A game show based on a classic board game challenges contestants' intelligence, attention, and improvisation skills. Set in the mansion of wealthy widow Mrs. Peacock, a diverse cast of characters, including a professor, reverend, colonel, and alluring stepdaughter, as well as a maid, each have a motive to commit murder. Celebrities form teams, interrogate suspects, solve the crime, and make accusations. The killer is eventually revealed, and a reenactment of the murder is shown. The show offers no prize, only the thrill of being a better detective. A new cast is introduced each season.

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