History Series / JonathanCreek

** In "The Problem at Gallow's Gate", the murder victim's housemate makes a comment about how Maddy's flat got burgled. When [[spoiler:she's been revealed as the killer]], Maddy points out that she never told her about her burglary; [[spoiler:she had heard Maddy mention it on the night of the murder when she and Jonathan were trying to enter the house]].

** In "The Problem at Gallow's Gate", the murder victim's housemate makes a comment about how Maddy's flat got burgled. When she's been revealed as the killer, Maddy points out that she never told her about her burglary; she had heard Maddy mention it on the night of the murder when she and Jonathan were trying to enter the house.

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Played with in "Satan's Chimney"; Carla comes on stage with a phone in her hands to tell Alan Kalanak "It's Vivian" (referring to Kalanak's ex-wife, Vivian Brodie, the ep's murder victim). As Jonathan later notes, [[spoiler:anyone else in that scenario would assume Carla meant that it was Vivian ''on the phone'', but Alan immediately asks what ''happened'' to Vivian, planting the first seeds in Jonathan's mind that Kalanak was responsible for her murder]].

* DetectiveDrama

** In "The Tailor's Dummy", the victim's granddaughter is presented as a rather quiet, pale, nervous girl who always seems twitchy and uncomfortable and at the climax is reacts in horror when one of the other characters discovers her with a needle, with the heavy implication that she's a drug addict who may have had some involvement in her grandfather's death. [[spoiler: She's actually a diabetic, the needle is for her insulin, and she was about to take it when she happened to stumble upon evidence implicating the other character in her grandfather's death, hence the horror.]]
** In "The Wrestler's Tomb" (the very first episode), artist Hedley Shale is shot dead and the episode appears to point towards his wife Serena as the murderer as revenge for an affair with Francesca, one of his past models who is found bound and gagged. One problem; Serena was supposedly in her office the whole morning her husband was murdered with her secretary confirming she didn't leave. Jonathan works out a completely plausible way how Serena could have left the office to commit the murder without anyone seeing her... [[spoiler:and then instantly rubbishes this as it would still leave too much to chance (in fact Serena had truly never left her office). It emerges that Hedley was actually having an affair with his cleaning lady, and Francesca, furious that he turned her down, bound and gagged herself and shot Hedley using her toes to operate the gun.]]

* ObfuscatingPostmortemWounds: In "The Coonskin Cap", the VictimOfTheWeek is found asphyxiated with what seems to be a ligature mark around her neck, it appears she has fallen victim to a SerialKiller who strangles their victims, despite her being killed inside a [[LockedRoomMystery locked room]]. However, [[spoiler:she had actually been killed by [[KillerOutfit an airbag hidden in her protective vest]] that inflated and compressed her chest to the point where she could not breathe]]. The red mark on her neck [[spoiler:came from having a necklace ripped off]].

** In "The Wrestler's Tomb" (the very first episode), artist Hedley Shale is shot dead and the episode appears to point towards his wife Serena as the murderer as revenge for an affair with Francesca, one of his past models who is found bound and gagged. One problem; Serena was supposedly in her office the whole morning her husband was murdered with her secretary confirming she didn't leave. Jonathan works out a completely plausible way how Serena could have left the office to commit the murder without anyone seeing her... [[spoiler:Jonathan then instantly rubbishes this as it would still leave too much to chance (in fact Serena had truly never left her office). It emerges that Hedley was actually having an affair with his cleaning lady and Francesca, furious that he turned her down, bound and gagged herself and shot Hedley using her toes to operate the gun.]]

* PoliceAreUseless: Averted. The police only turn to Jonathan for dealing with those bizarre crimes he specialises in and Rik Mayall's Inspector Gideon Pryke is shown as being equal in brilliance to Jonathan himself.