Jonathan Creek
Investigative journalist Madeline Magellan is the kind of journalist that generally sticks her nose in where it isn't wanted. While writing a story about the murder of a famous artist, she happens across a quiet but brilliant man named Jonathan Creek, who makes a living inventing magic tricks for Adam Klaus. Adam is a very famous magician, but Jonathan is the real genius behind Adam's illusions. Madeline (Maddy) and Jonathan team up to solve the artist's murder, then team up again (with some reluctance from Jonathan) to solve near-impossible cases. Maddy gradually falls in love with Jonathan, but being a shy person, he doesn't show if he knows about her feelings for him--but he loves to solve the tricky mysteries that she brings for his mind to solve.
- 1997-2016
- 5 seasons
- Comedy, Suspense, Drama
- TV-MA
Investigative journalist Madeline Magellan is the kind of journalist that generally sticks her nose in where it isn't wanted. While writing a story about the murder of a famous artist, she happens across a quiet but brilliant man named Jonathan Creek, who makes a living inventing magic tricks for Adam Klaus. Adam is a very famous magician, but Jonathan is the real genius behind Adam's illusions. Madeline (Maddy) and Jonathan team up to solve the artist's murder, then team up again (with some reluctance from Jonathan) to solve near-impossible cases. Maddy gradually falls in love with Jonathan, but being a shy person, he doesn't show if he knows about her feelings for him--but he loves to solve the tricky mysteries that she brings for his mind to solve.
Season 5 Episode Guide
4 Episodes 2014 - 2016
Episode 1
The Letters of Septimus Noone
59 mins
The Mystery of the Yellow Room, based on a 19th-century story by Gaston Leroux, is currently thrilling London theatre audiences with its enticing blend of music, romance and sizzling Gothic melodrama. But events take a sinister turn one night when the show's glamorous singing sensation Juno Pirelli is found horribly stabbed inside a locked dressing room, from which no assailant could possibly have escaped. No weapon or any other evidence of an intruder can be found, nor any rational explanation for the victim's wounds. As the actress's life hangs in the balance, her producer and colleagues remain baffled. And attention once again turns to the lateral-thinking Jonathan Creek for a solution to the whole grisly puzzle. But can Creek - now a happily married man - even be persuaded to embark upon the investigation? As he and his wife Polly struggle to come to terms with a sudden personal tragedy, a series of dark and disturbing family secrets are about to emerge that will throw the couple's whole world into turmoil.
Episode 2
The Sinner and the Sandman
58 mins
Polly and Jonathan move into her father's house in the country, a move which begins badly when Jonathan accidentally frees two burglars. Polly attends a parish council meeting where they learn that local lottery winner and community benefactor Leonard Corbyn has been arrested for indecent offences and later Jonathan visits grumpy old psychic Eric Ipswich who has a stroke and is hospitalized. Whilst helping Polly's friend Alison Chater and her vicar husband, the Creeks are amazed to find Corbyn's winning lottery numbers written on a wall by Ipswich some half a century earlier. As Polly starts to have nightmares about childhood bogey-man the Sandman, the parish magazine declares sightings of a sinister nocturnal beast on the prowl.
Episode 3
The Curse of the Bronze Lamp
58 mins
UK minister Rowan Isherwood's wife, reputed analyst Lindsey, is daringly kidnapped by armed men masquerading as party music crew and held hostage in a remote bunker. Jonathan is pushed by his wife Polly who foolishly helped her cleaner dispose in his presumed home of the corpse of hunky escort Kevin, who died in her bath, presumably from cardiac arrest. He has little to work on but an expensive wrist watch, and the alleged sighting by Polly of a pink flying creature, yet ends up tying more knots from both cases in stunning coincidence.
Episode 4
Daemons' Roost
89 mins
According to legend, a 19th century sorcerer Jacob Surtees would summon the powers of Hell to terrorize and subjugate his victims at his home, Daemons' Roost. A hundred and fifty years after his death the house is occupied by another, equally macabre, figure: veteran horror film director Nathan Clore. With his health now failing he has summoned home his stepdaughter Alison, to share with her the chilling truth of what happened to her family there. However, just days before her arrival Nathan Clore has suffered a debilitating stroke, rendering him terribly paralyzed and unable to communicate the very truth that she has come to learn. After assisting Alison's husband in the past, Jonathan Creek is called upon to help again but as the story unfolds, with ever more sinister twists and turns, the gruesome rituals that were once enacted in the dungeon of Daemons' Roost are frighteningly revived with horrifying consequences.
