#Marty hopkirk

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totally real fake randall and hopkirk (deceased) scenes (x)

[jimmyandthegiraffes]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[parisonlygirl]

cursed marty hopkirk

this is part of the randall and hopkirk watching experience. just never pause it

[pixel3603]

Marty and Jeff are so gay holy shit

[friendofthecrows]

༺❀༻ ☠︎︎ trick or tweat :3 ☠︎︎ ༺❀༻

I wasn't online for Halloween but I also didn't finish inktober (or the weird hodgepodge equivalent I was doing) so I never uploaded this sketch.

You encounter some ghosts

[wohlbruecks]

[sleepingdragonhq]

Under the cut you will find the list of everyone’s costumes as well as lists for the couples romantic and platonic. The voting for the costume contest this year will be done here. We ask that you choose your top 5 favorites in each category but then rank the order in which you’d rate them in the ‘other’ option. If you’ve got any questions about how that works, do not hesitate to ask us. The ranking per usual goes five points for first place, four points for second and so on so please put your votes in order accordingly. Please vote before the 10th of November as we will be announcing the winners from that point onward before the end of the event. If we have missed any contestants/costumes on any of the lists please shoot us a message so we can fix that !! 

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Aaron Hale - Werewolf

Adeline Mulciber - Harley Quinn (DC)

Alastair Watson - Danny Phantom (Danny Phantom)

Alessandra Macnair - Roxie Hart (Chicago)

Alexus Callahan - Spider

Alice Longbottom II - Woody (Toy Story/Pixar)

Alison Wood - Glinda (Wicked)

Andromeda Marshall - Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice)

Aryana Robins - Layla El-Faouly/Scarlet Scarab (Marvel)

Ariella Belefleur - Lizzie McGuire (The Lizzie McGuire Movie)

Astrid Mendez - Betty Boop

Auden Wilkes - Charlie Spring (Heartstopper)

August Fawley - Jack Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas)

Aurora Claremont - Alex (Totally Spies)

Axel Wolffe - Waving Inflatable Tube Guy

Beatriz Calderon-Boot - Kuzco (Emperor’s New Groove)

Benjamin Ollivander - Pirate

Bentley Lockhart - Superman (DC)

Briar Bellchant - Evil Queen

Caleb Cresswell - 70s Vision (Marvel)

Camille McGonagall - Alice (Alice in Wonderland)

Casey Abrams - Lady (Lady and the Tramp/Disney)

Cassius Cresswell - Thor (Marvel)

Cedrella Weasley II - Sam (Totally Spies)

Charlotte Watson - Emily the Corpse Bride (Corpse Bride)

Chloé Bonaccord - Britney Spears

Clara Arquette - Catwoman (DC)

Clementine Delacour-Laurent - Shuri/Black Panther (Marvel)

Colm McCarthy - Darth Vader (Star Wars)

Cynthia Clearwater - Elphaba (Wicked)

Cyrus Clearwater - Steve (Blue’s Clues)

Damien Launier - Milo Thatch (Atlantis/Disney)

Delilah Hartwell - Spider-Gwen (Marvel)

Diana Rosier - Scarecrow

Dominique Weasley - She-Ra/Adora

Edward Lupin - Doris the Ugly Stepsister (Shrek)

Elara Macmillan-Bones - Cotton Candy

Elena Flores - Bride of Frankenstein

Elias Hopkirk- Linguini (Ratatouille/Disney)

Elijah Westenberg - Frankenstein’s Monster

Erin McCormack - Kim Possible (Kim Possible)

Evan Parkinson - Dr. Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb)

Evangeline Pickering - Sharpay Evans (High School Musical/Disney Channel)

Evelyn Moon - Stain Glass Window

Ezra Broadmoor - Mafia/Mob Boss

Finnley Wood - Ash (Fantastic Mr. Fox)

Francesca Zabini - Yip Yip (Sesame Street)

