Jonathan Creek - The Grinning Man [DVD]

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The fake police guard in "The Three Gamblers" is a young Sgt. Bacchus! He changed a lot in the intervening decade, but you'll recognise the voice. Antonia, a friend of Maddy's, asks her and Jonathan to discover what her husband, Norman, has been up to after reliable independent witnesses place him on both sides of the Atlantic only minutes apart. However, Jonathan is busy dealing with his tax return with a beautiful tax inspector. The two relationships may have felt somewhat superfluous but the main offender here once again is the plot involving Jonathan’s boss. This time we follow Adam Klaus as he plans to invest in 3D porn and starts to date a star of that industry. Regardless of the question of comedic taste (my own take: it’s not great but its not as tasteless as The Seer of the Sands), it’s entirely extraneous to the episode’s main mystery plots, offering no connection at all to anything else that’s going on. Any time we cut away to it serves to really slow down the episode and given how disconnected it is, I feel the pacing of the piece would have benefited considerably from its excision. Swinging Sister: Marcella Puppini Express Magazine 12 June 2008". Readexpress.com. 12 June 2008. Archived from the original on 7 December 2008 . Retrieved 2 January 2011.

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a b c Weeks, Polly (1 January 2009). "All Creek to me". The Northern Echo. Newsquest . Retrieved 2009-01-02. [ dead link] Guest stars: Tim Faraday, John Bird, David Gant, Selina Griffiths, John Walters, Chloe Buswell and Michael Troughton. Sheridan Smith reprised her role as Joey in both specials. Series 5 comprised three episodes and featured Sarah Alexander as Jonathan's wife Polly. These episodes were shown at 9 pm on Friday 28 February, 7 and 14 March 2014 respectively. Corcos, Christine Alice (27 April 2004). "The Magical World of Jonathan Creek". Picturing Justice: The On-line Journal of Law and Popular Culture. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012 . Retrieved 21 July 2014.

The Grinning Man

Since 1938, a number of people have disappeared from the attic of a Gothic mansion, owned originally by a spiritualist and now by his stage magician descendant. Seventy years later, when a young woman disappears in the same room, her friend Joey Ross, herself a paranormal investigator, calls on Jonathan for help. As the mystery deepens with the kidnapping of the magician's partner, Creek's powers of deduction seem to pale beside the raw intuition of his "collaborator". Meanwhile Adam takes an interest in the porn business, both financially and personally. Angst? What Angst?: In "The Grinning Man", Joey nearly drowns after falling into a tank filled with the corpses of people that have vanished over 70 years, coming face to face with her dead friend who was the last victim, in a scene that has earned an impassioned entry under Nightmare Fuel on this very Wiki. By the next scene she has completely recovered her composure, and at the end of the episode is looking forward to writing it up in her blog. Puppini Sisters at The Shepherds Bush Empire - Fans Review". Music. Music Theatre Review. 26 June 2012. Archived from the original on 19 December 2021 . Retrieved 26 June 2012.

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Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In "The Seer of the Sands", Carla's husband casually mentions that he was once married to a man. Carla understandably freaks out, but after the episode in question, it's never brought up again. It’s not just that the setup and structure of this mystery are effective – the solution also felt pretty satisfying too. This is partly a case of how it works mechanically but also the circumstances in which the reveal takes place. The realization of what happens brings about an excellent example of a race against time sequence that feels quite genuinely tense and creepy, being realized pretty effectively on screen. Jeffery, Morgan (28 February 2014). "Alan Davies: I want to play Jonathan Creek for another 10 years". Digital Spy . Retrieved 18 October 2014. Guest stars: Rik Mayall, Hannah Gordon, Francis Matthews, Suzanna Hamilton, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Murray Melvin, Kate Isitt and Vincent Wong. Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize: Mostly averted, with the best-known guest stars more often playing victims ( Colin Baker, Bob Monkhouse, Nigel Planer), cops ( Rik Mayall), witnesses ( Peter Davison, Joanna Lumley) or comic relief ( Bill Bailey, John Bird). A few exceptions are Maureen Lipman in "The Tailor's Dummy", Celia Imrie in "Gorgons Wood" and Paul McGann in "The Judas Tree".Wood, Michael (2 December 2014). "The Puppini Sisters: 'We count Michael Bublé and Prince Charles as fans' ". Music. Birmingham Post . Retrieved 2 December 2014. A pretty strong return after years away, The Grinning Man serves up two interesting impossibilities while also introducing us to a new assistant who makes a strong first impression. Episode Summary

