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Warning!: If you haven't seen the episodes, please think twice about looking at the in-depth episode guides. They are very detailed, and may spoil the enjoyment for you.
Season 1, Episode 1
THE WRESTLER'S TOMB
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Marcus Mortimer
Originally Broadcast (UK), 10th May 1997 on BBC1
9.31 million viewers in the UK
Feature length pilot episode. A painter called Hedley Shale is murdered in suspicious circumstances. However the way in which he was murdered doesn't quite add up. Madeline Magellan an investigative journalist enlists the help of Jonathan Creek, a man who invents magic tricks for a living.
Season 1, Episode 2
JACK IN THE BOX
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Marcus Mortimer
Originally Broadcast (UK), 17th May 1997 on BBC1
9.35 million viewers in the UK
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 peel a banana let alone hold a gun to his head! But if it was murder....how did the murderer escape?
Season 1, Episode 3
THE RECONSTITUTED CORPSE
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Marcus Mortimer
Originally Broadcast (UK), 24th May 1997 on BBC1
8.28 million viewers in the UK
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...
Season 1, Episode 4
NO TRACE OF TRACY
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Sandy Johnson
Originally Broadcast (UK), 31st May 1997 on BBC1
7.62 million viewers in the UK
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 1, Episode 5
THE HOUSE OF MONKEYS
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Sandy Johnson
Originally Broadcast (UK), 7th June 1997 on BBC1
7.57 million viewers in the UK
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 2, Episode 1
DANSE MACABRE
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Sandy Johnson
Originally Broadcast (UK), 24th January 1998 on BBC1
9.68 million viewers in the UK
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 to busy to help Maddy, she must solve the crime on her own.
Season 2, Episode 2
TIME WAITS FOR NORMAN
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Sandy Johnson
Originally Broadcast (UK), 31st January 1998 on BBC1
9.15 million viewers in the UK
Can a man be in two places at the same time..? Apparently Norman Stangerson can.....
Season 2, Episode 3
THE SCENTED ROOM
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Sandy Johnson
Originally Broadcast (UK), 7th February 1998 on BBC1
10.49 million viewers in the UK
Although Jonathan Creek knows how a painting worth a million pounds was apparently stolen by an invisible thief, he refuses to tell anyone!
Season 2, Episode 4
THE PROBLEM AT GALLOWS GATE - PART I
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Keith Washington
Originally Broadcast (UK), 14th February 1998 on BBC1
8.99 million viewers in the UK
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....
Season 2, Episode 5
THE PROBLEM AT GALLOWS GATE - PART II
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Keith Washington
Originally Broadcast (UK), 21st February 1998 on BBC1
8.94 million viewers in the UK
How can a man who apparently committed suicide be seen killing a woman three weeks later..? Jonathan and Maddy investigate at Gallows Gate....
Season 2, Episode 6
MOTHER REDCAP
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Keith Washington
Originally Broadcast (UK), 28th February 1998 on BBC1
10.92 million viewers in the UK
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...?
BLACK CANARY
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Sandy Johnson
Originally Broadcast (UK), 24th December 1998 on BBC 1
9.86 million viewers in the UK
The famous female Illusionist, Marella Carney - The Black Canary - is found dead. Her death is suspicious, and it seems even Jonathan Creek can't solve the mystery. Perhaps Detective Inspector Gideon Pryke can help solve the case....?
Season 3, Episode 1
THE CURIOUS TALE OF MR SPEARFISH
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Keith Washington
Originally Broadcast (UK), 27th November 1999 on BBC1
11.02 million viewers in the UK
Lenny Spearfish is not having a good life, his marriage isn't great and life is generally on a downward spiral - until he agrees to sell his soul to the devil...
Season 3, Episode 2
THE EYES OF TIRESIAS
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Keith Washington
Originally Broadcast (UK), 4th December 1999 on BBC1
9.9 million viewers in the UK
Audrey Panguitch, a 73 year-old widow has a dream about a man being killed, a few days later it comes true - a tin of Goldfish food holds the key...
Season 3, Episode 3
THE OMEGA MAN
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Keith Washington
Originally Broadcast (UK), 11th December 1999 on BBC1
10.7 million viewers in the UK
Professor Lance Graumann - a leading authority on extra terrestrial phenomena invites Maddy to see his latest discovery - a perfectly preserved alien skeleton. 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...
Season 3, Episode 4
GHOST'S FORGE
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Richard Holthouse
Originally Broadcast (UK), 18th December 1999 on BBC1
10.47 million viewers in the UK
Maddy's former newspaper colleague Mimi Trantor investigates an old mystery at a house called Ghost's Forge, but can she do it without the help of Jonathan Creek? And why were there five copies of The Grave Digger by Gerald Eastland hidden in the attic...?
