Locked room mystery

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Television

• Jonathan Creek, the UK television series, combines this theme with that of magic.
• Banacek was an American television series whose investigator hero specialized in locked-room thefts and other "impossible" mysteries. Typical examples were the theft of valuable paintings from a moving truck that was being watched by guards in a trailing vehicle; the vanishing of a rocket engine from a display stage when the lights momentarily went out; and the disappearance of a football player while beneath a pile of tacklers, in view of thousands of spectators and a live TV audience.