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Put on your best Maine accent (or your best Received Pronunciation) and return with us to Cabot Cove! We pay homage to a titan of stage and screen, Angela Lansbury, with another Murder, She Wrote classic. MSW always had amazing guest stars, and this episode is no different! Which one of these tidbits is a lie: One guest star has more than 280 IMDB credits; One guest star has more than 320 IMDB cre...

Sometimes the algorithm gets it right! Netflix showed us a preview for this show and we just had to watch it! This historical dramatization of Italy’s first female lawyer is set in 1883 but it out-Americans modern-day crime shows! Sex, murder, a chase — all in the first minute? Way to go Lidia! The computer got it right — does that mean we have a chance, too?  We watched The Law According to Lidia...

In this sidebar episode of Cluedunnit we sit down with writer Sara Saedi. She was in the writers room for iZombie, is currently working on Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, and has a bunch of other interesting credits and stories she shares with us, including the weirdest thing she ever had to look up for a mystery and how the pandemic inspired her latest novel. Enjoy!  Check out www.cluedunnitpo...

BIG NEWS! We’ve always wanted to learn more about the creators behind the shows we watch — and this week we start asking them!  We interviewed iZombie writer Sara Saedi about how she started writing and how the team approached writing cases and love stories in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. We have a little teaser for that interview in this episode ahead of the full interview next week.  Of co...

Trigger warning for midwesterners: In this episode we complain about being cold in California winters. And since it is the middle of winter, it’s time for our annual idyll in southern France! This year we visit sunny Aix-en-Provence — or is it in the middle of Oxfordshire, England? This show has a lot of English folks playing very, very French folks in stories created by a Canadian — and the cogni...

We get some thrilling Hawaiian action this week with the reboot of “Magnum PI”! Magnum … becomes an efficiency expert? In an office? Can he make awkward birthday celebrations, TPS reports, and sneaking a smoke in the stairwell … exciting? Can you film a chase scene in a parking garage? Can we get a win in our fall season finale? And what does the goat have to do with anything?  We bring back our f...

Raisins are sweet. Agatha Christie is one of the best mystery writers of all time. Would a mash-up of the two equal a sweet mystery show? Jessica confesses which acting teacher scared her to death and Jacob breaks out some non-traditional acting exercises as we try to get in the win column!  We watched Agatha Raisin, series 2 episode 3, “The Curious Curate,” on Hoopla. (A streaming service for lib...

What do you put on your fries? Ketchup, vinegar, mayonnaise, or butter? Which you choose will tell us a lot about who you are and how handy you might be in guessing for our latest show! We head to Bath, England to see which member of a deeply, deeply dysfunctional plastic surgery team killed a social media influencer — and is that better or worse than scratching up a first-printing Teddy Prendergr...

Is it sparkly because it’s new? Or is it sparkly because of all the rain in the Pacific Northwest? Or is sparkly because it’s just a damn good show? Maybe all of the above? Luckily, we’ve got a new private detective to help us figure it all out! Jessica does a deep dive on stools,  Jacob gives TV critics the what for, and we both make a case for this being a comedy, not a drama.  We watched So Hel...

Meet the new superwoman: Billie Blessings. She’s a best-selling author, chef, restauranteur, TV personality, and expert crime solver — suck on that, Martha Stewart! This episode, we  invent a new form of forensics built around baked goods to try to get back into the win column. Does it work? Listen and find out!  We watched Morning Show Mysteries, “A Murder in Mind” on the Hallmark app.  Join the...

Break out your barbecue sauce and your crosswords, it’s time for a very bloody episode of Cluedunnit! Jessica gets all suspicious of Will Shortz, and Jacob takes not one, not two, but three stabs at guessing who did it. Will he get it right this time? Or will he pack it all in to become a super-fan of “Murder Flip”?  We watched season 7, episode 6 of “Bones,” entitled “The Crack in the Code.” We s...

“The Mallorca Files” hits every endorphin button for Jacob: Gorgeous Mediterranean island, comedic duo, amazing crimes to guess at, and a recurring emphasis on fabulous food. It’s got it all! Will it supply that final endorphin rush, a win? Listen and find out!  We watched season 2, episode 3 of “The Mallorca Files,” entitled “A Dish Served Cold.” We streamed it on BritBox.  Join the fun and tell...

This week we tackle the central question of any mystery show: Pockets. Are they worth it? We also interrogate sound effects around horses and try yet again to recreate the musical theme to a show using only our mouths.  We watched “Miss Scarlet and the Duke,” season 1, episode 6, “The Case of Henry Scarlet.” We streamed it on the PBS app.  Join the fun and tell us your guesses online at:  Twitter:...

