Marty enjoys the view from the hotel room window:
"Aww, fantastic, Jeff. I love a room that looks out to sea."
"Then why don't you find yourself a lighthouse?"
Aunt Clara to Jeanie: "People have made and lost their fortunes here."
"Looks more like an operating table to me."
Marty isn't too keen on the idea of wandering the streets in Monte Carlo:
"Suppose I meet a French ghost, like the Laughing Cavalier?"
"He's Dutch."
"See what I mean? I wouldn't know what to do."
"Exactly the same thing you do in London. Panic."
- Plot: Marty's Aunt Clara Faringham (Mary Merrall) turns up at the offices of Randall and Hopkirk out of the blue, hoping to hire her nephew, Marty, as protection while she tries out her winning system in Monte Carlo. Saddened to hear of his untimely death, Aunt Clara asks Jeff and Jean to accompany her instead despite protests from the ghost, who accompanies them too.
Their disbelief vanishes quickly however during the first night at the casino, where Clara is hugely successful. Unfortunately, racketeers Lawsey (Brian Blessed) and Sagran (John Sharp) have noticed Clara and her little red book and begin making plans to dispossess her of it and her winnings. Aunt Clara is offered protection by the casino's manager, Tapiro (Roger Delgado), which is just as well as Jeff, despite Marty's protests, succums to the wiles of a young woman named Suzanne (Veronica Carlson), who seems to be in the employ of Sagran.
The red book is stolen, Marty unable to prevent it; but Clara says the book means nothing - the system is in her head, and the book only contains winning numbers. She continues winning without the book, further frustrating the racketeers who want to regain their money. Soon Jeff and Marty realise the only way to protect Clara is to force her to lose, and although Marty claims to have no control over moving objects, manages to influence the roulette wheel's turn. Lawsey and Sagran leave, disenchanted. It later turns out that Suzanne was actually Tapiro's agent, and the sacrifice seems to have been unnecessary. The trio, with Marty, leave Monte Carlo, Clara still not understanding where the system failed, but an offhand remark by Jeff gives the intrepid lady another idea - horseracing!
- Scenes to Rewind For: Marty sitting on the wing of the aeroplane to Monte Carlo in one of two references to the famous Twilight Zone episode 'Nightmare at 20,000 Feet'; a paranoid Marty getting Jeff to wander the hotel - and thoroughly annoying him in the process; Marty and Jeff sharing a room the first night; the fight scenes in the hotel corridors.
- Death Toll: 0
- Fashion Victims: Jeff's jumper, Aunt Clara's hat, everyone in 'Monte Carlo,' Jeff's purple pyjamas, Jeanie's blue dress...
- Jeff Gets Creamed: At least once.
- Now There's A Novelty: Jeff in a tux. Nobody locks their hotel room doors, apparently! The green and white interior gets another redressing, this time with lots of pot plants.
- That Face Looks Familiar: Loads here; mostly Doctor Who links with Roger "The Master" Delgado, Brian Blessed and Nicholas "Brigadier" Courtney.
- Continuity: It's established in this episode that Jean can't swim, that Aunt Clara didn't attend Marty's funeral (but no-one told her he was dead!) and that she hates travelling by sea; and Marty can, with intense concentration, influence the roulette wheel, and he can't stand horses. Jeff actually calls Clara 'Aunty,' as well as Jean!
- Notes: There's a bad jump cut on the plane when Marty appears. The lift in the hotel is the same as used in every hotel in 'The Saint.' For such a warm-looking place, Jeff doesn't even perspire in that hideous leather jacket...
Episode 12: 'For The Girl Who Has Everything.'
First transmitted: December 7th, 1969
Directed by: Cyril Frankel
Screenplay: Donald James
- Quotes: An incredulous Jeff to Marty: "You're not scared?"
"Terrified!"
- Plot: In financial difficulty, as always, Jeff Randall receives a visit from ghost hunter James McAllister (Freddie Jones), who explains he has been hired by millionairess Kim Wentworth (Lois Maxwell) to investigate the hauntings of Crake Castle, her home. McAllister is in doubt whether there really is a ghost, but Jeff agrees to share the £1,500 fee. Things inevitable get more complex when Kim Wentworth is awoken by a sinister, chain-rattling figure at the foot of her bed at midnight. By the time McAllister gets there, it has vanished. Thus she is not impressed when her seventh - and latest - husband, Larry (Michael Coles), tells her he is going to his artists studio the following night, leaving her alone in the castle.
