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.
Hedley Shale is found murdered with two bullets in his chest in the upstairs bedroom at his South London home. Shale's wife is the obvious suspect, but she has a cast iron alibi.
Former film star Jack Holiday is found dead in a locked nuclear bunker with a gun lying next to him. His hands were crippled with arthritis, so who could have pulled the trigger?
Plastic surgeon David Churchin is found brutally murdered and his main client, Zola Zbzewski becomes an immediate suspect.
Rockstar Roy Pilgrim is a living legend. But when one of his 16-year-old fans apparently vanishes into thin air, the police are clearly faced with a problem.
When nationally renowned doctor and cancer researcher Elliot Strange is discovered dead inside a locked room, the authorities are understandably baffled.
A vicar seeks Maddy's help in solving the murder of his mother-in-law, a horror writer, whose killer disappears before their very eyes.
Jonathan and Maddy are confronted with the intriguing case of a man who appears to have defied the laws of time. Can they find a logical answer?
When a million-pound 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.
When the sister of a magician witnesses the death of a young woman, Jonathan is plunged into another seemingly impenetrable mystery.
Maddy drags Jonathan back to the scene of the crime. But as they delve deeper into the murder at Gallows Gate, they become suspects themselves.
Jonathan and Maddy attempt to unravel the mysterious death of a high court judge who was under heavy police protection at the time.
A couple's lives are dramatically transformed after the husband enters into a pact with the devil - he has since found buried treasure and appears to be able to defy death.
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. Further confounding Jonathan and Maddy, there is then another death which she also appears to have foreseen.
Professor Lance Graumann - a leading authority on extra terrestrial phenomena invites Maddy to see his latest discovery: a perfectly preserved alien skeleton. Although the American military have other plans and arrive to retrieve the skeleton. However, when they open the case at their military base, it's nowhere to be found...
When Maddy's glamourous former colleague Mimi Tranter 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...
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!
It's Jonathan's birthday and he's been given a book on using playing cards as weapons, a set of Adam Klaus bathroom products, and a dangerous case involving a murdered corpse that has come back to life for revenge.
Jonathan and Carla, who is now a television presenter, are called in to discover how a WPC's murderer can escape a locked gymnasium surrounded by police officers.
Jonathan is called in to investigate the mystery of a woman whose shoulder-length hair has miraculously grown back just 48 hours after a kidnapper cut it all off; finding himself embroiled in the world of a successful composer who has created the perfect pop star.
Jonathan is hired to shed light on the mystery of how a man could physically transform himself into another person, in front of a witness's eyes. His investigations lead him into a tale of tragic suicide, Groucho Marx, and a parrot named Harvey.
When a ghost hunter dedicated to exposing fraud in all it's forms dies in a tragic accident, Jonathan and Carla investigate whether his spirit lives on. Why did the boat crash occur, how did the body disappear, and how did the answers to five spontaneous questions mysteriously appear in a bottle beneath the sand?
A top policeman is seen smirking at the scene of a hanging - can Jonathan and Carla help him prove that he has nothing to do with it, especially since there is photographic evidence against him?
A priceless porcelain figure of the mystic monk Sikoto-no disappears from a small town museum, setting off a train of tragic events. When Jonathan Creek and Carla Borrego are called in to investigate, the trail takes them deep into a mysterious wood, where a gnarled old beech tree holds the key to the puzzle.
When a classic locked-room novel is turned into a West End musical, one of its stars falls victim to a real-life 'impossible crime'. No weapon or any other evidence of an intruder can be found, nor any rational explanation for the victim's wounds. As the actress's life hangs in the balance, her producer and colleagues remain baffled. Attention once again turns to the lateral-thinking Jonathan Creek for a solution to the whole grisly puzzle. But can Creek - now a happily married man - even be persuaded to embark upon the investigation? As he and wife Polly struggle to come to terms with a sudden personal tragedy, a series of dark and disturbing family secrets are about to emerge that will throw the couple's whole world into turmoil...
A retired local psychic inadvertently makes the most amazing and impossible prediction of his career.
When a kidnapping victim disappears under the attackers' noses, Jonathan is forced into solving a mystery for a league of unpleasant gentlemen, much to Polly's displeasure.
