Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) was not networked across the whole of the United Kingdom by the ITV regions when it was originally broadcast. This resulted in varying orders and days and times of transmission around the country. Consequently, it can be difficult to present a coherent broadcast guide. Here, we present regional transmission details for ATV, the company which owned the broadcast franchise for the Midlands region.

 

 
TX Order Episode Title ATV (First Transmission)
1 My Late Lamented Friend and Partner Friday 19th September 1969, 7.30pm (M)
2 All Work and No Pay Friday 26th September 1969, 7.30pm (M)
3 A Disturbing Case Friday 3rd October 1969, 7.30pm (M)
4 That's How Murder Snowballs Friday 10th October 1969, 7.30pm (M)
5 Never Trust a Ghost Friday 17th October 1969, 7.30pm (M)
6 Whoever Heard of a Ghost Dying? Friday 24th October 1969, 7.30pm (M)
7 The House on Haunted Hill Friday 31st October 1969, 7.30pm (M)
8 When Did You Start To Stop Seeing Things? Friday 7th November 1969, 7.30pm (M)
9 Just for the Record Friday 14th November 1969, 7.30pm (M)
10 Murder Ain't What It Used To Be! Friday 21st November 1969, 7.30pm
11 But What a Sweet Little Room Friday 28th November 1969, 7.30pm
12 Who Killed Cock Robin? Friday 5th December 1969, 7.30pm
13 The Ghost Who Saved the Bank at Monte Carlo Friday 12th December 1969, 7.30pm
14 For the Girl Who Has Everything Friday 19th December 1969, 7.30pm
Break in Transmission
No further episodes transmitted until 2nd January 1970
15 You Can Always Find a Fall Guy Friday 2nd January 1970, 7.30pm
16 The Smile Behind the Veil Friday 9th January 1970, 7.30pm
17 When the Spirit Moves You Friday 16th January 1970, 7.30pm
18 The Trouble With Women Friday 23rd January 1970, 7.30pm
19 It's Supposed To Be Thicker Than Water Friday 30th January 1970, 7.30pm
20 The Man from Nowhere Friday 6th February 1970, 7.30pm
21 Vendetta for a Dead Man Friday 13th February 1970, 7.30pm
Break in Transmission
No further episodes transmitted until 8th June 1970
22 A Sentimental Journey Monday 8th June 1970, 7.30pm (!)
23 Could You Recognise the Man Again? Monday 15th June 1970, 7.30pm (!) (?)
- Money to Burn scheduled due to possible strike action, but Coronation Street and World in Action appear to have been screened as normal Thursday 22nd July 1970, 7.30pm (§)
Break in Transmission
No further episodes transmitted until 8th December 1970
24 Somebody Just Walked Over My Grave Tuesday 8th December 1970, 7.00pm (M*)
Break in Transmission
No further episodes transmitted until 1st July 1971
25 Money to Burn Thursday 1st July 1971, 11.00pm (§)
26 The Ghost Talks Thursday 8th July 1971, 11.10pm
 

Key to Annotations

(N) = Information confirmed in National newspapers

(L) = Information confirmed in Local newspapers

(T) = Information confirmed in TV Times magazine

(V) = Information confirmed from video recording

(R) = Information confirmed from fan recording log

(M) = Episode screened in black-and-white / Monochrome

(M*) =Episode screened in monochrome due to ITV colour strike (13th Nov 1970 to 8th Feb 1971)

(?) = Information unconfirmed or debatable (likely to be this episode)

(!) = Very late schedule change to cover absence of new episodes of Coronation Street and World in Action,
not produced due to a dispute between their production company Granada Television and the ACTT union group

(X) = Scheduled transmission cancelled

(§) = Shown twice in same run (first screening may have been cancelled)

(U) = Episode unscreened in this run
 

Colour Transmissions: The ATV region's Sutton Coldfield transmitter switched to colour on Saturday 15th November 1969. The first episode they transmitted in colour was the tenth in their run, Murder Ain't What It Used To Be!
 

Researched and compiled by Simon Coward and Alan Hayes
with thanks to Andrew Pixley
 

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