Professor Plum is the stock character of an absent-minded professor. Often depicted as either a young or middle aged fellow with a bow tie and glasses, he is widely seen as the intellectual. He rolls last in the game.
In the board game
1949 UK: Professor Plum was first depicted as an aged pontificating scientist with similar features to Albert Einstein. Head mounted on a purple pawn.
1949 US: Identical to UK, but now given a body.
1963 US: Cartoon caricature of a rotund, snooty-looking professor sporting a purple tail coat, spectacles and a large mustache.
1972 US: Portrayed in photograph as a young, smarmy looking University professor, who gives off a sort of a leer. For the first time, he is wearing his classic bow tie and glasses. He also is smoking a pipe; a trait that would also be associated with Plum over time.
1986 US: Professor Plum has now become a middle-aged man, while still retaining the pipe and glasses, has now also lost hair, but gained a mustache.
UK Super Challenge: Artistically updated version of the original Professor Plum; now given a body and glasses.
Master Detective: Professor Edgar Plum has taken the profession of a shady archeologist with a dubious past. He claims he is on the verge of a earth-shaking discovery that he can feel in his bones. His depiction is similar to the 1986 Plum though his facial expression appears influenced by the contents of his pipe.
1992 US: Almost identical to the 1986 Plum in almost every way though appears to have been given an alarmed expression. On the box, he stands clutching a book, while hovering over a table that has a Knife jabbed into it.
1996 US: Professor Plum has returned to a more youthful age that is more akin to the 1972 Plum. Gone is his smoking pipe and moustache, but he still keeps the bow-tie and glasses. His expression is dumbfounded and his hair is short, black and disorganized.
1996 UK: Once again Plum has become an archeologist who is seeking the proper funding for his next expedition to Egypt. He is wearing a purple tuxedo and is no less crazy looking than the rest of the characters from the same edition.
2000 UK/Super Cluedo/Passport to Murder: Almost identical the 1996 US Plum, he appears to be a little more refined with his hair more neatly combed. However, he still keeps the head-in-the-clouds expression.
2002 US: A more cubist rendition than before; Peter Plum was a curator at a reputed museum before having his position terminated on the grounds of plagiarism. His appearance now gives him red hair that is completely disheveled with a flyaway look.
Discover the Secrets: Professor Plum has been completely reinvented as Victor Plum, a self-made video game designer.
In Film, Television, Books and Computer Games
Clue the Movie: Plum was played by Christopher Lloyd. Plum’s personality is that a psychiatrist whose intelligence is blundered with his buffoonery. He used to work in the health branch of the UN before having his license revoked due to improper conduct with a patient. Lloyd’s Plum is rather lewd and comes off as a womanizer, making sexual passes on Miss Scarlet, Mrs. Peacock, Yvette and Mrs. White. He received the Revolver from Mr. Boddy.
Clue the VCR Game: Plum was played by Jack Neary. Once again, he takes on the appearance of a balding middle-aged college professor whose intelligence is tempered with homicidal tendencies as he killed his wife out of desperation to complete an experiment. He is an expert on many poisons and was Mr. Boddy's son-in-law.
Cluedo TV-series: Professor Peter Plum is shown as yet another family friend of Mrs. Peacock, with an intellectual background. His portrayals have ranged from a young American businessman to a middle-aged mad inventor. 1990 – Kristoffer Tabori, Christmas Special – Ian Lavender, 1991 – David McCallum, 1992 – Tom Baker, 1993 – John Bird.
SNES Game: Professor Plum is the usual absent-minded klutz. He is given a disoriented music theme.
Book series: In the books, Professor Paul Plum is shown to have an abnormally high degree of forgetfulness that has often gotten the gang into sticky situations. For example in one scenario, he accidentally brought a live bomb as a birthday gift, and then forgets where he put it.
Clue: Murder at Boddy Mansion/Fatal Illusion: Professor Plum is once again a respectable archeologist who had made controversial claims over unexplained theories revolving Egyptian history, for which is a subject he is ever so much the expert on.
This is part of the Cluedo Series. You can do this series of caches independently, or combine them to find the headquarters and possibly solve the crime. Each cache will contain one part of the coordinates for the Headquarters Cache.