27. Climax
The wrap-up episode!
After 26 in-depth analyses, this final chapter of the pod runs through the final five Creeks and explains why they aren’t being covered.
Indulge my narcissistic attempt at ranking the top five episodes, and find out more about the soundtrack to your life Get Your Creek On.
26. The Judas Tree
A house vanishes into the ether. A man dies without cause on his own front lawn. A woman falls to her death but later wanders into a field. All inexplicable… right?
Joey and Jonathan have a list of weird stuff as long your arm to solve in this Easter special.
25. The Grinning Man
People have disappeared from a locked attic room in the middle of the night on several occasions over many years. But how?
The house may belong to a magician, but perhaps it’s his creepy old mother on whom suspicion should fall…
24. Gorgon’s Wood
A priceless porcelain statue disappears into thin air despite being under the watchful eyes of three museum guards. Impossible, surely?
Suspicion falls on the curator and her daughter, who may or may not have hidden the coveted figurine in the woods behind their house.
23. The Chequered Box
An esteemed police officer is photographed sneering at a hanged woman, but denies being a murderer.
Chewing gum in a plant pot, walnuts sown into pyjamas and a bible in a wooden box are among the strange clues to consider.
22. The Seer of the Sands
When a paranormal investigator drowns his sorrows and then, accidentally, himself, it makes no sense; after all, his lover had just given him some great news.
He appears to then contact her from beyond his watery grave, which is astonishingly inexplicabe. Unless you’re Jonathan Creek, who somehow makes it… explicable.
21. The Tailor’s Dummy
An ageing fashion designer defenestrates himself from the third floor of his family home, taking his beloved parrot with him for good measure. Why?
When his grieving son pulls off an impossible identity-changing trick just days later, there’s only one shaggy-haired, duffel coat-clad man who can explain things.
20. Angel Hair
When a philandering composer’s bit on the side has all her hair chopped off by kidnappers, surely it’s physically impossible for it to grow back in just two days?
And when a ventriloquist’s dummy is built umpteen times larger than it should have been, Jonathan needs to figure out how to keep the show on the road.
19. The Coonskin Cap
A serial killer wearing a Davy Crockett hat is killing women all over the place. When a police officer becomes the latest victim in impossible circumstances, explanations are not forthcoming.
Will Jonathan’s new TV role help bring the murderer to justice?
18. Satan’s Chimney
Actress Vivian Brodie is shot dead for real when it was all meant to be faked on the set of her latest film.
When her escapologist ex-husband is then found dead in a river near a Scottish castle, the two deaths are assumed to be related… but exactly how comes as a shock to everyone.
17. The Three Gamblers
After drug baron Frank Geiger has several bullets pumped into his brain, his body’s left in a locked basement. However, when the police find the corpse, it’s somehow managed to climb a set of stairs.
Meanwhile, Adam Klaus is up for a prestigious award, but takes umbrage when he’s beaten to it by drag act Deborah Cadabera.
16. Miracle in Crooked Lane
A former glamour model is burned alive (to death) when her cigarette falls into a lawnmower’s fuel tank, but a completely reliable witness says that she saw her walking down a country lane just a few hours later.
Meanwhile, Maddie books Jonathan in to do a Q&A with the Jonathan Creek Fan Club, much to the poor man’s umbrage.
15. Ghosts Forge
Mimi, a former colleague of Maddie’s, turns up with the strange tale of a murdered hermit.
Ezra Carr lived a solitary life for 20 years, so why would anyone try to kill him? And why didn’t they steal any of his valuables while they were at it?
Jonathan agrees to help glamorous Mimi figure things out… rendering Maddie jealous in the process.
14. The Omega Man
Maddie is summoned to a dark and dingy warehouse by Professor Lance Graumann to see an alien skeleton, which is subsequently nicked by the US military.
Jonathan’s reputation as a mystery-solving genius leads to him being forced to help the army figure out what in the name of hell has gone on.
13. The Eyes of Tiresias
Elderly Audrey has a vivid dream of a Frenchman being shot dead, and it spookily becomes true the following day. As does her next dream of another death… what’s going on?
Meanwhile, after going on the lash a bit too hard at a charity fundraiser, Maddie opens the door to a potential ménage à trois with two hunky studs.
12. The Curious Tale of Mr Spearfish
Lenny Spearfish experiences great fortune and apparent immortality after selling his soul to the devil when drunk.
But when he starts frittering his new found wealth away on booze and prostitutes, things start getting even weirder.
11. Black Canary
A former magician is seen shooting herself with a rifle, yet the medics say she’d already been dead for hours. But why did an interfering hobo nearby leave no footprints in the freshly fallen snow?
And what does all this have to do with residents of Hammersmith being angry about a new strip bar in the neighbourhood?
10. Mother Redcap
Seven men are each frightened to death just by looking out of an old pub window, and then a High Court judge is murdered in a locked and guarded room.
Maddie becomes embroiled in the former after going for dinner with a nudist, and Jonathan is strongarmed into assisting with the latter by D.I. Ken Speed.
9. The Problem at Gallows Gate
A rebuffed man flings himself off a balcony to his death, but three weeks later is seen strangling one of the witnesses of his own suicide. How is that possible?
Maddie’s been burgled, a badger watch goes tits-up and a supposedly blind trumpet-playing pervert is gets very handsy.
8. The Scented Room
Snobby theatre critic Sylvester Le Fley’s cherished El Greco painting is stolen from under the noses of several onlookers.
Jonathan takes great delight in figuring out the solution but then not telling the supercilious drama reviewer how it was all done. What a rotter.