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**NeanderCarl** · 01-13-2009, 08:35 PM

I've just been getting into Jonathan Creek. It's a 90s show that still airs an occasional one-off special (as recently as two weeks ago). Never watched it during its original run, but been catching up online now (there are a fair number of streaming vids on sites like Veoh too).

It's a comedy-drama about an anti-social magician's assistant, Jonathan Creek, who often finds himself harrassed into helping solve seemingly impossible crimes by his journalist friend Maddie, calling upon his incredible lateral thinking brain in order to work out how a crime that couldn't possibly have been committed actually was commited, and by whom.

More so a 'how they did it' than a who dunnit. Some of the episodes I have watched so far have included such myseries as a dead body that somehow managed to climb a staircase after being dead for hours and nobody could possibly have accessed the body to move it... the apparent gun suicide of an elderly man inside a firmly locked and bolted room in a deep underground nuclear bunker who had crippling arthritis and couldn't have possibly pulled a trigger as he couldn't even hold a cup... an actress who somehow managed to get shot through a pane of glass without the window breaking or opening... a lone woman seen by a witness standing in her garden and shooting herself in the head despite police determining she had already been dead for five hours prior to the shooting... a woman witnessed walking around a village unscathed the morning after being involved in an accident that left her in coma from which she had yet to recover... a priceless painting that disappeared from a locked room with no exits just 30 seconds after it was last seen intact...

It has its contrivances and some episodes are weaker than others, but for the most part I've had a great time catching up on old episodes of this show over the last few weeks.

If you want to give it a whirl and watch one episode to give it a chance may I recommend the feature length episodes "The Black Canary" or "Satan's Chimney", or the regular-length first series episode "Jack In The Box", all of which I believe are available on Veoh.

01-13-2009, 08:35 PM	#4
NeanderCarl That's Not My Name Posts: 9,086	I've just been getting into Jonathan Creek. It's a 90s show that still airs an occasional one-off special (as recently as two weeks ago). Never watched it during its original run, but been catching up online now (there are a fair number of streaming vids on sites like Veoh too). It's a comedy-drama about an anti-social magician's assistant, Jonathan Creek, who often finds himself harrassed into helping solve seemingly impossible crimes by his journalist friend Maddie, calling upon his incredible lateral thinking brain in order to work out how a crime that couldn't possibly have been committed actually was commited, and by whom. More so a 'how they did it' than a who dunnit. Some of the episodes I have watched so far have included such myseries as a dead body that somehow managed to climb a staircase after being dead for hours and nobody could possibly have accessed the body to move it... the apparent gun suicide of an elderly man inside a firmly locked and bolted room in a deep underground nuclear bunker who had crippling arthritis and couldn't have possibly pulled a trigger as he couldn't even hold a cup... an actress who somehow managed to get shot through a pane of glass without the window breaking or opening... a lone woman seen by a witness standing in her garden and shooting herself in the head despite police determining she had already been dead for five hours prior to the shooting... a woman witnessed walking around a village unscathed the morning after being involved in an accident that left her in coma from which she had yet to recover... a priceless painting that disappeared from a locked room with no exits just 30 seconds after it was last seen intact... It has its contrivances and some episodes are weaker than others, but for the most part I've had a great time catching up on old episodes of this show over the last few weeks. If you want to give it a whirl and watch one episode to give it a chance may I recommend the feature length episodes "The Black Canary" or "Satan's Chimney", or the regular-length first series episode "Jack In The Box", all of which I believe are available on Veoh. Last edited by NeanderCarl; 01-13-2009 at 08:47 PM.