TV series

Dandelion Dead

Could He Blow Them Away?

1994★ 9.0 · 2Ended1 seasonCrimeDrama

Overview

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.

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Cast

Peter Vaughan
as Dr. Hinks

Lesley Sharp
as Constance 'Connie' Martin, nee Davies

Diana Quick
as Marion Glassford-Gale

Michael Kitchen
as Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong

David Thewlis
as Oswald Martin

Sarah Miles
as Catherine Armstrong

Robert Stephens
as Henry Vaughan

Roger Lloyd Pack
as Phillips

Patrick Godfrey
as Griffiths

Paul Brooke
as Arthur

Crew

Michael Chaplin
Writer

Tim Lewis
Second Assistant Director

Seasons

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Season 1

Episodes: 4