Colonel Mustard (British game show)

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## Professional & social status

### Allegiance(s)

* British Army
	+ Special Air Service

## Physical characteristics

### Hair color

* Gray (Series 1; actor's hair)
* Dirty blonde (Christmas special; actor's hair)
* Brown (Series 2; actor's hair)
* Black (Series 3, Series 4; actor's hair)

### Eye color

* Brown (Series 1, Series 3; actor's eyes)
* Blue (Series 2; actor's eyes)

## Relationships

### Family

Unnamed wife (deceased; 1990 Christmas special)

### Significant other

* Mrs. Elizabeth Peacock
* Vivienne Scarlett

## Portrayals

### Portrayed by

* Robin Ellis (Series 1; 1990)
* David Robb (Christmas special; 1990)
* Michael Jayston (Series 2; 1991)
* Lewis Collins (Series 3; 1992)
* Leslie Grantham (Series 4; 1993)

## Source

**Colonel Michael "Mike" Mustard** is a character from the British game show *Cluedo*, based on the board game of the same name. He is a former officer of the elite Special Air Service with an elusive past.

## Profile

Colonel Mustard is a smooth-talking gentleman and quite a ladies' man, having gained the affections of both Mrs. Peacock and her step-daughter Vivienne Scarlett.

Robin Ellis's Colonel Mustard seems to be a likeable person; a true retired military veteran who asserts his masculinity and youth.

Lewis Collins' portrayal of the character is still quite the ladies' man, even more so compared to Robb, but has a quick-temper and seems more affective to Miss Scarlett compare to Mrs. Peacock.

Leslie Grantham's Mustard appears to be suffering from shell shock from some unknown incident in his military career before being discharged.

## History

### Series 1

In the first series of the game show, Colonel Mustard was played by British actor Robin Ellis.

Mustard was promoted to the rank of Colonel for his efforts in the Falklands War. Upon being discharged from the army on medical grounds, Mustard moved to the village of Arlington and formed his own private security company which advises foreign governments.

In episode 1,

In episode 2,

In episode 3,

In episode 4,

In episode 5, "Politician's Funeral", his role as a security advisor has given him a taste for politics, as he attempts to become the MP of Arlington after the death of the previous one. His electoral rival is businessman David Chapman.

In episode 6,

### Christmas Special

In the 1990 Christmas special, "Christmas Past, Christmas Present", Mustard was played by Scottish actor David Robb.

In the special, Colonel Mustard is gifted a Spanner by Richard Forrest as part of a blackmail scheme. Enraged, Mustard reveals that was once married, but his wife had died in a car accident, believing that the Spanner is insinuating that he caused it.

### Series 2

In Series 2, Colonel Mustard is played by British actor Michael Jayston.

In episode 1, "A Deadly Deal", Simon Charles, an investment broker from The City, was aware of Mustard's involvement in insider dealings with the stock market and blackmailed him.

In episode 2, "The Best Insurance", Colonel Mustard was an old friend of the episode's victim, Mr. George Biddle. He was angered that Biddle did not come through with his promise to get him on the board of directors.

In episode 3, "Fatal Distraction", Colonel Mustard resided at the village around the time George Velares was living at Arlington Grange. He also knew the true reason as to why Velares committed suicide.

In episode 4, "Charity Begins At Home", Mustard was examining some of the donations for the charity auction. One of the paintings catches his eye and believes it to have been made by English Romantic artist J. M. W. Turner. This is overheard by Ben the window-cleaner, who tries to crack a deal with Mustard about the Turner.

In episode 5, "A Traveller's Tale", Colonel Mustard had rented out the land to Dave for the festival. Unbeknownst to Mustard, Dave wanted to buy the adjoining land and he thought with the other hippies squatting the land, it would decrease the property values, and thus getting it very cheap.

In episode 6, "The Bolivian Connection", Colonel Mustard and Mrs. Peacock were about to get married until the wedding was interrupted by Commander Jack Peacock, the supposedly late second husband of Mrs. Peacock. Due to this, Mrs. Peacock calls off the wedding.

### Series 3

Colonel Mustard was played by English actor Lewis Collins, who had played Commander Jack Peacock in the Series 2 finale, "The Bolivian Connection".

In episode 4, "And Then There Were Nuns", Sister Concepta (sister of the late Jack Peacock) confronts Colonel Mustard in the Dining Room for his involvement in training mercenaries in the upper Amazon, who would go on to swipe out an entire missionary settlement, killing all the natives.

In episode 5, "Blackmail and the Fourth Estate", it is revealed that Colonel Mustard was the Commanding Officer of a undercover operation during the Gulf War that went wrong; six men under Mustard's command were taken hostage and killed by the enemy forces, and sent their missing body parts sent back to the British HQ. Mustard was later involved covering up the incident and later earned a Victoria Cross for his efforts in the war.

### Series 4

In the fourth and final series of the game show, Colonel Mustard was played by English actor Leslie Grantham, who was a contestant in the 1990 Christmas special.

In episode 1, "Finders, Keepers", Mustard was in some debt and grew jealous of the lost treasure that Jake Swithin found.

In episode 2, "Seven Deadly Sinners", Mustard is referred by his former commander Sir Nigel Hussey to be "the worst spy we ever trained at MI5", recounting an embarrassing incident in which Mustard sent to Estonia with forged papers to infiltrate the Red Army only to be arrested by a tram conductor.

In episode 3, "The Word, The Flesh & The Devil", Colonel Mustard felt led on and humiliated after Candice Costello rejected his advances.

In episode 4, "The Hanged Man", Mustard was in trouble with counterfeit money and was overheard by Marjoy Hunt making a threatening phone call.

In episode 5, "Where There's A Will", Colonel Mustard's future with Mrs. Peacock was under threat unless her financial troubles were solved.

In episode 6, "Publish & Be Damned", Mustard is mentioned to have served as a royal bodyguard in the early 1980s, around the time of Princess Stephanie's attempted kidnapping attempt. Mustard later on reveals that he was attending his mother's funeral, and thus not present during the kidnapping.