Cluedo is an Australian whodunnit game show based on the British series of the same name and inspired by the 1949 board game Cluedo. It was produced by Crawford Action Time (a collaboration of Crawford Productions and Action Time) in conjunction with Nine Network. The show saw a studio audience view a dramatised scenario, then complete rounds of interrogating the six suspects on stage in character and viewing further evidence through a pre-recorded criminal investigation. Players then deduced the solution to the murder case using a trio of computer-linked electronic dials (whodunnit, whatdunnit, and wheredunnit), and after the solution was revealed the first person who had locked-in this combination won a prize.

Plot

Cluedo is a solve-it-yourself whodunnit gameshow featuring a series of self-contained murder cases. Each episode has 30 minutes of drama and 30 minutes of questions for a total runtime of one hour excluding commercial breaks, as opposed to the British version which had 15 minutes of each save for a one-off 45 minute Christmas special. Additionally, it offers audience participation unlike its predecessor. While McFadyen specified that Cluedo is ultimately a game show, the press saw the series incorporating a variety of genres and formats including: quiz, game show, talk, panel, drama, mystery, thriller, soap opera, melodrama, and comedy. The Age noted it encompassed an "amalgam of styles", while Understanding the Global TV Format described Cluedo as a "hybrid...amalgamation of a game show with a fictional situation and story". The Newcastle Herald described it as an "innovative combination of...two wildly different concepts" - a television game show and a murder.