Jonathan Creek

From Frikipedia

Detective series starring Television's Alan Davies and the fat one out of Men Behaving Badly.

The premise was that Alan played some sort of geek who had nothing to better to do with his time than go round working out how magicians were actually doing their tricks, and while in the process of ruining everyones fun, happened to stumble across murdered magicians killed in hilarious manners. He solved these too, as the fat one looked on in bemusement.

Frikipedia also seems to remember he lived in a windmill. It was never explained why.

Some better TV detective shows

• Columbo
• Diagnosis Murder
• Murder She Wrote
• The Pink Panther
• Poirot
• Quincy
• Scooby Doo