Sleuth 101 is an Australian comedy television series, broadcast on ABC 1 in 2010. The series revolves around a murder-mystery that must be solved by a celebrity guest detective. Each episode features a guest detective (usually a comedian), four suspects, a crime scene, evidence and witness accounts - just like real detective work. The show is hosted by comedienne Cal Wilson

Cal Wilson

Cal Wilson is a New Zealand stand-up comedian and radio and television personality. She currently lives in Melbourne, Australia, and is well known in Australia through her appearances on television and radio.-Biography:...

, who occasionally gives subtle hints towards the crime. Each week, the guest detective must solve the murder using his or her evidence. There are some similarities to the 1970s British series Whodunnit!

Whodunnit!

Whodunnit? is a British television game show, broadcast between 1972 and 1978 for ITV by Thames Television.It was written by Lance Percival and Jeremy Lloyd, and hosted first by Edward Woodward, then by Jon Pertwee...

 and the 1990s Australian television game show Cluedo

Cluedo (Australian game show)

Cluedo was an Australian television game show based on the board game of the same name. It was presented by Ian McFadyen.-Format:The studio audience had to pick the culprit using a dial system by which they could select who they thought was guilty...

. A second series is currently being negotiated by the ABC.

Format

After the guest detective is introduced, they are first guided to a mock-up of the crime scene, where they scour for clues, which are then "sent to the lab" by Wilson. The detective then listens to the witness' accounts and then interrogates them. Wilson will jump in when she feels there is nothing more to tell, with some "lab results" from the clues the detective found. This will continue until all four suspects have been interrogated, when the detective then attempts to solve the crime. After successfully or unsuccessfully solving the crime, Wilson will point out the clues, and the show will end.

Cast

The series is hosted by Cal Wilson

Cal Wilson

Cal Wilson is a New Zealand stand-up comedian and radio and television personality. She currently lives in Melbourne, Australia, and is well known in Australia through her appearances on television and radio.-Biography:...

.

Family Assorted

Dave O'Neil

Dave O'Neil

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 - guest detective

John Wood

John Wood (Australian actor)

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 - Bill Quinn, victim

Robyn Butler

Robyn Butler

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 - Michelle Quinn, victim's daughter

Dave Lawson

Dave Lawson

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 - Steve Quinn, victim's son

Nicola Parry

Nicola Parry

Nicola Parry is an Australian actress who is best known for her roles in the hit comedies Thank God You're Here, The Hollowmen and Swift and Shift Couriers. She is an alumnus of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She also appeared in the ABC 1 miniseries Sleuth 101, as part of the...

 - Ally Quinn, victim's daughter-in-law

Denise Drysdale

Denise Drysdale

Denise Anne Christina Drysdale, is an Australian television personality and comedian. She is often affectionately called Ding-Dong.-Childhood:...

 - Marjorie Quinn, victim's wife

Murder In A Sharp

Frank Woodley

Frank Woodley

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 - guest detective

Frankie J Holden - Kyle Bowman, victim

Celia Pacquola - Abby Bowman, victim's wife

Leah Vandenberg

Leah Vandenberg

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 - Jessica Pride, victim's record rep

Kevin Harrington - Barry C, victim's bandmate

Nicholas Bell

Nicholas Bell

Nicholas Bell is a British actor who has worked in Australia for more than 20 years. He is a regular actor in Melbourne Theatre Company productions as well as work with all the major broadcasters in Australia, most notably the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.-Film and television:Film credits...

 - Ian Rossy, victim's bodyguard

Delete Cache

Claire Hooper

Claire Hooper

Claire Hooper is an Australian stand-up comedian and writer. She appeared as a team captain on the 2008 revival of Good News Week on Network Ten and previously was a regular on The Sideshow, appearing with Paul McDermott...

 - guest detective

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson (actor)

Samuel Johnson is an Australian actor, radio presenter and voiceover artist.He was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne and is best known for his role as Evan Wylde in the television series The Secret Life of Us.-Starting out:At the age of 14, Johnson performed in his first school play, cast in a...

 - Darren "Cache" Gablonsky, victim

Tommy Dasalo - Torben Bach, company CEO

Katrina Milosevic

Katrina Milosevic

Katrina Milosevic is an Australian actress who has appeared in many television programmes and theatre productions.Katrina Milosevic graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1997 with a degree in Performing Arts and went on to work on series including The Games and Blue...