Frank Longbottom II - Tramp (Lady and the Tramp/Disney)

Frederick Hayes - Kida (Atlantis/Disney)

Freya MacDougal - Harley Quinn (DC)

Gabriel Larkin - Gambit (X-Men/Marvel)

Gwendolyn Hawkes - Pirate

Halley Macmillan-Bones - Hot Cheeto

Hazel Macdougal - Sexy Cryptologist

Hunter Adams - Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher)

Ingrid Hagen - Ellie Sattler (Jurassic Park)

Iris Lestrange - Scary Bunny

Isabelle Durant - Elf

Jaiyash Dewan - Loki (Marvel)

James Ashcroft - Tony Stark (Marvel)

James Sirius Potter - Shrek (Shrek)

Jasper Locklear - Elvis Presley

Jaxon Dequan - Thomas Shelby (Peaky Blinder)

Jia Rookwood - Yip Yip (Sesame Street)

Jonah Finch - Beetlejuice

Joseph O’Reilly - Lord Farquaad (Shrek)

Joséphine Flamel - Jessie (Team Rocket/Pokémon)

Juliet Highmore - Supergirl (DC)

Laurel Ollivander - Loki Variant (Marvel)

Liam Alvarez - Ian Malcom (Jurassic Park)

Lily Luna Potter - Buzz Lightyear (Toy Story/Pixar)

Lorenzo Roshan - Hannah Montana (Disney Channel)

Lucas Harper - Creepy Owl

Lucienne Wolffe - Fortune Teller

Lucy Weasley - Woody Pride (Toy Story/Pixar)

Luke Dawson - Marty McFly (Back to the Future) 

Lyra Malfoy - Isabella Parigi (The Lizzie McGuire Movie)

Lysander Scamander - Scarlet Witch (Marvel)

Mackenzie Finnigan-Thomas Potter - Fiona (Shrek)

Madeline Brown - Sexy Mothman

Mae Levesque - Velma Kelly (Chicago)

Maeve Finch - Mia Thermopolis (The Princess Diaries)

Manon Flamel - Marcus/Kevin (White Chicks)

Marcus Carson - Cowboy

Mason Jones - Waving Inflatable Tube Guy

Matthew Asprey - Swedish Chef (Sesame Street)

Melora Flamel - Marcus/Kevin (White Chicks)

Meredith Wayfelle - Perry the Platypus (Phineas and Ferb)

Merle Rappaport - 70s Wanda Maximoff (Marvel)

Molly Weasley II - Beldam (Coraline)

Natalya Dolohova - Rogue (X-Men/Marvel)

Nate Wood - Alan Grant (Jurassic Park)

Nathaniel Marshall - Skeleton

Nicholas Vexmoor - James (Team Rocket/Pokémon)

Octavia Coleman - Shego (Kim Possible)

Oliver Mulciber - Flynn Rider (Tangled/Disney)

Orion Macmillan-Bones - Legit Snack

Orlando Lockhart - Maleficent (Disney)

Peggy Carson - Sam Manson (Danny Phantom)

Penelope Hawthorne - Barbie

Pepper Rosewood - Michele (Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion)

Perseus Mulciber - Alan (The Hangover) 

Piper Wilkinson - Golden Angel

Pippa Rosewood - Romy (Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion)

Reid Anderson - Jareth (Labyrinth)

Rory Goldstein - Sharpay Evans (High School Musical/Disney Channel)

Rose Granger-Weasley - Sally (The Nightmare Before Christmas)

Samantha O’Reilly - Jenna Rink (13 Going on 30)

Scorpius Malfoy - John Constantine (DC)

Seraphina MacAuley - Clover (Totally Spies)

Seung Krum - Wybie (Coraline)

Silas Zabini - Satyr

Sophia Parkinson - Bloody Skeleton

Stella Macmillan-Bones - Pop-Tart 

Talia Kiraz-Mulciber - Rapunzel (Tangled/Disney)

