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Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.
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Checked Jul 22, 2026
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Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.
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Episode 1
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
Written by David RenwickGuest stars Stuart Milligan, Maxine Peake, Andrew Tiernan, Griff Rhys Jones, Debbie Arnold, Rachel Power, Alan Corser, Peter Hughes
Episode 2
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!...
Written by David RenwickGuest stars Diana Weston, Margery Mason, James Gaddas, Peter Blake, Paul Blackthorne, Rebecca Front, Terrence Hardiman, Alexandra Hogg
Episode 3
Professor Lance Graumann - a leading authority on extra terrestrial phenomena invites Maddy to see his latest discovery -a perfectly preserved alien skeleton. However the American military have other plans and take the skeleton - however when they open the case at their military base it's no where to be found...
Written by David RenwickGuest stars Michael Brandon, Charlie Brooks, John Shrapnel, Sonya Saul, Jane Booker, Calvin Williams, Sean Cronin
Episode 4
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...
Directed by Richard HolthouseWritten by David RenwickGuest stars Stuart Milligan, Lysette Anthony, Gina Bellman, Jim Bowen, Kezi Silverstone, Mark Aiken, Sara Stephens, Nicholas Amer
Episode 5
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!
Directed by Richard HolthouseWritten by David RenwickGuest stars Dinah Sheridan, Nicholas Ball, Benjamin Whitrow, Hetty Baynes, Tom Goodman-Hill, Emma Kennedy, William Vanderpuye, Frances Low
Episode 6
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!
Directed by Richard HolthouseWritten by David RenwickGuest stars Stuart Milligan, Lee Ingleby, Harry Peacock, Hattie Hayridge, Jonathan Ross, John Bird, John Bennett, Nina Sosanya
Episode information updated Jul 23, 2026
Caroline QuentinMaddy Magellan
Alan DaviesJonathan Creek
Julia SawalhaCarla Borrego
Stuart MilliganAdam Klaus
Sarah AlexanderPolly Creek
Kika MiryleesZola Zbzewski
John BluthalJack Holiday
Charles KayElliot Strange
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