The Worst Episodes of Jonathan Creek
Every episode of Jonathan Creek ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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 to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Jonathan Creek" is "The Letters of Septimus Noone", rated 6/10 from 495 user votes. It was directed by David Sant and written by David Renwick. "The Letters of Septimus Noone" aired on 2/28/2014 and is rated 0.4 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "The Sinner and the Sandman".
6.0/10 495 votes#1 - The Letters of Septimus Noone
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 2/28/2014
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'.
Director: David Sant
Writer: David Renwick
6.4/10 372 votes#2 - 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
6.8/10 311 votes#3 - 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
7.0/10 377 votes#4 - 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
7.2/10 359 votes#5 - 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
7.2/10 334 votes#6 - 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
7.3/10 380 votes#7 - 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
7.4/10 358 votes#8 - 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
7.4/10 353 votes#9 - 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
7.4/10 318 votes#10 - 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
7.5/10 447 votes#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
7.5/10 385 votes#12 - 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
7.6/10 464 votes#13 - 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
7.6/10 435 votes#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
7.6/10 412 votes#15 - 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
7.6/10 408 votes#16 - 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
7.6/10 377 votes#17 - 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
7.7/10 595 votes#18 - 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
7.7/10 403 votes#19 - 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
7.7/10 377 votes#20 - 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
7.7/10 362 votes#21 - 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
7.8/10 492 votes#22 - 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
7.9/10 451 votes#23 - 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
7.9/10 377 votes#24 - 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
7.9/10 375 votes#25 - 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