Jonathan Creek

Jonathan Creek

1997
★★★★☆ 7.5/10
📺 5 Seasons
🎬 26 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 50 min/episode
MysteryComedyDrama
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.

Where to Watch (US)

Stream

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Seasons

Season 1
1997 • 5 Episodes
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.
Season 2
1998 • 6 Episodes
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.
Season 3
1999 • 6 Episodes
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
Season 4
2003 • 6 Episodes
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...?
Season 5
2014 • 3 Episodes
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'.

Crew

Producer
Pete Thornton, David Renwick

Network

BBC One

Production

BBC Studios

Keywords

detectivejournalistinvestigative journalistmagician