8.0/10419 votesLoading...#1 - Mother Redcap
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/28/1998
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 and how did he appear to have defied time...?
Director: N/A
Writer: David Renwick
7.9/10457 votesLoading...#2 - 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
7.9/10385 votesLoading...#3 - The Problem at Gallows Gate (Part 2)
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/21/1998
Jonathan & Maddy continue to investigate the mystery at Gallow's Gate.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Renwick
7.9/10378 votesLoading...#4 - Miracle in Crooked Lane
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 12/28/1999
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!
Director: N/A
Writer: David Renwick
7.8/10504 votesLoading...#5 - Jack in the Box
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/16/1997
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 even peel a banana himself let alone hold a gun to his head! But if it was murder....how did the murderer escape?
Director: Marcus Mortimer
Writer: David Renwick
7.7/10608 votesLoading...#6 - The Wrestler's Tomb
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/9/1997
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.
Director: Marcus Mortimer
Writer: David Renwick
7.7/10411 votesLoading...#7 - The Problem at Gallows Gate (Part 1)
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2/14/1998
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....But how can a man who apparently committed suicide be seen killing a woman three weeks later..?
Director: N/A
Writer: David Renwick
7.7/10379 votesLoading...#8 - The Three Gamblers
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 1/2/2000
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? Maddy and Jonathan visit a damp, deserted farmhouse to investigate!
Director: N/A
Writer: David Renwick
7.7/10363 votesLoading...#9 - The Tailor's Dummy
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 3/15/2003
Jonathan is hired to shed light on the mystery of how a man can 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.
Director: Christine Gernon
Writer: David Renwick
7.6/10471 votesLoading...#10 - The Reconstituted Corpse
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/23/1997
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...
Director: Marcus Mortimer
Writer: David Renwick
7.6/10440 votesLoading...#11 - 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
7.6/10416 votesLoading...#12 - 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
7.6/10415 votesLoading...#13 - 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
7.6/10380 votesLoading...#14 - Ghost's Forge
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 12/18/1999
When Maddy's glamorous former colleague Mimi Trantor 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...
Director: N/A
Writer: David Renwick
7.5/10453 votesLoading...#15 - 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
7.5/10388 votesLoading...#16 - The Eyes of Tiresias
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 12/4/1999
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. And then there is another death which she appears to have had a premonition about. A tin of Goldfish food may hold the key!...
Director: N/A
Writer: David Renwick
7.4/10360 votesLoading...#17 - The Coonskin Cap
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 3/1/2003
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...?
Director: Christine Gernon
Writer: David Renwick
7.4/10354 votesLoading...#18 - 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
7.4/10322 votesLoading...#19 - 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
7.3/10382 votesLoading...#20 - The Omega Man
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 12/11/1999
Professor Lance Graumann - a leading authority on extra terrestrial phenomena invites Maddy to see his latest discovery -a perfectly preserved alien skeleton. However 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...
Director: N/A
Writer: David Renwick
7.2/10361 votesLoading...#21 - Angel Hair
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 3/8/2003
Jonathan is called in to investigate the mystery of a girl whose shoulder-length hair has miraculously grown back just 48 hours after a kidnapper cut it all off. He finds himself embroiled in the world of a successful composer who has created the perfect pop star.
Director: Christine Gernon
Writer: David Renwick
7.2/10336 votesLoading...#22 - 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
7.0/10379 votesLoading...#23 - The Curious Tale of Mr. Spearfish
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 11/27/1999
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
Director: N/A
Writer: David Renwick
6.8/10313 votesLoading...#24 - The Curse of the Bronze Lamp
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 3/14/2014
A wealthy kidnap victim appears to pull off a mind-boggling act of teleportation to alert the police to her whereabouts.
Director: David Sant
Writer: David Renwick
6.4/10375 votesLoading...#25 - The Sinner and the Sandman
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 3/7/2014
A retired local psychic inadvertently makes the most amazing and impossible prediction of his career.
Director: David Sant
Writer: David Renwick
The Best Episodes of Jonathan Creek
Every episode of Jonathan Creek ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Jonathan Creek!
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...
Genres:MysteryComedyDrama
Network:BBC One
Best Episodes Summary
"Mother Redcap" is the best rated episode of "Jonathan Creek". It scored 8/10 based on 419 votes. Directed by N/A and written by David Renwick, it aired on 2/28/1998. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Danse Macabre".