Jeff, at McAllister's suggestion, tails Larry Wentworth to a cottage where he sees him with another woman. Upon returning to the castle, Marty and Jeff find McAllister slumped in a chair, dead. Both Kim and her French manservant, Jean-Claude (Paul Bertoya) insist nobody entered the castle, but Jeff and Marty come across a concealed priesthole behind a bookcase, large enough to hide in. Another discovery is that Mrs. Pleasance (Marjorie Rhodes), who runs the village tea shop, can see and communicate with Marty. She also seems to have an unusual way with electrics!
Two nights later, Jeff is keeping guard at the castle, only to be roused by Kim's screaming and the sound of a gun firing. Dashing to the source of the noise, he finds the body of Larry Wentworth, who was apparently shot by Kim in self-defence. It appears to be the end of the case; Larry had obviously invented the ghost in order to frighten his wife enough to get rid of her and thus inherit her fortune so he could marry Laura Slade (Carol Cleveland), the girl Jeff saw him with at the cottage. Jeff, however, is convinced this is too simple. Larry could not have killed McAllister - he had tailed him at the time the ghost hunter was killed. Refusing a pay-off from Kim, Jeff presses on with investigations.
Midnight again, and Jeff is woken and Marty is spooked, by the hooded figure coming out of the shadows. In a struggle, the 'ghost' runs to Kim's room, where he is revealed to be Jean-Claude. His escape into the priesthole is stopped by Marty, who blows the curtains of the four-poster bed around him. Jeff tries to capture Jean-Claude but is tripped by Kim. He falls into the priesthole where she fully intends to leave him to rot. It seems Kim intends to fly with husband-to-be number eight after the inquest into number seven's death.
With time running against them, Marty's only hope is Mrs Pleasance. He tells her to go to the castle and open the priesthole; and the three arrive at the inquest in time to blow the lid on Kim and Jean-Claude.
Back in the office, Marty is cheered by the fact that he can now contact people through Mrs Pleasance as well as Jeff; but, as luck would have it, she turns up dressed all in white, having fiddled just once too often with her electrics. Looks like it's back to square one, Marty...
- Scenes to Rewind For: Any of the teashop scenes between Marty and Mrs Pleasance; Marty's paper-blowing act along the road, policeman in tow; Marty's disappearance at the sound of Kim's screams only to reappear behind the sofa is rather sweet; Kim out-Sharon Stones Sharon Stone at the inquest!
- Scenes to Fast-Forward Past: Laura Slade can't seem to decide whether she's British or American. Kim obviously isn't firing the gun.
- Fashion Victims: Jeff's dressing gown; Kim's pink frilly dressing gown; Laura Slade's dress as well as her hair.
- Death Toll: 3; McAllister, Larry Wentworth, Mrs Pleasance.
- Jeff Gets Creamed: Once. But he wins!
- Continuity: Marty has influence over dogs (seen again in 'The Man From Nowhere,' and cats don't like him very much! Ghosts don't need sleep (as est. in 'Never Trust A Ghost). Marty can detect people approaching, materialise in solid walls, and doesn't feel the cold (this last one is reiterated in 'Money To Burn').
- Notes: Well, it's the green and white interior again, with a slightly different colour scheme. The Duke of Cumberland pub is seen here for the first time; which figures strongly in 'The Man From Nowhere.' Marty's watch strap has turned black. (thanks to Caz for this one!)
Episode 13: 'But What A Sweet Little Room'
First Transmitted: Sunday, December 14th 1969 at 7:25pm
Directed by: Roy Ward Baker
Screenplay: Ralph Smart
- Quotes: A frustrated Jeff: "Only I can see you Marty, and I sometimes wonder why!"
Marty, trying to clear the seance: "Get shot of them!"
- Plot: Wealthy widow Anne Fenwick (Frances Bennett) is convinced she has found happiness with 'Bunny' - an attractive man (well, to her) called Arthur de Crecy. He takes her to a tranquil country cottage, where Anne is immediately taken with the lounge. "What a sweet little room!" she declares, before she looks out the window to see that 'Bunny' is in the garden digging a grave - her grave, she realises, as the locked room begins to seep gas from under the floor...
