Jonathan Creek: Season 2

The crime-solving odd couple is back! Jonathan (Alan Davies, QI, The Brief)? windmill-dwelling, frizzy-headed, tennis-shoed magic expert and amateur sleuth extraordinaire?and investigative journalist Maddy Magellan (Caroline Quentin, Blue Murder, Men Behaving Badly) solve six more mysteries by fusing hard evidence with inspiration and intellect. In Season 2, killers appear to evaporate in a puff of smoke, make time stand still and escape like ghosts. See if you can solve the illusions in this BAFTA? Awardwinning series.

Danse Macabre - Best-selling author Emma Lazarus, popularly known as "The Queen Of Horror", has been shot through the heart at the Cotswolds home of her daughter, Lorna Claithorne. But the date is October 31 - Halloween - and this is no ordinary murder. Inexplicably, the mystery killer has apparently evaporated like a puff of smoke, right in front of everyone's eyes. In the words of Lorna's husband, The Reverend Stephen Claithorne: "Some miracles you don't want to believe in."

Time Waits for Norman - Businessman Norman Stangerson is a temporophobic, unable to relax whenever there is a watch or a clock ticking near him, reminding him that, with every second that passes his life is slowly ebbing away. This little eccentricity apart, his life appears to be running smoothly. After the collapse of his partnership a few years ago, he has landed a lucrative job commuting across the Atlantic and his mar riage to his glamorous publisher wife Antonia could not be happier.

The Scented Room - When a £1m 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.
Theatre critic Sylvester Le Fley - loathed the length and breadth of Shaftesbur y Avenue - has just had a priceless art treasure stolen from his country retreat, Cicada Park. El Greco's Kiss Of Judas - the pride of his collection - has impossibly vanished from an empty, air-tight room... spirited away by an unseen intruder who appears to have been able to walk through walls. A classic problem, then, for illusionist's consultant Jonathan Creek and one that doesn't appear to tax his deductive powers for more than a few minutes.

The Problem at Gallows Gate (Part One) - Creek and Maddy face another impossible murder mystery when Adam Klaus'sister witnesses a young woman being strangled in the window of a country cottage in the woods.
A visit to the UK by legendary jazz trumpeter "Blind" Hewie Harper is a rare treat indeed and his itinerary will naturally include a call on his good friend, master magician Adam Klaus. A night of hell-raising with the "Rat-Pack" is in prospect and, with luck, the King Of Cool will even be persuaded to guest-star on Klaus' forthcoming TV special. But there is a problem. Klaus' decidedly uncool sister Kitty, from Dumfries, has descended on the house like a Plague of Egypt, threatening to scupper her brother's plans and reduce him to a quivering wreck. As ever, creative consultant Jonathan Creek is given the job of damage limitation, and Kitty is duly removed from the premises for the night, to join Maddy and Creek on a Badger Watch organised by the local natural history society.

The Problem at Gallows Gate (Part Two) - How was a beautiful young woman murdered by a man who had himself committed suicide a few weeks earlier?
After a long, intimidating night being grilled by detectives at the local constabulary, Jonathan Creek and Maddy take stock of the bizarre and fairly baffling facts in the case before them. Three weeks after wealthy socialite Duncan Proctor hurled himself to his death at his ancestral home in Northumberland, he was apparently seen, by Adam Klaus' sister Kitty, strangling animator Felicity Vale in the window of her country cottage in Gallows Gate. When Maddy and Creek arrived to find her body lying in the bath, the house was locked from the inside, and there were several tantalising pieces of evidence.

Mother Redcap - How was a High Court judge stabbed to death in his own bed in a room nobody could possibly have entered or left?
As a trial of leading Chinese gangsters nears its close, a major security operation is under way at the home of the presiding judge, Forest Sweetland. On the eve of sentencing, a death threat has been received from the defendants' associates, declaring the judge will be dead by the morning.

"...a brilliantly original series from One Foot in the Grave writer, David Renwick.Davies,who made his name as a standup, has a tremendously warmTV presence, both as an actor and a comedian, and his material about his ageing dog was hysterical." Daily Mail

"Yes, the good old days of British murder are back." Evening Standard

"Jonathan Creek is classic television, destined to be rated right up there with Hancock's Half Hour, Fawlty Towers and The Likely Lads. A strange and captivating combination of mystery and comedy." Mirror

"Absorbing, funny and hugely entertaining." Daily Mail

"Just keeps getting better and better." Canberra Times