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Jonathan Creek Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
5 Episodes 1997 - 1997
Episode 1
The Wrestler's Tomb
Thu, Feb 27, 201489 mins
A controversial artist is dead, apparently the victim of a botched robbery at his suburban estate. Take-no-prisoners journalist Maddie Magellan is unconvinced, and she casts her suspicions on the deceased's possessive wife and his frivolous mistress. But one was in her city office at the time of death, and the other was bound, gagged and blindfolded by the "robber". A chance meeting with Jonathan Creek, a famous illusionist's technical advisor, leads Maddie to believe that his "lateral mind" may allow him to see through the deceptions in the case, and she recruits the reluctant genius as her partner.
Episode 2
Jack in the Box
59 mins
Crusading journalist Maddie Magellan is instrumental in getting a man released from prison after serving nine years for a murder she believes he did not commit. The next day, the victim's widower apparently shoots himself after locking himself in his personal nuclear fall-out shelter. Investigators and engineers insist that no one could have gotten in or out of the shelter after the door was sealed. Yet those closest to the alleged suicide insist that his hands were so crippled with arthritis that he could not have run the bolts on the massive door, let alone pulled the trigger on a gun. Maddie coerces reluctant sleuth Jonathan Creek into investigating the case.
Episode 3
The Reconstituted Corpse
59 mins
Journalist/sleuth Maddie Magellan is summoned by a celebrity author and plastic surgery enthusiast. The woman has just become the prime suspect when her surgeon (and former lover) is murdered shortly after the two had a vicious falling-out on national television. Maddie's efforts to clear her "client" are complicated by damning DNA evidence, a missing alibi, a peeping tom, an awkward and unfortunate blind date...and the "impossible" sudden appearance of the client's corpse in Maddie's newly-purchased and previously empty wardrobe. Will Jonathan Creek come to her rescue?
Episode 4
No Trace of Tracy
59 mins
1970's Prog Rock visionary Roy Pilgrim returns to his country estate after a jog and is surprised by an intruder. When he regains consciousness, he finds himself handcuffed to the radiator in his drawing room. Meanwhile, a teenage wannabe groupie dolls herself up in response to a handwritten letter from Pilgrim inviting her to his mansion for a private meeting. Witnesses see her enter through the double doors of the drawing room. When she goes missing, the police investigate to find Pilgrim still chained to the radiator, but he claims he never saw the girl or invited her to visit. Is his predicament an elaborate con to cover a tryst gone horribly wrong? If so, why concoct an alibi that no jury will ever believe? After being forcibly ejected from the scene of the crime, investigating journalist Maddie Magellan enlists the aid of Jonathan Creek.
Episode 5
The House of Monkeys
59 mins
The appropriately-named Dr. Elliot Strange lives in a country manor house with his physician wife, an oddball, movie-obsessed son, and his aspiring actress daughter-in-law. In addition he has a houseful of domesticated, house-broken primates from a Capuchin monkey to a silverback gorilla. The highly intelligent silverback has bonded with the family even to the extent of using the bathroom by himself. Dr. Strange, who is in the habit of working in his locked study to prevent the gorilla from chewing on valuable papers, is found impaled on a samurai sword in that locked room after apparently yelling at his assailant. Jonathon and Maddy are at a loss to explain how the murderer got in and out of the locked room.
