Jonathan Creek (Alan Davies) is a master of illusion. The brains behind magician Adam Klaus, he hides his brilliance behind a shy, shaggy exterior. He's no match for pushy, unorthodox journalist Maddy Magellan (Caroline Quentin) who has discovered another use for his unusual talents - solving impossible murders.

Episode One: The Curious Tale of Mr Spearfish

Life for Alice and Lenny Spearfish is just one long endurance test.With no job, no income, no prospects, every day they just seem to sink further and further down. Until one morning, drunk with despair, and as the ultimate screwyou to God and the world Lenny finds himself signing a strange piece of paper, in blood..

Episode Two: The Eyes Of Tiresias

On the surface of things,73-year-old widow Mrs Audrey Panguitch leads a rather unremarkable life in her little cottage in the country. Living alone with just her pet goldfish for company, her favourite pastimes are listening to music and curling up with a good book about classical mythology. But her peaceful world is disrupted when her niece Heidi, who works as a location manager for a film company, comes to stay with her for a few nights...

Episode Three: The Omega Man

Professor Lance Graumann is something of a legend in his own lifetime. Widely acknowledged as the world's leading authority on extra-terrestrial phenomena, he has researched and investigated some of the most incredible case histories and sightings this century. However, even he is unprepared for the latest artefact to come into his possession..

Episode Four: Ghost's Forge

Maddy's former newspaper colleague, Mimi, is the super-glam girlie reporter women can't stand and men dribble all over. A bit like a urinal, as Creek observes. And her current affair with a married man, Robin Priest, has set her thinking about an unsolved murder at a spooky old house called Ghost's Forge...

Episode Five: Miracle in Crooked Lane

When former Seventies sex kitten Jacqui Jordan lifts the lid on her life and lovers in a tabloid newspaper her salacious revelations aren't well received in the sleepy country village where she has now made her home...

Episode Six: The Three Gamblers

Even his criminal colleagues admit that Frank Gieger is not human. Just to be in the same room with him is to sense the presence of pure evil. So even when he's been effectively disposed of shot through the brain six times, with his head battered in, can anyone really feel safe from his demonic wrath?