"The Trouble with Women" is the twenty third episode

Episode

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 of the popular 1969 ITC

ITC Entertainment

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 British

Great Britain

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 television series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)

Randall and Hopkirk , first transmitted during 1969-70, is a British private detective television series starring Mike Pratt and Kenneth Cope as the private detectives Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk, respectively. The series was originally created by Dennis Spooner and produced by Monty Berman...

starring Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope

Kenneth Cope

Kenneth Cope is an English actor. He is most famous for his roles as Marty Hopkirk in Randall and Hopkirk , Jed Stone in Coronation Street and Ray Hilton in Brookside.- Career :...

 and Annette Andre

Annette Andre

Annette Andre is an Australian actress best known for her work on British television throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She was educated at Brigidine College, Sydney. Her father was an upholsterer....

. The episode was first broadcast on 28 February 1970 on the ITV

ITV

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. Directed by Jeremy Summers

Jeremy Summers

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Synopsis

Jeff is hired by a woman and deliberately set up her husband's murder. In disguise she misleads Randall with her club owner boyfriend she is secretly having an affair with almost leading to his shooting at a quarry

Quarry

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Overview

Amusingly in this episode Marty as he again attempts to influence a psychic medium to contact the police to save Jeff he finds a queue of ghosts all in different white clothing who are waiting in turn to deliver their messages.

Cast

• Mike Pratt as Jeff Randall
• Kenneth Cope
  Kenneth Cope
  Kenneth Cope is an English actor. He is most famous for his roles as Marty Hopkirk in Randall and Hopkirk , Jed Stone in Coronation Street and Ray Hilton in Brookside.- Career :...
  
  as Marty Hopkirk
• Annette Andre
  Annette Andre
  Annette Andre is an Australian actress best known for her work on British television throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She was educated at Brigidine College, Sydney. Her father was an upholsterer....
  
  as Jeannie Hopkirk
• Neal Arden .... 2nd Poker Player
• Edward Brayshaw
  Edward Brayshaw
  Edward Brayshaw was a British actor.His television roles include the part of Rochefort in the 1966 serial The Three Musketeers and 1967's The Further Adventures of the Three Musketeers...
  
   .... Paul Lang
• Denise Buckley .... Susan Lang
• Arnold Diamond .... 1st Poker Player
• Howard Goorney .... 1st Ghost
• Keith Grenville .... P.C. Russell
• Harry Hutchinson .... 2nd Ghost
• Paul Maxwell
  Paul Maxwell
  Paul Maxwell was a Canadian actor who worked mostly in British television and films, in which he was usually cast as an American...
  
   .... Alan Corder
• Gwen Nelson .... Mrs. Halloway
• Robert Russell
  Robert Russell (English actor)
  Robert Russell was an English actor, perhaps best known for a memorable supporting role as John Stearne alongside Vincent Price in the classic British horror film Witchfinder General....
  
   .... Harry
• Frederick Treves
  Frederick Treves (actor)
  Frederick William Treves BEM, is an English character actor with an extensive repertoire, specialising in avuncular military and titled types....
  
   .... Inspector
• Nick Zaran .... Brin (as Nik Zaran)

External links

• http://www.anorakzone.com/randall/old/index.html