Business, not too surprisingly, is slow at the offices of Randall and Hopkirk. Marty has been reduced to making cups and saucers rattle, he's so bored. But then, a Julia Fenwick (Anne De Vigier) arrives, and asks Jeff to find her missing aunt Anne. Unknown to the PI, he is being tracked at every step. He discovers that Anne had been attending seances held by a Madame Hanska (Doris Hare). Posing as Anne's nephew, Jeff attempts unsuccessfully to gain any information from the medium, who accuses him of being a sceptic.
The case becomes more serious, however, when Julia is killed in a hit and run by de Crecy's servant, Rawlings (Raymond Young), who covers himself by replacing the driver with a drunk. Madame Hanska seems to be the connection, so Jeff persuades Jean Hopkirk to attend one of her seances under an assumed name, and to ask whether she can contact her dead husband, John. As always, Marty's protective nature makes itself known, but to no avail. The medium fails to make contact with 'John,' but after the seance Jean is consoled by a Mr. Elliot (Norman Bird), who begins to ask questions about her fictitious husband.
She believes him to be harmless, but the ever present Marty isn't convinced and follows him back to Elliot's flat, where he witnesses him phoning the details of 'John' to Madame Hanska over the phone. As suspected, Hanska makes contact with 'John' at the next seance. The message that she 'receives' is for Jean to call on his old friend, Arthur de Crecy, because he is worried about her finances.
Jean follows this up, and de Crecy offers to look into her finances - until he discovers that she and Jeff are private investigators. Jeff is beaten up by Rawlings and Elliot, and warned to stay away from Madame Hanska. This of course does not apply to the spectre, who naturally contributes to the case in the only way he can. At the next seance, Marty manages to materialise to the phoney medium, frightening her so much that she reveals all about the scam with de Crecy; and how she is paid commission for sending rich widows to him. Jeff uses the information to force de Crecy to take him to the cottage. De Crecy asks him to wait in the lounge while he 'fetches' Anne Fenwick. There's a sense of deja vu as Jeff finds himself trapped with gas seeping into the room. Marty gets Jeff to light an oil lamp, telling him to hide in a wooden trunk. The ghost manages to topple the lamp and trigger a huge explosion. De Crecy, busy digging the new grave, dashes back to the cottage to find out what happened, only to find himself held at gunpoint by Jeff Randall, who has stepped unharmed from the trunk. At this, de Crecy is forced to confess.
- Scenes To Rewind For: Marty appearing outside the first storey window, in the cupboard and finally smashing cups in protest at Jeff's plan to send Jeannie to Madame Hanska's seance; the scene in Elliot's flat where Marty can only watch in disbelief as Elliot plays conductor to a phonograph symphony orchestra; Marty's materialisation to the medium.
- Scenes To Fast-Forward Past: Julia Fenwick being run over. The CSO is *terrible*!
- Fashion Victims: Marty's toga (!?); Jean's dress in the first half of the episode; Jeff's tie.
- Death Toll: 2; Anne and Julia Fenwick
- Jeff Gets Creamed: Once
- Now There's A Novelty: They actually used a different interior for the cottage scenes.
- Double Entendres: Two great ones from Marty: "I'm doing it with vibrations!" and "If you hear a big bang, it's me!"
- Continuity: It's established here that if the person has a good aura, Marty can make a materialisation. We also see Marty at a footy match - this happens again in 'Somebody Just Walked Over My Grave.' Again Marty's ability to topple and shake things is reiterated.
- Notes: It seems as though 'Fenwick' was dubbed over a different name, because the lip synching doesn't quite seem to match it. I believe this is the same exterior shot of the cottage that was used in 'The House on Haunted Hill' and 'A Disturbing Case.'
Episode 14: 'Who Killed Cock Robin?'
First Transmitted: Sunday, December 21st, 1969 at 7:25pm
Directed by: Roy Ward Baker
Screenplay: Tony Williamson
- Quotes: Jeff: "...I have to make an investigation into a particular bird specie... the tawny-haired, hazel-eyed, pink-cheeked Sandra Joyceea."
- Sandra to Jeff: "How could you see him from all the way over there?"
Marty: "Carrots!"
- Jeff is startled out of his sleep: "What? Who?"
Marty: "Not who! Howe! Mrs, in the aviary!"
