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Jonathan Creek is a British mystery television series produced by the BBC and written by David Renwick. It ran for four series and two Christmas specials from 1997 to 2004. The series is primarily a crime drama — its cult success won the BAFTA for Best Drama Series in 1998 — but features comic characters and comic sub-plots. Somewhat anomalously, it was produced by the BBC's in-house Entertainment department rather than the Drama department. The distinct theme tune is an arrangement of Camille Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre by Julian Stewart Lindsay, who also wrote the underscore for the first three series and the two specials. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
David Renwick (born September 4, 1951 in Luton, Bedfordshire, UK) is a British television writer, best known for creation of the sitcom One Foot in the Grave and the mystery series Jonathan Creek Before beginning his full-time comedy writing career, he worked as a journalist on his home town...
Alan Davies (born 6 March 1966) is an English comedian and actor best known for starring as Jonathan Creek on the popular TV mystery series of the same name. ...
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Stuart Milligan (Born in Boston, Massachusetts on 10 September 1953) is an American Actor best known for his portrayal of magician Adam Klaus in the BBC Drama Jonathan Creek from Series 2 onwards. ...
Julia Sawalha (born 9 September 1968) is an English actress best known for her roles of Lynda Day, editor of The Junior Gazette in Press Gang, Saffron Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous and Lydia Bennet in the 1995 miniseries of Pride and Prejudice. ...
Adrian Charles Edmondson (born 24 January 1957) is an English actor, comedian, director, and writer. ...
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David Renwick (born September 4, 1951 in Luton, Bedfordshire, UK) is a British television writer, best known for creation of the sitcom One Foot in the Grave and the mystery series Jonathan Creek Before beginning his full-time comedy writing career, he worked as a journalist on his home town...
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Charles Camille Saint-Saëns () (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist, known especially for his orchestral works The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre, and Symphony No. ...
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Cast
Main cast Alan Davies (born 6 March 1966) is an English comedian and actor best known for starring as Jonathan Creek on the popular TV mystery series of the same name. ...
Caroline Quentin (born June 11, 1961, in Reigate) is an English actress. ...
Anthony Stewart Head (born 20 February 1954) is an English actor who has appeared in theatre, television and films. ...
Stuart Milligan (Born in Boston, Massachusetts on 10 September 1953) is an American Actor best known for his portrayal of magician Adam Klaus in the BBC Drama Jonathan Creek from Series 2 onwards. ...
Julia Sawalha (born 9 September 1968) is an English actress best known for her roles of Lynda Day, editor of The Junior Gazette in Press Gang, Saffron Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous and Lydia Bennet in the 1995 miniseries of Pride and Prejudice. ...
Adrian Charles Edmondson (born 24 January 1957) is an English actor, comedian, director, and writer. ...
Guest cast Several well-known actors have appeared in the series including three who are better known for comedy playing rare straight roles, Bob Monkhouse, Rik Mayall and Jack Dee. Bob Monkhouse presenting Celebrity Squares (Image copyright British Film Institute) Robert Allen Monkhouse OBE (June 1, 1928 – December 29, 2003) was an English entertainer in the traditional sense, though primarily known as a comedian and game show host. ...
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Jack Dee (born September 24, 1962) is an English stand-up comedian, actor and writer known for his sardonic, deadpan style. ...
Other guest stars, both comedy and straight, have included: Geoffrey McGivern, John Bluthal, Nigel Planer, Kate Isitt, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Griff Rhys Jones, Hattie Hayridge, Alistair McGowan, Tamsin Greig, Colin Baker, Jim Bowen, Peter Davison, Maureen O'Brien, Lysette Anthony, Mark Caven, Lorelei King, Mary Tamm, Geoffrey Beevers, Annette Crosbie, Maureen Lipman, Paul Blackthorne, Jimmi Harkishin, and Bill Bailey (who was pencilled as the original Jonathan Creek). Geoffrey McGivern ( b. ...
John Bluthal (born 1929) is a film and television actor, mostly in comedy. ...
Nigel George Planer (born February 22, 1953 in London) is an English actor, novelist and playwright. ...
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Vic Chopra (Sanjeev Bhaskar) falls foul of Ash Desai (Manish Patel) Sanjeev Bhaskar OBE (born 28 June 1964 in Essex, grew up in Hounslow, West London England). ...
