Jonathan Creek is a mystery television series produced by the BBC and written by David Renwick. The series is primarily a crime drama, but features strong comic characters and usually features comic subplots. Somewhat anomalously, it is produced by the BBC's in-house Entertainment department rather than the Drama department. The first series was produced by Susan Belbin; all subsequent episodes have been produced by Verity Lambert.

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The series follows the exploits of Jonathan Creek (Alan Davies), a designer of illusions for a stage magician (inspired partly by Ali Bongo), and Maddie Magellan (Caroline Quentin), a pushy journalist, as they work together to solve baffling crimes where others have failed to do so. Jonathan Creek contributes his superb lateral-thinking brain, and Maddie Magellan is a plausible liar who never seems to have trouble sneaking in to closed crime scenes. The programme usually features 'impossible crimes', for example a mysterious crime having been committed in a sealed environment from which no earthly criminal could have escaped. This type of story is usually called a locked room mystery. There also seemed to be an element of sexual tension between Jonathan and Maddie, although this is not a feature of every episode. The stage magician Adam Klaus, played by Anthony Stewart Head in the pilot and Stuart Milligan from the second series, is portrayed as a rather amoral and ambitious man, played for humorous effect, whose magic tricks often go wrong.

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omg jonathan creek is awesome. must watch more.
delishnoodles (delishnoodles) Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:42:43 -0000
omg jonathan creek is awesome. must watch more.
@robbedofrob Alan Davies is a prick from what I've seen on Twitter. Also, he bit someone's ear for calling him Jonathan Creek. True story.
HazardousInk (Greg James) Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:33:01 -0000
@robbedofrob Alan Davies is a prick from what I've seen on Twitter. Also, he bit someone's ear for calling him Jonathan Creek. True story.
@travvygee123 Alan Davies' picture on twitter looks like you and I keep getting momentarily excited that my boyfriend is Jonathan Creek.
DaniRoe (Danielle Roe) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:10:11 -0000
@travvygee123 Alan Davies' picture on twitter looks like you and I keep getting momentarily excited that my boyfriend is Jonathan Creek.
Right, I'n off to watch Jonathan Creek and then Buzzcocks. Night all xx
stefaniewood (Stefanie Wood) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:58:32 -0000
Right, I'n off to watch Jonathan Creek and then Buzzcocks. Night all xx
Ben and Jerry's and Jonathan Creek is my Saturday night. Can't be arsed with journo pub crawl, involves being sociable.
AnnaComerford (Anna Comerford) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:00:01 -0000
Ben and Jerry's and Jonathan Creek is my Saturday night. Can't be arsed with journo pub crawl, involves being sociable.
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jeff_henry (jeff_henry) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:03:32 -0000
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