 - Gill Yardley, company accountant

Emily Taheny

Emily Taheny

Emily Taheny is an Australian television actress, comedienne, and singer known for her multiple appearances on the sketch comedy television series Comedy Inc. from 2003 through 2007, and for her role as "Kat" on the 2009 series The Jesters. She was born at Warooka, Yorke Peninsula, South...

 - Hermione Trane, company designer

Nazeem Hussain - Nazeem Khan, company technical director

A Tan To Die For

Adam Richard

Adam Richard

Adam Richard is an Australian comedian, actor and media personality. He stars in the ABC 1 comedy series Outland which begins in 2011.Adam has been a stand-up comedian since 1997. He had a regular gossip segment on Triple J radio in 2002-2003, where he was known as Mister Bitch. He has presented a...

 - guest detective

Caroline Craig

Caroline Craig

Caroline Craig is an Australian television and stage actress, and television director, based in Sydney Australia...

 - Bridget Wilmott, victim

Leah Vandenberg

Leah Vandenberg

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 - Annie Blythe, salon hairdresser

Jacqueline Brennan

Jacqueline Brennan

Jacqueline Brennan is an Australian actress who is best known for her roles in the comedy series Sit Down, Shut Up, The Hollowmen and Bullpitt!. She has appeared in many other television series including Bed of Roses, Dangerous and Neighbours.-External links:...

 - Louise Keeler, salon owner

Anne Phelan

Anne Phelan

Anne Mary Phelan, OAM , is a much awarded Australian actress, who has appeared prominently in Theatre, Australian television productions and soap operas, including Prisoner where she played the role of 'Top Dog' Myra Desmond and Monica Taylor in Something in the air...

 - Pat Norton, victim's mother-in-law-to-be

Kate Atkinson - Jacqui Freed, victim's best friend

Inside Chef

Peter Rowsthorn

Peter Rowsthorn

Peter Rowsthorn is an Australian comedy actor best known for his TV work, particularly as Brett Craig in the hit series Kath & Kim and as Warren Cronkshonk in hospital spoof Let The Blood Run Free...

 - guest detective

Mark Mitchell - Ramsay McGordon, victim

Nicola Parry

Nicola Parry

Nicola Parry is an Australian actress who is best known for her roles in the hit comedies Thank God You're Here, The Hollowmen and Swift and Shift Couriers. She is an alumnus of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She also appeared in the ABC 1 miniseries Sleuth 101, as part of the...

 - Stacy Henshaw, series producer

Denise Scott

Denise Scott

Denise Margaret Adelaide Scott is a Melbourne-based stand-up comedian, actor and radio personality.-Career:She has appeared frequently on Australian television since her regular slot on ABC TV's The Big Gig in 1990, and a weekly segment on Tonight Live with Steve Vizard...

 - Enid "The Poison Pensioner" Banks, series contestant

Tony Rickards - Michael "Fingers" Keegan, series contestant

Steve Bastoni

Steve Bastoni

Steve Bastoni is an Italian Australian actor. He is best known for his role in Police Rescue as Constable Yannis 'Angel' Angelopoulos and as Steve Parker in Neighbours.-Television:...

 - Harry "The Hatchet" Donelli, series contestant

Late And Live

Julia Morris

Julia Morris

Julia Morris is an Australian writer, comedian, actress, television presenter and television producer who has worked extensively in Australian and British television and radio. She has toured widely with her solo stand-up comedy shows. In Australia, she is best known as one of the stars of the...

 - guest detective

Kimberley Davies

Kimberley Davies

Kimberley Davies is an Australian actress most famous for playing Annalise Hartman on the Australian soap opera Neighbours from 1993 to 1996...

 - Rachel Timms, victim

Toby Truslove

Toby Truslove

-Career:In 2001, Truslove appeared on television drama series Crash Palace as Bryan Rossiter. He has since made guest appearances on Australian TV series including All Saints, McLeod's Daughters, The Matrix, The Strip, Thank God You're Here and The Librarians. In 2011 he stars in two ABC 1 comedy...

 - Nigel Gates, studio technician

Colette Mann

Colette Mann

Colette Mann is an Australian actress, most notable for playing the role of Doreen Anderson , in the Australian series Prisoner from 1979–1982, with return appearances in 1983 and in 1984....

