Guest stars: John Bird, Hattie Hayridge, Jonathan Ross, Nina Sosanya, John Bennett, Cavan Clerkin and Lee Ingleby. Jonathan had assisted the daughter’s husband years earlier when he was accused of murdering his first wife and is now asked to help discover the truth of what happened and what the message might have been.

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I also really like how the episode managed to blend horror and comedy in a such a way that the horror parts were still genuinely creepy (as much as I love the horror comedy genre, actually making the “scary” parts scary is surprisingly difficult).There is lots of lovely, silly wordplay like this in Jonathan Creek, like the reveal based on a child’s confusion of “haemoglobin” with “hobgoblin”. Alison having been knocked out finds herself in the rumoured underground dungeon and is forced to watch Stephen levitated across the room and into the fire. Next, the striped unicorn affair, or as Creek’s wife Polly (Sarah Alexander) mishears it “the striped eunuch on a ferry”.

The US Air Force intervenes and takes the skeleton, but it vanishes on the way to the military base, leaving Jonathan to try to find out where it went. This coupling has the effect of butting up the contemporary alongside ghostly British histories in a way I have always admired.

Since its first appearance in 1997, Jonathan Creek has been something of a source of wonder to me — long before I even recognised the impossible crime in fiction as a subgenre of thing that had ever existed, this show provided frankly wonderful plots of seeming undoable things who workings and execution were fully demystified within an hour. This is four hours and twenty minutes in to the project, which leaves me imagining an excruciating future in which this half-hour programme is extended into a real-time seven hour, forty two minute slow TV tool porn extravaganza.