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See also: List of Jonathan Creek cast members Actors who have appeared in Jonathan Creek, a British television series. ...
Plot The series follows the exploits of Jonathan Creek, a designer of illusions for a stage magician, and — in the first three series — Maddie Magellan, a pushy journalist, as they work together to solve baffling crimes where others have failed to do so. “Illusionist†redirects here. ...
Creek contributes his superb lateral-thinking brain, and 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 (a "locked room mystery"). Several episodes deal with apparently paranormal thefts and murders, which Jonathan solves using his knowledge of misdirection and illusion, giving the character a passing resemblance to stage magician turned paranormal investigator James Randi. Creek gradually changed from an antisocial anorak to a man with a great deal of wit and charm. This helped to fuel the romantic thread between him and Maddie. Jonathan's trademark duffle coat was actually Alan Davies' own coat that he wore to the auditions; it helped him win the role, as the writer and producers thought it suited the character. A locked room mystery is a sub-genre of detective fiction wherein a murder or other crime is apparently committed under impossible circumstances: no one could have entered or left the scene of the crime, and the death involved could not have been a suicide. ...
James Randi (born August 7, 1928), stage name The Amazing Randi, is a stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. ...
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A warm coat made from thick wool. ...
Creek's employer is the amoral and ambitious Adam Klaus, a flamboyant performer with a sinister stage persona who is really a drug-addled, comically insensitive womaniser. In some instances, his magic tricks go comically wrong. The character appears on camera infrequently, his shenanigans usually revealed to or by Jonathan in conversation with other characters. Some aspects of the character were inspired by Ali Bongo. Amoral is an adjective used to describe someone or something that has no concept of right or wrong. ...
Ali Bongo (born 1929) is a British comedy magician who has an act in which he is known as the Sheik of Araby. ...
For the 2001 Christmas special and thereafter, Caroline Quentin declined to appear, and so a second supporting role was introduced, theatrical agent Carla Borrego, played by Julia Sawalha. After her first appearance, the character married TV producer Brendan Baxter (Adrian Edmondson), and she became a TV presenter. Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...
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Julia Sawalha (born 9 September 1968) is an English actress best known for her roles of Lynda Day, editor of The Junior Gazette in Press Gang, Saffron Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous and Lydia Bennet in the 1995 miniseries of Pride and Prejudice. ...
Adrian Charles Edmondson (born 24 January 1957) is an English actor, comedian, director, and writer. ...
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Part of the humour comes from the fact that Jonathan often doesn't want to get involved in other people's problems, and has to be pressured into it by Maddie or Carla. In "The Scented Room", which centred around a theft from a critic who had lambasted Adam's act, he took great delight in announcing he had solved the crime but wasn't going to tell anybody how it was done. Initially Jonathan was only brought in to investigate because he was asked by Maddie due to her having a connection to the crime, or because it involved an old friend of his, but as time went on and he acquired a more significant reputation, he was independently recruited by such varied contacts as a chief of police or the United States military.
Toward the end of the show's run the tone became noticably darker, with Jonathan investigating gangsters, drug dealers, slave traders, psychopathic serial killers and violent pimps as opposed to the more whimsical (if no less murderous) characters he crossed wits with in earlier episodes. The tone of the show also became more adult, with coarser language and even on one occasion full-frontal male nudity creeping into the show by series four.
Episodes The 2003 and 2004 series were made up of three episodes each but were released on DVD as a single six-episode series.
Series 1 (1997) | # | Title | Writer | Director | Original airdate | | 1 | "The Wrestler's Tomb" | David Renwick | Marcus Mortimer | 10 May 1997 | | Maddie is investigating the murder of an exuberant artist found dead in his studio, but was he shot by his wife- who went into her office but lacks anyone to prove she was in there at the time of the death-, his lover- who was apparently tied up in the room where his body was found-, or a burglar? After a chance meeting at one of Adam Klaus's shows, she recruits the initially reluctant Jonathan Creek to provide her with some ideas about how the killer could have escaped the scene of the crime. David Renwick (born September 4, 1951 in Luton, Bedfordshire, UK) is a British television writer, best known for creation of the sitcom One Foot in the Grave and the mystery series Jonathan Creek Before beginning his full-time comedy writing career, he worked as a journalist on his home town...
