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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a night of snacks and Jonathan creek. dont diss. its proper good!
Amyfer (Amy) Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:20:56 -0000
a night of snacks and Jonathan creek. dont diss. its proper good!
Headed to Jonathan Creek KY for a retreat with the Forest Hills student ministry crew.
scottstevens11 (scottstevens11) Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:17:59 -0000
Headed to Jonathan Creek KY for a retreat with the Forest Hills student ministry crew.
@alandavies1 Any more jonathan creek planned?
mabr82 (Martin Brown) Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:38:45 -0000
@alandavies1 Any more jonathan creek planned?
@bakerleuk maybe. I should perhaps have done some work last night but I watched some Jonathan Creek instead. Much better idea.
PCurd (PCurd) Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:17:50 -0000
@bakerleuk maybe. I should perhaps have done some work last night but I watched some Jonathan Creek instead. Much better idea.
Settling down to more Jonathan Creek. Best boxset ever. I know hnw it happened, but it still surprises me. Magic.
rockacharli (Charli Stevenson) Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:17:31 -0000
Settling down to more Jonathan Creek. Best boxset ever. I know hnw it happened, but it still surprises me. Magic.
Darn. Just realised that I left my copy of The Rutles at Clevedon home. What am I going to watch now? Back to Jonathan Creek perhaps...
kittyfer (Kitty Wheeler Shaw) Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:51:35 -0000
Darn. Just realised that I left my copy of The Rutles at Clevedon home. What am I going to watch now? Back to Jonathan Creek perhaps...

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