They upped the episode count for the 3rd series of Whodunnit? to ten and they aired July to September 1975. The three discs for series 3 start with the 1974 Christmas Special. The series was created by Jeremy Lloyd and Lance Percival, they also write the mysteries. They'll keep changing the number of episodes each series until the end. Dennis Kirkland and Robert Reed are the directors.
Jon Pertwee is still the host and he's joined each week by regulars Patrick Mower and Anouska Hempel. There are two guest panelists each week and four members of the audience are selected to guess Whodunnit?
Celebrity guests include Jackie Collins, Norman Bowler, Aimi MacDonald, Alfred Marks, Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox, Magnus Pike, Polly James, Nina Baden-Semper, Jack Smethurst, Diana Dors, William Franklyn, Rodney Bewes, Julie Ege, Dilys Lane, Terry Scott, Honor Blackman, Leslie Crowther, Nierys Hughes, Rosemary Leach and Jimmy Jewel. Like last series I didn't recognize a lot of them.
The guest actors include a few names I knew: Gerald Flood, Gillian McCutcheon, Robert Lindsay, Robin Stewart, George A Cooper, Michael Culver, Richard Greene, Burt Kwouk, Frank Thornton, Christopher Biggins, Edward Hardwicke, Ferdy Mayne, Katy Manning, Victor Spinetti, Geoffrey Palmer and Brian Wilde. There were many more I didn't know.
I'm finding I'm less interested in the mystery and more interested in who's in the episode. I'm also fascinated at the fashions of the day, some are OK, others less so. I'll keep at it, only 6 more discs to go.
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