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 (of whom only the murderer could lie) and deduction, celebrity guests had to discover who committed the murder, which of six weapons (not usually the original six from the board game) and in which room it wa...
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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 (of whom only the murderer could lie) and deduction, celebrity guests had to discover who committed the murder, which of six weapons (not usually the original six from the board game) and in which room it was committed, whilst viewers were invited to play along at home.
Produced by Granada Television for the ITV network.
The show would begin with a short film, describing the event before the guest's murder. The celebrity detectives were then allowed to ask the suspects questions regarding the case. Then, the celebrity teams would take it in turns to make a 'deduction', in which they would accuse a person, weapon and room. The host would then reveal how many of those three were right, (e.g. If the solution was Mrs. Peacock with the Poison in the...
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