10.0/101 votes#1 - Alive and Buried
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/1990
Victor Meldrew, 60 years old, is at last retiring from the rigors of his security guard job at Watson-Mycroft. Replaced by a talking machine, Victor soon discovers that retirement will give him just as many reasons to be grumpy.
Director: Susan Belbin
Writer: David Renwick
9.0/101 votes#2 - Love & Death
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/11/1990
When the Meldrews visit some friends on the South Coast, Victor is given a surprise.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: David Renwick
9.0/101 votes#3 - Things Aren't Simple Any More
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 11/20/2000
In the very last episode of 'One Foot in the Grave', Victor's decision to attend a school reunion unwittingly delivers him into the hands of fate. Margaret deals with the aftermath with the help of her new friend, Glynis.
Director: Christine Gernon
Writer: David Renwick
8.5/102 votes#4 - 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
8.0/102 votes#5 - 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
8.0/102 votes#6 - 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
8.0/102 votes#7 - 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
8.0/102 votes#8 - 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
8.0/102 votes#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
8.0/102 votes#10 - 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
8.0/102 votes#11 - 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
8.0/101 votes#12 - Dreamland
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 2/9/1992
Margaret is having a recurring dream about murdering someone who looks like Victor. However, it's Margaret who is starting to irritate Victor. That is, until she disappears.
Director: Susan Belbin
Writer: David Renwick
8.0/102 votes#13 - The Broken Reflection
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 2/16/1992
Alfred, Victor's accident prone brother, is making his first visit from New Zealand for 25 years. Victor is not looking forward to his stay, preferring to act as a neighbourhood vigilante.
Director: Susan Belbin
Writer: David Renwick
8.0/102 votes#14 - The Beast In The Cage
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 2/23/1992
The Meldrews and Mrs Warboys get stuck in Bank Holiday traffic.
Director: Susan Belbin
Writer: David Renwick
8.0/102 votes#15 - Beware The Trickster On The Roof
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 3/1/1992
Mr Swainey has brought Victor a present back from his holiday - an unlucky charm. Victor thinks that Mrs Stebbings's tv aerial is laughing at him and his resulting misfortune. Meanwhile, Patrick and Pippa are having problems trying to sell their house.
Director: Susan Belbin
Writer: David Renwick
7.7/103 votes#16 - 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
7.5/102 votes#17 - 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
7.5/102 votes#18 - 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
7.5/102 votes#19 - 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
7.5/102 votes#20 - 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
7.5/102 votes#21 - 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
7.5/102 votes#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
7.0/103 votes#23 - 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
7.0/102 votes#24 - 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
7.0/102 votes#25 - 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
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"Alive and Buried" is the best rated episode written by David Renwick. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Susan Belbin. It aired on 1/4/1990 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Love & Death".