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| | 2 | "Jack in the Box" | David Renwick | Marcus Mortimer | 17 May 1997 | | After Maddie successfully campaigns to free a man she believes to have been wrongly imprisoned for murder, the elderly husband of the victim, a retired comedian, is found shot dead in his nuclear fall-out shelter. The otherwise empty bunker is locked from the inside, so apparently he shot himself, but everyone insists he had crippling arthritis in his hands, and couldn't even pour himself a drink, much less pull a trigger, so how did he actually die? is the 137th day of the year (138th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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| | 3 | "The Reconstituted Corpse" | David Renwick | Marcus Mortimer | 24 May 1997 | | A famous cosmetic surgeon is shot dead at his home after an altercation with his ex, Zola, on television about her recent autobiography. Zola is the prime suspect, thanks to one of her earrings being discovered at the scene of the crime, but when Maddie investigates she finds Zola has a watertight alibi (thanks to camcorder footage apparently made by her stalker). Although the case is seemingly resolved, the next day Zola's body falls out of her new wardrobe, despite the fact that she saw it was totally empty moments before. is the 144th day of the year (145th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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| | 4 | "No Trace of Tracy" | David Renwick | Sandy Johnson | 31 May 1997 | | Tracy, a teenager who loves seventies rock music, goes to visit her idol, retired rock star Roy Pilgrim (Jonathan is also a fan). She is clearly seen entering his house but then vanishes. Roy protests his innocence, insisting he never invited her in the first place and what's more had been knocked out and handcuffed to a radiator at the time and never even saw Tracy enter. Jonathan sets out to find Tracy and clear Roy's name, but what connection does Tracy's disappearance have with the Creed of Eden, an Earth-loving cult that Roy is a member of? We dont have an article called Sandy Johnson (director) Start this article Search for Sandy Johnson (director) in. ...
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| | 5 | "The House of Monkeys" | David Renwick | Sandy Johnson | 7 June 1997 | | A respected cancer doctor is found impaled on a samurai sword in his locked study, having apparently been yelling and hurling books at someone mere seconds before. His wife, an old family friend of Jonathan's, asks Jonathan and Maddie to help find his killer. Suspects include the rather odd son, the air-headed daughter-in-law and assorted monkeys used for research, but what role does an envelope containing a copy of his book play in the investigation? June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining. ...
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Series 2 (1998) | # | Title | Writer | Director | Original airdate | | 6 | "Danse Macabre" | David Renwick | Sandy Johnson | 24 January 1998 | | A well-known horror writer is shot dead on Halloween by a man in a skeleton costume who subsequently takes her unconscious daughter hostage and escapes to the garage. The police surround the garage but when they open the door the killer has vanished, leaving only the daughter who has no memory of the incident. With Jonathan otherwise occupied due to Adam currently being blackmailed by a barmaid he spent the night with, Maddie must tackle the case with only limited access to Jonathan's expertise. is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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| | 7 | "Time Waits For Norman" | David Renwick | Sandy Johnson | 31 January 1998 | | A friend of Maddie's asks Maddie and Jonathan to discover what her husband, Norman, has been up to after reliable independent witnesses place him on both sides of the Atlantic only minutes apart (Jonathan, meanwhile, has to deal with a rather awkward romantic encounter with a bald tax inspector). is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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| | 8 | "The Scented Room" | David Renwick | Sandy Johnson | 7 February 1998 | | A priceless painting disappears from a locked room and the owner demands Jonathan help him, but Jonathan refuses due to his dislike of the man after he published a negative review of Adam's show; the only hint he will give Maddie is that a spam sandwich is involved in the solution. is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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| | 9 | "The Problem at Gallows Gate (part 1)" | David Renwick | Keith Washington | 14 February 1998 | | A young rich eccentric apparently commits suicide by jumping off a balcony after discovering his girlfriend in bed with someone else, but three weeks later, during Jonathan's badger watch, he is witnessed strangling her in her kitchen by Adam Klaus's older sister, Kitty. is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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| | 10 | "The Problem at Gallows Gate (part 2)" | David Renwick | Keith Washington | 21 February 1998 | | Their attempts to prove their own innocence hampered by the police's dislike of Maddie after the publication of her recent book (as Maddie grows increasingly frustrated with Jonathan's s-less typewriter), Jonathan and Maddie begin to realise that not only may Kitty not have witnessed a murder after all, but that the man