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Episode Information |
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| Title: | A Disturbing Case |
| Episode #: | 01x02 |
| Original Airdate: | Sunday September 28th, 1969 |
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Episode Summary |
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Jeff's argument with ghost Marty is caught on tape by Jean and her sister Jenny. They conclude Jeff needs psychiatric help. Jeff lands in a hospital run by a psychiatrist who uses hypnosis to get patients to willingly hand over their valuables to a robber. Marty must get Jeff out of the hospital before the doctor can "edit the ghost" out of Jeff's mind.
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Episode Notes |
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The episode Mental Apparition Disorder of the 2000-2002 remake of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) is based on this episode.
| The impersonation of Dr. Conrad that Marty did throughout most of the last half of the episode was not done by Kenneth Cope. He said the lines but David Bauer (Dr. Conrad) dubbed his voice over the lines.
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Episode Quotes |
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Marty: (frustrated with the hypnotized Jeff) This'll be the death of me.
| Mr. Whitty: (under hypnosis) I am very relaxed.
Marty: I'm glad you are!
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Episode Goofs |
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What Jeff says in the office is played back twice on a tape player, but both playbacks are different from each other and from what Jeff said in the office.
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Cultural References |
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Jeff: Dr. Conrad, I presume?
A take-off on the famous line that Henry Morton Stanley said to Dr. David Livingstone when Stanley successfully found Livingstone in Ujiji on November 13, 1871. Livingstone had been missing for four years after going to Africa to explore the Lake Tanganyika region.
| Dr. Conrad: (to a drugged Jeff) Who am I?
Marty: Svengali.
Svengali was the name of a hypnotist character in George du Maurier's 1984 novel Trilby.
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