Jonathan Creek
- TV comedy drama
- BBC One
- 1997 - 2016
- 32 episodes (5 series)
Comedy drama following a creator of magical illusions who finds his expertise suited to solving murders and mysteries. Stars Alan Davies, Caroline Quentin, Stuart Milligan, Julia Sawalha, Adrian Edmondson and more.
Episode menu
The Clue Of The Savant's Thumb
Further details
When a dead body impossibly vanishes from a locked study it is only the first in a chain of dark mysteries confronting Jonathan Creek and self-styled paranormal investigator Joey Ross.
Writer, producer, political campaigner and all round polymath Franklin Tartikoff is one of the country's most eminent intellectuals. But tragedy and horror are about to engulf the vast old country house he shares with his beautiful wife Rosalind, and their adopted daughter Fariba.
On the day that Fariba returns from a spiritual journey to the remote Far Eastern island where she was born her mother is attending the funeral of an old school friend... an event that will unleash disturbing memories of a classmate whose macabre death, 50 years ago in the school dormitory, was never explained.
Today, Waxwood Hall convent school lies eerily empty and derelict. But as Rosalind Tartikoff revisits her childhood haunts she finds that ghosts from the past still stalk its gloomy interior. Now a lecturer in Humanities and Modern Philosophy, and an avowed religious sceptic, how can she bear to admit - even to herself - that as a rebellious teenager in the Sixties she once had a miraculous vision of God?
And when her life is ripped apart by the shocking death of her husband, and a disappearing act that appears to defy the laws of science - the very fabric of everything she believes in - there is only one person she feels she can turn to... who, in a world of "gods and spirits and magic and miracles can still fly the flag for common sense".
A grisly murder, the macabre history of a Catholic girls' school, a sinister local society and a series of increasingly puzzling, interlocking clues form the backdrop to another weird and wonderful case for Creek and Joey - where this time they find themselves merely junior players, in an inquiry spearheaded by the flamboyant and indomitable detective inspector, Gideon Pryke.
An inquiry whose resolution will prove infinitely deeper and darker than any of them could have imagined...
Notes
This episode was subject to a last minute rescheduling from an originally planned and listed transmission time of 8:30pm.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 1st April 2013
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 90 minutes
Repeats
Show past repeats
Date | Time | Channel |
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Monday 21st April 2014 | 9:00pm | Drama |
Sunday 6th July 2014 | 10:30pm | Drama |
Monday 7th July 2014 | 9:00pm | Drama |
Sunday 24th August 2014 | 12:00am | Drama |
Sunday 24th August 2014 | 10:00pm | Drama |
Friday 26th December 2014 | 10:00pm | Drama |
Tuesday 15th March 2016 | 10:00pm | Drama |
Sunday 27th March 2016 | 9:00pm | W |
Sunday 16th April 2017 | 11:20pm | Drama |
Monday 17th April 2017 | 9:20pm | Drama |
Wednesday 28th June 2017 | 8:00pm | Drama |
Thursday 22nd February 2018 | 9:00pm | Drama |
Thursday 27th December 2018 | 7:55pm | Drama |
Monday 3rd January 2022 | 8:00pm | Drama |
Thursday 21st July 2022 | 8:00pm | Drama |
Wednesday 28th December 2022 | 5:00pm | Drama |
Thursday 29th December 2022 | 7:55am | Drama |
Monday 15th May 2023 | 8:00pm | Drama |
Sunday 23rd July 2023 | 8:25pm | Drama |
Wednesday 29th November 2023 | 8:00pm | Drama |
Cast & crew
Alan Davies | Jonathan Creek |
Sarah Alexander | Polly Creek |
Rik Mayall | D.I. Gideon Pryke |
Sheridan Smith | Joey Ross |
Joanna Lumley | Rosalind Tartikoff |
Nigel Planer | Franklin Tartikoff |
Hasina Haque | Fariba Tartikoff |
Mark Frost | Brad |
Michael Lumsden | Peter Churchill |
Anna Burnett | Young Rosalind |
Phoebe Jones | Natalie |
Lucie Wolfman | Grace |
Lydia Gerrard | Young Beth |
Angelica Jopling | Kate |
Mairead Conneely | Sister Cunegonde |
Abigail McKern | Beth |
Robert Styles | Jack |
Louise Yates | Davina |
Samantha Coughlan | Receptionist |
Sharlene Whyte | WDC Atkins |
James Buller | DS Cudlipp |
David Renwick | TV Host |
David Renwick | Writer |
David Renwick | Director |
Rosemary McGowan | Producer |
Pete Thornton | Executive Producer |
William Webb | Editor |
John Asbridge | Production Designer |
Rick Wentworth | Composer |
Videos
Who's Brad?
Joey thinks she has a lead for Jonathan, so she takes him to a farm to talk to Brad...
View this clip on the BBC website
Featuring: Alan Davies (Jonathan Creek) & Sheridan Smith (Joey Ross).
A Call for Jonathan Creek
When a corpse impossibly vanishes from a locked study, it is only the first in a chain of dark mysteries confronting Jonathan Creek.
View this clip on the BBC website
Featuring: Alan Davies (Jonathan Creek) & Joanna Lumley (Rosalind Tartikoff).