Somebody Just Walked Over My Grave

"Somebody Just Walked Over My Grave"
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) episode

Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 17
Directed by	Cyril Frankel
Written by	Donald James
Production code	17
Original air date	9 January 1970
Guest actors
Nigel Terry George Murcell Geoffrey Hughes Bernard Kay Cyril Shaps

Somebody Just Walked Over My Grave is the seventeenth 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 9 January 1970 on the ITV. Directed by Cyril Frankel.

The suspicious grave digging gardener and his associate outside the manor

Synopsis

Marty finds somebody digging around his grave. He sends Jeff to investigate the cemetery and in doing so is knocked unconscious several times by a masked 18th century axe wielder. Telling Jeannie of his experiences and visiting a doctor (Cyril Shaps) to treat his wounds concerned it may have affected his judgement, Jeff unintentionally manages to convince the doctor he is a madman and contacts the police as he escapes. Lying low and suspecting the gardener at the cemetery anyway, Jeff accepts a job with Mandrake, the wealthy owner in the nearby mansion, and stumbles on an intricate plot to steal his insane agoraphobic son through an underground tunnel pretending to hold him to ransom. It is all part of a plot to inherit his father's fortune but when he marries his young housekeeper the plan is demised.

Overview

In this episode Marty also departs Jeff and travels to Germany to watch a football match between Germany and England. Watching from inside the commentary box (also housing the commentator Fawlty Towers's Andrew Sachs) he learns that he is able to control the game and blows a ball over the cross bar and a German player shoots at an open goal. Mandrake's mad hippie son Harry also brings up some issues, parodying cannabis smoking of the era and suffering from agoraphobia. His extreme hair and his obsession for indoor paint throwing is also of amusing note.

Jeff flirted outrageously with Martha, Mandrake's housekeeper and later wife (Patricia Haines)

Cast

Mike Pratt as Jeff Randall
Kenneth Cope as Marty Hopkirk
Annette Andre as Jeannie Hopkirk
Patricia Haines .... Martha
Geoffrey Hughes .... Harper
Bernard Kay .... Dighton
George Murcell .... Mandrake
Andrew Sachs .... Commentator
Cyril Shaps .... Dr. Cholmond
Michael Sheard .... German Commentator
Nigel Terry .... Harry
Beverly Winn .... Valerie

External links

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)

Characters	Jeff Randall Marty Hopkirk Jeannie Hopkirk

People	Dennis Spooner (creator) List of actors

Episodes	"My Late Lamented Friend and Partner" "A Disturbing Case" "All Work and No Pay" "Never Trust a Ghost" "That's How Murder Snowballs" "Just for the Record" "Murder Ain't What it Used to Be" "Whoever Heard of a Ghost Dying?" "The House on Haunted Hill" "When did You Start to Stop Seeing Things?" "The Ghost Who Saved the Bank at Monte Carlo" "For The Girl Who Has Everything" "But What a Sweet Little Room" "Who Killed Cock Robin?" "The Man from Nowhere" "When the Spirit Moves You" "Somebody Just Walked Over My Grave" "Could You Recognise the Man Again?" "A Sentimental Journey" "Money to Burn" "The Ghost Talks" "It's Supposed to be Thicker than Water" "The Trouble with Women" "Vendetta for a Dead Man" "You Can Always Find a Fall Guy" "The Smile Behind the Veil"

Remake	Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000–01)

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