Whoops Apocalypse is a six-part 1982 British sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made by London Weekend Television for ITV. Marshall and Renwick later reworked the concept as a 1986 film of the same name from ITC Entertainment, with almost completely different characters and plot, although one or two of the original actors returned in different roles. As the Apocalypse nears, US President Johnny Cyclops tries to run a reelection campaign whilst also dealing with the Russians, a deposed Shah needing to be hidden, and a new weapon called a 'quark' bomb.

The set-up is told through a grainy, black and white reel film: During a balmy summer in the 1940/30's, renowned psychic and medium Jacques Futrelle holds a dinner party at his 'haunted' mansion, Metropolis. As well as his own wife and child, guests include the who's who in modern politics and media, including genetecist and scientist Eli Mencken. Futrelle tells the tale of a mysterious room, the highest room in the house, where an insane Edwardian relative confined himself. The 'Nightmare Room' is said to be haunted. Mencken, naturally, takes this on the chin and stays sceptical. Futrelle suggests he stay the night in the room, if he really doesnt believe in ghosts. Egged on by other guests, Mencken gives in, all in good humour. The windows are all locked, there are no trapdoors, just a bed, a small bathroom, and the main door. Four guests lock four padlocks on the outside, so he cannot leave without all fours co-operation. At dawn, thy unlock the door...and Mencken has vanished! Leaving nothing but a sticky ectoplasmic substance n the bed... The mystery being he has never reappeared.

In 1889 Dr Thaddeus Northcote fell victim to a curse by his spurned mistress, Egyptian Selima Al-Sharad, and died in the garden of his house, Green Lanterns,in mysterious circumstances that were never explained. A hundred years later Emily Somerton and her friend have a traumatic experience in the country and twenty years later Emily is plucked from working in a shoe shop by charismatic crime writer Hugo Dore, who just happens to be the current owner of Green Lanterns. Emily feels she is being taken over by Selima when death threats arrive, in her hand-writing, for Hugo's icy wife Harriet. When Harriet is murdered she identifies Emily as her killer before dying and Emily is arrested. Despite Jonathan explaining at her trial how Northcote was killed and how Emily was framed she is still found guilty. Jonathan and Emily's friend Joey, new assistant to Jonathan's boss Adam, discover that Emily is guilty - of a fatality from twenty years previously,and the real killer is exacting a personal revenge on her.

In The Clue of the Savant’s Thumb, Creek and fellow investigator Joey Ross (Sheridan Smith – Accused, Gavin & Stacey) are drawn into a complex case involving a secret society, seemingly supernatural events at a girls’ boarding school, and the miraculous disappearance of a body in front of three witnesses. Alan Davies says: “The new story has more than the usual amount of twists and surprises, and I'm very much looking forward to sleuthing again. I can't wait to join Sheridan Smith on set again; we're very lucky to have her. It's nearly 17 years since I first auditioned for the part; the duffle coat is always on standby, even if the periods of duffle-hibernation are quite long these days”.