EPISODE DESCRIPTIONS

SERIES 1 | 2 |

SERIES 1
*Number in parentheses following description is BBCWA tape number.

1.WRESTLER'S TOMB (90-minute special compendium) - Investigative crime writer Maddy Magellan joins forces with a quirky magic expert, Jonathan Creek, to investigate the mysterious murder of a painter. (1)

2.JACK IN THE BOX - Lateral thinking Jonathan helps Maddy solve the murder of comedian Jack Holiday, found alone inside a room locked from the inside in a nuclear bunker at his home. (2)

3.THE RECONSTITUTED CORPSE - Another impossible crime faces Jonathan and Maddy when a beautician is accused of murdering her plastic surgeon. (3)

4.NO TRACE OF TRACY - Maddy & Jonathan investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl. (4)

5.THE HOUSE OF MINKEYS - When a scientist is found dead inside a locked room - impaled by a 12th-century samurai sword - Jonathan & Maddy investigate. (5)

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SERIES 2
1.DANSE MACABRE - When a famous writer of horror stories is murdered at her country rectory and her killer evaporates in a puff of smoke, only Jonathan Creek can solve the mystery. (6)

2.TIME WAITS FOR NORMAN - Is it possible that Jonathan Creek has stumbled onto a man who could be in two places at one time by actually making time stand still? (7)

3.THE SCENTED ROOM - When a million pound painting is stolen by an "invisible" thief, Jonathan seizes the chance to launch a personal vendetta against its owner. (8)

4.THE PROBLEM AT GALLOWS GATE, PART 1- Adam Claus's sister is apparent witness to the violent strangling of animator Felicity Vale in her country cottage by...a ghost? (9)

5.THE PROBLEM AT GALLOWS GATE, PART 2 - In a story continued from last week, Jonathan is baffled that Duncan Proctor could have been seen to murder Felicity Vale when at that time he was lying dead in his home in Northumberland. (10)

6.MOTHER REDCAP - A High Court judge is stabbed to death in his own bed, inside a room no assassin could possibly have entered or left. Or was he? (11)

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