Dandelion Dead
Seen it?1994 | 1 seasons | 60 min | Crime, Drama
Monday Morning Maybeearly ratingWhy it’s a Monday Morning Maybe
With a small audience and almost no lasting buzz, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Made for crime-drama fans. If you loved Power Book IV: Force, start here.
- The mood
- Dark and gritty.
- The pace
- One season: easy to finish in a weekend or two, hour-long episodes, about 4 hours in all.
- What might put you off
- Nothing much for most grown-ups.
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.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Reach & staying powerWeak
Limited series that reached a small audience so far
- Buzz & cultural impactWeak
About 12K people sought it out in the past year
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Cast & crew
- Peter VaughanDr. Hinks
- Bernard Hepton
- Don Henderson
- 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