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Verrico, Lisa (5 October 2007). "The Puppini Sisters". Music. The Times . Retrieved 8 October 2007. (login required) With Maddy gone to America on a book promotion tour, Jonathan teams up with Carla Borrego, a theatrical agent representing an escapologist who is being hired for Adam's show. They investigate how a well-known actress could have been shot through a window during the filming of her latest movie without the glass having been broken. The inquiry also turns up an old secret used to kill blasphemers in a castle owned by the film's producer. Also, in the episode "Danse Macabre", what was the deal with the Creepy Child who was obsessed with rotating blades? You'd think it would trigger a "Eureka!" Moment, but...nope. Final appearance of Caroline Quentin as Maddy Magellan. Guest stars: John Bird, Hattie Hayridge, Jonathan Ross, Nina Sosanya, John Bennett, Cavan Clerkin and Lee Ingleby. Guest stars: Dinah Sheridan, Nicholas Ball, Emma Kennedy, Hetty Baynes, Benjamin Whitrow, Tom Goodman-Hill and William Vanderpuye.The role of Adam Klaus was originally cast to Anthony Head in 1997 in the pilot episode ("The Wrestler's Tomb"). However, after accepting the role of Rupert Giles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Head was unable to play Adam Klaus in later episodes, leaving the way clear for Stuart Milligan to take over the role. Guest stars: Raquel Cassidy, Simon Thomas, Ali Bastian, Marianne Borgo, Ross Armstrong, Roy Sampson, Alice O'Connell and Paula Wilcox. Glastonbury: Best of the Rest BBC 27 June 2009". Bbc.co.uk. 29 June 2009 . Retrieved 2 January 2011.

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In late 2018, the trio sang with The Real Tuesday Weld on their new song, "Don't Get High No More", and the video was premiered on YouTube on January 6, 2019. Jonathan has recently begun a relationship with an old acquaintance, Nicola ( Katherine Parkinson), who is opposed to his investigative career, believing it to be too dangerous an occupation. Jonathan is still in the employment of the magician Adam Klaus, whose television series is receiving heavy criticism from viewers. To Jonathan's bemusement, Klaus invests in the 3D pornography industry and begins dating the porn actress Candy Mountains ( Jemma Walker). Jonathan inspects the attic room and the bedroom directly beneath it, but finds nothing suspicious, save for a small vent in the canopy of the room's four-poster bed, which is opened when pressure is put on the mattress, releasing dead flies. de Campi, Alex (18 January 2008). "The Puppini Sisters in Vivienne Westwood (1 of 3)". Documentary. Glamour Magazine UK. Archived from the original on 19 December 2021 . Retrieved 18 January 2008. As the series progresses, Creek gradually changes from an asocial anorak (nerd) to a man with a great deal of wit and charm. This helps to fuel the romantic thread between him and Maddy. Jonathan's trademark duffle coat worn in the first series was actually Alan Davies' own coat that he wore to the auditions; it helped him win the role, as the writer and producers thought it suited the character. After the first series, Jonathan's coat was supplied by the wardrobe department. Davies kept the original at his home, and wore it again for the 2009 New Year special. [14]

This is far from the nadir of the seires, and a good reminder that a lot of the impossibilities in these specials weren’t actually that bad…there was just so much redundant guff around them. Final appearance of Stuart Milligan as Adam Klaus. Guest stars: Paul McGann, Doreen Mantle, Ian McNeice and Natalie Walter. First appearance of Caroline Quentin as Maddy Magellan. Guest stars: Sheila Gish, Saskia Mulder, Anthony Head (his only appearance as Adam Klaus), Colin Baker, Alistair McGowan.