- Plot: A lawyer, Laverick (Cyril Luckham) offers Jeff an unusual job - to guard an aviary of birds! He explains that the birds are part of a £2 million estate left by the late, eccentric Mrs Wentworth Howe. As long as the birds are alive, probably twenty years or more, the estate will remain in trust, and only then divided among the surviving relatives. The occupants of the Wentworth mansion come under suspicion when one of the birds in the aviary is shot and killed while in the care of Beeches (David Lodge), the gamekeeper. Jeff and Marty arrive into a hostile atmosphere - but even they cannot prevent a human murder when James Howe (Tenniel Evans) is found poisoned in the aviary. There is also evidence that another attempt has been made on the birds' lives.
Things get even more complex when James' wife (Gabrielle Brune) tries to set fire to the aviary, but is foiled by the ever-alert Marty. Unfortunately, he cannot prevent her being the second victim. Beeches comes under heavy suspicion despite the fact that he will gain nothing from their deaths or those of the birds. Jeff meantime discovers the bird assassin as he tries to hit another bird, but before he can name his employer, he too is also killed - with a poison dart. The poison responsible for the deaths turns out to be obtainable only in India - which places Colonel Chalmers as prime suspect when it is discovered he spent much of his army career in India. That line of enquiry meets an untimely end when he too is killed.
With only one legatee left - the rebellious young Sandra Joyce (Jane Merrow)- Laverick arrives at the mansion. Marty believes she is responsible, but Jeff and Laverick lock Beeches in the cellar for the police to interview again when they arrive. Again though, their line of enquiry is struck down when Beeches is found dead.
Marty is now convinced it is Sandra, but before Jeff can take any action, he is knocked unconscious - by Laverick! - and locked in the cellar. Sandra is left alone with the loony, and only Marty can help. His desperate search leads him to a lonely Jean at a party and a message conducted via a ouija board. Again, Marty saves the day and Sandra remains to inherit the estate.
- Scenes to Rewind For: Marty blowing out Jeff's lighter at dinner; Marty watching Mrs Howe's attempts at arson while popping back to wake Jeff up, blowing out her matches out each time; The ouija board sequence at the party.
- Scenes to Fast-Forward Past: The 'birds' flying round the aviary. Oh dear...
- Fashion Victims: Jeff's tie (again). Sandra's entire wardrobe. Mrs Howe's dress at dinner. Jeff's pyjamas.
- Death Toll: Birds: 1 Humans: 6 (highest death toll of the series!)
- Jeff Gets Creamed: Once.
- Continuity: Marty can blow poison darts off course (strange, considering he claimed to not have control over moving objects in 'The Ghost Who Saved The Bank At Monte Carlo'!). Marty can talk to and disturb birds. Marty worries again - to Jean: "You're smoking too much!" To Jeff: "You're drinking too much!" Someone 'calls' Marty - it's Jean, thinking about him. (awwwww!)
- Notes: It's the ITC greenhouse again, and the wine cellar too! The green and white interior is used again, but a vague attempt at lighting it more brightly is made in an effort to make it appear a different colour. The highest death toll yet in an episode at 7 (including the bird). The house exterior makes another appearance in a previous episode. The police car's registry is PXD 976F.
Episode 15: 'The Man From Nowhere'
First Transmitted: Sunday, December 28th 1969 at 7:25pm
Directed by: Robert Tronson
Screenplay: Donald James
- Quotes: Marty, on the impersonator: "What's his name?"
"Marty Hopkirk."
"That rings a bell..."
Jeff, trying to summon Marty: "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest of us all?"
Marty: "Young Marty Hopkirk!"
Marty, appearing as Jeff rubs the silverware: "You called, oh master?"
Watson: "I trust we did you no harm."
Jeff: "It'll probably come out in my grandchildren."
- Plot: Jean is horrified to find a strange man (Ray Brooks) in her apartment making himself at home. She's even more confused when he claims to be the reincarnation of her dead husband, Marty. Things get even more hair-raising when he shows her how much he knows about their past and the things that Marty enjoyed. Whoever he is, he's done his homework - and Jeff knows it can't be him - but Jean is becoming more and more convinced that 'Marty' may be for real. She dismisses Jeff's worries and starts seeing more and more of him.
