Jonathan Creek

[messyalan]

For those who missed it, last nights repeat featured Splsoh magazine (well you saw a corner of one issue) and the end sequence had a postwoman in a bath of porridge in her uniform. It was very watery porridge but looked good all the same. Slightly disturbing was the fact it was bubbling!

[BillShipton]

Actually you see Caroline Quentin in close up reading it (No 23). I have the still of it somewhere.

[Essexgungefan]

So it was a 'first class' delivery then?

[mattbuck]

I remember that episode, it was about a topless model who goes to church and is then killed, while her killer has got his mother's time sped up so she thinks it's evening when it's actually morning, thus disguising the murder.

And Alan Davies gets punched.

[muckypup]

Don't give it all away!

[mattbuck]

What can I say, I know my Jonathan Creek.

As an aside, did anyone else think the latest Christmas Creek was terrible? I mean, come on... he pretty much fell into bed with two women there... how unlike him is that?

[Mz_Mess]

very is the answer to that lol

a JC fan for years, the awkward almost asexual nature of him is what I like most.

ergo, not a fan of the latest xmas special

[BillShipton]

It seems that all too many series can't leave a single male or female character alone, they have to wind up with someone in the end however contrived. But for the audience the fun is the frustration of the partners, the so-nearly moments.

I am a huge David Renwick fan. He wrote my favourite Two Ronnies sketch (the Mastermind one) but I think even he felt he had to up the sex element. Shame in my view. Still like to meet him one day though, even though I'd be totally overawed.

[Lizzie_Claymore]

Yes, David Renwick is one of the select few at the pinnacle, IMO. Although he's probably most famous for One Foot in the Grave, it was his earlier work with Andrew Marshall that first introduced me to him, particularly with The Burkiss Way on Radio 4. The combination of creativity, convoluted inventiveness and good old-fashioned puns was astonishing and I can still listen to episodes some 30 years after they were first broadcast and still hear fiendishly clever multi-level plot lines that I missed the first time round.

[BillShipton]

The Mastermind sketch first appeared in slightly different form on The Burkiss Way. I liked the sketches on it but hate Nigel Rees!