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Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969) :: My Late Lamented Friend and Partner (01x01)
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| Title: | My Late Lamented Friend and Partner |
| Episode #: | 01x01 |
| Original Airdate: | Sunday September 21st, 1969 |
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Private detective Jeff Randall is hired by Fay Sorrensen to get evidence that her husband is cheating. Jeff collects the evidence, but is unavailable to meet with Fay for payment. Partner Marty Hopkirk goes instead, but before he can meet with Fay she dies in the tub. The doctor rules her cause of death to be a heart attack, but Marty thinks otherwise. Before he can convey his suspicions to Jeff he, too, dies, hit by a car as he is crossing the street to go home. Following the funeral, a devestated Jeff finds himself at the cemetery in the middle of the night where he encounters Marty's ghost. Marty has returned to tell Jeff it was not an accident, but murder. Marty can only help Jeff at night because of an ancient curse that says, "Afore the sun shall rise anew each ghost unto his grave must go."
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Jeff: My advice is free.
Fay: Free advice is rarely worth having.
Jeff: And good advice is rarely taken.
| Jeff: My partner's death was no accident. He was murdered.
Sorrensen: Oh, really? Murdered? I imagine it's an occupational hazard in your business.
| Jeff: (to Marty's ghost) Why don't you stay dead like anyone else?
| Marty: You must go to the police. Tell them they've got a murder on their hands!
Jeff: On what evidence?
Marty: Eyewitness evidence! I was there!
Jeff: On the evidence of the ghost of my dead partner? Yeah, they'll like that.
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The voice of the minister is heard at Marty's graves, but his lips are not moving.
| Wires are visible on the newspaper that Marty blows over the windshield of the car.
| Wires are visible moving the curtains in the hotel corridor.
| The man kneeling over Marty's body is heard to say, "He's dead," but the man's lips are not moving.
| When Jeff confronts Handy in the hotel, sometimes he has two hands on Handy, but in other camera shots he only has one hand on him and the other hand in a fist.
| Marty: I've got no insurance, nothing! If something happened to me, what would happen to poor Jeannie?
Marty claims to have no insurance; however, in the episode The Trouble With Women, he says that he bought into insurance policies.
| The coffin sitting beside Marty's grave is a different shape from the one lowered into the grave.
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Jeff: He managed to climb in with the driver who ran you down, and he got 500 quid out of him to keep shtoom.
"Shtoom" is a Yiddish term, meaning "quiet."
| Marty: He swung right across the road to get me! I saw the car, it was a black saloon!
"Saloon" is British terminology for a car model (comparative to U.S. terms "sedan" or "hatchback").
| Jeff: Mini Murders, Incorporated.
"Murder, Incorporated" was a nickname the media gave to mob hit men during an era when mob violence was most prominent.
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