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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - Alive and Buried
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    S1:E1

    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:N/A
    Writer:David Renwick

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  2. undefined Season 2 Episode 5 - Love and Death
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E5

    When the Meldrews visit some friends on the South Coast, Victor is given a surprise.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:David Renwick

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  3. undefined Season 6 Episode 6 - Things Aren't Simple Any More
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E6

    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:N/A
    Writer:David Renwick

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  4. undefined Season 0 Episode 1 - Black Canary
    8.7/10(6 votes)

    S0:E1

    Creek & Magellan investigate the apparently impossible suicide of a female illusionist, who daughter happens to be a former flame of Creek's, and whose twin sister was killed fifteen years previously. But there is another lateral mind at work this time, in the form of swashbuckling Det Insp Gideon Pryke.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:David Renwick

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  5. undefined Season 0 Episode 2 - Satan's Chimney
    8.5/10(6 votes)

    S0:E2

    How can a gun be fired through a glass window without breaking the glass? How do bodies disappear and turn to dust within stone castle walls? Jonathan must once again put his thinking cap on to solve the mystery surrounding the murder of an actress, this time without the help of Maddy!

    Director:N/A
    Writer:David Renwick

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  6. undefined Season 0 Episode 3 - The Grinning Man
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    S0:E3

    At midnight on Midsummer's Day 1938, a famous Harvard geneticist, Eli Mencken, accepts a challenge to spend the night inside a gloomy old attic room... where the ghost of a madman is said to prey upon human flesh. Next morning, he has impossibly vanished from the hermetically sealed chamber. The only clue to his disappearance is traces of grisly ectoplasm on the bed. Seventy years on, the vast Gothic house known as Metropolis has passed into the hands of the original owner's daughter and her son, but the strange, unexplained events in "The Nightmare Room" continue...

    Director:N/A
    Writer:David Renwick

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  7. undefined Season 3 Episode 4 - Ghost's Forge
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    S3:E4

    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

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  8. undefined Season 4 Episode 3 - The Tailor's Dummy
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    S4:E3

    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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    Writer:David Renwick

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  9. undefined Season 2 Episode 2 - Time Waits for Norman
    8.3/10(6 votes)

    S2:E2

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:David Renwick

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  10. undefined Season 2 Episode 3 - The Scented Room
    8.3/10(6 votes)

    S2:E3

    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:N/A
    Writer:David Renwick

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  11. undefined Season 3 Episode 5 - Wasps' Nest
    8.2/10(21 votes)

    S3:E5

    Poirot visits a garden fete, where a wasps' nest adds to the tension. He meets the son of an old friend who has his girl-friend, a fashion model, with him, and Poirot soon suspects that they are both in danger. He has to solve a mystery which includes cyanide, failing brakes and mixed-up love lives. Meanwhile, Hastings has a new hobby which Poirot finds helpful in cracking the case.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:David Renwick

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  12. undefined Season 3 Episode 6 - The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
    8.0/10(19 votes)

    S3:E6

    Poirot is summoned to Marsdon by the owner of a country inn there to solve a murder. But the inn-keeper is a would-be thriller writer, and to Poirot's dismay the murder turns out to be fictional. Thankfully, though, there is soon a real (if seemingly supernatural) murder at the big house. Things get even more interesting when a young wife claims that a tree in her garden is haunted by a laughing ghost, and there are also signs of black magic from East Africa. Poirot lays a clever ambush to smoke out the killer,confident that he or she will turn out to be human.

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    Writer:David Renwick

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  13. undefined Season 3 Episode 2 - Dreamland
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E2

    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:N/A
    Writer:David Renwick

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  14. undefined Season 3 Episode 4 - The Beast in the Cage
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    S3:E4

    The Meldrews and Mrs Warboys get stuck in Bank Holiday traffic.

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    Writer:David Renwick

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  15. undefined Season 3 Episode 5 - Beware the Trickster on the Roof
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    S3:E5

    Mr Swainey has brought Victor a present back from his holiday - an unlucky charm. Victor thinks that Mrs Stebbings' TV aerial is laughing at him and his resulting misfortune. Meanwhile, Patrick and Pippa are having problems trying to sell their house.

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    Writer:David Renwick

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  16. undefined Season 3 Episode 3 - The Broken Reflection
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    S3:E3

    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:N/A
    Writer:David Renwick

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  17. undefined Season 1 Episode 4 - No Trace of Tracy
    8.0/10(6 votes)

    S1:E4

    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:N/A
    Writer:David Renwick

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  18. undefined Season 2 Episode 5 - The Problem at Gallows Gate (Part 2)
    8.0/10(6 votes)

    S2:E5

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:David Renwick

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  19. undefined Season 3 Episode 2 - The Eyes of Tiresias
    8.0/10(5 votes)

    S3:E2

    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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    Writer:David Renwick

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  20. undefined Season 3 Episode 5 - Miracle in Crooked Lane
    8.0/10(5 votes)

    S3:E5

    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

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  21. undefined Season 4 Episode 4 - The Seer Of The Sands
    8.0/10(5 votes)

    S4:E4

    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:N/A
    Writer:David Renwick

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  22. undefined Season 2 Episode 5 - The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
    7.9/10(22 votes)

    S2:E5

    Matthew Davenheim, a rich banker, disappears on a walk from his country house to the village post office, and Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard is put onto the case. Poirot, who has developed an interest in conjuring tricks, bets Japp five pounds that he can solve the mystery without leaving his apartment.

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    Writer:David Renwick

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  23. undefined Season 1 Episode 3 - The Reconstituted Corpse
    7.9/10(7 votes)

    S1:E3

    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:N/A
    Writer:David Renwick

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  24. undefined Season 4 Episode 2 - Angel Hair
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    S4:E2

    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:N/A
    Writer:David Renwick

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  25. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - Jack in the Box
    7.7/10(7 votes)

    S1:E2

    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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    Writer:David Renwick

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David Renwick Ratings Summary

"Alive and Buried" is the best rated episode written by David Renwick. It scored 9/10 based on 2 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 1/4/1990 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Love and Death".