Whodunnit?

- Season 6

(1978)

A man found shot through the temple with the gun beside him, with a suicide note ambiguously addressed to his fiancée or his mistress. Assassination, suicide or a crime of passion?

Set in the days of Blackbeard, and played like a pantomime. There's dirty work at an inn on the Cornish coast.

A diamond dealer and three of his staff catch his junior partner with fifteen uncut diamonds in the office in the middle of the night, with the lights out, brandishing a torch and wearing black leather gloves. Surely there can't be any doubt Whodunnit?

A murder takes place at the climax of a magician's act.

Renowned fortune-teller Madame Ortega is murdered in her chamber - with her own crystal ball. Can the panel channel their own psychic powers to foretell who the mystical murderer is?

The manager of a Monte Carlo casino is shot dead in his office - can the local police inspector turn the tables on the guilty party?

£30,000 is discovered stolen from an office safe - and, to make matters worse, a dead body of an employee is found nearby in the same room. Can this week's panel find the correct combination of clues to crack the code to identify the killer?

When a circus owner suddenly dies, his half-brother inherits it. But, rather than follow his dead brother's instructions to divide the circus equally among its cast of performers, he instead wants to cash in and rob them of their inheritance. Which of them is it then who performs the fatal act of doing away with their unscrupulous new ring master?

While on a visit to London, the Arab ruler of an oil-rich country appears to die from poisoning after drinking coffee. Can this week's panel filter through the clues and find the murderer? Let us see what happens.

The wife of the principal of a self-styled 'school for lovers' is stabbed - by a mysterious murderer lurking behind a curtain, who then steals the money from the school's safe. Can the local constabulary put their heart and soul into solving this dastardly crime of passion?

In a busy photographic studio where a William Tell-themed shoot is taking place, the wife of the photographer is found lying dead in a box - with one of the crossbow arrows embedded in her chest. Will the this week's panel be on target as they attempt to identify the culprit?

A wealthy businessman invites his three grown-up children to a meeting - only to tell them they are all cut out of his will. Soon after, he becomes a murder victim - but who or what was it that actually killed him?