Jonathan Creek

All Episodes 1997 - 2016

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  • 1997-05-09T20:00:00Z
  • 50m
  • 1d 18m (26 episodes)
  • David Renwick
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • BBC Studios
  • Comedy, Drama, Mystery
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.

34 episodes

1998-12-24T21:00:00Z

Special 1 Black Canary

Special 1 Black Canary

  • 1998-12-24T21:00:00Z1h 29m

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.

2001-12-26T21:00:00Z

Special 2 Satan's Chimney

Special 2 Satan's Chimney

  • 2001-12-26T21:00:00Z1h 59m

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!

2009-01-01T21:00:00Z

Special 3 The Grinning Man

Special 3 The Grinning Man

  • 2009-01-01T21:00:00Z2h

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...

2010-04-04T20:00:00Z

Special 4 The Judas Tree

Special 4 The Judas Tree

  • 2010-04-04T20:00:00Z1h 34m

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.

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.

2016-12-28T21:00:00Z

Special 6 Daemons' Roost

Special 6 Daemons' Roost

  • 2016-12-28T21:00:00Z1h 29m

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.

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

Series Premiere

1997-05-09T20:00:00Z

1x01 The Wrestler's Tomb

Series Premiere

1x01 The Wrestler's Tomb

  • 1997-05-09T20:00:00Z1h 29m

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.

1997-05-16T20:00:00Z

1x02 Jack in the Box

1x02 Jack in the Box

  • 1997-05-16T20:00:00Z59m

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?

1997-05-23T20:00:00Z

1x03 The Reconstituted Corpse

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...

1997-05-30T20:00:00Z

1x04 No Trace of Tracy

1x04 No Trace of Tracy

  • 1997-05-30T20:00:00Z59m

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...?

Season Finale

1997-06-06T20:00:00Z

1x05 The House of Monkeys

Season Finale

1x05 The House of Monkeys

  • 1997-06-06T20:00:00Z59m

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....!

Season Premiere

1998-01-24T21:00:00Z

2x01 Danse Macabre

Season Premiere

2x01 Danse Macabre

  • 1998-01-24T21:00:00Z51m

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.

1998-01-31T21:00:00Z

2x02 Time Waits for Norman

2x02 Time Waits for Norman

  • 1998-01-31T21:00:00Z49m

Creek and Magellan face the intriguing case of a man who appears to have defied the laws of time.

1998-02-07T21:00:00Z

2x03 The Scented Room

2x03 The Scented Room

  • 1998-02-07T21:00:00Z49m

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!

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..?

Jonathan & Maddy continue to investigate the mystery at Gallow's Gate.

Season Finale

1998-02-28T21:00:00Z

2x06 Mother Redcap

Season Finale

2x06 Mother Redcap

  • 1998-02-28T21:00:00Z50m

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...?

Season Premiere

1999-11-27T21:00:00Z

3x01 The Curious Tale of Mr. Spearfish

Season Premiere

3x01 The Curious Tale of Mr. Spearfish

  • 1999-11-27T21:00:00Z49m

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

1999-12-04T21:00:00Z

3x02 The Eyes of Tiresias

3x02 The Eyes of Tiresias

  • 1999-12-04T21:00:00Z50m

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!...

1999-12-11T21:00:00Z

3x03 The Omega Man

3x03 The Omega Man

  • 1999-12-11T21:00:00Z51m

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...

1999-12-18T21:00:00Z

3x04 Ghost's Forge

3x04 Ghost's Forge

  • 1999-12-18T21:00:00Z50m

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...

1999-12-28T21:00:00Z

3x05 Miracle in Crooked Lane

3x05 Miracle in Crooked Lane

  • 1999-12-28T21:00:00Z50m

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!

Season Finale

2000-01-02T21:00:00Z

3x06 The Three Gamblers

Season Finale

3x06 The Three Gamblers

  • 2000-01-02T21:00:00Z50m

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!

Season Premiere

2003-03-01T21:00:00Z

4x01 The Coonskin Cap

Season Premiere

4x01 The Coonskin Cap

  • 2003-03-01T21:00:00Z59m

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...?

2003-03-08T21:00:00Z

4x02 Angel Hair

4x02 Angel Hair

  • 2003-03-08T21:00:00Z1h

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.

2003-03-15T21:00:00Z

4x03 The Tailor's Dummy

4x03 The Tailor's Dummy

  • 2003-03-15T21:00:00Z1h

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.

2004-02-14T21:00:00Z

4x04 The Seer Of The Sands

4x04 The Seer Of The Sands

  • 2004-02-14T21:00:00Z1h

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...!

2004-02-21T21:00:00Z

4x05 The Chequered Box

4x05 The Chequered Box

  • 2004-02-21T21:00:00Z1h

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?

Season Finale

2004-02-28T21:00:00Z

4x06 Gorgons Wood

Season Finale

4x06 Gorgons Wood

  • 2004-02-28T21:00:00Z1h 1m

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.

Season Premiere

2014-02-28T21:00:00Z

5x01 The Letters of Septimus Noone

Season Premiere

5x01 The Letters of Septimus Noone

  • 2014-02-28T21:00:00Z59m

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'.

A retired local psychic inadvertently makes the most amazing and impossible prediction of his career.

Season Finale

2014-03-14T21:00:00Z

5x03 The Curse of the Bronze Lamp

Season Finale

5x03 The Curse of the Bronze Lamp

  • 2014-03-14T21:00:00Z58m

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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