Season 3, Episode 5
MIRACLE IN CROOKED LANE
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Richard Holthouse
Originally Broadcast (UK), 28th December 1999 on BBC1
11.45 million viewers in the UK
A former 1970s sex kitten decides to spill the beans about her past love affairs. Then she has an accident and is left in a coma - so how come she was seen near a church making her peace with god. Enter a man in a duffel coat and shaggy hair with the answer....but this time it isn't Jonathan Creek.
Season 3, Episode 6
THE THREE GAMBLERS
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Richard Holthouse
Originally Broadcast (UK), 2nd January 2000 on BBC1
10.65 million viewers in the UK
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?
SATAN'S CHIMNEY
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Sandy Johnson
Originally Broadcast (UK), 26th December 2001 on BBC 1
7.64 million viewers in the UK
A famous actress is shot on set in front of everyone whilst shooting her latest film. With her dying breath she points to the window, but the glass is intact. How did the killer do it?
Season 4, Episode 1
THE COONSKIN CAP
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Christine Gernon
Originally Broadcast (UK), 1st March 2003 on BBC1
8.6 million viewers in the UK
Two young women have been murdered in almost identical circumstances, and fears are growing that the killer, who throttles his victims with a thin length of steel wire, will strike again. The only clue to his identity is the macabre shadow of a man seen lurking near the scene of the murders... a man who according to eye witnesses was wearing a Davy Crockett hat.
Season 4, Episode 2
ANGEL HAIR
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Christine Gernon
Originally Broadcast (UK), 8th March 2003 on BBC1
9.3 million viewers in the UK
Creek is called in to explain how a girl who has just had a full set of shoulder-length hair cut off can miraculously have grown it all back in 48 hours.
Season 4, Episode 3
THE TAILOR'S DUMMY
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Christine Gernon
Originally Broadcast (UK), 15th March 2003 on BBC1
9.5 million viewers in the UK
How can a man physically transform himself into another person, right in front of someone's eyes? When the infamous feature writer Donna Henry savages a leading fashion designer in print, such is the victim's shock and desolation that he immediately takes his own life.
Season 4, Episode 4
THE SEER OF THE SANDS
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Sandy Johnson
Originally Broadcast (UK), 14th February 2004 on BBC1
8.39 million viewers in the UK
When "ghost hunter" and investigator into the spirit world, Justin Mallory is killed in a boating accident and his body mysteriously disappears is it true that his spirit now desperately trys to communicate with his lover, beautiful American businesswoman Geraldine Vacarro to try and explain his own death?
Season 4, Episode 5
THE CHEQUERED BOX
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Sandy Johnson
Originally Broadcast (UK), 21st February 2004 on BBC1
8.45 million viewers in the UK
Detective Inspector Adrian Fell, a sharp-witted and highly respected police officer, appears to be the ideal subject for an Eyes and Ears profile. Until damning evidence is uncovered by a hard-nosed tabloid photographer that throws his whole relationship with Carla Borrego into jeopardy. Is he, in fact, a ruthless killer?
Season 4, Episode 6
GORGONS WOOD
Written by David Renwick
Directed by Sandy Johnson
Originally Broadcast (UK), 28th February 2004 on BBC1
8.07 million viewers in the UK
A priceless porcelain statue of the ancient Shinto monk Sikoto-no vanishes from a small town museum under impossible circumstances. Is the train of tragic events that follows a manifestation of its destructive nature?
THE GRINNING MAN
Written by David Renwick
Directed by David Renwick
Originally Broadcast (UK), 1 January 2009 on BBC 1
9 million viewers in the UK
When Creek is called in to solve unexplained events in a vast Gothic house, following several disappearances inside a gloomy old attic known as "The Nightmare Room", he is completely baffled...
THE JUDAS TREE
Written by David Renwick
Directed by David Renwick
Originally Broadcast (UK), 4 April 2010 on BBC 1
When a young woman becomes seemingly possessed by the spirit of a Victorian sorceress, illusionist Jonathan Creek and intrepid investigator Joey Ross must fight to prove she is innocent of murder...
Above description is taken from the BBC press release archive.
THE CLUE OF THE SAVANT'S THUMB
Written by David Renwick
Directed by David Renwick
Originally Broadcast (UK), 1 April 2013 on BBC 1
Jonathan has moved on since we saw him last. Married, and now working in an advertising agency. Can Joey entice him back to solve another baffling case, where the dead body seems to have disappeared from inside a locked room?
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