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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...
Genres:MysteryComedyDrama
Network:BBC One

Worst Episodes Summary

"The Letters of Septimus Noone" is the worst rated episode of "Jonathan Creek". It scored 6/10 based on 500 votes. Directed by David Sant and written by David Renwick, it aired on 2/28/2014. This episode scored 0.4 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Sinner and the Sandman".

  • The Letters of Septimus Noone
    6.0/10500 votes
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    #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

  • The Sinner and the Sandman
    6.4/10379 votes
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    #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

  • The Curse of the Bronze Lamp
    6.8/10315 votes
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    #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

  • The Curious Tale of Mr. Spearfish
    7.0/10383 votes
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    #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

  • Angel Hair
    7.2/10363 votes
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    #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

  • Gorgons Wood
    7.2/10338 votes
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    #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

  • The Omega Man
    7.3/10386 votes
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    #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

  • The Coonskin Cap
    7.4/10364 votes
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    #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

  • The Seer Of The Sands
    7.4/10357 votes
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    #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

  • The Chequered Box
    7.4/10326 votes
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    #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

  • No Trace of Tracy
    7.5/10457 votes
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    #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

  • The Eyes of Tiresias
    7.5/10392 votes
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    #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

  • The Reconstituted Corpse
    7.6/10474 votes
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    #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

  • The House of Monkeys
    7.6/10444 votes
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    #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

  • Time Waits for Norman
    7.6/10420 votes
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    #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

  • The Scented Room
    7.6/10417 votes
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    #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

  • Ghost's Forge
    7.6/10382 votes
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    #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

  • The Wrestler's Tomb
    7.7/10612 votes
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    #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

  • The Problem at Gallows Gate (Part 1)
    7.7/10414 votes
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    #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

  • The Three Gamblers
    7.7/10381 votes
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    #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

  • The Tailor's Dummy
    7.7/10365 votes
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    #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

  • Jack in the Box
    7.8/10507 votes
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    #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

  • Danse Macabre
    7.9/10462 votes
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    #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

  • The Problem at Gallows Gate (Part 2)
    7.9/10387 votes
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    #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

  • Miracle in Crooked Lane
    7.9/10380 votes
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    #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