The read
The series ran 1 season across 4 episodes and has finished, so there is no cliffhanger risk.
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.4/10
2 audience votes
Seasons
| 1 | Season 1 | 4 ep1994 |
Key crew
- Michael ChaplinWriter
Cast
- Peter VaughanDr. Hinks
- Bernard HeptonCast
- Don HendersonCast
- Lesley SharpConstance 'Connie' Martin, nee Davies
- Diana QuickMarion Glassford-Gale
- Michael KitchenMajor Herbert Rowse Armstrong
- David ThewlisOswald Martin
- Sarah MilesCatherine Armstrong
- Robert StephensHenry Vaughan
- Roger Lloyd PackPhillips
- Patrick GodfreyGriffiths
- Paul BrookeArthur
Stills
Themes
poisonminiseries1920s