Jonathan Creek

BBC (ended 2004)
  • Season 6
    • Ep 2
      The Judas Tree
      4/4/10
      7.3
      Jonathan meets a young woman employed by a celebrated crime novelist and his wife. A series of inexplicable events at her employers' home has convinced the woman that she is losing her mind. Could there be a connection with the Egyptian housekeeper who apparently murdered her own employer at the same house in 1889?moreless
    • Ep 1
      The Grinning Man
      1/1/09
      8.6
      Jonathan is asked to investigate a series of unexplained disappearances from the attic in a Gothic house. Joey Ross is determined to find out what happened to her friend, and joins Jonathan in his quest.
  • Season 4
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      Satan's Chimney
      12/26/01
      9.0
      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!moreless
  • Season 3
    • Ep 6
      The Seer of the Sands
      2/14/04
      8.4
      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?moreless
    • Ep 6
      The Three Gamblers
      1/2/00
      9.1
      A drug dealer is shot and left for dead in the cellar of an isolated farmhouse. Three months later, the body is found, having apparently climbed to the top of the cellar stairs. Maddy and Jonathan visit the farmhouse to investigate.
    • Ep 5
      Gorgon's Wood
      2/28/04
      8.5
      A priceless porcelain figure of the Shinto monk Sikoto-no disappears from a 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.moreless
    • Ep 5
      Miracle in Crooked Lane
      12/28/99
      8.5
      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? Maddy drags Jonathan along to a convention, to meet his fan club.moreless
    • Ep 4
      The Chequered Box
      2/21/04
      8.4
      A top policeman is seen smirking at the scene of a hanging. Jonathan and Carla try to help him prove that he has nothing to do with it, despite the photographic evidence against him.
    • Ep 4
      Ghost's Forge
      12/18/99
      8.8
      Jonathan and Maddy help an old colleague of Maddy's to investigate the apparently motiveless murder of a recluse eighten months before.
    • Ep 3
      The Tailor's Dummy
      3/15/03
      8.7
      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.
    • Ep 3
      The Omega Man
      12/11/99
      8.3
      Professor Lance Graumann, a leading authority on extra-terrestrial phenomena, claims to have discovered the perfectly-preserved skeleton of an alien lifeform. The US military impound the artefact, but when they open the case at their military base it has disappeared…
    • Ep 2
      Angel Hair
      3/8/03
      8.3
      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.
    • Ep 2
      The Eyes of Tiresias
      12/4/99
      8.0
      Audrey Panguitch, a 73-year-old widow, appears to be able to predict death through her vivid dreams, when an international businessman is murdered exactly as she foresaw.
    • Ep 1
      The Coonskin Cap
      3/1/03
      8.4
      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 carried out by a strangler wearing a coonskin cap?
    • Ep 1
      The Curious Tale of Mr Spearfish
      11/27/99
      7.1
      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
  • Season 1
    • Ep 5
      The House of Monkeys
      6/7/97
      8.0
      Elliot Strange is found dead in a locked room, impaled on a Samurai sword. The police suspect a bizarre suicide, but his widow suspects foul play and asks Jonathan for help.
    • Ep 4
      No Trace of Tracy
      5/31/97
      8.1
      Rock legend Roy Pilgrim is accused of murdering a young fan seen entering his home. However, Pilgrim was chained to his radiator at the time and claims not to have seen the girl arrive.
    • Ep 3
      The Reconstituted Corpse
      5/24/97
      8.7
      Beautician Zola Zbzewski is accused of murdering her former lover, a plastic surgeon found shot to death in his home, who had threatedned to go to the press and ruin the launch of her new book. Then Zola's dead body falls out of Maddy's wardrobe…
    • Ep 2
      Jack in the Box
      5/17/97
      8.9
      Veteran comedy actor Jack Holiday is found dead in a nuclear bunker, shot through the head and with a gun by his side. Jack had crippling arthritis and wouldn't have been able to hold a gun, and the bunker was locked from the inside. Who shot him, and how did the killer escape?moreless
    • Ep 1
      The Wrestler's Tomb
      5/10/97
      8.4
      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.