List Price: $34.98Price:
$26.99You Save: $7.99 (23%)Jonathan Creek - Season One
Actors: Alan Davies, Caroline Quentin
ASIN : B000GYI3MW
Sales Rank : 9017
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0794051270122
UPC : 794051270122
Number Of Discs : 2
Release Date : December 24, 2006
Publisher : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Manufacturer : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Running Time : 324
Description
Meet the magician with the trick of solving impossible crimes. Jonathan and Maddy investigate crimes which seem to have no rational explanation. Jonathan Creek is a bit of a nerd, but he is also a bit of a quick-witted genius. Maddy Magellan is an investigative crime writer, and the pair join forces to unravel a series of mysteries. Among their many adventures, Jonathan and Maddy encounter the powers of voodoo and dream-predictions, and cases involving strange disappearances, an alien life-form and tricks of time.
Amazon.com
In any successful murder mystery, the personality of the sleuth is as important as the puzzle solved--and Jonathan Creek has two of the most charming detectives in recent memory. A reclusive, socially maladept inventor of illusions for a professional magician, Jonathan Creek (stand-up comedian Alan Davies) gets drawn into the investigations of pushy journalist Madeline "Maddy" Magellan (Caroline Quentin, Men Behaving Badly) whenever Maddy confronts something seemingly impossible: When a man shoot himself in a sealed underground bomb shelter, but his crippling arthritis makes it impossible for him to pull the trigger, as in one episode; or when a girl disappears when she enters an aging rock star's house--but the rock star himself, who's been chained to a radiator in the entry room by burglars, insists he never saw the girl come through the door; or when a scientist is stabbed in the back in a locked room in a house full of monkeys. Creek gathers the clues and, knowing that seamless mysteries can be the result of improbable effort, susses out the sometimes preposterous solutions while he and Maddy flirt in the most awkward, neurotic, and utterly true-to-life way. Davies and Quentin are thoroughly engaging actors but do not look like movie stars, and therein lies much of their appeal; the astonishing murders are perfectly balanced by the actors' flesh-and-blood genuineness. The plots are cunning, the dialogue brisk, and the supporting casts dependable, but Jonathan Creek rides on the shoulders of its leads, who carry it with magical ease. --Bret Fetzer
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$25.99You Save: $8.99 (26%)Jonathan Creek: Season Three
Actors: Alan Davies, Caroline Quentin
ASIN : B001G1FL4M
Sales Rank : 2640
Studio : BBC Warner
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0883929046454
UPC : 883929046454
Release Date : December 20, 2009
Publisher : BBC Warner
Manufacturer : BBC Warner
Availability : Not yet released
Label : BBC Warner
Running Time : 292
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$18.49You Save: $16.49 (47%)Jonathan Creek - Season Two
Actors: Alan Davies, Caroline Quentin
ASIN : B000S2XD9A
Sales Rank : 9457
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0794051414120
UPC : 794051414120
Release Date : December 16, 2007
Publisher : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Manufacturer : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Running Time : 298
Product Description
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/16/2007 Run time: 298 minutes
Amazon.com
The many and manifest delights of Jonathan Creek, the British murder mystery TV series that's inarguably one of the best of its genre, continue with this two-disc set of episodes from its second season (first aired in 1998). As was the case in Season One, the stories concocted by David Renwick are marvelously ingenious. In the course of these six episodes (the seventh of the season, "Black Canary," is inexplicably not included), sleuths Jonathan Creek (the magician's assistant played by comic Alan Davies) and Madeline "Maddy" Magellan (the true crime writer portrayed by Caroline Quentin) are again confronted with a host of apparently inexplicable and unsolvable crimes: a killer who evaporates from a garage whose only possible exit was closely guarded ("Danse Macabre"); a man who is on two continents at exactly the same time ("Time Waits for Norman"); a fellow positively identified as a murderer… except that he'd committed suicide three weeks before the deed in question ("The Problem at Gallows Gate," a two-parter). Of course, we know that our heroes, relying on Jonathan's brilliant deductive powers and Maddy's sheer persistence, will eventually figure it all out--but getting there is at least half the fun. Renwick's writing is as clever as the plots themselves, filled with references to everything from Quincy and Kojak to Kafka and Bram Stoker, populated by quirky supporting characters (a blind trumpeter who isn't blind, a clock collector who's "temporophobic," a hack author named Emma Lazarus), and laced with amusing little touches. Most of all, there's the relationship between the two partners-in-crime-solving; more than friends but not quite lovers, Maddy and Jonathan are forever engaged in a semi-flirtatious pas de deux that beggars the bogus bonds contrived by, say, the average sit-com. Charming, witty, and oh, so very British, Jonathan Creek deserves a spot alongside the best of Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle. --Sam Graham
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New Price: $74.88Jonathan Creek [Region 2]
Actors: Alan Davies, Caroline Quentin
ASIN : B0002ISG0G
Sales Rank : 127164
Studio : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Region Code : 2
Format : PAL
Binding : DVD
EAN : 5014503156329
Number Of Discs : 9
Publisher : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Manufacturer : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Label : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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New Price: $77.77Jonathan Creek Complete Series One & Two [Region 2]
Actors: Alan Davies, Caroline Quentin
ASIN : B0000BK6SF
Sales Rank : 142332
Studio : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Region Code : 2
Format : PAL
Binding : DVD
EAN : 5014503124328
Number Of Discs : 4
Release Date : December 17, 2004
Publisher : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Manufacturer : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Label : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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Price not listed for this item.Jonathan Creek [Region 2]
Actors: Alan Davies, Caroline Quentin, Stuart Milligan, Julia Sawalha, Adrian Edmondson
ASIN : B0002ADW7Q
Sales Rank : 156906
Studio : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Region Code : 2
Format : PAL
Binding : DVD
EAN : 5014503148829
Number Of Discs : 3
Publisher : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Manufacturer : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Label : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
