"When the Spirit Moves You" is the sixteenth

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of the 1969 ITC British

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Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) ''Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'' is a British private detective television series, starring Mike Pratt and Kenneth Cope respectively as the private detectives Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk. The series was created by Dennis Spooner and p ...

'' starring Mike Pratt and

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. The episode was first broadcast on 2 January 1970 on ITV and was directed by Ray Austin. Annette Andre does not appear in this episode. Unlike "

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", the non-appearance of Andre's character Jeannie Hopkirk is not explained in this episode. At the end of this episode Andre does receive a credit despite not appearing in it. At the end of "

", Andre received no credit.

Synopsis

Jeff becomes involved with a bumbling

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named Bream and a stash of $125,000 of stolen bonds from the United States that a criminal racket are after. Jeff goes ahead with a deal to exchange the bonds that he and Bream have for $125,000 of the criminal racket's cash. When Jeff and Bream manage to double-cross them, they turn the tables and come within seconds of blowing up Jeff with the safe that he deposited the money in.

Overview

In this episode Marty finds that he is able to communicate with the alcoholic Bream (

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) but only when he is very drunk from

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. This is also one of the first episodes where Marty physically threatens to haunt somebody as a traditional ghost would, in order to force him to give Jeff a helping hand.

Cast

* Mike Pratt as Jeff Randall *

as Marty Hopkirk *

.... Calvin P. Bream * Penny Brahms .... Girl in Luxury Flat *

Peter J. Elliott Peter John Henry Elliott (14 June 1930 – December 2016) was a British film actor, singer, dancer, stunt performer and television presenter. Life and career Elliott had been diving since the age of 12 at the Marshall Street swimming pool ...

.... Wilks *

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.... Perrin * Richard Kerley .... Sgt. Hinds *

Reg Lye Reginald Thomas Lye (14 October 1912 – 23 March 1988), was an Australian actor who worked extensively in Australia and England. He was one of the busiest Australian actors of the 1950s, appearing in the majority of locally shot features at th ...

.... Manny * Anthony Marlowe .... Cranley *

Kieron Moore Kieron Moore (born Ciarán Ó hAnnracháin, anglicised as Kieron O'Hanrahan) (5 October 1924 – 15 July 2007) was an Irish film and television actor whose career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s. He may be best remembered for his role as ...

.... Miklos Corri * Bill Reed .... Parkin

Production

Although the 16th episode in the series, ''That's How Murder Snowballs'' was the 13th episode to be shot, filmed between November 1968 and March 1969.

References

External links

*
Episode overview
at Randallandhopkirk.org.uk

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