The Ghost Talks (Randall and Hopkirk Deceased)

Infobox Television episode
Title = The Ghost Talks
Series = Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)


Caption =
Season = 1
Episode = 21
Airdate = 6 February 1970
Production = 21
Writer = Gerald Kelsey
Director = Cyril Frankel
Guests = Alan MacNaughton,
Geoffrey King
Episode list = List of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)episodes
Prev = Money to Burn
Next = It's Supposed to be Thicker than Water

The Ghost Talks is the twenty-first episode of the popular 1969 ITC British television series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) starring Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope and Annette Andre. The episode was first broadcast on February 6 1970 on the ITV. Directed by Cyril Frankel.

ynopsis

With Jeff in a hospital bed, Marty seizes the opportunity to tell him about a spy drama that he handled while he was still alive, involving a corrupt MI5 official and spy ring, the details of which he had never revealed before.

While still alive, Marty was hired by Major Brenan, a man pretending to be Sir Basil Dougan, a top MI5 official at a country club to retrieve "stolen" important documents from a perceived unloyal member of the British Sectre Service. However the morning after Marty and his hired Liverpudlian safecracker (who also personally steals a diamond necklace) successfully locate the documents, it turns out to be an actual theft from the real important member of MI5. Marty, in disgust, tries to hunt down the imposter Major Brenan and eventually locates him in the sauna of the country club where Marty is forced into an overheated sauna with his suit on (underneath the robes) to attempt to avoid capture from the imposter's henchmen.

Despite this he escapes and later overpowers one of the imposter's leading henchman who attempts to kill him in his car. Marty slams on the brakes smashing the henchman's head against the window, later tying him up in his apartment.

Marty tracks down the imposters registration number and shadows him to the docks where the faulty Sir Basil Dougan plans an escape with the stolen documents aboard a ship to a foreign country. Marty is eventually able to contact the BBC via the ships radio for the police to round up the perpetrators.

Overview

This the only episode in the entire series where the main story is based on a past event.

Cast

*John Boxer ... Dr. Musgrove
*Ian Butler ... Page Boy
*Martin Carroll ... Groves
*Peter Cellier ... Long
*John Collin ... Jackson
*James Culliford ... Parker
*Thomas Heathcote ... Chief Inspector Horner
*Geoffrey King ... Sir Basil Duggan
*Jack Lambert ... 2nd Man in Steamroom
*Jack MacGowran ... Joe Hudson
*Alan MacNaughtan ... Major Brenan
*Marne Maitland ... Captain Rashid
*Hilary Wontner ... 1st Man in Steamroom

Video and DVD release

The episode was released on VHS and several times on dvd with differing special features.

External links

*http://www.anorakzone.com/randall/old/index.html
*http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0682603/