The BEST episodes written by David Renwick
#1 - Dramatic Fever
One Foot in the Grave - Season 2 - Episode 3
Victor discovers a new talent - writing comedy. However, his views of comedy are somewhat different from everyone else's, and he finds himself without support.
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#2 - ''We Have Put Her Living in the Tomb''
One Foot in the Grave - Season 2 - Episode 2
The Meldrews are given the responsibility of looking after their god-daughter's tortoise.
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#3 - I'll Retire to Bedlam
One Foot in the Grave - Season 1 - Episode 4
After being stuck in the shed for over three hours, then forced to spend an entire day with his eyes closed after a visit to the optometrist, Victor cannot bear the trials of babysitting.
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#4 - The Valley of Fear
One Foot in the Grave - Season 1 - Episode 3
After being mugged whilst photographing badgers, and having his house sprayed with the phrase 'The Man Who Lives Here Is A Turd', Victor decides to hold a crime prevention meeting.
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#5 - The Worst Horror of All
One Foot in the Grave - Season 3 - Episode 6
Even a shed falling on him cannot upset Victor when he finally gets a new job. However, before starting work he must first contend with some unwanted visitors and a trip to the BBC organised by Mrs Warboys.
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#6 - Love and Death
One Foot in the Grave - Season 2 - Episode 5
When the Meldrews visit some friends on the South Coast, Victor is given a surprise.
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#7 - Dreamland
One Foot in the Grave - Season 3 - Episode 2
Margaret is having a recurring dream about murdering someone who looks like Victor. However, it's Margaret who is starting to irritate Victor. That is, until she disappears.
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#8 - The Beast in the Cage
One Foot in the Grave - Season 3 - Episode 4
The Meldrews and Mrs Warboys get stuck in Bank Holiday traffic.
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#9 - The Eternal Quadrangle
One Foot in the Grave - Season 1 - Episode 5
Although Margaret is glad that Victor finally has a hobby to occupy his time, she is less pleased to discover that it involves painting nudes.
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#10 - Monday Morning Will Be Fine
One Foot in the Grave - Season 3 - Episode 1
After a burglary Victor decides not to replace his television set in order to give him and Margaret more opportunity to get out of the house. However, a trip to the pub results in a disconcerting experience with an old friend.
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#11 - The Broken Reflection
One Foot in the Grave - Season 3 - Episode 3
Alfred, Victor's accident prone brother, is making his first visit from New Zealand for 25 years. Victor is not looking forward to his stay, preferring to act as a neighbourhood vigilante.
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#12 - The Man Who Blew Away
One Foot in the Grave - Season 5 - Episode 1
The Meldrews play host to a suicidal stranger from the past who they met on holiday 17 years ago. Someone has been tampering with Victor's Christmas Crackers and the Meldrews are decidedly unhappy when their stolen car is finally returned.
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#13 - In Luton Airport No-One Can Hear You Scream
One Foot in the Grave - Season 2 - Episode 1
When Victor and Margaret return from their holiday, they discover that their luggage has been sent to the other side of the world, and that their house has been burned down.
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#14 - The Big Sleep
One Foot in the Grave - Season 1 - Episode 2
As retirement throws more problems for Victor Meldrew's retirement, including a next-door neighbour's noisy party, a disturbing and puzzling rash and an atheist funeral, has Victor bitten the bullett?
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#15 - Beware the Trickster on the Roof
One Foot in the Grave - Season 3 - Episode 5
Mr Swainey has brought Victor a present back from his holiday - an unlucky charm. Victor thinks that Mrs Stebbings's tv aerial is laughing at him and his resulting misfortune. Meanwhile, Patrick and Pippa are having problems trying to sell their house.
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#16 - Show Two
Not the Nine O'Clock News - Season 1 - Episode 2
Sketches: Apology to Princess Margaret / News Headlines / Nicest flag in the EEC / Inflation / Kennedy / Gravity / Equal Opportunities / Blind beggar / Phone Bill Sketch / Forgetful Priests / St Vincent / Rowan's Rant 1 / Suburbs at War / Gay Christian / Keep Fit / Milk Tray
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#17 - Danse Macabre
Jonathan Creek - Season 2 - Episode 1
A best selling author is shot in the heart in her daughter's home on Halloween. The killer appears to have vanished in a puff of smoke, but with Jonathan Creek too busy to help Maddy, she must solve the crime on her own.
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#18 - Alive and Buried
One Foot in the Grave - Season 1 - Episode 1
Victor Meldrew, 60 years old, is at last retiring from the rigors of his security guard job at Watson-Mycroft. Replaced by a talking machine, Victor soon discovers that retirement will give him just as many reasons to be grumpy.
