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When a kidnapping victim disappears under the attackers' noses, Jonathan is forced into solving a mystery for a league of unpleasant gentlemen, much to Polly's displeasure.
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When a kidnapping victim disappears under the attackers' noses, Jonathan is forced into solving a mystery for a league of unpleasant gentlemen, much to Polly's displeasure.
A retired local psychic inadvertently makes the most amazing and impossible prediction of his career.
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'. No weapon or any other evidence of an intruder can be found, nor any rational explanation for the victim's wounds. As the actress's life hangs in the balance, her producer and colleagues remain baffled. Attention once again turns to the lateral-thinking Jonathan Creek for a solution to the whole grisly puzzle. But can Creek - now a happily married man - even be persuaded to embark upon the investigation? As he and wife Polly struggle to come to terms with a sudden personal tragedy, a series of dark and disturbing family secrets are about to emerge that will throw the couple's whole world into turmoil...
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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.
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 photographic evidence against him?
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?
Jonathan is hired to shed light on the mystery of how a man could 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.
Jonathan is called in to investigate the mystery of a woman whose shoulder-length hair has miraculously grown back just 48 hours after a kidnapper cut it all off; finding himself embroiled in the world of a successful composer who has created the perfect pop star.
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.
Jonathan and Maddy encounter an alien life-form, an elderly clairvoyant and a man who sold his soul to the devil.
Jonathan and Maddy encounter an alien life-form, an elderly clairvoyant and a man who sold his soul to the devil.
It's Jonathan's birthday and he's been given a book on using playing cards as weapons, a set of Adam Klaus bathroom products, and a dangerous case involving a murdered corpse that has come back to life for revenge.
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!
When Maddy's glamourous former colleague Mimi Tranter 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...
Professor Lance Graumann - a leading authority on extra terrestrial phenomena invites Maddy to see his latest discovery: a perfectly preserved alien skeleton. Although the American military have other plans and arrive to retrieve the skeleton. However, when they open the case at their military base, it's nowhere to be found...
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. Further confounding Jonathan and Maddy, there is then another death which she also appears to have foreseen.
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.
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Jonathan and Maddy attempt to unravel the mysterious death of a high court judge who was under heavy police protection at the time.
Maddy drags Jonathan back to the scene of the crime. But as they delve deeper into the murder at Gallows Gate, they become suspects themselves.
When the sister of a magician witnesses the death of a young woman, Jonathan is plunged into another seemingly impenetrable mystery.
When a million-pound painting is cut from its frame and stolen by an 'invisible' thief, Jonathan Creek seizes the chance to launch a personal vendetta against its owner.
Jonathan and Maddy are confronted with the intriguing case of a man who appears to have defied the laws of time. Can they find a logical answer?
A vicar seeks Maddy's help in solving the murder of his mother-in-law, a horror writer, whose killer disappears before their very eyes.
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When nationally renowned doctor and cancer researcher Elliot Strange is discovered dead inside a locked room, the authorities are understandably baffled.
Rockstar Roy Pilgrim is a living legend. But when one of his 16-year-old fans apparently vanishes into thin air, the police are clearly faced with a problem.
Plastic surgeon David Churchin is found brutally murdered and his main client, Zola Zbzewski becomes an immediate suspect.
Former film star Jack Holiday is found dead in a locked nuclear bunker with a gun lying next to him. His hands were crippled with arthritis, so who could have pulled the trigger?
Hedley Shale is found murdered with two bullets in his chest in the upstairs bedroom at his South London home. Shale's wife is the obvious suspect, but she has a cast iron alibi.
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"Hot Stuff" featured in episode 2 of Season 4 - "Angel Hair".
Deleted scenes from episode 4 of Season 4 - "The Seer of the Sands".
Video profile of David Renwick, the writer of Jonathan Creek. Included as a Season 4 DVD special.
Video profile of Julia Sawalha who plays Carla Borrego. Included as a Season 4 DVD special.
Video profile of Alan Davis who plays Jonathan Creek. Included as a Season 4 DVD special.
VHS screentest featuring Alan Davis (Jonathan Creek) and Caroline Quentin (Maddy Magellan).
A DVD extra, 25 minute Jonathan Creek documentary which feature interviews with the writer, cast and production team.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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!
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.
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