Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

2000

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  • 2
  • 1
  • 0

6.6| 0h30m| en
Synopsis

A modern day version of the 1969 detective series about Private Investigator Jeff Randall, who is aided in cases by the ghost of his deceased partner Marty Hopkirk.

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FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting
Dorathen Better Late Then Never
FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Quantrail I think that this show, while not brilliant, is highly entertaining. I could quite happily spend the whole day just watching this funny and class show. Bob Mortimer, while looking uncomfortable in some scenes, is a brilliant Jeff Randall and Vic Reeves as Marty Hopkirk is an excellent choice. He has the right childish attitude to play the part of a bored ghost. I can't imagine Bob as Marty, even though that's how Vic and Bob thought it would be. Also the love triangle between Jeff, Marty and Jeannie (Marty's fiancée), is a brilliant sub-plot throughout the show. I can't wait to see the second series!
david patrick This show takes the basic concept of the original series and not much else. The second series of the new show (which aired in 2001) is an improvement on the first and is deliberatly made to mirror the slightly weird world of the Avengers.This show has gotten funnier and even manages some suspense and I very much recommend it. Reeves and Mortimer are not the best actors in the world, but they are perfectly acceptable in the role. Tom Baker as Wyvern is as usual over the top, and works very well in this setting. I'm very glad the BBC has stuck with this show as after producing a decent first series it has now grown into a superb second one.
Mike Hall Don't watch this if you're expecting to see the 60's version of Randall and Hopkirk, with prettier effects. Randall and Hopkirk 2000 (as I shall call it), is nothing of the kind. It is the same TV series in name alone and that's the way it should be.Gone are the seedy back-street meetings of a TV series that seemed to be almost embarrassed to feature this fantasy element - which only arose because creator Dennis Spooner wanted to write a series about a ghost. The original Randall and Hopkirk was almost apologetic about the fact that one if its main characters was dead.Thankfully Randall and Hopkirk 2000 revels in it. The plots are a little predictable, but if you want heavy detective drama go watch Cracker. Writer Charlie Higson did what they daren't in the 60's. He had fun.The only real flaws are Reeves and Mortimer. Whoever told Vic and Bob that they can act should be shot through the lungs. That said, there has been a very clear improvement in the quality of their acting as the series has progressed.And don't even get me started on Tom Baker. The man is a genius!Roll on series two!
wiztwas Vic and Bob are not really my cup of tea, yet this brings out the very best in them and is original yet following in the same tradition of the original series, of which, I was a fan.They bring new life to a dead character and inject the original screenplay style with their own charm.The sexy seductive sound-track and the chemistry of Jeff and Jeannie, and the cameo onslaught overwhelms the senses with admiration for the entire team that produces it.Retaining so much of the seventies yet injecting it with so much of today it is a different series to the original, yet it respects the original at the same time as being satirical. It is truly a unique series and one which, for me, is un-missable.