Cluedo was a UK television game show based on the board game of the same name. Each week, a reenactment of the murder at the stately home Arlington Grange of a visiting guest was played and, through a combination of interrogating the suspects and deduction, celebrity guests had to discover who committed the murder, which of six weapons and in which room it was committed, whilst viewers were invited to play along at home.
Episodes
Runtime: 30m
Jake Swithin visits the Grange and falls foul of all the usual suspects. This week's weapons are: walking stick, dagger, lady's scarf, steak hammer, wine-bottle and sword.
Runtime: 30m
Sir Nigel Hussey magnificently lives up to his name, but expires less elegantly. The possible weapons lying around the house are: flame thrower, G-string, golf club, poisonous snake, crossbow and automatic pistol.
Runtime: 30m
Candice Costello quickly becomes one of the show's most beautiful murder victims to date. But was she done in with a fire poker, a battery charger, a pair of scissors, a meat cleaver, an ice-pick or a poisoned fountain pen? And which of several plausible motives caused someone to snap?
Runtime: 30m
Marjorie Hunt, an old friend of Mrs White, comes to stay at the Grange. Unfortunately for her, she is a psychic and unwisely gives a Tarot card reading for some of the regulars on the evening of her arrival... Miss Scarlett has damaged her car that afternoon, and Mrs Hunt knows all about it - and maybe more. Green is having an affair with a married woman in the village. Mrs Peacock is preparing to burn down the Grange for the insurance money. Mustard feels guilty about a little matter of some missing army property. Plum's latest invention has got him into hot water. And Mrs White has a dark secret. All too predictably, Mrs Hunt does not live to see the next morning.
Runtime: 30m
After Mrs White inherits a small fortune, all the Grange's inhabitants start treating her rather differently. Then city slicker Terence Radcliffe persuades her to put all her money into a dud deal.Weapons: garden hoe, corkscrew, shotgun, sculpture, carving knife and decanter-stopper.
Runtime: 30m
Journalist Daniel Peacock arrives at the Grange to write a book about a former royal resident, and several people still around feel threatened and are determined to stop him... so Daniel's death comes as no surprise. But who killed him, and was it with a dagger, a cheese-wire, a snooker triangle, a broken glass, a kitchen knife or a microphone?
