Jeff Randall

Jeffrey "Jeff" Randall is one of the main protagonists on the television series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), the second being Marty Hopkirk.

Biography
Jeff was a private investigator who ran and business with his friend and partner Marty Hopkirk called the Randall and Hopkirk detective agency.

However during a divorce case involving Fay Sorrenson, Jeff was unable to make it so Marty took his place unaware there was a plot by Fay's husband John to have her killed so he could inherit her money and take over her business after she had threatened to divorce him.

When this happened, Marty was there and saw it happen, Sorrenson was afraid of Marty suspecting him so he hired a hit and run driver to have him killed as well.

After attending Marty's funeral along with Marty's wife Jeannie, poor Jeff was all alone, until Marty contacted him and took him to the place where he was buried. Marty was now a ghost who only Jeff could see or hear and he told Jeff about his murder and that he would help him solve it.

After several investigations, they knew that Sorrenson had set up Marty's murder so Jeff blackmailed him by pretending that he had a note from Marty explaining the whole thing and would not go to the police if he was handed £25,000.

Sorrenson decides to have Jeff killed in the same way as Marty, but with Marty's help by blowing a newspaper at their windscreen, the car crashed into a lamp-post resulting in Sorrenson and his men being arrested.

Marty however had stayed on the case too long during daylight so he was forced to walk the earth for a hundred years. He decides to help Jeff in solving cases and their partnership becomes stronger than ever.

Personality
Jeff is highly ambiguous character. In certain episodes he can show morals and respect for other characters, but at other times he can appear as immoral and verging on criminal in his behaviour such as when he witnessed the murder of a theatre performer and instead of contacting the police, called a newspaper to make a profit.

Jeff also has a fiery temper and can become particularly irritated with certain situations and people including his good friend Marty who sometimes get frustrates him because he haunts him just as much as he helps him. But Marty has often helped him out of various situations thanks to his ghost like abilities.