List of Jonathan Creek Episodes - Series 1 (1997)

An exuberant artist is found dead at his home. A burglar is charged with murder but protests his innocence to Maddy Magellan, a writer with a reputation for clearing miscarriages of justice. The only alternative suspect is the artist's wronged wife who was well aware of his affair with his model, but how could she have left her city office without her P.A. seeing her leave? After a chance meeting at one of magician Adam Klaus's shows, Maddy recruits the initially reluctant Jonathan Creek, the actual designer of Adam's tricks, to provide her with some ideas about how the wife could have reached the scene of the crime, but Creek soon uncovers an even more sinister side to the case.

After Maddy successfully campaigns to free a man she believes to have been wrongly imprisoned for murder, the elderly husband of the victim, a retired comedian, is found shot dead in his nuclear fall-out shelter. The otherwise empty bunker is locked from the inside, which would suggest the man shot himself, but everyone insists he had crippling arthritis in his hands, and couldn't even pour himself a drink, much less pull a trigger, so how did he actually die?

Zola Zbzewski has made her money and reputation by being one of the most cosmetically altered women in Britain. However, when she publishes her autobiography, her cosmetic surgeon and ex-lover is outraged by what she says about him and threatens to sue. He is later shot dead at his home. Zola is the most obvious suspect and an earring with her DNA is discovered at the crime scene. But when Maddy investigates she finds Zola has a watertight alibi — camcorder footage made by a stalker proves that she was at home. Later, a new wardrobe is delivered to Maddy's flat. After seeing that it is empty she gets it up to her flat only to discover Zola's dead body inside it.

Tracy, a teenager who loves seventies rock music, goes to visit her idol, retired rock star Roy Pilgrim (Jonathan is also a fan). She is clearly seen entering his house but then vanishes. Roy protests his innocence, insisting he never invited her in the first place and had been knocked out and handcuffed to a radiator at the time. He claims to have never even seen Tracy enter. Jonathan sets out to find Tracy and clear Roy's name, but what connection does Tracy's disappearance have with the Creed of Eden, an Earth-loving cult that Roy is a member of?

A respected cancer doctor is found impaled on a samurai sword in his locked study, having been yelling and hurling books at someone mere seconds before. His wife, an old family friend of Jonathan's, asks him and Maddy to help find his killer. Suspects include the rather odd son, the air-headed daughter-in-law and assorted monkeys used for research, but what role does an envelope containing a copy of his book play in the investigation?