Picspam: Peter Davison & Nicola Walker in Jonathan Creek (c1998)

[thisbluespirit]

(with unexpected naked!Ancelyn, as I promised Clocket).

Naturally, possible spoilers for the S2 episodes Danse Macabre and Mother Redcap under the cut (although I have done my very best not to reveal any of the how/whodunnit aspect, I promise!):



Danse Macabre


Maddy opens the door to find Peter Davison there, dressed as a vicar. As you do...


Vicar!Peter is troubled by a Hallowe'en murder.


(It's a bit early for finding you have Peter Davison dressed as a vicar in your house.)


This is not what vicars like to read.


Also, Peter has further problems: he is married to Mrs Brittas (Pippa Haywood), "A sweet and sensitive soul," he starts to claim before Maddy rudely interupts with the liquidiser.


Maddy is convinced there is something worth investigating here.


Jonathan is not: "Not the old vanishing skeleton on Hallowe'en trick. Are you sure he's a real vicar? He's probably wearing rubber underwear or something."


Vicar!Peter can probably hear this.



Maddy: "I'm going to have a shower. If you fancy a nibble while I'm in there, help yourself..."



The usual suspects.


"I find I seem to have lost my spiritual equanimity..."



Maddy has found the vital clue to solve the why of the mystery, and now has just solved Adam Klaus's latest difficulty, and insulted him at the same time. She is smirking at Jonathan, having just pwned the world. Fair enough.



Mother Redcap


Nicola plays a WPC who is the first on the scene to an impossible murder in a locked room under police guard.. (Well, this is Jonathan Creek.)


Meanwhile, Maddy is on the phone to an estate agent called Jason Tippett Ancelyn with a creepy story & agrees to meet him. (Jonathan can't believe how dumb that is: "He could be some weirdo.")


Obviously, this is not the case...



Maddy meets Ancelyn Jason (Marcus Gilbert): "IThere wouldn't be any chance of a fork, would there?"

Meanwhile, Jonathan takes a shine to WPC Nicola:


(She likes him, too.)


... Until Maddy arrives, claims she's Jonathan's wife and drags him off home.

Still, they get a date - Nicola at Jonathan's windmill:






But, oh dear, Jonathan does NOT like the way she sticks her tongue out when she eats.


Meanwhile Maddy discover's Ancelyn Jason's hobby...


"Let's just chalk it up as nil-all on the score card and move on..."


Maddy explores the deserted pub, and Jonathan works out an old 1940's booby trap a bit too well...

...Meaning he has to quickly dive in to save Maddy becoming the first victim in about 50 years:


"I nearly killed you..."


"Is it just me, or is that an unconvincing dead rat?"


(Not that I know what a toasted dead rat should look like, but somehow... :-D)

(And, sorry, but Jonathan showing any sort of concern for Maddy, or even vice versa, is rare enough to warrant part of this picspam.)

Comments

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

I sort of went through stages, really - big fan of the early series, sort of stopped watching it for some reason round S4 (possibly due to uni and distractions contained therein, thinking about it), got heavily back into in S5 and then...kind of trailed off in my enthusiasm as the series itself declined in the later years.

Yeah, rl - can't live with it, can't live without it... ;D

[thisbluespirit]

Yea, uni in those days - you were lucky to get to see any TV, because most of the time you didn't have much access to a telly! (Ah, doesn't it make you feel all ancient now? :lol:) The X-Files was the only thing I watched all week, because the person who owned a telly in our flat was mad for it, so five of us used to cram into her room once a week, with a law that we had to watch it in the dark. The Non-X-philes leftover did once or twice do silly things like running round to knock of the window / switch *all* the lights off to amuse themselves. If we wanted to watch a video, we needed to rent the vhs player for the night, along with the video... (Or maybe it's just me that's ancient, sorry...) So, yeah S2-4 were the ones I watched that way; S5 I had a hard time catching; it was gloomy, so was rl at the time (even last year can't compete with that year), and by S6 I was where I live now and able to pick things up, but after that, as you say, it all seemed to go down hill pretty quick. But I'm afraid, as always, I fall for the humorous things & like S6 as a whole. Except for the really dull baseball one, of course.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Aye, and all this here were fields... ;D But yes, I remember the days when somebody's mobile phone going off or if they were daft enough to walk around talking on it, it was a cause for merriment and ridicule and jokes about Yuppies that were probably a decade out of date even in those days (not that I or most of the people I knew even had them in those days)... Truly it was a different age! As for the internet... I think computers still ran on steam! ;D

But yes, baseball - one of those things that Do Not Translate Well, I fear... I liked the one with the typewriter that could warp reality (you typed stuff, and it came true), which was a later one - although I think they nicked the idea off some old Twilight Zone episode or somewhere. And speaking of nicked ideas, the Groundhog Day-clone where Mulder's waterbed kept repeatedly bursting and Our Heroes kept repeatedly getting blown up by the same bomb, I seem to remember that was a good one. You know, if I watched some of those later seasons again I'd probably start enjoying them more.

Have you seen the newish (2008?) film? Not the greatest, but maybe not as bad as people have claimed. It would have been a perfectly acceptable weird-happening-of-the-week episode around about S2, I think.

[thisbluespirit]

:-)

Oh, yes, the Groundhog Day; that's a fun one. That's got to be S6 (or possibly S7) as well, hasn't it, because Scully's puzzled by the fact Mulder even has a water bed for it to leak, which came in body-switch episode. And the typewriter one was one of those I mmissed on TV - not a bad reason to get the DVD, after all.

Yes, I saw it - it was kind of bad in the opposite way to the first one which got all excited that THIS IS A MOVIE and at least was entertainingly ridiculous and movie-ish; so they went the opposite extreme and we got what would have been a good episode stretched out forever. exactly as you say. But it was nice to see the X-Files again, Mulder and Scully having at least some sort of happy ending, and I was extremely pleased when Scully sent for Skinner. I would have rated it it v low if he had not appeared at some point.

Oh, and that reminds me of the other thing I like about S6. I'm pretty sure in the opener Mulder and Scully get told off for being in the X-Files movie as they spent too much FBI money etc. :-D

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

I think that was around the point where they moved it to quite late on Saturday nights on BBC1, rather non-ideally, before they relegated it back to BBC2 for the last couple of series. LOL, yes, and Scully's like "you have a water bed?!"

Skinner was the highlight actually. And in some of the series episodes too, to be honest - Skinner was sort of the X Files equivalent of the Brig or something. I fondly remember the epic punch-up he had with "Mr X" around about S4 or so... XD

LOL yeah - something about their travel expenses wasn't it? Well, yeah, you know, going to Antarctica will do that... (And how did he manage to get to Antarctica without the baddies finding out, considering that probably only government/military flights go there? And then get back again?! Answers on a postcard, please...)

[thisbluespirit]

I do like Skinner. :-)

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he's great :)