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
Series 5, Episode 2 - The Sinner And The Sandman
Further details
As Creek and Polly strive to settle into rural life, they find their apparently serene country village is riddled with all manner of strange and disturbing undercurrents...
Trouble is already brewing in the nearby community centre - recently reopened after a major face-lift - where a sordid sex scandal is about to break, casting a pall of gloom over the celebrations.
And at the vicarage, the arrival of a new baby is overshadowed by tales of a "weird hump-backed beast", that has been seen prowling in the garden by night and foraging through the rubbish bags for foodstuffs.
Even the Creek residence is struck by misfortune, as the prospect of a plague of deadly Japanese Knotweed threatens to trigger wide-scale panic throughout the village. And after a whole slew of other unfortunate events, there are fears that some strange parochial Apocalypse is about to dawn.
Jonathan Creek, meanwhile, finds himself paying a charitable call on the eccentric Mr Eric Ipswich - aka 'The Amazing Astrodamus' - an ancient and reclusive former psychic magician who will shortly bring the village to a standstill by pulling off the most baffling act of clairvoyance in history.
And what is behind the macabre recurring dream that continues to haunt Creek's wife Polly... in which the kindly children's nursery character The Sandman is transformed into a dark and chilling figure of evil?
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 7th March 2014
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 60 minutes
Repeats
Show past repeats
Date | Time | Channel |
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Monday 8th June 2015 | 11:15pm | Drama |
Tuesday 9th June 2015 | 10:00pm | Drama |
Saturday 29th August 2015 | 10:20pm | Drama |
Sunday 30th August 2015 | 9:00pm | Drama |
Thursday 17th March 2016 | 10:00pm | Drama |
Friday 23rd September 2016 | 10:00pm | Drama |
Sunday 8th January 2017 | 9:00pm | W |
Wednesday 12th July 2017 | 11:20pm | Drama |
Thursday 13th July 2017 | 10:00pm | Drama |
Wednesday 5th January 2022 | 8:00pm | Drama |
Thursday 4th August 2022 | 8:00pm | Drama |
Sunday 30th July 2023 | 7:20pm | Drama |
Saturday 11th November 2023 | 7:35am | Drama |
Thursday 16th November 2023 | 1:20am | Drama |
Sunday 26th November 2023 | 11:00pm | Drama |
Cast & crew
Alan Davies | Jonathan Creek |
Sarah Alexander | Polly Creek |
John Bird | Horace Greeley |
Tim Faraday | Crispin Gilpin |
James Bachman | Rev Hugh Chater |
Selina Griffiths | Alison Chater |
Jarred Christmas | Warwick |
David Gant | Eric Ipswich |
Marc Danbury | Burglar 1 |
John Walters | The Sandman |
Chloe Buswell | Polly's Mother |
Ella Purton | Young Polly |
Adam Grayson | Young Eric Ipswich |
John Voce | Captain Ian Amery-Cooper |
Michael Troughton | Leonard Corbyn |
David Renwick | Writer |
David Sant | Director |
Rosemary McGowan | Producer |
Pete Thornton | Executive Producer |
David Renwick | Executive Producer |
Paul Garrick | Editor |
John Asbridge | Production Designer |
Rick Wentworth | Composer |
Videos
Jonathan Creek meets old Mr Ipswich
Creek arrives at Mr Ipswich's house and gets more than he bargained for.
View this clip on the BBC website
Featuring: Alan Davies (Jonathan Creek) & David Gant (Eric Ipswich).
If you look long enough and hard enough...
Creek looks through old Parish records and something catches his eye.
View this clip on the BBC website
Featuring: Alan Davies (Jonathan Creek) & Sarah Alexander (Polly Creek).
A meeting at the Village Centre
Sordid details of the Village Centre benefactor are revealed.
View this clip on the BBC website
Featuring: Sarah Alexander (Polly Creek), John Bird (Horace Greeley) & Jarred Christmas (Warwick).