Jonathan Creek – Daemons’ Roost [DVD] [2017]

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Instead I appreciate that he is looking into something to help a woman settle some daemons from her own childhood. The brainchild of David Renwick, himself a magician’s assistant in his younger days, it was a glorious mix of magic, mystification, mood, and m-comedy that was enriched by Renwick’s ability to dream up brilliantly inventive, original solutions. Although I haven’t seen any other episodes of “Jonathan Creek” at the time of writing, there was enough characterisation to ensure that the episode wasn’t confusing. By the time Danse Macabre’s finished playing it looks like it’s going to go hard on the horror and the grand guignol.

However, the postmortem reveals that she had already been dead for several hours, and there are no other footprints around the body despite the husband seeing someone talking to her and fleeing before she pulled the trigger. And the last special ‘The Savant’s Thumb’ yes had a disappearing body, but also fifteen others kinds of thing including girls dying with circles on their foreheads and a painting coming to life…frankly, anyone who kept all that straight in their head did a better job than me. Christmas special of the BBC crime drama starring Alan Davies as scruffy amateur detective and master of illusion Jonathan Creek. But even that makes no sense when Warwick Davis’ vicar overhears the answerphone message being left for Jonathan and — despite being introduced as a massive fanboy of his previous investigations — goes along himself without mentioning it to Mr.Still, electric train sets are cool (note to May, girls like them, too) and I do get an infinitesimal kick out of seeing the firebox light up when May attaches it to the locomotive.

And if this turns out to be the final episode, and Creek’s last bow, then it is a fitting ending to the whole 20 years of impossible mysteries. Clore, who made a schlocky film on the legend of Jacob Surtees, is now incapacitated by illness and can’t speak. Next, the striped unicorn affair, or as Creek’s wife Polly (Sarah Alexander) mishears it “the striped eunuch on a ferry”.

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Much like the Christmastime it has nothing to do with, ‘Daemon’s Roost’ is a mixture of pleasures and annoyances, none of them new to the show. But this decision turned to tragedy as two of his step daughters and their mother die under strange circumstances. A pity she was unable to join the show for a full series as her character is sweet, sassy, charming, quirky and appealing - plus, she can give Creek a run for him money when it comes to solving mysteries. As the story unfolds, the terrible rituals that were performed by Jacob Surtees are frighteningly revived with terrifying consequences.

With his health failing, Clore summons his stepdaughter Alison to Daemons’ Roost to share with her the chilling truth of what happened to her family there.

It’s my job to put it back together,” May quips, before a rare moment of tension when he can’t place his magnetising kit. Maddy is contacted by a man who makes a living investigating the existence of aliens and who presents a real alien skeleton he said he found. Her stepfather was going to reveal the secret to her, but suffered a stroke and is unable to communicate. In James May: The Christmas Reassembler (BBC4) there are at least as many elements, but the effect of piecing them together is considerably less entertaining.Then everyone starts talking about a warlock or something who would kill men by propelling them through the air into a fiery furnace while their lovers watched…but this might also just be a fictional thing from a horror movie directed by the stepfather. All of the elements are in place for a slice of classic Creek, though it takes the titular detective nearly half of the special’s running time to get properly involved.