History Series / Cluedo

* {{Blackmail}}: The murder victims frequently had dirt on one or more of the suspects, and while fear of exposure was enough to drive some of them to murder, in other cases, the victim was trying to extort money for their silence. For example, in "Going, Going, Goner" from Series 1, TV antiques expert Peregrine Talbot-Wheeler tries to blackmail [[spoiler:Mrs Peacock into buying his silence when he reveals that her prize Rembrandt, for which she paid a fortune, is a worthless fake]].

* TheHelpHelpingThemselves: The maid Mrs. White tends to steal small valuables from Mrs. Peacock, such as silver spoons. In one episode in the second series, the murder victim is a private detective whom Mrs. Peacock had hired to investigate things going missing.

** In the ChristmasEpisode "Christmas Past, Christmas Present", Richard Forrest, the son of the judge who owned Arlington Grange before Mrs Peacock shows up with gifts hinting that he knows about scandals in the past of all six suspects, setting himself up as the murder victim. However, the actual murder victim is his chauffeur, Ken. [[spoiler:Or so we are led to believe; Ken and Forrest swapped identities as a precaution, but the murderer saw through the ruse.]]

** TV art expert Peregrine Talbot-Wheeler from "Going, Going, Goner" spends his brief time at Arlington Grange being rude and dismissive to all six suspects and ultimately trying to blackmail Mrs Peacock. [[TooDumbToLive Unfortunately, he never realized that trying to blackmail someone is rarely if ever a good idea.]]

* Mrs White: Creator/JuneWhitfield, Creator/JoanSims, Creator/MollieSugden, Pam Ferris, Liz Smith

* RepetitiveName: "Classic Original" version: Mrs White has first name Blanche, which of course means "white".

''Cluedo'' was a TV gameshow made by Creator/{{Granada}} for Creator/{{ITV}} and broadcast from 1990 until 1993. It was based on the board game Cluedo and produced in association with the game's owner Waddingtons Games and Action Time. It bore some resemblance to an earlier ITV gameshow, ''Series/WhodunnitUK'', in that each edition featured a short murder mystery, with teams of studio guests giving the task of finding the killer. In ''Cluedo'' the six possible murderers were the six characters from the board game - Mrs Elizabeth Peacock, Miss Vivienne Scarlett, Mrs Blanche White, Colonel Mike Mustard, Reverend Jonathan Green and Professor Peter Plum - who were played by different actors in each series. The setting for each mystery was Mrs Peacock's country mansion, Arlington Grange (not Tudor Close as in the board game).

** When Professor Plum holds a pair of dead rats in front of Mrs Peacock, she shrieks "Oh Professor, please!",
emphasising the beginning of "please" for a little too long.

* Mrs White: Creator/JuneWhitfield, Creator/JoanSims, Mollie Sugden, Pam Ferris, Liz Smith

* WeaponOfChoice: The six weapons were different in every episode. Some of the more unusual choices were the tail from a dragon's costume, a funeral urn containing the murder victim's supposed ashes (described by Richard Madeley as a neat, ironic twist), a bridge trophy, a kettle flex, a G-string, a living snake. [[spoiler: Interestingly, although a gun was often included, it was never used as the weapon.]]
--> '''Detective''': (to Colonel Mustard) Are you trained to garrote people with knicker elastic? Would it stand up to the tension?
--> '''Col. Mustard''': I am not an expert on knicker elastic.

* Mrs Peacock: Stephanie Beacham, Creator/KateOMara, Rula Lenska, Susan George, Creator/JoannaLumley

* Professor Plum: Kristoffer Tabori, Ian Lavender, Creator/DavidMcCallum, Creator/TomBaker, John Bird

---> '''Reverend Green''': The time has come to confess before God, and fellow witnesses: your poor peasants. Did you not realise that an artist walked among you? I took into my hand the pen, the greatest weapon known to man, and I flourished it with the craft and eloquence of the noble bard. And then, ''she'' arrived; so naturally, I had to write the last chapter of her life. But hear this: lock me away, and you don't just bang up a barmy vicar: you incarcerate a living legend, a literary legend! I could have been up there with Dickens, Trollope, even Jeffrey Archer!!! Oh God, forgive me.
---> '''Richard Madeley''': I'm not sure Jeffrey Archer will.