Dramatisations of three different women, three different cases—Constance Kent (episodes 1–8), Mary Blandy (9–14), and Adelaide Bartlett (15–22)—all 18th- and 19th-century murderesses.
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Air Date: 1980-03-25
29 June 1860; Chief Inspector Jonathan Whicher is called to look into the murder of three-year-old Francis Saville Ke...
Air Date: 1980-03-27
Three years before the murder, Constance returns from school and argues with her stepmother. She cuts her hair short ...
Air Date: 1980-04-01
Samuel Kent rides to Trowbridge to get the police when baby Francis is missing, believed carried off in a blanket. He...
Air Date: 1980-04-03
Mr Kent believes the murderer is someone from the village and refuses to allow police to search his home. When a nigh...
Air Date: 1980-04-08
Kent tries to deflect blame for the missing nightdress onto servant Mrs Dalimore. Nursemaid Elizabeth Gough is arrest...
Air Date: 1980-04-10
Constance is arrested for the murder of her brother after it is found that the missing bloodstained nightdress was he...
Air Date: 1980-04-15
Home Secretary brings in solicitor Mr Slack of Bath to make a private inquiry into the Kent murder. Elizabeth Gough i...
Air Date: 1980-04-17
Constance is packed off to France where she took holy orders. During holy week, she tells Miss Greame that she'd murd...
Air Date: 1980-04-22
Summer 1776: Mary Blandy attends a summer ball in Henley, part of recruitment drive for a campaign in Flanders. It's ...
Air Date: 1980-04-24
Mary is shocked to discover Cranstoun is married but he maintains it is not legal. When Cranstoun pays for her mother...
Air Date: 1980-04-29
Cranstoun moves into Mary's home but her father once again refuses to allow them wed without Craunstoun's first 'marr...
Air Date: 1980-05-01
Cranstoun returns to Scotland following accounts of his mother's declining health. Mary's father insists that he not ...
Air Date: 1980-05-06
As Blandy's health deteriorates, Dr Addington is called from Lincoln and convinced that he's been poisoned. Blandy po...
Air Date: 1980-05-08
Mary pleads not guilty when she's put on trial for the murder of her father Francis. She maintains that the powder sh...
Air Date: 1980-05-13
New Year's Eve 1885: Thomas Edwin Bartlett is found dead. Ten years earlier, Frenchwoman Adelaide Comte de Thouars d'...
Air Date: 1980-05-15
In 1882, Adelaide is set to give birth to her first child. However, the labour doesn't go well and the baby dies. Ade...
Air Date: 1980-05-20
In September 1885, Dyson joins the Bartletts on holiday in Dover. Thomas visits Dyson and asks him to continue visiti...
Air Date: 1980-05-22
Thomas has taken to his bed with an unknown illness. Adelaide refuses any help, or visitors, except for Dr Leach. His...
Air Date: 1980-05-27
In late December 1885, Dyson admits he regularly bought chloroform for Adelaide. Thomas is released from hospital and...
Air Date: 1980-05-29
Despite Thomas looking to the future, he is found dead. Adelaide is allowed to leave and Dyson wants to know what hap...
Air Date: 1980-06-03
At the Coroner's Court, it is claimed chloroform was kept in the bedroom. The jury's verdict puts Adelaide and Dyson ...
Air Date: 1980-06-05
Adelaide is tried for Thomas' murder, using liquid chloroform. The jury finds her not guilty, feeling that the prosec...