1. My Late Lamented Friend and Partner
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This pilot episode sets the scene when Hopkirk is killed by a hit-and-run driver to cover up the murder of a rich businessman's wife. He returns from the grave to help expose the guilty entrepreneur.
This pilot episode sets the scene when Hopkirk is killed by a hit-and-run driver to cover up the murder of a rich businessman's wife. He returns from the grave to help expose the guilty entrepreneur.
Two private detectives tackle tricky cases - oh, and one's a ghost
More infoThis pilot episode sets the scene when Hopkirk is killed by a hit-and-run driver to cover up the murder of a rich businessman's wife. He returns from the grave to help expose the guilty entrepreneur.
Unaware of Marty's ghostly presence, Jeannie and her sister Jenny catch Jeff apparently talking to himself. The sisters decide he needs medical help and call in a doctor. Jeff is in further trouble when his car is stolen and used for a robbery.
With the detective agency still struggling to make ends meet, Jeannie accepts a job offer from the Foster brothers - spiritualists who claim to be able to put her in touch with Marty. Jeff is suspicious of the pair and decides to investigate.
After being alerted by Marty to the murder of a man in his own home, Jeff races to the scene of the crime, accompanied by the police - only to discover that the supposedly dead man is still very much alive.
A Russian roulette routine goes tragically wrong for a music-hall mindreader when a blank bullet is replaced by a real one.
While Jeff is busy showing Miss Moscow the sights of London, Marty stumbles on a robbery involving Miss London and a crook with delusions of grandeur.
The ghost of Bugsy Spano, a prohibition gangster, is looking for revenge on the man who killed him thirty years earlier. He threatens to harm Jeannie unless Marty persuades Jeff to kill his murderer.
Marty is in danger of being exorcised! Jeff has his work cut out protecting his ghostly partner from the overzealous attentions of Hellingworth and Purley, who want Marty out of the way to further their own criminal plans.
Jeff investigates a supposedly haunted manor as well as the disappearance of a consignment of diamonds.
Marty materializes on Jeff's desk one Monday morning. Jeff, however, fails to respond to Marty's voice. He doesn't even look at Marty. What's worse, he acts as though he couldn't care less about the sudden disappearance of his ghostly partner.
Marty's aunt Clara has spent five years perfecting a system that guarantees a win at roulette. She hires Jeff and Jeannie to escort her to Monte Carlo as bodyguards.
When death strikes in a haunted castle. Jeff finds himself investigating a weird mystery and Marty discovers that a ghost-hunting psychic can see him!
After learning that a missing woman has been attending seances, Jeff asks Marty to shed light on the mystery.
Jeff is hired to protect an aviary of birds who have inherited two million pounds, to the fury of the deceased's relatives. But then the birds begin to die one by one.
In the bathroom, Jeannie Hopkirk hears a male voice call her name. She finds a strange man lying on her sofa, making himself very much at home. The strange man claims he is her husband, Marty Hopkirk, reincarnated.
Having been implicated as the main man in a plot to supply fake bearer bonds, Jeff is given 24 hours to come up with 125 grand - or face death.
While investigating Marty's claims that his own grave is being desecrated, Jeff stumbles across a plot to kidnap the heir to a huge fortune.
Jeff and Jeannie are horrified to find a body in the back of their car. The dead man is a protection racketeer - apparently the victim of a rival gangster.
Jeff is hired by two rival criminals to look after a consignment of goods which turns out to be an attractive blonde woman. Jeff's task, to accompany her from Glasgow to London, turns out to have murderous implications.
A visit from an old friend lands Jeff in jail on suspicion of stealing half-a-million pounds in used notes, hijacked on their way to be incinerated.
While laid up in hospital with a broken leg, Jeff is forced to become the audience for one of his ghostly partner's stories.
Yearning to get back to a normal life, Jeff tells Marty to vanish and let him investigate his cases alone - a decision he begins to regret when he is hired as a doorman to an elderly lord and dead bodies start to fall around him.
When Susan Lang hires Jeff to follow her husband, what begins as a routine divorce investigation soon ends up with Jeff as the fall-guy in a murder case.
Jansen is an escaped prisoner seeking revenge on the man who put him away. Since this was Marty who is now dead, Jansen decides that his widow, Jeannie, must suffer in his place.
Helping out a young nun by investigating missing funds from a convent, Jeff finds himself the fall guy in a case of industrial espionage.
After the funeral of wealthy Caroline Seaton, Marty sees her supposedly sad sister with a smile on her face. Suspicious that Caroline's death may have been murder, Marty tricks Jeff into investigating and lands him in a case of stolen identity.