Tallulah Abbot - Voodoo Doll

Thea Cresswell - Mighty Thor (Marvel)

Theodore Dubanowski - Blondie (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly)

Theodore Oliver - Mad Hatter (Alice in Wonderland)

Theseus McLaggen - Mad Hatter (Alice in Wonderland)

Valeria Sanchez - La Muerte (The Book of Life)

Vera McKinnon - Poison Ivy (DC)

Verity Nott - Pepper Potts (Marvel)

Victoire Weasley - Aurora (Sleeping Beauty/Disney)

William Ashcroft - Agent (Men in Black)

Willow Picquery - Valkyrie (Marvel)

Xavier Dupont - The Priest (Fleabag)

platonic couples costumes

Alessandra Macnair & Mae Levesque - Roxie Hart & Velma Kelly (Chicago)

Alice Longbottom II & Lily Luna Potter - Woody & Buzz Lightyear (Toy Story/Pixar)

Ariella Belefleur & Lyra Malfoy - Lizzie McGuire & Isabella Parigi (The Lizzie McGuire Movie)

Axel Wolffe & Mason Jones - Waving Inflatable Tube Guys

Bentley Lockhart & Juliet Highmore - Superman & Supergirl (DC)

Camille McGonagall & Theseus McLaggen - Alice & Mad Hatter (Alice in Wonderland)

Cedrella Weasley II, Seraphina MacAuley & Aurora Claremont - Sam, Clover & Alex (Totally Spies)

Damien Launier & Frederick Hayes - Milo Thatch & Kida (Atlantis/Disney)

Elena Flores & Elijah Westenberg - Bride of Frankenstein & Frankenstein’s Monster

Evangeline Pickering & Rory Goldstein - Sharpay Evans & Sharpay Evans (High School Musical/Disney Channel)

Freya MacDougal & Vera McKinnon - Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy (DC)

Hazel Macdougal & Madeline Brown - Sexy Mothman & Sexy Cryptologist

Jia Rookwood & Francesca Zabini - Yip Yips (Sesame Street)

Liam Alvarez & Nate Wood - Ian Malcon & Alan Grant (Jurassic Park)

Melora Flamel & Manon Flamel -  Marcus & Kevin (White Chicks)

Meredith Wayfelle & Evan Parkinson - Perry the Platypus & Dr. Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb)

Natalaya Dolohova & Gabriel Larkin - Rogue & Gambit (X-Men/Marvel)

Nicholas Vexmoor & Joséphine Flamel - Jessie & James from Team Rocket (Pokémon)

Octavia Coleman & Erin McCormack - Shego & Kim Possible (Kim Possible)

Orion Macmillan-Bones, Halley Macmillan-Bones, Stella Macmillan-Bones & Elara Macmillan-Bones - Legit Snack, Hot Cheeto, Pop-Tart & Cotton Candy (Snacks)

Pepper Rosewood & Pippa Rosewood - Romy & Michele (Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion)

Seung Krum & Molly Weasley II - Wybie & Beldam (Coraline)

Thea Cresswell & Willow Picquery - Mighty Thor & Valkyrie (Marvel)

romantic couples costumes

Alastair Watson & Peggy Carson - Danny Phantom & Sam Manson (Danny Phantom)

August Fawley & Rose Granger-Weasley - Jack Skellington & Sally (The Nightmare Before Christmas)

Casey Abrams & Frank Longbottom II - Lady & Tramp (Lady and the Tramp/Disney)

Clara Arquette & Kai Arquette - Catwoman & Batman (DC)

Cynthia Clearwater & Alison Wood - Elphaba & Glinda (Wicked)

Gwendolyn Hawkes & Benjamin Ollivander - Pirates

James Ashcroft & Verity Nott - Tony Stark & Pepper Potts (Marvel)

James Sirius Potter & Mackenzie Finnigan-Thomas Potter - Shrek & Fiona (Shrek)

