ITC Entertainment produced a single,twenty-six part season of this British
TV fantasy which starred Mike Pratt and
Kenneth Cope as private detectives Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk. Only LWT
screened the whole run.
The programme was broadcast as My
Partner the Ghost in America, and
entitled The Phantom Detective for
Spanish TV. Thirty years later, Working
Title Films remade the series for BBC1,
and cast comedians Bob Mortimer and
Vic Reeves as the eponymous partners.
The Syfy channel announced a planned
revival in 2010. A repeat run of the series
concluded on Great! TV (the former Sony Pictures TV channel) last night - these final thirteen instalments (originally shown from late 1969 to March 1970)
featured Annette Andre (as Jeannie), and a total of fifty-one Doctor Who
cast connections:
- Cyril [Alexander Garland] Luckham (Laverick) was the White Guardian from The Ribos Operation to Enlightenment
- Leslie Schofield (Peter) was Leroy in (episode 4 of) The War Games, and Calib in The Face of Evil
- [Walter] Tenniel Evans (Howe) was Major Daly in Carnival of Monsters
- David Webb (Sergeant) was Leeson in Colony in Space (1)
- Michael [John] Goldie (Gimbal) was Jack Craddock in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, and Elton Laleham in The Wheel in Space
- Ray [Michael] Brooks (Marty) was David in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD, and voiced the titular role for Big Finish's The Trouble With Drax (2016)
- [Eugene] Neil McCarthy (Griggs) was Barnham in The Mind of Evil, and Thawn in The Power of Kroll
- James [Rutherford Worsford] Bree [born Thomson] (Mullet) was the Security Chief in The War Games, Nefred in Full Circle, and the Keeper of the Matrix in The Ultimate Foe
- Patrick [David] Newell (Mannering) was Colonel Faraday in The Android Invasion
- Reg [Thomas] Lye (Manny) was Griffin in The Enemy of the World (3)
- Richard Kerley (DS Hinds) was a titular alien in The Tomb of the Cybermen, and Yeti in The Abominable Snowmen
- Bernard [Frederic Bemrose] Kay (Dighton) was Carl Tyler in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Saladin in The Crusade, DI Crossland in The Faceless Ones, Caldwell in Colony in Space, then voiced Major Dickens for Night Thoughts (2006)
- [Peter] Nigel Terry (Harry) was General Cobb in The Doctor's Daughter
- Geoffrey Hughes (Harper) was Popplewell in The Ultimate Foe
- Cyril [Leonard] Shaps (Cholmond) was John Viner in The Tomb of the Cybermen, Dr. Lennox in The Ambassadors of Death, Professor Herbert Clegg in Planet of the Spiders (1), and the Archimandrite in The Androids of Tara
- Andrew [Andreas Siegfried] Sachs (Commentator) voiced Skagra for Shada (2003), the Scorpion King for The Boy That Time Forgot (2008), Crassostrea for Orbis (2009), and the Scarf for AudioGo's Aladdin Time (2011)
- Michael Sheard [born Donald Marriot Perkins] (German) was Rhos in The Ark (2), Dr. Roland Summers in The Mind of Evil, Laurence Scarman in Pyramids of Mars, Lowe in The Invisible Enemy, Mergrave in Castrovalva, the Headmaster in Remembrance of the Daleks, Chief Baxter in Fury from the Deep (2002), then voiced Duke Orsino for The Stones of Venice (2001)
- John [Edwin] Arnatt (Inspector) was Chancellor Borusa in The Invasion of Time
- John [Victor Mortimer] Bryans (Sorrel) was Torvin in The Creature from the Pit
- John Harvey (Counsel) was Professor Brett in The War Machines, and Officia in The Macra Terror
- [Gilbert] Dudley Jones (Craddock) was Dyson in The Tenth Planet
- William [Arthur] Squire (Seymour) was the Shadow in The Armageddon Factor
- Victor [Jack] Maddern (DS Watts) was Chief John Robson in Fury from the Deep
- Billy Cornelius (Albert) was a Man-at-Arms in The Crusade (4), and Morok Guard in The Space Museum
- TP [Thomas Patrick] McKenna (Voice of O'Malley) was Captain Cook in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
- Roger Avon (Policeman) was Saphadin in The Crusade, Daxtar in The Daleks' Master Plan (4), and Wells in the second Dalek film
- Tom [Horne] Bowman was a Sentry in The Highlanders (2)
- Peter [Francois] Cellier (Long) was Andrews in Time Flight (1)
- John Collin [born Smith] (Jackson) was Brock in The Leisure Hive
- [Albert] James Culliford (Parker) was Stewart in Frontier in Space
- John [William Francis] Hallam (Crackan) was Light in Ghost Light
- Graham Armitage (Director) was Barney in The Macra Terror (1)
- Edward [John] Brayshaw (Lang) was Leon Colbert in The Reign of Terror, and the War Chief in The War Games
- Robert Russell (Harry) was Guard in The Power of the Daleks, and the Caber in Terror of the Zygons
- Nick Zaran (Brin) was Lieutenant Joe Sorba in The Space Pirates
- [Elizabeth] Denise Buckley (Susan) was initially cast as Victoria Waterfield in April 1967 but was replaced by Deborah Watling
- Frederick [William] Treves (Inspector) was Brotadac in Meglos
- Fred Wood (Seance Man) was an Extra in the second Dalek film
- George Sewell (Jensen) was George Ratcliffe in Remembrance of the Daleks
- Barrie [Stanton] Ingham (Cavallo-Smith) was Alydon in Dr. Who and the Daleks, then Prince Paris in The Myth Makers
- Timothy [Lancaster] West (Grimes) voiced Kai Tobias for Phobos (2007), Turvey for Cuddlesome (2008), and Dr. Magnus Soames for House of Blue Fire (2011)
- William [Deacon McColl] Dysart (Inspector) was Alexander McClaren in The Highlanders (1), and Reegan in The Ambassadors of Death
- Ron [Henry] Pember (Concessionaire) voiced Seedle for Slipback
- Jeremy Young (Kershaw) was Kal in 100,000 BC, and Gordon Lowery in Mission to the Unknown
- Patrick [David] Barr (Yateman) was Jack Hobson in The Moonbase
- [Kenneth] Clifford Earl (Detective) was the Sergeant in The Daleks' Master Plan (7), and Major Branwell in The Invasion
- Edward [George] Caddick (Patient) was Wylda in The Savages
- Hilary Tindall (Cynthia) played Marion Clements in The Curse of the Daleks
- Gary [born Garrowby Cawthorne] Watson (Seaton) was Arthur Terrall in The Evil of the Daleks
- Clare Jenkins (Hiker) was Nanina in The Savages, and Tanya Lernov in The Wheel in Space and The War Games (10)
- Peter Lawrence (Policeman) was the Vizier in Marco Polo
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