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Jeannie dabbles with some spiritualists
lucyrfisher12 November 2018
Jeannie is chilling out at home when her flat is attacked by a poltergeist, operated by two gaunt, smiling men in a car with an electrical/radio device. She calls Jeff for help and he rushes round in his lemon yellow karate pyjamas and a leather jacket. She worries that the business isn't making money, and wonders whether to accept a job from two strange, smiling men.... Yes, the ones from the car, who claim to be spiritualists. Impossible to cut a long story short. Jeff pawns his bedding to persuade an alcoholic friend to pretend to be a bereaved mother so that Jeannie can pass her on to the spook-raising Foster brothers and get some commission. I think.

The brothers, played wonderfully by Alfred Burke and Dudley Foster, explain to the actress, posing as "Mrs Wilson", that they have never succeeded in raising anybody. They plan to send her to the beyond to act as their emissary. She flees, but finds that their Gothic mansion is bordered by a moat...

More shenanigans ensue, and it all ends happily. Oh, weren't the 60s lovely?
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6/10
Burke And Hare
Lejink16 February 2023
Burke and Hare

This episode sees Jeanie selected due to her recent widowhood and connections to a private detective agency, by Alfred Burke and Dudley Foster's eccentrically creepy pair of spiritualists keen to send someone over to the other side who will prove the afterlife by contacting them from beyond.

They try to win her over with an offer of a job, which she's minded to accept given the parlous state of the agency's finances but Marty and Jeff suspect the dodgy duo's ulterior motives and so Jeff sets up Adrienne Corri's lush, out of work actress to uncover their real intentions. When she disappears, Jeff and Jeanie are left at the mercy of the perilous pair's house of games fending off any number of flying objects until Marty comes to the rescue by literally blowing a fuse.

I love this show but didn't consider this one of the strongest episodes. Once you've seen one piece of overturned furniture or falling ornament you've pretty much seen them all and you never really sensed that anyone was in any great danger. Still, as ever there was nice interplay between the three leads and don't worry, there are plenty of other better episodes in this show to put a smile on your face.
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