Dandelion Dead

Dandelion Dead

1994
Dandelion Dead
Dandelion Dead

Dandelion Dead

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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.

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Seasons & Episodes

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EP4  Episode 4
Feb. 27,1994
Episode 4

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EP3  Episode 3
Feb. 20,1994
Episode 3

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EP2  Episode 2
Feb. 13,1994
Episode 2

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EP1  Episode 1
Feb. 06,1994
Episode 1

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Synopsis

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 , Bernard Hepton , Don Henderson

Director

Michael Chaplin

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