Merle Rappaport & Caleb Cresswell - 70s Wanda Maximoff & Vision (Marvel)

Oliver Mulciber & Talia Kiraz-Mulciber - Flynn Rider & Rapunzel (Tangled/Disney)

[avatarskywalker78]

It’s another Fic Back Friday!!!!! And the first to be recommended is Oliver Knows by kuroinekokun, a great story where Oliver sees how the Legends treat Mick even after he saves Felicity and Kara on seperate occasions, and when he and Barry are on the Waverider find out just how far the mistreatment goes. An excellent and very cathartic story.

The second is Tornado Warning by nirejeski, a brilliant written Flash AU where Henry is the one killed, not Nora, who proceeds to fight against her arrest with everything she has - and succeeds. Nora is pretty badass in this story and knows that the Man in Yellow is after him and that he’ll try again, so recruits Len and Mick to act as bodyguards. They agree and the result is an excellent found family piece. Just as a warning, it’s very much not Joe friendly, but it’s one of my favourite fics in the entire fandom.

And the third is Teapot by @california-112 , set during the first episode of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) - the original - as Jeff goes into a downward spiral because of Marty’s death, and Jeannie tries to help him despite her own grief because he’s her friend. Brilliantly written and utterly heartbreaking, but it works out in the end.

[morwennastower]

Randall and Hopkirk, Deceased

I have very fond memories of this series (enough to have bought the boxed set to rewatch) and this podcast has loads of behind the scenes info. For instance, there's an episode called The Ghost Talks, where Jeff is in hospital, and Marty entertains him by telling him about a case he took on while he was still alive. Mike Pratt had actually broken both his legs, so this script was done very quickly so that he could just lie in bed for the whole episode!

[redsoapbox]

Two More Artists with a Peel Session on Their CV Join Our Fundraising Line-Up

The Popguns are an English indie-rock combo from Brighton, formed in 1986, 87 or 88, depending on the source used, by vocalist Wendy Morgan, guitarists Simon Pickles & Greg Dixon plus bassist Pat Walkington. They were joined by Shaun Charman, the former drummer for The Wedding Present, in 1988.

Their debut single “Landslide” (1989) made the Indie charts and was followed by the albums Eugenie (1990), Snog (1991) and Love Junky (1995), the latter without Charman. A Plus de Cent (1996) brought the first phase of the band’s career to a close. Worth mentioning here that the combo recorded two sessions for John Peel and were included in Cherry Red’s essential Scared to Get Happy: A Story of Indie-Pop 1980–1989. 

A long hiatus followed, before The Popguns returned to the fray with a new album Pop Fiction (2014) and backed that up with 2017′s Sugar Kisses. The track that the band are contributing, “The Twelve Days of Christmas” (2021), is an absolute banger which can be filed under boy meets girl Christmas romance.  

Here’s the fab “Landslide”

https://thepopguns.bandcamp.com/music

I only bought my first Simon Love record in 2015, which makes me preposterously late to the party, especially as Mr. Love’s domain is Cardiff, where I have worked for 30 years. It was a set at the Buffalo Bar, as part of the Sŵn festival, where our paths finally crossed. There is a photo somewhere of the two of us, taken at the Welsh Music Prize later that year, or perhaps the next. I must make clear that I’m not claiming any personal friendship here, I simply ambushed him for that photo op because he was wearing a startling white suit and, as a fan of the original Randall and Hopkirk series, I just couldn’t let the chance to pretend that I was Jeff and that he was Marty pass me by. I was tempted to use that photo here, but there is a much better one of Simon below which always makes me laugh out loud.

Anyways, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time was a knockout album and was followed by the equally well-received Sincerely, S. Love x (2018) and Love Sex and Death (2022), both for Tapete in Germany. 

