The Best Episodes Directed By Sandy Johnson

#1 - Summer School

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/31/1983

Summer school students taking a course on the Iron Age construct a primitive village in the center of a university campus, where they must learn to fend for themselves without modern conveniences.

Director: Sandy Johnson

Writer: Dawn French

#2 - Time Waits for Norman

Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/31/1998

Creek and Magellan face the intriguing case of a man who appears to have defied the laws of time.

Director: Sandy Johnson

Writer: David Renwick

#3 - The Scented Room

Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 2/7/1998

Although Jonathan Creek knows how a painting, worth a million pounds, was apparently stolen by an invisible thief, he refuses to tell anyone because he has a personal vendetta against its owner!

Director: Sandy Johnson

Writer: David Renwick

#4 - The Seer Of The Sands

Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 2/14/2004

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?! All will be revealed...!

Director: Sandy Johnson

Writer: David Renwick

#5 - Appendix Man

Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 3/7/1999

Hazel Wallace returns from her training, as the new Detective Sergeant, and is put to work by Supt Mullett sorting out the mess left behind by DI Frost, while he is on extended compassionate leave. Before long she is called upon, when a man is found hanged in his home, and she suspects it was not suicide. Routine investigations show that a fresh set of fingerprints at the scene belong to an unidentified man who had been found drowned a year previously. Frost is summoned back by Supt Mullett to sort things out, and he connects a painting that appears to have been stolen from the hanged man with an art robbery & murder some years before.

Director: Sandy Johnson

Writer: N/A

#6 - Episode One

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/27/2000

Director: Sandy Johnson

Writer: N/A

#7 - Episode Two

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/4/2000

Director: Sandy Johnson

Writer: N/A

#8 - Episode 3

Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 4/5/2024

When a dying woman goes missing from a local fishing trawler, Humphrey suspects there’s more to her disappearance than meets the eye.

Director: Sandy Johnson

Writer: Rebecca Wojciechowski

#9 - Episode 4

Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 4/12/2024

When a priest at a Catholic boarding school goes missing, Humphrey’s team explores a connection between his disappearance and an ancient local legend.

Director: Sandy Johnson

Writer: Ian Jarvis

#10 - Driven to Distraction

Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 1/17/1990

The apparently motiveless murder of two young women points to a psychotic killer. Morse's speculations on what they might have in common leads him to a local garage owner, Jeremy Boynton, who knew them both, and who arouses his suspicions and dislike. Convinced that Boynton holds the key to the crime, Morse begins to hound him, despite having no firm evidence. Morse is also faced with the possible oss of his beloved red Mk II Jaguar.

Director: Sandy Johnson

Writer: Anthony Minghella

#11 - No Trace of Tracy

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/30/1997

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...?

Director: Sandy Johnson

Writer: David Renwick

#12 - Gorgons Wood

Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 2/28/2004

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.

Director: Sandy Johnson

Writer: David Renwick

#13 - Episode 4

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/24/2023

Humphrey investigates the death of an unidentified man found in the centre of a crop circle. Meanwhile, Archie helps Martha prepare for a visit from a food critic.

Director: Sandy Johnson

Writer: Tony Jordan

#14 - The House of Monkeys

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 6/6/1997

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....!

Director: Sandy Johnson

Writer: David Renwick

#15 - The Chequered Box

Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 2/21/2004

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 photographical evidence against him?

Director: Sandy Johnson

Writer: David Renwick

#16 - True Confessions

Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 2/23/1997

A man's church confession provides an insight into what appears to be a straightforward murder. But before Frost can make an arrest, he is suspended over the outcome of a related case 10 years earlier.

Director: Sandy Johnson

Writer: N/A

#17 - Episode 1

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/24/2023

A new adventure awaits as DI Humphrey Goodman and Martha leave London for Devon. Humphrey dives into his first case, which involves an unusual prime suspect: a 17th-century witch.

Director: Sandy Johnson

Writer: Tony Jordan

#18 - Episode 2

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/3/2023

Humphrey and his team are baffled by the mysterious disappearance of an entire family. Martha prepares for the launch of her café but is thrown when a face from the past shows up.

Director: Sandy Johnson

Writer: Tony Jordan

#19 - Bugged Wheat

Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 4/20/1996

A special sort of wheat, being developed so that it is resistant to all known crop diseases is destroyed by intruders breaking into the European Agronomy Council and spray a viroid over the crop. Beckett goes undercover as a sceintist to invesitigate the viroid and dicovers that the plan is to spray the viroid over crops in the world and then deliver a special anti-viroid, which will save the world from starvation and make the makers of the anti-viroid very rich. Ros, however, has problems of her own, when her car is infested with killer wasps and the brakes won't work, and she can't open the doors...

Director: Sandy Johnson

Writer: Miles Millar

#20 - Danse Macabre

Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/24/1998

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.

Director: Sandy Johnson

Writer: David Renwick