she saw may not have even died in the first place. Jonathan, meanwhile, is convinced that the removal of the woman's stockings plays a more important role than they initially suspected. is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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| | 11 | "Mother Redcap" | David Renwick | Keith Washington | 28 February 1998 | | A judge on a police protection programme is killed by a rapier blade to the heart after a brief struggle, but only his wife, who insists she's innocent, was in the room at the time, and the only evidence at the crime scene is a torn fingernail. As Jonathan investigates the murder, Maddie and a new friend are investigating the derelict Mother Redcap Inn, where seven men apparently died of fright after looking out of a window in the same room. A connection between the cases is drawn when Maddie discovers the body of a vagrant woman - missing a fingernail. February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Christmas Special (1998) | # | Title | Writer | Director | Original airdate | | 12 | "Black Canary" | David Renwick | Sandy Johnson | 24 December 1998 | | A famous illusionist (whose twin sister died when an escape trick went wrong and she was partially sliced in half) is found in her back garden, having apparently been witnessed shooting herself by her husband. However, the post-mortem reveals that she had already been dead for several hours, and there are no other footprints around the body despite her husband seeing someone talking to her and fleeing before she pulled the trigger. Jonathan and Maddie are prompted to investigate by the dead woman's daughter— an old flame of Jonathan's— with the help of the debonair Gideon Pryke, the police officer officially in charge of the case, whose attitude annoys both Jonathan and Maddie. Back at the theatre, Adam has apparently fallen in love with a virgin woman from Austria in her thirties, but she may have more layers than even he knows. is the 358th day of the year (359th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Series 3 (1999-2000) | # | Title | Writer | Director | Original airdate | | 13 | "The Curious Tale of Mr Spearfish" | David Renwick | | 27 November 1999 | | A man who claims to have sold his soul to the Devil has a remarkable run of good luck— ranging from finding ancient treasure in his backyard to surviving a point-blank range shooting— but Jonathan and Maddie believe his success may be coming from a more Earthly source than Hell. Adam, meanwhile, has to deal with a rather awkward court case where a woman claims he asked her to perform unnatural acts with a kipper. is the 331st day of the year (332nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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| | 14 | "The Eye of Tiresias" | David Renwick | Keith Washington | 4 December 1999 | | When an old woman apparently experiences dreams of the future, including the murder of a prominent Swiss businessman and an apparent prediction of a car crash, Jonathan must find out what is happening before her dreams of being attacked by a one-eyed man with a sword come to pass. is the 338th day of the year (339th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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| | 15 | "The Omega Man" | David Renwick | Keith Washington | 11 December 1999 | | Maddie is contacted by a man who makes a living investigating the existence of aliens, who claims to have found a real alien skeleton. The US army intervenes and takes the skeleton, but it vanishes on the way to the military base, leaving Jonathan to try and find out where it went. December 11 is the 345th day of the year (346th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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| | 16 | "Ghost's Forge" | David Renwick | Richard Holthouse | 18 December 1999 | | An old friend of Maddie wants she and Jonathan to investigate the house 'Ghosts Forge', as she is having an affair with a man who keeps muttering about it in his sleep. Investigations reveal that the last owner of the house was found dead several years ago and the house is now being rebuilt into flats. As Jonathan looks into the man's real identity- his only clue being a package in the attic containing six books by Gerald Estleman-, Maddie takes the chance to pull off an illusion of her own. is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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| | 17 | "Miracle in Crooked Lane" | David Renwick | Richard Holthouse | 28 December 1999 | | A former nude model, now living quietly with her rich, older husband in the countryside, is seriously injured when her shed explodes, leaving her badly burned. However, a reliable, independent witness insists she spoke to the unharmed woman several hours later as she went to church. Jonathan investigates with the help (and hindrance) of his rapidly growing fan club, all of whom dress exactly like him; two of them even live in windmills. is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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| | 18 | "The Three Gamblers" | David Renwick | Keith Washington | 2 January 2000 | | A drug dealer and criminal who was shot six times in the head somehow climbs up the stairs from the cellar in the intervening time between his body being dumped and it being investigated later. Three months later, Jonathan and Maddie try to investigate, but things are hampered by the killer's belief that his victim has supernatural