Jonathan Creek
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First Aired: 1997-01-01Length: 60 MinStatus: Ended
Jonathan Creek invents magic tricks for a living. His brilliantly lateral mind helps him to solve mysteries he encounters, primarily because of his friend Madeline Magellan, an investigative journalist. (Source: thetvdb.com)
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| 3 | The Curse of the Bronze Lamp | 2014-03-14 |
| When a kidnapping victim disappears under the attackers' noses, Jonathan is forced into solving a mystery for a league of unpleasant gentlemen, much to Polly's displeasure. | ||
| 2 | The Sinner and the Sandman | 2014-03-07 |
| A retired local psychic inadvertently makes the most amazing and impossible prediction of his career. | ||
| 1 | The Letters of Septimus Noone | 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'. The Mystery of the Yellow Room, based on a 19th century story, is thrilling London theatre audiences with its enticing blend of music, romance and sizzling gothic melodrama. But events take a sinister turn when the show's glamorous singing sensation Juno Pirelli is found horribly stabbed inside a locked dressing room, from which no assailant could possibly have escaped. No weapon or any other evidence of an intruder can be found, nor any rational explanation for the victim's wounds. As the actress's life hangs in the balance, her producer and colleagues remain baffled. And attention once again turns to the lateral-thinking Jonathan Creek for a solution to the whole grisly puzzle. But can Creek - now a happily married man - even be persuaded to embark upon the investigation? As he and wife Polly struggle to come to terms with a sudden personal tragedy, a series of dark and disturbing family secrets are about to emerge that will throw the couple's whole world into turmoil... | ||
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| 6 | Gorgons Wood | 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. | ||
| 5 | The Chequered Box | 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? | ||
| 4 | The Seer of the Sands | 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...! | ||
| 3 | The Tailor's Dummy | 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. | ||
| 2 | Angel Hair | 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. | ||
| 1 | The Coonskin Cap | 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...? | ||
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| 6 | The Three Gamblers | 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! | ||
| 5 | Miracle in Crooked Lane | 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! | ||
| 4 | Ghost's Forge | 1999-12-18 |
| While Creek, Magellan and Tranter are investigating the apparently motiveless murder of an ageing hermit, Magellan vanishes into thin air. | ||
| 3 | The Omega Man | 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... | ||
| 2 | The Eyes of Tiresias | 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!... | ||
| 1 | The Curious Tale of Mr. Spearfish | 1999-11-27 |
| A couple's lives are dramatically transformed after the husband enters into a pact with the devil - he has since found buried treasure and appears to be able to defy death. | ||
| Season 2 (show/hide) | ||
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| 6 | Mother Redcap | 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...? | ||
| 5 | The Problem at Gallows Gate (2) | 1998-02-21 |
| Jonathan & Maddy continue to investigate the mystery at Gallow's Gate. | ||
| 4 | The Problem at Gallows Gate (1) | 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..? | ||
| 3 | The Scented Room | 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! Guest stars: Bob Monkhouse, Sophie Langham | ||
| 2 | Time Waits for Norman | 1998-01-31 |
| Creek and Magellan face the intriguing case of a man who appears to have defied the laws of time. Guest stars: Deborah Grant, Dermot Crowley, Geoffrey McGivern | ||
| 1 | Danse Macabre | 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. Guest stars: Gavan O'Herlihy, Mark Caven, Meg Davies, Peter Davison, Pippa Haywood | ||
| Season 1 (show/hide) | ||
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| 5 | The House of Monkeys | 1997-06-07 |
| 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....! Guest stars: Annette Crosbie, Barnaby Kay, Charles Kay, Sara Markland, Selina Cadell, Simon Day | ||
| 4 | No Trace of Tracy | 1997-05-31 |
| Rockstar Roy Pilgrim is a living legend. But when one of his 16-year-old fans apparently vanishes into thin air, the police are clearly faced with a problem. Guest stars: Geraldine Alexander, Heather-Jay Jones, Ralph Brown | ||
| 3 | The Reconstituted Corpse | 1997-05-24 |
| 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... Guest stars: Hilary Lyon, Kika Mirylees, Nigel Planer, Philip McGough, Ron Berglas | ||
| 2 | Jack in the Box | 1997-05-17 |
| 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? Guest stars: Bernard Kay, John Bluthal, Maureen O'Brien, Robin Soans | ||
| 1 | The Wrestler's Tomb | 1997-05-10 |
| 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. Guest stars: Alistair McGowan, Anthony Head, Colin Baker, Saskia Mulder, Sheila Gish | ||
| Season 0 (show/hide) | ||
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| 7 | Long Hair & Duffel Coat | |
| A 25 minute Jonathan Creek documentary which feature interviews with the writer, cast and production team. | ||
| 6 | Daemons' Roost | 2016-12-28 |
| The dark, forbidding edifice of Daemons' Roost does not readily yield its evil secrets. Here it was, according to legend, that a 19th-century sorcerer named Jacob Surtees would summon the powers of hell to terrorise and subjugate his victims. Contemporaneous accounts describe his impossible feats of telekinesis, which have remained unexplained to this day. 150 years after his death, the house is occupied by another equally macabre figure: veteran film director Nathan Clore, whose output of schlock horror movies in the 1970s generated its own brand of terror among cinema audiences. With his health now failing he has summoned home his stepdaughter Alison, to share with her, finally, the chilling truth of what happened to her family there when she was just a child. | ||
| 5 | The Clue of the Savant's Thumb | 2013-04-01 |
| When a dead body impossibly vanishes from a locked study, it is only the first in a chain of dark mysteries confronting Jonathan Creek and self-styled paranormal investigator Joey Ross. Guest stars: Joanna Lumley, Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall | ||
| 4 | The Judas Tree | 2010-04-04 |
| A housekeeper's assistant working for a celebrated crime writer becomes convinced she is losing her mind following a series of bizarre occurrences in his house. As master of illusion Jonathan and his intrepid sidekick Joey Ross puzzle over the strange events, they realise the mysterious death of a former resident in 1889, who apparently fell victim to the supernatural powers of his Egyptian employee, could hold the key. | ||
| 3 | The Grinning Man | 2009-01-01 |
| At midnight on Midsummer's Day 1938, a famous Harvard geneticist, Eli Mencken, accepts a challenge to spend the night inside a gloomy old attic room... where the ghost of a madman is said to prey upon human flesh. Next morning, he has impossibly vanished from the hermetically sealed chamber. The only clue to his disappearance is traces of grisly ectoplasm on the bed. Seventy years on, the vast Gothic house known as Metropolis has passed into the hands of the original owner's daughter and her son, but the strange, unexplained events in "The Nightmare Room" continue... | ||
| 2 | Satan's Chimney | 2001-12-26 |
| How can a gun be fired through a glass window without breaking the glass? How do bodies disappear and turn to dust within stone castle walls? Jonathan must once again put his thinking cap on to solve the mystery surrounding the murder of an actress, this time without the help of Maddy! | ||
| 1 | Black Canary | 1998-12-24 |
| Creek & Magellan investigate the apparently impossible suicide of a female illusionist, who daughter happens to be a former flame of Creek's, and whose twin sister was killed fifteen years previously. But there is another lateral mind at work this time, in the form of swashbuckling Det Insp Gideon Pryke. Guest stars: Francis Matthews, Hannah Gordon, Rik Mayall | ||
(Source: thetvdb.com)
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