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Randall and Hopkirk (deceased) - Painkillers

episode 2.4

UK 2001
produced by
Charlie Higson, Simon Wright (executive) for Working Title/BBC
directed by Charlie Higson
starring Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Emilia Fox, Tom Baker, Derek Jacobi, Duncan Preston, Shaaron Jackson, Nitin Ganatra, Dervla Kirwan, Simon Poole, Tim Wallers, Charlie Higson, Newton Boothe, Alibe Parsons
written by Gareth Roberts

TV-series
Randall and Hopkirk (deceased), Randall and Hopkirk (Reeves & Mortimer)

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Jeff Randall (Bob Mortimer) & assistant Jeannie (Emilia Fox) are hired by sinister public servants Boolstrode & Macey (Charlie Higson, Tim Wallers - first seen in the season 1 episode Paranoia) to uinvestigate the strage goings-on of a secret underground science lab - & since they have to go there undercover they are given forged credentials as scientists.

At first, the lab seems nothing but the eccentric hobby of immensely rich but disabled Colonel Anger (Derek Jacobi), who has even transported parts of the jungle where his plane has crashed causing him being disabled in the first place to the underground lab - including the planewreck and a native, Ramon (Nitin Ganatra) - but after a short while it becomes clear that Anger does not only want to create the perfect painkiller, but conquer death itself, even if that means destroying the boundaries between life & afterlife.

Fortunately though, this is far harder than it sounds, but unfortunately, Jeff, desperately trying to convince the other scientists - & especially seductive Petra Winters (Dervla Kriwan) - that he is one of them, is helped by the spirit of his dead ex-partner Marty Hopkirk (Vic Reeves), who knows all the answers thanks to the extensive scientific library of the spirit world, & he gives Anger & his scientists all the answers they have long been looking for in vain.

In the end though, Jeff & Jeannie, helped by Ramon, who has (as all native tribes) great respect for he spirit world, duke it out with Anger & his thugs, until, Anger, who has with diverse drugs prolonged his life way too long, dies for real & Marty drags his soul to the netherworld ...

Boolstrode & Macey though have in some way secured a phiole of the immortality drug from Colonel Anger, & are quite satisfied that Jeff & Jeannie have got them what they were looking for ...

 

Though the script is somewhat chaotic & mixes sci-fi-, horror- & fantasy-concepts in a not always comprehensiblle way, this is a rather entertaining episode thanks to the utter absurdity of all the elements involved & the full awareness of this.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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