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Jonathan Creek
1997 - 2014 7.5 (62 votes) 5 Seasons
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Genres
Mystery Comedy Drama
Networks
BBC One
Created By
David Renwick

Jonathan Creek

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Top Cast

Alan Davies
Alan Davies

Jonathan Creek

Sarah Alexander
Sarah Alexander

Polly Creek

Seasons

Season 0 poster
Season 0 (1998)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 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.

Runtime: 89 min
Episode 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!

Runtime: 119 min
Episode 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...

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 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.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 5: The Clue of the Savant's Thumb
2013-03-31

Joey Ross draws Jonathan into a complex case involving a secret society, seemingly supernatural events at a girls' boarding school, and the miraculous disappearance of a body.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 6: Daemons' Roost
2016-12-28

The stepdaughter of horror film director Nathan Clore contacts Jonathan to help her find the answer to the mysterious deaths of her mother and two sisters years earlier. Her stepfather was going to reveal the secret to her, but suffered a stroke and is unable to communicate. She believes the answer lies within Daemons' Roost, her stepfather's mansion, formerly owned by notorious 19th century sorcerer Jacob Surtees. As Jonathan and Polly investigate, the sorcerer apparently returns from the grave and kills the woman's husband. With help from the local vicar, together they uncover a tale of murderous revenge. Meanwhile Jonathan is stalked by an adversary from a previous case who also has revenge on his mind.

Runtime: N/A min
Episode 7: Long Hair and Duffel Coat

A DVD extra, 25 minute Jonathan Creek documentary which feature interviews with the writer, cast and production team.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 8: Screen Tests

VHS screentest featuring Alan Davis (Jonathan Creek) and Caroline Quentin (Maddy Magellan).

Runtime: 13 min
Episode 9: Video Profile: Alan Davis

Video profile of Alan Davis who plays Jonathan Creek. Included as a Season 4 DVD special.

Runtime: 4 min
Episode 10: Video Profile: Julia Sawalha

Video profile of Julia Sawalha who plays Carla Borrego. Included as a Season 4 DVD special.

Runtime: 6 min
Episode 11: Video Profile: David Renwick

Video profile of David Renwick, the writer of Jonathan Creek. Included as a Season 4 DVD special.

Runtime: 5 min
Episode 12: The Seer of the Sands Deleted Scenes (S4)

Deleted scenes from episode 4 of Season 4 - "The Seer of the Sands".

Runtime: 8 min
Episode 13: "Hot Stuff" Music Video

"Hot Stuff" featured in episode 2 of Season 4 - "Angel Hair".

Runtime: 3 min
Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1997)

No overview available.

5 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Wrestler's Tomb
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.

Runtime: 89 min
Episode 2: Jack in the Box
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?

Runtime: 59 min
Episode 3: The Reconstituted Corpse
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...

Runtime: 59 min
Episode 4: No Trace of Tracy
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...?

Runtime: 59 min
Episode 5: The House of Monkeys
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....!

Runtime: 59 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1998)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1999)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Curious Tale of Mr. Spearfish
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

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 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!...

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 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...

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 4: Ghost's Forge
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...

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 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!

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 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!

Runtime: 50 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (2003)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 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...?

Runtime: 59 min
Episode 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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 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...!

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 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?

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 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.

Runtime: 61 min

Videos

Jonathan Creek: Trailer - BBC One

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