 - Ann Humphreys, show producer

Paul McCarthy

Paul McCarthy (Australian actor)

Paul McCarthy is an Australian comedy actor. He is best known for sketch comedy television series Comedy Inc.-Career:...

 - Johnny Velvet, show host

Felicity Ward

Felicity Ward

Felicity Ward is an Australian comedian, best known for her TV appearances on Spicks and Specks, Thank God You're Here, Good News Week and as a writer/performer in the Channel 10 Network television programme The Ronnie Johns Half Hour...

 - Judy McEvoy, show comedienne

Performance Enhancing Death

Colin Lane

Colin Lane

Colin Stuart Lane is a comedian and actor, best known for being one-half of former comedy duo, Lano and Woodley.-Lano and Woodley:...

 - guest detective

Blair McDonough

Blair McDonough

Blair McDonough is an actor who is best known for playing the role of Stuart Parker in the Australian TV soap opera Neighbours. He first shot to fame in 2001, when he finished runner-up in the inaugural season of the reality TV series Big Brother Australia...

 - Dan Kinsman, victim

Alan Brough

Alan Brough

Alan Brough is a New Zealand actor and comedian.Brough worked as an actor in Wellington and Auckland, mainly in live theatre...

 - Robby Dobson - victim's manager

Nick Russell - Cary Williams - victim's teammate

Francis Greenslade

Francis Greenslade

Francis Greenslade is an Australian comic actor. He and comedic partner Shaun Micallef appeared on the legal comedy Welcher and Welcher, as well as Full Frontal...

 - Mick Schwarz, team coach

Emily Taheny

Emily Taheny

Emily Taheny is an Australian television actress, comedienne, and singer known for her multiple appearances on the sketch comedy television series Comedy Inc. from 2003 through 2007, and for her role as "Kat" on the 2009 series The Jesters. She was born at Warooka, Yorke Peninsula, South...

 - Rebecca Hart, teammate's girlfriend

Still Life

Hamish Blake

Hamish Blake

Hamish Donald Blake is an Australian comedian, actor, author and bodybuilder from Melbourne, Australia. Since 2003, he has worked with Andy Lee as part of the comedy duo Hamish and Andy. The pair have performed live and on television and radio, most notably with their drive-time radio program...

 - guest detective

Annalise Braakensiek

Annalise Braakensiek

Annalise Braakensiek is an Australian model, actress and TV presenter.-Biography:Braakensiek was born in Sydney, New South Wales and speaks five languages;...

 - Nikki Gleason, victim

Nicholas Bell

Nicholas Bell

Nicholas Bell is a British actor who has worked in Australia for more than 20 years. He is a regular actor in Melbourne Theatre Company productions as well as work with all the major broadcasters in Australia, most notably the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.-Film and television:Film credits...

 - Ern Harris, art student

Tracy Harvey

Tracy Harvey

Tracy Harvey is a comedian, TV presenter, actor and writer from Melbourne, Australia.Tracy was a member of the alternative comedy breakfast panel radio show Punter to Punter with Trevor Marmalade and Dr Turf...

 - Jean Harris, art lover

Nick Farnell - Duncan West, art enthusiast

Heidi Arena

Heidi Arena

Heidi Arena is an Australian actress who is best known as a core cast member of the improvisational comedy Thank God You're Here and the comedy series The Librarians. She also appeared in the series Blue Heelers and in a supporting role on the comedy drama series Last Man Standing.-External links:...

 - Bea O'Malley, art teacher

Luke Ryan - Policeman

DVD releases

Season	Date Released	# Of Episodes	# Of Discs	Special Features	Classification
Series 1	1 April 2010	8	1	None	PG - violence, drug references, coarse language

See also

• Whodunnit!
  Whodunnit!
  Whodunnit? is a British television game show, broadcast between 1972 and 1978 for ITV by Thames Television.It was written by Lance Percival and Jeremy Lloyd, and hosted first by Edward Woodward, then by Jon Pertwee...
  
  , British television series
• Cluedo
  Cluedo (Australian game show)
  Cluedo was an Australian television game show based on the board game of the same name. It was presented by Ian McFadyen.-Format:The studio audience had to pick the culprit using a dial system by which they could select who they thought was guilty...
  
  , Australian television game show
• Cluedo, British television game show