‘I put them in bed together just to get it over with’ – how we made Jonathan Creek

‘We won’t be doing it again’ … Caroline Quentin and Alan Davies in Jonathan Creek. Photograph: Larry Ellis Collection/Getty Images

David Renwick, creator and writer

To begin with, all I had was the main character’s name. My wife and I had driven around America’s deep south a few years earlier and stayed at a place on Kentucky Lake called Jonathan Creek. I’d filed it away as a good title for something further down the line.