Old-school jolly japester Jack Holliday is shot dead in a watertight nuclear bunker. If it wasn't suicide, how the heck did the killer escape?

Jack couldn’t possibly have killed himself due to crippling arthritis in his hands… or could he?

Maddie and Jonathan team up for the second time, although her presence is resented by Jack’s family due to the fact she recently helped get his first wife’s murderer freed from prison.

In this show we analyse the story before digging up some location information, track down some mesmerising real-world connections to details in the show, and find out what was happening on the day the episode aired.

We also investigate whether still having your own teeth was a genuine selling point on the Liverpool dating scene during the nineties.

Jack in the Box was the second episode of Jonathan Creek, airing on 17th May 1997.

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