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#19 - The Wrestler's Tomb
Jonathan Creek - Season 1 - Episode 1
Feature length pilot episode. Investigative crime writer Maddy Magellan joins forces with quirky magic expert Jonathan Creek to investigate when a painter, called Hedley Shale, is murdered in suspicious circumstances. However the way in which he was murdered doesn't quite add up.
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#20 - Jack in the Box
Jonathan Creek - Season 1 - Episode 2
When veteran comedian Jack Holiday is found dead in a locked nuclear bunker inside a cliff, it looks like an open and shut case of suicide. However, Jack had crippling arthritis and couldn't even peel a banana himself let alone hold a gun to his head! But if it was murder....how did the murderer escape?
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#21 - The Return of the Speckled Band
One Foot in the Grave - Season 1 - Episode 6
Following a food poisoning incident, problems with the electricity man, the Meldrews embark on a well deserved holiday, however this is only the start of their problems?
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#22 - Who Will Buy?
One Foot in the Grave - Season 2 - Episode 4
While Pippa believes that Victor may have murdered an elderly blind man, Victor uses a benefit concert to re-introduce his ventriloquist act.
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#23 - The Problem at Gallows Gate (2)
Jonathan Creek - Season 2 - Episode 5
Jonathan & Maddy continue to investigate the mystery at Gallow's Gate.
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#24 - The House of Monkeys
Jonathan Creek - Season 1 - Episode 5
Elliot Strange is found murdered in a locked room, which has bars on the windows. As there was no way of the killer leaving without being seen, as his wife knocked on the door moments later where did they go...? Cue Jonathan Creek and Maddy Magellan....!
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#25 - The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 3 - Episode 5
Poirot is asked to solve a fictional murder, but then a real killing takes place nearby.
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#26 - The Curse of the Bronze Lamp
Jonathan Creek - Season 5 - Episode 3
When a kidnapping victim disappears under the attackers' noses, Jonathan is forced into solving a mystery for a league of unpleasant gentlemen, much to Polly's displeasure.
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#27 - The Coonskin Cap
Jonathan Creek - Season 4 - Episode 1
Jonathan and Carla, who is now a television presenter, are called in to discover how a WPC's murderer can escape a locked gymnasium surrounded by police officers. Is her murder really connected to those of a strangler wearing a 'Davey Crockett' cap...?
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#28 - Mother Redcap
Jonathan Creek - Season 2 - Episode 6
When a judge receives a death threat due to a high profile case he receives round the clock protection. Despite this he is still killed, but how did the killer manage to get past the police and how did he appear to have defied time...?
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#29 - No Trace of Tracy
Jonathan Creek - Season 1 - Episode 4
Roy Pilgrim an old rocker from the 60's comes home from his run only to be knocked out and chained to his radiator. Meanwhile at four O'clock a fan of his arrives at his house and walks in. However at four O'clock all Roy saw was a frog enter and then leave...where did Tracy go...?
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#30 - The Lost Mine
Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 2 - Episode 3
A Monopoly game leads Poirot to find that some London streets require a different skill.
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#31 - Time Waits for Norman
Jonathan Creek - Season 2 - Episode 2
Creek and Magellan face the intriguing case of a man who appears to have defied the laws of time.
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#32 - The Chequered Box
Jonathan Creek - Season 4 - Episode 5
A top policeman is seen smirking at the scene of a hanging - can Jonathan and Carla help him prove that he has nothing to do with it, especially since there is photographical evidence against him?
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#33 - The Omega Man
Jonathan Creek - Season 3 - Episode 3
Professor Lance Graumann - a leading authority on extra terrestrial phenomena invites Maddy to see his latest discovery -a perfectly preserved alien skeleton. However the American military have other plans and take the skeleton - however when they open the case at their military base it's no where to be found...
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#34 - Wasps' Nest
Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 3 - Episode 4
Poirot suspects that an old friend's son and his fashion-model girlfriend are in danger.
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#35 - The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
Agatha Christie's Poirot - Season 2 - Episode 5
Poirot accepts Inspector Japp's wager to solve the strange disappearance of a city banker.
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#36 - The Problem at Gallows Gate (1)
Jonathan Creek - Season 2 - Episode 4
Jonathan is lumbered with baby-sitting Adam's sister Kitty, and ends up taking her to a badger watch with Maddy. But Kitty ends up seeing more than just badgers in the woods....But how can a man who apparently committed suicide be seen killing a woman three weeks later..?
