Jonathan Creek
Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.
Seasons
1. The Wrestler's Tomb
Air Date: 1997-05-09
Feature length pilot episode. Investigative crime writer Maddy Magellan joins forces with quirky magic expert Jonathan Creek to investigate when a painter, called Hedley Shale, is murdered in suspicious circumstances. However the way in which he was murdered doesn't quite add up.
2. Jack in the Box
Air Date: 1997-05-16
When veteran comedian Jack Holiday is found dead in a locked nuclear bunker inside a cliff, it looks like an open and shut case of suicide. However, Jack had crippling arthritis and couldn't even peel a banana himself let alone hold a gun to his head! But if it was murder....how did the murderer escape?
3. The Reconstituted Corpse
Air Date: 1997-05-23
Zola Zbzewski's plastic surgeon is found shot to death in his home, and she claims she knows nothing about it. The fact he would have ruined the launch of her new book gives her no motive at all! But when Zola turns up dead in Maddy's wardrobe, things start to look suspicious...
4. No Trace of Tracy
Air Date: 1997-05-30
Roy Pilgrim an old rocker from the 60's comes home from his run only to be knocked out and chained to his radiator. Meanwhile at four O'clock a fan of his arrives at his house and walks in. However at four O'clock all Roy saw was a frog enter and then leave...where did Tracy go...?
5. The House of Monkeys
Air Date: 1997-06-06
Elliot Strange is found murdered in a locked room, which has bars on the windows. As there was no way of the killer leaving without being seen, as his wife knocked on the door moments later where did they go...? Cue Jonathan Creek and Maddy Magellan....!
1. Danse Macabre
Air Date: 1998-01-24
A best selling author is shot in the heart in her daughter's home on Halloween. The killer appears to have vanished in a puff of smoke, but with Jonathan Creek too busy to help Maddy, she must solve the crime on her own.
2. Time Waits for Norman
Air Date: 1998-01-31
Creek and Magellan face the intriguing case of a man who appears to have defied the laws of time.
3. The Scented Room
Air Date: 1998-02-07
Although Jonathan Creek knows how a painting, worth a million pounds, was apparently stolen by an invisible thief, he refuses to tell anyone because he has a personal vendetta against its owner!
4. The Problem at Gallows Gate (Part 1)
Air Date: 1998-02-14
Jonathan is lumbered with baby-sitting Adam's sister Kitty, and ends up taking her to a badger watch with Maddy. But Kitty ends up seeing more than just badgers in the woods....But how can a man who apparently committed suicide be seen killing a woman three weeks later..?
5. The Problem at Gallows Gate (Part 2)
Air Date: 1998-02-21
Jonathan & Maddy continue to investigate the mystery at Gallow's Gate.
6. Mother Redcap
Air Date: 1998-02-28
When a judge receives a death threat due to a high profile case he receives round the clock protection. Despite this he is still killed, but how did the killer manage to get past the police and how did he appear to have defied time...?
1. The Curious Tale of Mr. Spearfish
Air Date: 1999-11-27
Lenny Spearfish's fortunes take a sudden turn for the better and the money suddenly starts pouring in and to top that he becomes seemingly invincible. He claims to have sold his soul to the Devil leaving his wife Alice, a God-fearing Catholic, terrified of repercussions
2. The Eyes of Tiresias
Air Date: 1999-12-04
Audrey Panguitch, a 73 year-old widow, appears to be able to predict death through her vivid dreams, when an international businessman is murdered in a way in which she foresaw. And then there is another death which she appears to have had a premonition about. A tin of Goldfish food may hold the key!...
3. The Omega Man
Air Date: 1999-12-11
Professor Lance Graumann - a leading authority on extra terrestrial phenomena invites Maddy to see his latest discovery -a perfectly preserved alien skeleton. However the American military have other plans and take the skeleton - however when they open the case at their military base it's no where to be found...
4. Ghost's Forge
Air Date: 1999-12-18
When Maddy's glamorous former colleague Mimi Trantor turns up with a mystery in an old house in Norfolk, it's all change. Jonathan turns investigator, as Maddy finds herself turning into an illusionist...
5. Miracle in Crooked Lane
Air Date: 1999-12-28
A young woman, who has led a scandalous life that has shocked the local village community, suffers severe burns in an appalling accident. But how can she have returned to her village church in order to seek forgiveness for her past sins, when she is lying in a coma in hospital?...Enter a man in a duffel coat and shaggy hair with the answer....but this time it isn't Jonathan Creek!
6. The Three Gamblers
Air Date: 2000-01-02
A man of pure evil is "disposed" of with the help of six bullets to the head - but has his corpse come back to life with revenge on its mind? Maddy and Jonathan visit a damp, deserted farmhouse to investigate!
1. The Coonskin Cap
Air Date: 2003-03-01
Jonathan and Carla, who is now a television presenter, are called in to discover how a WPC's murderer can escape a locked gymnasium surrounded by police officers. Is her murder really connected to those of a strangler wearing a 'Davey Crockett' cap...?
2. Angel Hair
Air Date: 2003-03-08
Jonathan is called in to investigate the mystery of a girl whose shoulder-length hair has miraculously grown back just 48 hours after a kidnapper cut it all off. He finds himself embroiled in the world of a successful composer who has created the perfect pop star.
3. The Tailor's Dummy
Air Date: 2003-03-15
Jonathan is hired to shed light on the mystery of how a man can physically transform himself into another person, in front of a witness's eyes. His investigations lead him into a tale of tragic suicide, Groucho Marx and a parrot named Harvey.
4. The Seer Of The Sands
Air Date: 2004-02-14
When a ghost hunter dedicated to exposing fraud in all it's forms dies in a tragic accident, Jonathan and Carla investigate whether his spirit lives on. Why did the boat crash occur, how did the body disappear and how did the answers to five spontaneous questions mysteriously appear in a bottle beneath the sand?! All will be revealed...!
5. The Chequered Box
Air Date: 2004-02-21
A top policeman is seen smirking at the scene of a hanging - can Jonathan and Carla help him prove that he has nothing to do with it, especially since there is photographical evidence against him?
6. Gorgons Wood
Air Date: 2004-02-28
A priceless porcelain figure of the mystic monk Sikoto-no disappears from a small town museum, setting off a train of tragic events. When Jonathan Creek and Carla Borrego are called in to investigate, the trail takes them deep into a mysterious wood, where a gnarled old beech tree holds the key to the puzzle.
1. The Letters of Septimus Noone
Air Date: 2014-02-28
When a classic locked room novel is turned into a West End musical, one of its stars falls victim to a real-life 'impossible crime'.
2. The Sinner and the Sandman
Air Date: 2014-03-07
A retired local psychic inadvertently makes the most amazing and impossible prediction of his career.
3. The Curse of the Bronze Lamp
Air Date: 2014-03-14
A wealthy kidnap victim appears to pull off a mind-boggling act of teleportation to alert the police to her whereabouts.
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Rating
7.5/10
Release Date
1997-05-09
Episodes
26 (5 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
Videos
Production Companies
BBC Studios