First watched : 1974
Wow, this is another that I'd forgotten . This replaced Opportunity Knocks on a Monday evening for the summer in 1974. There had been a previous series hosted by Edward Woodward but I don't think I saw any of that. The draw for this was Jon Pertwee taking the games master role - he was on the cover of TV Times - just after his last outing as Dr Who ( the dire Planet of the Spiders ) had been broadcast.
Whodunnit was loosely based - though this was never acknowledged- on Cluedo. Jon would introduce a little playlet with a murder at its heart and then ask two panels, a celebrity one and one derived from the audience to identify the murderer and justify the decision. The celebrity panel always included the none-more-seventies duo of Patrick Mower and Anouska Hempel and two guests. Following the play the celebs could question the actors and request short scenes again with the guarantee that only the murderer could lie to them. The audience panel only got a short slot to announce their decision and seemed a bit tokenistic. And of course you could play along at home.
I seem to remember it was OK but I'm surprised to read it ran until 1978. I suspect that we got a bit bored of it as Tom Baker started erasing memories of Pertwee's Who stint and drifted away.
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