Jonathan Creek

2013 • bbc

4.3

95 reviews

Rating

Eligible

Season 3 episodes (6)

1 The Curious Tale Of Mr Spearfish

11/27/99

Life for Alice and Lenny Spearfish is just one long endurance test. Then one night in the depths of despair, Lenny finds himself signing a strange piece of paper in blood. Overnight, miraculously, their fortunes change. God-fearing Alice is terrified that he has sold his soul to Satan and in desperation she seeks the advice of her new friends Maddy and Jonathan. They soon find themselves in a very dangerous game.

2 The Eyes Of Tiresias

12/4/99

73-year-old widow Mrs Audrey Panguitch has a series of frightening premonitions which seem to be coming true. A ridiculous coincidence? Or is Audrey Panguitch, like the soothsayers of ancient myth and legend, able to prophesise the future? A chance encounter brings master problem-solver Jonathan Creek in to investigate this strange affair.

3 The Omega Man

12/11/99

Maddy finds herself face to face with an alien skeleton when she is called to a deserted warehouse in the middle of the night. However, before the evening is out, the American military storm the building, seize the skeleton and whisk it off to the nearest airbase, under armed guard. The mystery deepens when the alien later disappears into thin air. A call from the mothership? Or has Jonathan got a more rational explanation?

4 Ghost's Forge

12/18/99

Maddy and Jonathan investigate an unsolved murder from 18 months ago. The reclusive owner of a grand house called Ghost's Forge was found murdered, with a knife in the back of his neck, his face staring horrifically out of an upstairs bedroom window. It's while they are at the house, looking for clues, that something seriously impossible occurs, leaving Jonathan with two problems to solve.

5 Miracle In Crooked Lane

12/28/99

When former seventies sex kitten Jacqui Jordan tells all in a tabloid newspaper her salacious revelations aren't well received in the sleepy country village where she has now made her home. Then one afternoon, a tragic accident occurs that leaves Jacqui in what is to prove a fatal coma. So how could she possibly be sighted back in the village, on her way to church? A man in a duffle coat might have the answer.

6 The Three Gamblers

1/2/00

When a fearsome gangster is shot to death, his corpse seemingly comes back to life, like a hideous zombie of voodoo legend to serve notice of vengeance upon his killers. Jonathan hears of this gruesome tale and he is intrigued enough to set off with Maddy to the God-forsaken wilds of Frog Hollow, in the hope that a remote old farmhouse and some stray cigarette cards will yield a solution to the puzzle.

About this show

A shaggy, reticent deviser of magic stunts and a pushy crime journalist team up for a popular murder mystery series with a difference. The hottest partnership since Mulder and Scully, Jonathan Creek and Maddy Magellan investigate crimes which baffle the police and seem to have no rational explanation. But Creek, who works as a creative consultant to a stage magician, often finds that the answer lies in illusion. A BAFTA-winning series by David Renwick, starring Alan Davies, Caroline Quentin, and later Julia Sawalha as Carla Borrego and Sheridan Smith as Joey Ross.

Ratings and reviews

4.3

95 reviews

jo franklin

May 8, 2014

Dynamics have changed too much. Not the same anymore. A pity cos Alan Davis is a great actor.

Amy Wig

July 21, 2014

Love this programme, got the box set

Richard Thompson

November 20, 2014

Love it but tad expensive.

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