Pat Sajak is moving on from America’s game to bring you again America’s guilty pleasure: A murder mystery.
One year after he left Wheel of Fortune, the TV hosting legend is set to star in a revival of the 1962 play Prescription: Murder, which helped inspire the famed detective TV series Columbo, at a Hawaii community theater between July 31 and Aug. 10.
The 78-year-old will play “brilliant psychiatrist Dr. Roy Flemming, who’s carried out an ingenious plan to murder his wife, and established a perfect alibi,” while his longtime friend Joe Moore portrays investigator Lt. Columbo, according to a synopsis shared by the Hawaii Theatre in Honolulu.
While best known for his game show duties, Sajak is no stranger to acting. In addition to mostly making cameos on shows such as The A-Team and The King of Queens, he has appeared with Joe in several plays over the years at the Hawaii Theatre.
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