The real Marty, however, is sure he has seen the imposter somewhere before. He's not the only one interested in him - two men, Hyde Watson (Michael Gwynn) and Mannering (Patrick Newell) are also keeping a close eye on the developing relationship. Their presence signals a more sinister intent for the imposter, and this increases when 'Marty' is kidnapped - only to escape with Jeff's unwitting assistance.
Jean, now competely taken in, agrees to go with the imposter to a hotel in Oxfordshire where she and Marty spent the first night of their honeymoon. It doesn't take long for Marty and Jeff to find them... as well as Watson and Mannering. It turns out that Jean is the only person who can lead the imposter and the thug Griggs (Neil McCarthy) to the place where a stash of stolen silver was buried hurriedly following a minor accident with Marty and Jean all that time ago. After that crash, 'Marty' lost his memory and created an elaborate plot to get her to direct him to the exact place.
Even the best laid plans go to waste, however - especially when Marty and Jeff are involved. Marty uses his powers to render Griggs' dogs harmless and Jeff is able to take on 'Marty' and recover the stolen Georgian silver. Jean, however, is frustrated that she allowed herself to be taken in.
- Scenes to Rewind For: Jeff wrestling with a chest expander - ouch! The first scene, with Jean and 'Marty'; Marty coaxing Rex - and nearly Jeff as well - to sleep.
- Scenes to Fast-Forward Past: Practically every scene involving Hyde Watson and Mannering!
- Fashion Victims: Jean's dressing gown; the imposter's tie and hanky; Jean's hairstyle later in the episode.
- Death Toll: Surprisingly, 0!
- Continuity: Jeff owns a camera and has a mini 'darkroom' (the kitchen, and a red lightbulb!). Jean lives in Apt. 21, (although it was supposedly No.8 earlier on!) kept all of Marty's letters, and keeps a spare key above the door. She gave Jeff a key 'for emergencies only.' Marty and Jean spent their honeymoon at The Duke of Cumberland inn, and toured the Cotswolds. Woburn Abbey is Marty's favourite stately home. Jean hated hillwalking in Scotland. On their way to the Duke of Cumberland, Marty and Jean had an accident at a crossroads. Marty pulls his trick with the dog again. The office is next door to a furniture and fabrics store.
- Now There's A Novelty: Being able to park right outside a London apartment building. No green and white interior! Actual film shot at Woburn Abbey (shock!). Jean gets to be the cavalry this time.
- Notes: This is the second time the Duke of Cumberland is used, and also popped up in the Doctor Who episode 'The Android Invasion.' Rex isn't actually asleep - and it's fairly obvious! The brown Daly's poster is in Jean's apartment, above the fireplace. That Bentley's insurance probably cost more than the episode cost to make!
- That Face Looks Familiar: Patrick Newell as Mannering.
Episode 16: 'When The Spirit Moves You'
First Transmitted: Friday, January 2nd, 1970 at 7:30pm
Directed By: Ray Austin
Screenplay: Tony Williamson
- Quotes: Marty: "I do not live in a cemetery!"
Jeff: "That's the address on your death certificate."
Jeff looks at Bream: "I stopped running years ago. You don't look like you could even start!"
Jeff's opinion of Bream: "The only spirits he's seen are 90 proof!"
Inspector Large: "You're turning into quite a villain. First murder, now armed robbery."
Jeff: "You don't expect to be able to prove that, do you?"
"No... I just wanted to see your face when I said it!"
- Plot: Conman Calvin P. Bream (Anton Rodgers) turns up at the office of Randall and Hopkirk posing as a New York detective in need of a bodyguard after putting the word around the city that he is attempting to recover negotiable bonds stolen from his client back in the States. In reality, Bream has double-crossed a man named Cranley (Anthony Marlowe) and his associate Miklos Corri (Kieron Moore) by offering them an unlimited supply of forged bearer bonds.
Bream tries to put them off his scent by naming Jeff as the 'top dog,' when Corri turns out to be a big-time criminal who eats conmen like Bream for breakfast - and he won't like having the wool pulled over his eyes. Meantime, Marty makes an interesting discovery - Bream can see and hear him when he's ridiculously drunk! Through an interrogation, the ghost discovers that Bream is setting Jeff up as the scapegoat and is putting him in grave danger.
When Jeff is found by Inspector Large with a dead body in Bream's hotel room, things don't look good. Bream denies ever seeing Jeff before, and Marty has to come to his rescue by persuading Bream to drink enough for him to see him again. He warns him that if he doesn't cough up the truth, he will return to haunt him forever. Bream is convinced, and confesses to the police that he lied. Jeff is freed, but on Large's condition that he brings in Corri within 48 hours.
Meanwhile, Cranley and Corri still think that Jeff has their £125,000 in bearer bonds and give Jeff just 24 hours to turn them over or be killed. Bream is kidnapped by Corri's henchmen Perrin (Michael Gothard) and Wilks (Peter Jay Elliot), but he comes up with another con - to deposit the bonds in the night safe of Corri's bank while the £125,000 is put into the night safe of Jeff's bank. It seems to go according to plan but the bonds are intercepted by Corri and found to be worthless; and he sets out to recover his money and also kill Jeff!
Safebreaker Manny (Reg Lye) helps Corri break into the bank and they set Jeff up as the culprit, ensuring his fingerprints are all over the vault. Marty again has to come to the rescue, but he has to persuade the hiding Bream to drink again! It works, and Bream is panicked enough to phone the police who manage to arrive in the nick of time.
- Scenes to Rewind For: Marty's 'haunting' of the drunken Bream; Marty trying to persuade the since tee-total Bream to drink the whiskey. Ah hell... the whole episode!
- Fashion Victims: Miklos Corri. Calvin P Bream's hat.
- Jeff Gets Creamed: Once
- Continuity: There is (or rather was!) a bottle of whiskey, 2 glasses, a teapot and some files in the cupboard behind the office door. (sad, aren't I ;-)
Episode 17: 'Somebody Just Walked Over My Grave'
First Transmitted: Friday, January 9th, 1970
Director: Cyril Frankel
Screenplay: Donald James
- Quotes: Marty on coffins: "Whatever you do, get one that fits!"
Jeff comes to in the graveyard to a telling off: "That's no way to show respect for the dead, young man!"
Jeff, glancing at the headstone: "He's not complaining..."
Football commentator: "The referee's blown time!"
A frustrated Marty: "He should be blown up!"
- Plot: Marty materialises beside his grave one night to find someone digging in it! The panicked spectre summons Jeff, who arrives to see a man dressed in 18th century garb - highly unusual, but Jeff knows what he saw, and the next morning he goes with Jean to the funeral parlour to try and find a rational explanation. Dighton (Bernard Kay), the funeral director, denies that there was any work being done near Marty's grave that night, but Jeff catches a glimpse of the costumed man again and gives chase - only to be cracked over the head for his trouble.
Jeff is found by a man named Mandrake, who takes him back to Mandrake Hall. There, Mandrake tells him that his name was bought, as was the residence, rather than inherited. His 20 year old son, Harry, is an agrophobic hippie 'artist.' Mandrake says he is a disappointment to him, and is in no way able to inherit the estate. He lives like a hermit in the basement.
At first, Jeff rejects the offer of a rather reasonable amount of money to try and reform Harry into a suitable heir, and leaves the manor. On the way out, however, he spots Harper (Geoffrey Hughes), the gardener, as the man in the 18th century outfit. Marty is less than convinced and tells Jeff to give it up, disappearing off to the football match.
With the police snapping at his heels again, Jeff decides to take up the offer and lie low at the manor. Looking round the greenhouse late that night, he and Marty find an underground passage. One end leads to Marty's grave, the other to Harry's bedroom! Marty grudgingly has to believe Jeff. Harry meanwhile is conspicuous by his absence; and it is found that he has been abducted. Jeff deduces that the period costume was to confuse anyone who caught sight of them at work. Another interesting discovery is made - marks on the bedroom wall indicate that Harry must have given the kidnappers help! Mandrake refuses to pay the ransom to the kidnappers, Dighton and Harper, and instead announces his intent to marry Martha, his housekeeper. Harry can do nothing to prevent the marriage. Marty wonders aloud to Jeff after the wedding as to what happened to Harry - it turns out that he is now working in a fairground as a freak - 'The Man Who Lives Underground!'
- Scenes to Rewind For: The scene in the doctor's office; the kidnappers trying to deliver the ransom note; Jeff hearing Marty over the radio; the psychedelic agrophobic sequence.
- Fashion Victims: Jeff tries to set a new trend in matching Elastoplasts. Mandrake's dressing gown. Martha - times two! Harry - everything about him suggests a refugee from the fashion police!
