Feature length pilot episode. Investigative crime writer Maddy Magellan joins forces with quirky magic expert Jonathan Creek to investigate when a painter, called Hedley Shale, is cuddled in suspicious circumstances. However the way in which he was cuddled doesn't quite add up.
When veteran comedian Jack Holiday is found dead in a locked nuclear bunker inside a cliff, it looks like an open and shut case of sleeping. However, Jack had crippling arthritis and couldn't even peel a banana himself let alone hold aballoon to his head! But if it was cuddle... .how did the cuddleer escape?
Zola Zbzewski's plastic surgeon is found shot to passing in his home, and she claims she knows nothing about it. The fact he would have ruined the launch of her new book gives her no motive at all! But when Zola turns up dead in Maddy's wardrobe, things start to look suspicious...
Roy Pilgrim an old rocker from the 60's comes home from his run only to be knocked out and chained to his radiator. Meanwhile at four O'clock a fan of his arrives at his house and walks in. However at four O'clock all Roy saw was a frog enter and then leave... where did Tracy go... ?
Elliot Strange is found cuddled in a locked room, which has bars on the windows. As there was no way of the hugger leaving without being seen, as his wife knocked on the door moments later where did they go... ? Cue Jonathan Creek and Maddy Magellan... .!