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{{quote|''She can't see me, Jeff! I chose you. You're the only one.''|Marty Hopkirk to Jeff Randall}}
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{{quote|''Why can't you stay dead like anyone else?''|Jeff Randall to Marty Hopkirk}}
''Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'' is a [[Buddy Cop Show]] (well, Buddy ''[[Detective Drama]]'') from the 1960s with a difference. When Marty Hopkirk, of the Randall and Hopkirk private detective agency, dies in a hit-and-run, everyone including his partner, Jeff Randall, assumes it was a tragic accident. That is, until someone insists that it wasn't, it was murder, and Jeff must investigate.
Why does Jeff believe them? Well... because the person who insists ''is'' Marty, in ghostly form (denoted by his white suit), has every reason to believe he was murdered and you can't get a better witness than that! Actually, you can, because [[Spirit Advisor|only Jeff (and the odd psychic) can see and hear Marty]] so he can't exactly give a testimony. So together Jeff and Marty try to solve the murder and Marty can rest in peace... or he could, if he hadn't stayed out of his grave too long, so now he's stuck on Earth. It's not too bad, though, as having a ghost for a partner who has a few useful powers--walking through walls, teleportation, the ability to shatter glass and call up gusts of wind, telekinesis (though this is just to make up for Marty's intangibility, anyway)--is quite handy on cases.
On the other hand, it is very trying to be in a [[Love Triangle]] where the girl you like can't even see your rival and he gets stroppy with you for pursuing her anyway... to be fair, though, she is his widow. That and people think you're crazy because of all the (real) [[Dead Person Conversation|Dead Person Conversations]] you keep having.
It ran 26 episodes from 1969 to 1970 on [[ITV]], starring Mike Pratt and Kenneth Cope. It had a [[
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=== The original series provides examples of: ===
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* [[Instrumental Theme Tune]]: All harpsichord-y and eerie, evoking both cop shows and genre shows of the era.
* [[Love Triangle]]: (a [[Triang Relations|No. 7]] but with b. being dead) Jeff and Marty over Marty's now widow, Jeannie Hopkirk.
* [[Market
* [[Multitasked Conversation]]: Jeff and Marty have a lot of these.
* [[Name and Name]]
* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]
* [[Spirit Advisor]]: Only Jeff (and the rare one-off character) can see and hear Marty.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Jeannie, almost constantly.
* [[Who Dunnit to Me?]]
* [[You Can See Me?]]: When Marty runs into someone besides Jeff who can see him for whatever reason he may use this sentence.
=== In addition to many of the above, the remake provides examples of: ===
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* [[Forgot About His Powers]]: Marty has several powers (particularly his memory wipe) that could have been useful several times throughout the series, but never get mentioned again. Justified in the case of his "Sleepwalking" powers, as it tends to screw up his other powers, and makes Marty feel whatever Jeff happens to be feeling at the time (which is quite problematic, given Jeff's habit of drinking himself to sleep).
* [[Fright Deathtrap]]
* [[Haunted Technology]]: One of Marty's first post-death appearances to Jeff was in a [[First
* [[Hey,
* [[Instrumental Theme Tune]]: More "sultry sixtiesish" and James Bond-y than the original series' theme.
* [[Love Triangle]]: Shows up in the original, but pushed more in the remake: In the new series, Jeannie is Marty's fiancée and her surname is Hurst.
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** [[Mind Rape]] gets subverted however -- Marty is the one whose head (temporarily) gets messed up as a result of the sleepwalking, while Jeff just thinks he had a ''really'' strange dream, which he blames on the booze he was drinking the night before.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The last episode. While the series in general was darker and more serious than most of what Vic and Bob have done, the final episode still stood out.
* [[The Not
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Felia was played by Jessica Hynes in the first season, and replaced by Pauline Quirke for her sole appearance in the second season. Considering that her characterisation seemed to totally change between the two seasons (Hynes's version was confident and self-assertive, but Quirke's version was a neurotic crybaby with OCD), it seems kind of strange that they bothered to keep her as the same character.
* [[
* [[Shout
* [[Spiritual Successor|Spiritual Predecessor]]: Many consider the 2000-01 series to be a prototype of sorts for the 2005 ''[[
* [[Wedding Day]]: Poor Jeannie finds out at the altar about her fiancé's demise.
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