We go back to the ’80s this week for a tropical holiday with what may be the most famous mustache in all of TV: Tom Selleck as “Magnum, P.I.” I don’t know why showing so much body hair was a good idea, but Tom Selleck makes it work!  And like we always say, “Watching TV is always better with friends.” So this week we are joined by our good friends, playwright Wayne Rawley and actress Alyssa Bostwi...

Return with us now to the thrilling era of yesteryear, when network shows had budgets to hire 15 day players, fake mustaches could be hidden in the low-res broadcast transmission, and gigantic accents roamed the earth! This week we guess on “Murder, She Wrote,” a classic with deep roots in the history of TV. Will all our training over summer hiatus enable us to guess correctly? Or will we have to...

This week we go back in time and watch Shakespeare solve the murder of who killed Kit Marlowe! Wait, no, I’ve got that all backwards — “Shakespeare and Hathaway” is a modern-day comedy mystery of an unlikely crime-solving duo that keeps Stratford-upon-Avon safe from criminals. I like my idea better. I want see Shakespeare solving crimes while tooling around Stratford in a Ferrari horse cart and de...

Wine, women, and murder! This week Cluedunnit watches "Women's Murder Club," the short-lived but totally great mystery procedural set in San Francisco just before the advent of the iPhone. When someone is murdered by getting run over by a vintage car, we get to guess who did it, and why -- as well as scrutinize the invention of modern dance, schoolgirl crushes on the BeeGees, and the correct way t...

Murder, murder most foul! But with a really nice Christmas ornament section. Return to the Hallmark Murder-verse with us as we watch Aurora Teagarden try to solve a killing in her small town, while family members object to her morbid curiosity and maybe secretly wonder when they’re going to fall prey to the librarian’s incessant need for a murder to solve.  We watched "Aurora Teagarden Mysteries:...

Constable Murdoch didn't invent the re-watch podcast, but that might be the only thing he didn't! We visit Edwardian-era Toronto to solve the mystery of Canada's first vehicular homicide as we watch The Murdoch Mysteries, season 11, episode 7, titled "The Accident." He solves the crime, but can we solve why he's a cop instead of a full-time inventor? Join the fun and tell us your guesses online at...

Stand back! It's a giant-sized Cluedunnit, as big as the facial hair of the 1930s! THRILL! As we watch the 2018 movie version of “The ABC Murders.” SHRIEK! As we play Pink Floyd vs. Led Zeppelin! SWOON! As we go gaga for John Malkovich! GASP! As we maybe, possibly, guess correctly? Listen to find out!  Join the fun and tell us your guesses online at:  Twitter: @cluedunnit   Facebook: @cluedunnitpo...

We try to guess who stole a bride's tiara -- but Jessica's guesses get completely derailed by the smokin' hot outfits Jason Priestley wears and Jacob makes a big, big mistake about Porsches.  Join the fun and tell us your guesses online at:  Twitter: @cluedunnit   Facebook: @cluedunnitpodcast   Instagram: @cluedunnitpodcast  

Come with us to the deadliest county in all of England -- Midsomer! Each "Midsomer Murders" episode has multiple deaths in it, does that mean we'll slay with our guesses? Or will we once again be taken in by cheese and the beautiful English countryside ... of death!  Join the fun and tell us your guesses online at:  Twitter: @cluedunnit   Facebook: @cluedunnitpodcast   Instagram: @cluedunnitpodcas...

Quid pro pod, Clarice. Quid pro pod. What do Michael Bay and PTSD have in common? They're both major influences on Clarice, the CBS procedural based on the hit movie "The Silence of the Lambs." Will we guess the killer correctly, or will we get eaten?  Join the fun and tell us your guesses online at:  Twitter: @cluedunnit   Facebook: @cluedunnitpodcast   Instagram: @cluedunnitpodcast  

Don't be the spinach filling in our empanada-rito! We're going back to the Psych-a-verse with the third Psych movie, "This Is Gus." Will Gus and Selene get married before they give birth? Will Shawn and Juliet become godparents? Will we guess anything right at all? Listen in and find out!  Join the fun and tell us your guesses online at:  Twitter: @cluedunnit   Facebook: @cluedunnitpodcast   Insta...

Vegas, baby! We guess on a devilishly clever CSI: Vegas show with a special guest who's an actual CSI agent! Will real-world knowledge help guess a TV crime?  Check out our guest writer and actual forensic scientist Alicia Lomas-Gross on social media!  Twitter: @TheBeeka Instagram: @TheBeeka  Join the fun and tell us your guesses online at:  Twitter: @cluedunnit   Facebook: @cluedunnitpodcast   In...