It has always been my intention, although I haven’t taken a single step forward in that direction yet, to check out the work of The Loves, the band Simon fronted in the first decade of the century. There are no less than four albums and four Peel Sessions to trawl through. I sense a New Year’s Resolution in the air.

Here’s an entirely random Simon Love song -

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jeff randall and marty hopkirk - randall and hopkirk (deceased)

[jimmyandthegiraffes]

Still thinking about the moment where Marty and Jeff both try to grab Bream by the collar but of course Marty grabs only air and is looking at his hand for a sec like hello??

[spookdoodles]

still not quite back into practice drawing yet

[fictionturnedherbrain]

Episode 1: My Late Lamented Friend and Partner

Marty is always at least five minutes early for his appointments

Other businesses in the same building as Jeff and Marty’s private inquiry agency include Clive Murray, Theatrical Agency, and Les Fields Recording Co.

Randall’s telephone number is 3864, and he has apartment number 14 (or 41)

Marty is murdered on Wednesday evening at 8.30pm, outside his own house

Marty and Jean Hopkirk live at apartment number 8

Marty is also a worrier, ‘always worrying about something’ – mainly Jean, as she reminds Jeff

Jeff : You mean you’re a ghost?

Marty : I suppose I am, really

Jeff : Why can’t you stay dead like everyone else?

Marty : Only you can see me, Jeff; I chose you

Jeff : Thanks

Jeff – What’s wrong with lilies?

Marty – They’re morbid!

Hotel landlord (after Jeff enters with Marty) – You’ve brought the cold in with you

Jeff’s advice to novice ghost Marty : I should imagine you have to believe you can really do it

A fair pilot episode, with a neat storyline – Marty’s sense of order and justice gets him killed – and minimal exposition (mostly crammed into the reunion scene at the cemetery). The dialogue is swift and straightforward, if delivered awkwardly at times by the cast in their new roles, and the premise of the series is established with Marty’s death and subsequent haunting of Jeff. I would like to have seen more of Marty pre-dispatch, but my favourite element of the show is satisfactorily evident without it: Jeff and Marty’s unlikely yet close friendship. As with most male partnerships on screen, the two are fundamentally at odds and yet they work as two halves of a whole – Marty is the brains of the outfit, an idealist living a neat and conventional life with his treasured wife Jean, whilst Jeff is the brawn, a free spirit enjoying chance encounters in his bachelor pad, relying on Marty to worry enough for the both of them.

After the death of his ‘friend and partner’, Jeff is left grief-stricken and lost; he sees Jean through the funeral, keeping his promise to Marty that he would look after her, and then returns to his flat, shattered and alone. When the telephone rings and it’s Marty, Jeff is instantly elated to hear his best friend’s voice – until his whisky-hazed fatigue clears enough for him to realise the impossibility of such a call, and he is cut by the cruelty of such a hoax.

Jeff’s grief is a short experience, with Marty soon returning as a ‘sleeping’ partner, but his numb sadness is a fitting and rather sweet interlude in their friendship. ‘Marty Hopkirk was ... my friend’, he stammers down the phone; and Sid, the concerned switchboard operator in Jeff’s block, reveals that the two friends were ‘very close’. There is instantly enough of a rapport between the two actors to show a natural and long-standing bond between Jeff and Marty, both before and after Hopkirk ceases to be, and the dialogue plays on a fraternal familiarity that bounces back and forth from playful exasperation (‘Why can’t you stay dead?’) to firm trust and mutual dependence (‘With you, I’ve got a chance’). Jeff instantly adjusts to his partner’s ghostly presence, chatting and plotting with Marty as if nothing has changed (bar a few new tricks that could prove useful to their trade), but the prospect of being haunted by a nervous and demanding spirit for the rest of his life soon sobers his delight.

[chapinfan69]

[harry-crane]

Yknow how people have fictional others and they're like "This is my bf sans undertale"? Can you have fictional exes? I wanna be like "This is my ex husband Loki Marvel"