirk should have died in his stead.

Jeff answers a call for help from former secretary Felia Siderova, a Latvian woman, whose husband and infant son have gone missing. Following the trail back to Latvia, Randall and Hopkirk and Jeannie discover that Felia's husband has been killed and that her son has been taken by a cult who believe him to be the reincarnation of an ancient war lord called Butranekh. In his efforts to track down the gang Jeff is caught, along with porn actress Pola Dawn, and taken to the cult's headquarters. It's in situations like these that Marty's help is most appreciated.

Stuart Boyle, who was at school with Jeff, is puzzled by a letter supposedly from his father - who has been dead for some years - asking him to meet him at the Boyle family's department store, which closed when the old man died. He meets Jeannie at the store but it has been taken over by murderous shop window dummies who threaten them. Jeff and Marty arrive to save them but have a disagreement which ends up with Marty getting stuck in a limbo inhabited by ghosts who have fallen out with their nearest and dearest and who try to prevent him from getting back to the ...