Jonathan Creek (Alan Davies) is a master of illusion. The brains behind magician Adam Klaus, he hides his brilliance behind a shy, shaggy exterior. He's no match for pushy, unorthodox journalist Maddy Magellan (Caroline Quentin) who has discovered another use for his unusual talents - solving impossible murders.
Episode One: Danse Macabre
Best-selling author Emma Lazarus, popularly known as The Queen Of Horror,has been shot through the heart at the Cotswolds home of her daughter, Lorna Claithorne. But the date is October 31 Halloweenand this is no ordinary murder...
Guest Stars Meg Davies, Pippa Haywood and Peter Davison
Episode Two: Time Waits for Norman
Businessman Norman Stangerson is a temporophobic, unable to relax whenever there is a watch or a clock ticking near him, reminding him that,with every second that passes,his life is slowly ebbing away.This little eccentricity apart, his life appears to be running smoothly. But all that is to change one day when a stranger arrives at their house with some startling information - information that could only be true if Norman Stangerson had somehow miraculously caused time to stand still...
Guest stars Dermot Crowley and Deborah Grant
Episode Three: The Scented Room
When a £1m painting is cut from its frame and stolen by an invisible thief, Jonathan Creek seizes the chance to launch a personal vendetta against its owner, theatre critic Sylvester Le Fley. El Greco's Kiss Of Judas the pride of his collection has impossibly vanished from an empty, air-tight room, spirited away by an unseen intruder who appears to have been able to walk through walls...
Guest stars Bob Monkhouse and Christine Kavanagh
Episode Four: The Problem at Gallows Gate (Part One)
Adam Klaus's sister witnesses a young woman being strangled in the window of a country cottage in the woods. Once again, Jonathan Creek is plunged into a seemingly-impenetrable murder mystery that is to begin and end at the lonely country village of Gallows Gate.
Guest stars Stuart Milligan, Clarke Peters and Jennifer Piercey
Episode Five: The Problem at Gallows Gate (Part Two)
How was a beautiful young woman murdered by a man who had himself committed suicide a few weeks earlier? After a long, intimidating night being grilled by detectives at the local constabulary, Jonathan Creek and Maddy take stock of the bizarre and fairly baffling facts in the case before them.Three weeks after wealthy socialite Duncan Proctor hurled himself to his death at his ancestral home in Northumberland,he was apparently seen, by Adam Klaus's sister Kitty, strangling animator Felicity Vale in the window of her country cottage in Gallows Gate...
Episode Six: Mother Redcap
How was a High Court judge stabbed to death in his own bed in a room nobody could possibly have entered or left? As a trial of leading Chinese gangsters nears its close, a major security operation is under way at the home of the presiding judge, Forest Sweetland. Despite a wall of police protection, Sweetland is found at 6am on the floor beside his bed, stabbed to death through the heart.
Guest stars Leonard Kavanagh and Brian Murphy
