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When she notices something fishy's going on at her nephew Daniel's (Rory
Jennings) boarding school, Jeannie (Emilia Fox) decides to take up
investigations, & since there's nothing happening at their office
otherwise, Jeff Randall (Bob Mortimer) decides to help her.
In the disguise of the new caretaker & his wife - a job they got with
Jeff's ghost-partner Marty Hopkirk's (Vic Reeves) help - they go undercover in
the boarding school & soon encounter a group of boys headmaster Graves
(Peter Bowles) calls his chosen ones who behave rather oddly, in fact almost
dangerously so. & ghost Marty overhear Graves & head-matron Harriett
(Phyllis Logan) conspiring & talking about the final phase. That Daniel
discovers a beheaded corpse on the school'S premises doesn't make things any
easier, nor does the fact that he is caught by the Chosen Ones before he
can tell the tale ...
Marty meanwhile - just having learned the gift of possession by his
spiritual mentor Wyfen (Tom Baker) - possesses Jeff's body to have sex with
Jeannie (who after all was his fiancee by the time he died), but the
attempt ends in fiasco when Jeff gets knocked out & Marty can't make
himself known to Jeannie as only Jeff can see him. & it's right at this
time that Jeannie learns that Daniel is about to be sacrificed by the Chosen
Ones in the chapel, & she valiantly rushes to her nephew's rescue on
her own ...
Upon waking up, Jeff has a meeting with Graves & confronts him with all
the evidence that he (& Marty) have gathered, only to realize it was all
poppycock. But thanks to a tip from a student, they reach the chapel just
intime, where Daniel's about to be sacrificed & Jeannie might not fare all
that much better.
But who was behind it all ? Head Matron Harriett of course, a notorious
manhater who wanted to use these boys as her very own weapon against the male
principle in general, as she sees herself as their mother. Jeannie & Graves
manage to break her spell though with their combined forces of persuasion on
the boys, & in the end, Herriett, half crazy, burns to cinders in a frreak
fire - caused by Marty.
English boarding-schools, with their weird, almost absurd, rules of conduct,
did always make a nice backdrop for horror-stories & farces (& did so
for decades before the Harry Potter-franchise), & this story puts
its surroundings to good use. It might not be a classic - or een the best
episode of the series - but it's good-natured macabre entertainment.
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