Whodunnit?
1973
📺 6 Seasons
🎬 47 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 40 min/episode
Family
Whodunnit? is a British television game show, broadcast between 1972 and 1978 for ITV by Thames Television.
It was written by Lance Percival and Jeremy Lloyd, and hosted first by Edward Woodward. One of the panelists in the first series was Jon Pertwee, who took over as the show's presenter from season two. Each week it featured a short murder-mystery drama enacted in front of a panel of celebrity guests who then had to interview the remaining characters to establish who the murderer was. Patrick Mower and Anouska Hempel became the permanent panelists from season three onwards, with two guest celebrities each episode. The only clue was that only the murderer could lie.
Whodunnit? originally adopted a conventional panel-game studio layout, but from series three onwards utilised the murder scene itself as the set.
It was similar in format, although not officially connected to, the popular board game Cluedo.
The theme to the show was written by Tony Hatch
Seasons
Season 1
The case this week involves a creaking door, a murder and a phial of poison.
Season 2
Jon Pertwee takes over as the host, and there's a murder on set.
Season 3
A man who recently inherited a fortune drops dead in the middle of his speech after the annual family dinner on Christmas Eve. There are six suspects - but which has the strongest motive? The sleuths are Wendy Craig, Leslie Crowther, Patrick Mower and Derek Nimmo.
Season 4
A police informant is found with a knife in his back.
Season 5
It's 1925, and a daring thief makes off with a precious gemstone.
Season 6
An apparent suicide is not all that it seems...
Cast
Network
ITV1
Keywords
game show