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#37 - The Reconstituted Corpse
Jonathan Creek - Season 1 - Episode 3
Zola Zbzewski's plastic surgeon is found shot to death in his home, and she claims she knows nothing about it. The fact he would have ruined the launch of her new book gives her no motive at all! But when Zola turns up dead in Maddy's wardrobe, things start to look suspicious...
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#38 - The Curious Tale of Mr. Spearfish
Jonathan Creek - Season 3 - Episode 1
A couple's lives are dramatically transformed after the husband enters into a pact with the devil - he has since found buried treasure and appears to be able to defy death.
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#39 - The Seer of the Sands
Jonathan Creek - Season 4 - Episode 4
When a ghost hunter dedicated to exposing fraud in all it's forms dies in a tragic accident, Jonathan and Carla investigate whether his spirit lives on. Why did the boat crash occur, how did the body disappear and how did the answers to five spontaneous questions mysteriously appear in a bottle beneath the sand?! All will be revealed...!
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#40 - Miracle in Crooked Lane
Jonathan Creek - Season 3 - Episode 5
A young woman, who has led a scandalous life that has shocked the local village community, suffers severe burns in an appalling accident. But how can she have returned to her village church in order to seek forgiveness for her past sins, when she is lying in a coma in hospital?...Enter a man in a duffel coat and shaggy hair with the answer....but this time it isn't Jonathan Creek!
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#41 - The Tailor's Dummy
Jonathan Creek - Season 4 - Episode 3
Jonathan is hired to shed light on the mystery of how a man can physically transform himself into another person, in front of a witness's eyes. His investigations lead him into a tale of tragic suicide, Groucho Marx and a parrot named Harvey.
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#42 - The Letters of Septimus Noone
Jonathan Creek - Season 5 - Episode 1
When a classic locked-room novel is turned into a West End musical, one of its stars falls victim to a real-life 'impossible crime'. The Mystery of the Yellow Room, based on a 19th century story, is thrilling London theatre audiences with its enticing blend of music, romance and sizzling gothic melodrama. But events take a sinister turn when the show's glamorous singing sensation Juno Pirelli is found horribly stabbed inside a locked dressing room, from which no assailant could possibly have escaped. No weapon or any other evidence of an intruder can be found, nor any rational explanation for the victim's wounds. As the actress's life hangs in the balance, her producer and colleagues remain baffled. And attention once again turns to the lateral-thinking Jonathan Creek for a solution to the whole grisly puzzle. But can Creek - now a happily married man - even be persuaded to embark upon the investigation? As he and wife Polly struggle to come to terms with a sudden personal tragedy, a series of dark and disturbing family secrets are about to emerge that will throw the couple's whole world into turmoil...
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#43 - Timeless Time
One Foot in the Grave - Season 2 - Episode 6
A variety of bizarre factors, including a dead hedgehog, keep Victor awake. And if Victor's awake, Margaret isn't going to get much sleep either.
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#44 - The Eyes of Tiresias
Jonathan Creek - Season 3 - Episode 2
Audrey Panguitch, a 73 year-old widow, appears to be able to predict death through her vivid dreams, when an international businessman is murdered in a way in which she foresaw. And then there is another death which she appears to have had a premonition about. A tin of Goldfish food may hold the key!...
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#45 - The Three Gamblers
Jonathan Creek - Season 3 - Episode 6
A man of pure evil is "disposed" of with the help of six bullets to the head - but has his corpse come back to life with revenge on its mind? Maddy and Jonathan visit a damp, deserted farmhouse to investigate!
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#46 - Angel Hair
Jonathan Creek - Season 4 - Episode 2
Jonathan is called in to investigate the mystery of a girl whose shoulder-length hair has miraculously grown back just 48 hours after a kidnapper cut it all off. He finds himself embroiled in the world of a successful composer who has created the perfect pop star.
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#47 - Episode 1
The Two Ronnies - Season 7 - Episode 1
A man gets more than he bargained for when he goes in search of McCleary's Gold, and a shopkeeper boasts that his store stocks every kind of bean imaginable. Manhattan Transfer provide the music.
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#48 - The Scented Room
Jonathan Creek - Season 2 - Episode 3
Although Jonathan Creek knows how a painting, worth a million pounds, was apparently stolen by an invisible thief, he refuses to tell anyone because he has a personal vendetta against its owner!
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#49 - Ghost's Forge
Jonathan Creek - Season 3 - Episode 4
While Creek, Magellan and Tranter are investigating the apparently motiveless murder of an ageing hermit, Magellan vanishes into thin air.
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#50 - Episode 3
The Two Ronnies - Season 5 - Episode 3
This episode includes the classic 'Four Candles' sketch, the introduction of Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales in 'The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town' and a musical number featuring two char ladies.
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