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]

With the coat and hat in the first pic, he looks like the Reverend Peter Davison, P.I. - roaming the mean streets of the naked city in pursuit of...I don't know, something vicar-related... Or something.

Hmm, 40s private eye clergyman - I'll put that on the big list of slightly odd story ideas. ;D

And, well, Bambera wouldn't let him sit around the house like that, I'm sure.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

*cackles*

You know Nicola's in an episode of Law & Order: UK that's coming up soon (well, as soon as ITV pull their collective finger out of their collective rear, that is!) - it's called 'ID' and she was *really* good! (I've already seen it - twice. *coughs*)

[novindalf]

Nicola with short hair! Gosh, she looks lovely!!

[john_amend_all]

I think the caption goes best on the first one:

[clocketpatch]

I was so busy being confounded by Vicar!Peter that I completely forgot about unexpected naked!Anceyln until he showed up very... unexpectly... and naked...

xD

[belantana.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOSH YESSSS! How old is she, like fourteen? I *have* to watch this show again.

[pedanther]

"Mother Redcap" is one of the few Jonathan Creek episodes I remember having watched, but I'd no idea it was Nicola Walker as the policewoman. (Well, of course, it was before she was in Spooks, so at the time she was just another actor I hadn't seen before and probably wouldn't see again.)

[dweomeroflight.livejournal.com]

Nicola was so funny in this ep of Jonathon Creek! That tongue thing was just wtf?

[dweomeroflight.livejournal.com]

Just stalking your Nicola tag ;)

I loved Jonathan Creek with Maddie. It just hasn't been the same since Caroline Quentin left :/