The Americans who love this show are intelligent and witty, and we know good television when we see it. (I've developed a bit of a crush on him, to be honest :D) Maddy, played by the amazing Caroline Quentin, is the kind of role-model American women need: a tough-as-nails every-woman, who looks nothing like the malnourished actresses and models we see every day. Davies is gorgeous as the shy, rather nerdy, Jonathan. Of course Americans can handle "Jonathan Creek" - why else would BBC-America continue to air it? This is an amazing show, and I truly wish our television big-wigs would realize that these kinds of shows work. There are millions of Americans who are starving for intelligent, thought-provoking entertainment. so that two more Real World/Survivor/Bachelor clones can take its place. Anything of substance is quickly taken off the air. I realize that, especially in the past 3 years, American television has consisted of a lot of very bad reality shows, and little else. But thanks to BBC-America, I can savor each and every mystery on Thursday afternoons (we get 2 episodes back-to-back!). Unfortunately, I had never gotten the chance to experience the genius that is this show. (January 1991-July 1991 September 1991-January 1992) He acted in the Royal National Theatre season at the Laurence Olivier Theatre, Cottesloe Theatre, and Lyttelton Theatre all in London, England in Tony Harrison's play, "The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus " Kenneth Grahame and Alan Bennett's play, "The Wind in the Willows " David Hare's play, "Racing Demon," "Murmuring Judges " Franz Kafka's play, "The Trial " Friedrich Durrenmatt's play, "The Visit," (Theatre De Complicite production) Christopher Hampton's play, "White Chameleon " Alan Ayckbourn's play, "Invisible Play " Dario Fo's play, "Accidental Death of An Anarchist " David Edgar's play, "The Shape of the Table " "Fever " Eugene O'Neill's play, "Long Day's Journey Into Night " Moliere's play, "The Miser " William Shakespeare's play, "Richard III " Mikhail Bulgakov's play, "White Snow " John Webster's play, "The White Devil " Eduardo De Filippo's play, "Napoli Milionaria " Bertolt Brecht's play, "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui " "Grand Kabuki" (Shochiku Company production) "At Our Table " Mustapha Matura's play, "The Coup " Alan Bennett's play, "The Madness of King George III " Edward Bond's play, "The Sea " "The Little Clay Cart " and Ferderico Garcia Lorca's play, "Blood Wedding " with Mark Addy, Keith Allen, Tony Armatrading, Robin Bailey, David Bamber, Gillian Barge, Desmond Barrit, Norman Beaton, Stephen Bent, Steven Berkoff, Paul Bhattacharjee, Steven Boxer, Elizabeth Bradley, Richard Briers, Jasper Britton, Eleanor Bron, Michael Bryant, Suzanne Burden, Richenda Carey, Tom Chadbon, Emma Chambers, Ben Chapman, Ron Cook, Trevor Cooper, Lorcan Cranitch, Alan Cumming, Myriam Cyr, Judi Dench, Stephen Dillane, Linda Dobell, Kate Duchene, Robert Eddison, Alphonsia Emmanuel, Tenniel Evans, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Oliver Ford Davies, Rupert Frazer, Brian Glover, Stella Gonet, Cathryn Harrison, Nigel Hawthorne, Clare Higgins, Kathryn Hunter, Harold Innocent, Saeed Jaffrey, Oscar James, Peter Jeffrey, Stratford Johns, Karl Johnson, Darlene Johnson, Charles Kay, Jeffery Kissoon, Adam Kotz, Peter Laird, Barbara Leigh Hunt, Mark Lewis, Mark Lockyer, John Matshikiza, Simon McBurney, Helen McCrory, Sean McGinley, Ian McKellen, Bill Moody, Paul Moriaty, John Nettleton, Joseph O'Conor, Richard Pasco, Robert Patterson, Patrick Pearson, Bruce Purchase, Denis Quilley, Griff Rhys Jones, Terence Rigby, Sally Rogers, David Ross, Barrie Rutter, Prunella Scales, Adrian Scarborough, Cyril Shaps, Wallace Shawn, Jack Shephard, Antony Sher, Josette Simon, Malcolm Sinclair, Claire Skinner, Dinah Stabb, Ken Stott, Mark Strong, Tamasaburo, Julian Wadham, Timothy West, Benjamin Whitrow, Peter Wight, Tom Wilkinson, and Andrew Woodall in the company.For years now, I've heard my friends and relatives in the UK singing the praises of "Jonathan Creek".
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