SID CAESAR: Invitation to Murder (YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS, No date available)

[@littlegelland]

A combination of "And Then There Were None", "House on Haunted Hill" and "Clue". Funnily enough 2/3 of those movies were made after this sketch was aired... Thank you for uploading these treasures!

[@ShartinScorsese]

Fun fact! This was from the same night as the more well-known Health Food Restaurant Hickenlooper sketch! Nov 21st, 1953. -Mel Tolkin’s granddaughter & fan of the channel.

[@verity3616]

If you know enough fun facts about the era you should write a book!

[@kenowens9021]

One guy with a big laugh is heard really good.

[@WASasquatch]

I'm just now discovering these classic sketch shows. I have a lot to catch up on. I love Monty Python, and all the modern sketch, so this is exciting to discover. Love all the skits I've seen so far.

[@schnellfahren911]

Totally seeing Clue inspiration from this- thanks for posting any/all Show of Shows skits! Love them!!!

[@sidcaesaryourshowofshowsca2250]

Glad you're enjoying them--truly classic TV comedy! --kjh

[@uslines]

Wonderful "take-off" of those great 30's Dark old House movies.

[@stephaniecarrow4898]

All through this wonderful sketch, I couldn't stop thinking about Neil Simon's "Murder by Death" several decades after this but so similar. I believe he was also on the show's writing staff, and seems to have a penchant for murder mysteries (he also wrote "The Cheap Detective"). I couldn't help wondering if his imprint was on this.

[@angelamagruder5911]

Boy,oh,boy that was crazy insanely ridiculous,ha,ha,ha!😀😁😂😃😄😅😆🤗🙄

[@user-nf1ti7zh4j]

Either Mel Brooks wrote the sketch, or you can really see the influence Sid had on Mel.

[@verity3616]

Agreed. What an amazing experience it must have been as a young writer to be immersed in this show! I wouldn't have relished living through the forties, but I'm definitely jealous of the opportunity he had to meet, and then become, one of the legends of comedy writing.

[@stephaniecarrow4898]

And on Neil Simon, who wrote two detective comedies. One of them, "Murder by Death" is so similar to this. And Carl Reiner later co-wrote and directed "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid."