Dandelion Dead
tv show

4 total episodes
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1 seasons
First Aired October 30, 1994
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.
Cast
Peter Vaughan
as
Dr. Hinks
Bernard Hepton
Don Henderson
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