Dandelion Dead

Dandelion Dead

Could He Blow Them Away?

Limited Series 1994 · 4 eps · ★ 9.0 · Crime, Drama

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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.

Directed by Mike Hodges · Written by Michael Chaplin

Network: ITV1

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Peter Vaughan Dr. Hinks
Bernard Hepton
Don Henderson
Lesley Sharp Constance 'Connie' Martin, nee Davies
Diana Quick Marion Glassford-Gale
Michael Kitchen Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong
David Thewlis Oswald Martin
Sarah Miles Catherine Armstrong
Robert Stephens Henry Vaughan
Roger Lloyd Pack Phillips
Patrick Godfrey Griffiths
Paul Brooke Arthur

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