powers and will kill him from beyond the grave. is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Christmas Special (2001) | # | Title | Writer | Director | Original airdate | | 19 | "Satan's Chimney" | David Renwick | Sandy Johnson | 26 December 2001 | | With Maddie gone to America on a book promotion tour, Jonathan teams up with Carla Borrego, a theatrical agent representing an escapologist who is being hired for Adam's show, to investigate how a well-known actress could have been shot through a window without the glass having been broken during the filming of her latest movie. The investigation also turns up an old secret used to kill blasphemers in a castle owned by the film's producer, as well as the fact that the actress was pregnant twice... but only had an abortion the second time around. is the 360th day of the year (361st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Series 4 (2003) | # | Title | Writer | Director | Original airdate | | 20 | "The Coonskin Cap" | David Renwick | Christine Gernon | 1 March 2003 | | After an awkward break-up some months ago, Jonathan and Carla- now married to a television presenter- unite to investigate the mysterious 'Daisy Chain Killer', a killer wearing a Davy Crockett hat who apparently strangles women named after flowers. However, when the killer shoots at policemen and subsequently escapes from an upstairs window in full view of the police, and a policewoman is apparently strangled in the middle of a school gym with no way for the killer to escape, things take on a new dynamic. is the 60th day of the year (61st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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| | 21 | "Angel Hair" | David Renwick | Christine Gernon | 8 March 2003 | | A pop star's husband is baffled as to how his mistress can regrow a full head of hair barely two days after she apparently had it all hacked off for a fake kidnapping video. Meanwhile, Carla is jealous of Jonathan's relationship with a make-up consultant on the show, believing that the woman is in a rebound relationship after the death of her dog. is the 67th day of the year (68th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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| | 22 | "The Tailor's Dummy" | David Renwick | Christine Gernon | 15 March 2003 | | A well-known designer apparently commits suicide by jumping out a window after reading a bad review of his work, but that leaves the question of why he chose to throw his treasured parrot out the window first. Subsequent events, with a man apparently changing his physical appearance in a matter of seconds while threatening the journalist who wrote the review, also prompt several questions. To answer these, Jonathan must work out what the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Marx Brothers video, and a drawer full of socks have to do with the solution to the mystery. is the 74th day of the year (75th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Series 5 (2004) | # | Title | Writer | Director | Original airdate | | 23 | "The Seer of the Sands" | David Renwick | Sandy Johnson | 14 February 2004 | | A man who investigates 'supernatural' occurrences apparently kills himself by crashing his boat after receiving a fax from his lover. However, the fact that the fax was good news (his lover's husband was agreeing to a divorce), the disappearance of his body from the scene of the accident, and some Gypsies claiming to be in contact with his spirit with a message for his visiting lover, provide several questions that Jonathan must answer. is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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| | 24 | "The Chequered Box" | David Renwick | Sandy Johnson | 21 February 2004 | | When a top detective (who solves a rather strange death at a speed that would impress even Jonathan) is photographed apparently laughing at the body of a lawyer who's been hung in an office (And possessed evidence that incriminated his daughter in a drug-smuggling ring), Jonathan and Carla must clear his name of murder, when the only prominent clue is a piece of chewing gum that moved from one plant pot to another. is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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| | 25 | "Gorgon's Wood" | David Renwick | Sandy Johnson | 28 February 2004 | | A priceless porcelain monk (said to have a curse on it that will bring nothing but evil to its owners) is stolen in front of several witnesses, prompting Jonathan and Carla's discovery of a major case of sibling rivalry, a disfigured prostitute who resembles another person involved in the case, and (apparently) a torrid affair between the owner of the statue and his own niece. February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Other versions There were two attempts to make a U.S. version of Jonathan Creek. The first involved Castle Rock, the production company behind series such as Seinfeld, but the initial scripts were not felt good enough, and David Renwick's scripts were rejected by CBS. The second attempt, also by Renwick, was for Whoopi Goldberg and would have included Alan Davies. Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic - President George Walker Bush (R) - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from...
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References - *Jonathan Creek at the BBC Programme Catalogue (episode airdates and directors)
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