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Mrs Carpenter (Nichola Mcauliffe) runs a hotel that by some strange coincidence
proves to be haunted. Far from letting that discourage her, she instead uses
that as a marketing ploy, so in no time, all kinds of spiritualiists come to
stay at her place. When however the guests start being killed by one of the
spirits, the Faceless Lady, Mrs Carpenter decides to hire private detective
Jeff Randall (Bob Mortimer), who as back up has brought Jeannie (Emilia Fox),
the fiancée of his deceased partner he is secretly in love with, and his
deceased partner, Marty Hopkirk (Vic Reeves), who is now a spirit that can only
be seen by Jeff.
Once there though, Jeannie is possessed by the Faceless Lady in no time,
& she has little complications to seduce Jeff.
But why, you might ask ?
As Marty - together with the skeptical tabloid journalist Roger Whale (Hywel
Bennett), who for some reason sees Marty too - finds out, 50 years ago an
unmarried couple tragically died in the hotel & is since doomed to wander
the hotel's corridors as the Faceless Lady & the Burning Man ... until they
find a couple that can take their place in the past (thus die), while the
Faceless Lady & the Burning Man are given a new lease of life ...
But thanks to Marty & Roger (who dies in the process) their plan does
not quite work out, since Marty has worked out an elaborate scheme of body
swapping (involving the dead body of Roger) that in the end sends the sould of
the Faceless Lady & the Burning Man to hell ... All's well that ends
well ! But, one can't help but wonder in the final scene, was it all an
elaborate scheme of Marty's spirit mentor Wyfen (Tom Baker) to help Mrs
Carpenter, an old friend of him & quite possibly a spirit. Unfortunately,
the story of this episode, despite some funny ideas, does not work at all, as
it tries to include way too many concepts in a mere 45 minutes: There's the
haunted house plot, the plot about the sleazy tabloid journalist who wants to
do one good deed before he dies, the spirits who want to change history, then
there's some comedy involving spiritualists, & of course a development of
Jeff's ongoing lovestory with Jeannie - complete with all the implications.
& since these concepts are all more or less independent from each other
& lettle effort is made to bring them into a coherent context, the plot
comes out as nothing more than a mess.
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