Name of a UK TV show

[Jono]

I need help with the name of a UK TV show, not sure when it was made but I saw it in 2002/2003 here in Australia so it would be before that.

The basic plot of the show is that it follows two ghosts/spirits, a man and a woman. I think the woman was killed in a hit and run - can't remember how the man died.

Anyway, they team up and try to figure out why they are not in heaven or hell and figure out they have to solve some issue they have with when they were alive. For the woman it is to find out who the hit and run driver was. For the man I think it centred around the fact he died without handing in his life insurance so that his family is now on hard times.

Also despite the fact they are dead they still can be seen by people as long as that person did not know who they were when they were alive.

Well, that's what I can remember but I can't figure out what it was called, if someone knows the show I'd appreciate learning what it was called.

 

[Kemaiku]

I think from that description you're refering to the 2002/3 remake of "Randell and Hopkirk (Deceased)". It was originally a 60's television show centered around Jeff Randell solving crimes with the aid of the ghost of his dead partner Martin Hopkirk who died in the opening episode and from then on only seen by Randell. Complicating matters is the fact that Marty's wife/widow is working for Jeff.

I could be wrong, since I didn't follow the remake and whatever changes it made to the storyline from the original.

 

[Jim Steele]

^

That's the closest thing I can think of too.

It was a pretty decent show, despite being little more than a vehicle for Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer.

Catterick's better...*

Edit: No, scratch that, Catterick didn't star Tom Baker

 

[Jono]

^Unfortunately that isn't it. They weren't detectives, just ordinary people bound together because they were both dead....if that makes sense.

 

[Kemaiku]

Well in that case I don't know.

 

[Jim Steele]

Ditto. Doesn't ring any bells at all I'm afraid.

 

[Jono]

Damn...might have been a mini-series or a short run tv show. Mainly want to know because the last episode had a sort of cliffhanging ending and I'd like to know if and how it was resolved.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I'm at a loss, parts of the description are ringing bells, but I can't say I know of anything with all those elements you described.

 

[captcalhoun]

my recommendation: ask the SFXperts sfxperts@futurenet.co.uk

they do this kinda thing every month in the magazine (SFX)

 

[ZERO_of_ZERO]

Found it, I think (Never seen it though):

http://www.tv.com/shades/show/9126/summary.html

Welcome to the Shades guide at TV Tome.


Shades is the story of two strangers who meet after their deaths in contemporary London. Mark (Stephen Tompkinson) is an uninsured blue-collar family man who dies during routine surgery; though he's managed to hide it from his pregnant wife Jo (Sally Hurst), his failing small business has put him on the verge of bankruptcy. Maeve (Dervla Kirwan), meanwhile, is a young single career woman who has a married boyfriend (Peter O'Brien) and who is killed in a hit-and-run incident. The two meet up hours after their deaths, and find they can interact with other humans to a limited extent. The catch? The living immediately forget any conversations they've had with Maeve and Mark the minute they leave...and anyone Mark or Maeve knew during their lifetimes can't see or hear them at all.



How these two 'shades', with their differing views on almost every subject, interact with humans -- and more importantly, with each other -- forms the basis of this alternately funny and bittersweet series. Throughout the six episodes Mark and Maeve involve themselves in other people's lives, although their primary focus is on helping to solve each other's problems. And what problems could the dead possibly have? Well, most prominently, Mark desperately wants to make amends to his wife and get his family back on their financial feet again, and Maeve becomes obsessed with catching the mysterious person who killed her...

 

[Jono]

^ Excellent, that is it! Thanks ZERO

Looks like it was canned after the sixth episode, since I'm sure that was the last episode I saw. I guess I still don't get to find out what happens.