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Dandelion Dead

TV·1994–1994·1 season, 4 episodes·ITV1·Crime, Drama·1h

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This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. In 1921 he was arrested and charged with poisoning his domineering wife, Catherine, and later attempting to poison a business rival, Oswald Martin, by administering arsenic to them. At his trial, Armstrong claimed that he had bought the arsenic simply to kill the dandelions on his lawn. However he was convicted of murder and executed in 1922.

Castfull cast & details

Peter VaughanPeter VaughanDr. HinksBernard HeptonBernard HeptonDon HendersonDon HendersonLesley SharpLesley SharpConstance 'Connie' Martin, nee DaviesDiana QuickDiana QuickMarion Glassford-GaleMichael KitchenMichael KitchenMajor Herbert Rowse ArmstrongDavid ThewlisDavid ThewlisOswald MartinSarah MilesSarah MilesCatherine Armstrong

Episodes by season

Season014Episodes1994Aired—Season avg
  1. S01E01Episode 1February 6, 1994—
  2. S01E02Episode 2February 13, 1994—
  3. S01E03Episode 3February 20, 1994—
  4. S01E04Episode 4February 27, 1994—

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