{"id":20992,"date":"2014-12-11T09:01:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T09:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=20992"},"modified":"2014-12-11T13:41:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T13:41:53","slug":"toyah-christmas-cluedo-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-christmas-cluedo-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah @ Christmas: Cluedo (1990) (14 Days To Go)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/category\/christmas-2014\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/category\/christmas-2014\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20897 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"christmas14f\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/christmas14f1.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a>The first Christmas of the 1990&#8217;s saw Toyah play Miss Scarlet in a special festive edition, &#8220;Christmas Past, Christmas Present&#8221;, of ITV&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Cluedo<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">You are invited to a murder: Arlington Grange &#8211; home of wealthy widow Elizabeth Peacock; society hostess and patron of the arts. A woman with a reputation she would rather forget.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Colonel Mustard: Secret lover of Mrs. Peacock. A dashing military hero who&#8217;s glitering career hides a tarnished past. The Reverand Green: Pastor of the parish who&#8217;s means of raising money are not heaven sent. Though a man of the cloth, he has feet of clay. Professor Plum: Nuclear physiscist and government advisor. But would his research methods stand the scrutiny of a microscope. Miss Scarlett: vivacious step-daughter of Mrs. Peacock; who&#8217;s lust for the high life will let nothing or no-one stand in her way. And Mrs White: for the past 15 years, friend and housekeeper to Mrs. Peacock. But what what dark secret did she bring to Arlington Grange?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Six people, all with murder on their minds.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20993\" alt=\"cluedo14b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cluedo14b.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cluedo14b.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cluedo14b-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Here are the thoughts of a Cluedo fan: &#8220;The show producers must have realised that they needed strong characters by now, as the casting of vivacious Toyah Willcox showed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Toyah was great in the part, with all of the men drooling over her; yet still being a complete b*tch to everyone &#8211; especially her step-mother.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Like others in the Christmas Special, she was made to look very similar to her card equivalent &#8211; especially her hair style.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Toyah is best known for being an 80&#8217;s rock singer (&#8220;It&#8217;s A Mystery&#8221; and more); but she also has a very strong acting career behind her. Major parts for her have been as Miranda in &#8220;The Tempest&#8221;, but she has narrated a couple of children&#8217;s television series (e.g. &#8220;The Teletubbies&#8221;) and has made many guest appearances in shows as herself.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Christmas of the 1990&#8217;s saw Toyah play Miss Scarlet in a special festive edition, &#8220;Christmas Past, Christmas Present&#8221;, of ITV&#8217;s\u00a0Cluedo. You are invited to a murder: Arlington Grange &#8211; home of wealthy widow Elizabeth Peacock; society hostess and patron of the arts. A woman with a reputation she would rather forget. Colonel Mustard: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1168],"tags":[1185,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20992"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21014,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20992\/revisions\/21014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}