- Jeff Gets Creamed: Twice.
- Death Toll: 0
- Now There's A Novelty: This time it's Jeff trying to convince Marty what he's seen!
- Double Entendres: Marty: "Jeff, you'll never guess where my end comes out!"
- Continuity: Marty's gravestone number is 9074. Jeff can play guitar. Marty's 'watch' doesn't work. Episode begins with yet another interrupted 'conquest.' Marty's car is registry: BAP 245P
- That Face Looks Familiar: You may recognise Harper as Onslow from the BBC series Keeping Up Appearances. The English commentator, Andrew Sachs, was Manuel in Fawlty Towers. The German commentator is Michael Sheard, best known for his role as Mr Bronson in Grange Hill; he was also Hitler in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and was also in Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks, to name but a few.
- Notes: It's the ITC warehouses again, plus the greenhouse! The flowers we see Jeff laying at Marty's grave do not appear to be the same as in the close-up. (I may be wrong!)
Episode 18: 'Could You Recognise The Man Again?'
First Transmitted: Friday, January 16th, 1970 at 7:30pm
Directed By: Jeremy Summers
Screenplay: Donald James
- Quotes: Marty: "You sat there watching her eat chocolates and did nothing?!"
Jeff: "So what am I supposed to do? Suffocate her with a sackful of soft centres?"
A frustrated Jeff on the trousers the tailor has given him:
"There's room for four of us in here!"
Marty, grinning: "We can all go now!"
- Plot: After a New Year's Eve party, Jeff and Jean return to Jeff's car to find someone getting out of it. It seems to be a harmless mistake, but things take a more sinister turn when they find a dead body in the trunk! The corpse is identified as Jennings, a protection racketeer. Inspector Large, for once, does not pin Jeff to the murder but rather links it to a long-running feud between Jennings and his rivals George and Mort Roden (Stanley Meadows and Dudley Sutton). Jeff and Jean both identify George Roden as the man they saw getting out of their car.
George is arrested, but his mother, who appears to be the brains behind the racket, gets her crooked lawyer Ralph Sorrel (John Bryans) on the case, confident that he will get her son an acquittal. This is provided, naturally, that Jeff and Jean are prevented from giving evidence. Jean is subsequently held captive by Mort and fellow thug Hales (Norman Eshley). It's down to Jeff to give the evidence, but his confidence is wavered when he hears Jean's voice on the telephone. If he gives evidence, Jean will be harmed.
Thus he takes it upon himself to find the star witness. The case is adjourned to the following day, buying Jeff and Marty a small amount of time to find Jean. Marty's attempts to track Jean have lead him back to her apartment, which puzzles him as she is most certainly not there. Jeff scours London for the Roden hideout, but comes up empty-handed and returns to Jean's apartment. In 15 minutes, George will walk free. A desperate Jeff urges Marty to concentrate on Jean again to see what happens. Marty finds himself levitating towards the ceiling! On a hunch, Marty passes through the ceiling into the flat above. Sure enough, the Rodens are there holding Jeanie hostage.
Jeff breaks her out, but there still remains the problem of getting to the courthouse. Marty steps in and creates havoc in the courtroom, blowing papers and causing enough confusion to buy the time they need. Jeff and Jean arrive at last and George Roden is forced to plead guilty.
- Scenes To Rewind For: The tailor shop scene. The confrontation between Jeff and Inspector Large after Jean goes missing. Marty creating havoc in the courtroom.
- Fashion Victims: Jennings' suit; Jean's dress and earrings at the party; Jeff's leather jacket; Jean's makeup in the shower, from which she's not actually wet!
- Jeff Gets Creamed: Twice.
- Death Toll: 1
- Now There's A Novelty: Empty London streets again. We wish!
- Continuity: Marty can sense if something is wrong with regard to Jeff or Jean. Jeff is beaten up in his flat again!
- That Face Looks Familiar: Ivor Dean as Inspector Large has been in many ITC series. Dudley Sutton is also a male nurse in 'A Disturbing Case.'
- Notes: Stock footage alert! The boat set is used again in 'The Ghost Talks.' The tailor looks like he's about to say "Suit you sir." (one for the Fast Show fans out there!) Same warehouse as in 'Just For The Record.'
Episode Guide, Part 3
