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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...

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  1. 8.0/10(435 votes)

    #1 - Mother Redcap

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    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...?

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  2. 7.9/10(477 votes)

    #2 - Danse Macabre

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    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.

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  3. 7.9/10(404 votes)

    #3 - The Problem at Gallows Gate (Part 2)

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    Jonathan & Maddy continue to investigate the mystery at Gallow's Gate.

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  4. 7.9/10(394 votes)

    #4 - Miracle in Crooked Lane

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    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!

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  5. 7.8/10(526 votes)

    #5 - Jack in the Box

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    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?

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  6. 7.7/10(636 votes)

    #6 - The Wrestler's Tomb

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    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.

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  8. 7.7/10(433 votes)

    #7 - The Problem at Gallows Gate (Part 1)

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    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..?

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  9. 7.7/10(375 votes)

    #8 - The Tailor's Dummy

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    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.

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  10. 7.6/10(492 votes)

    #9 - The Reconstituted Corpse

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    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...

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  11. 7.6/10(461 votes)

    #10 - The House of Monkeys

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    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....!

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  12. 7.6/10(435 votes)

    #11 - Time Waits for Norman

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

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  13. 7.6/10(433 votes)

    #12 - The Scented Room

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    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!

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  14. 7.6/10(396 votes)

    #13 - Ghost's Forge

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    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...

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  15. 7.6/10(393 votes)

    #14 - The Three Gamblers

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    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!

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  16. 7.5/10(476 votes)

    #15 - No Trace of Tracy

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    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...?

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  17. 7.5/10(405 votes)

    #16 - The Eyes of Tiresias

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    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!...

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  18. 7.4/10(374 votes)

    #17 - The Coonskin Cap

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    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...?

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  19. 7.4/10(368 votes)

    #18 - The Seer Of The Sands

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    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...!

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  20. 7.4/10(335 votes)

    #19 - The Chequered Box

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    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?

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  21. 7.3/10(402 votes)

    #20 - The Omega Man

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    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...

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  22. 7.2/10(373 votes)

    #21 - Angel Hair

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    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.

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  23. 7.2/10(348 votes)

    #22 - Gorgons Wood

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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.

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  24. 7.1/10(400 votes)

    #23 - The Curious Tale of Mr. Spearfish

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    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

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  25. 6.8/10(325 votes)

    #24 - The Curse of the Bronze Lamp

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    A wealthy kidnap victim appears to pull off a mind-boggling act of teleportation to alert the police to her whereabouts.

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    Director:David Sant
  26. 6.4/10(389 votes)

    #25 - The Sinner and the Sandman

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    A retired local psychic inadvertently makes the most amazing and impossible prediction of his career.

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    Director:David Sant

Best Episodes Summary

"Mother Redcap" is the best rated episode of "Jonathan Creek". It scored 8/10 based on 435 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".