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"A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery" Strong Poison: Episode One (1987)


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Philip Broadley (dramatisation)
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25 March 1987 (Season 1, Episode 1)
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Lord Peter Wimsey is struck all of a heap by Harriet Vane, a murder-mystery novelist who's on trial for poisoning her lover with arsenic... more | add synopsis
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Edward Petherbridge is Lord Peter Wimsey! more (13 total)

Cast

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Harriet Walter ... Harriet Vane
Edward Petherbridge ... Lord Peter Wimsey
Richard Morant ... Bunter
Paul Hastings ... Philip Boyes
Derek Royle ... The Rev. Arthur Boyes
Geoffrey Beevers ... Ryland Vaughan
Preston Lockwood ... Judge
Ronald Leigh-Hunt ... Sir Impey Biggs
Derek Ensor ... Crofts
Christopher Scoular ... Freddy Arbuthnot
David Quilter ... Chief Inspector Parker
Clive Francis ... Norman Urquhart
Timothy Bateson ... Pond
Shirley Cain ... Miss Climpson
Norma Streader ... Miss Murchison
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Story based on Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers. This is book number 5 in the Lord Peter Wimsey Series. more
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Lord Peter Wimsey: Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go see a man about a dog - or I should say, a parson about his son. more

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Edward Petherbridge is Lord Peter Wimsey!, 26 December 2006
Author: dittomom from United States

I had read every single one of the Lord Peter Wimsey series and was a little anxious to see the movie. Too often the actors just don't fit the mental image one develops over time. But, i have to say that Edward Petherbridge fits perfectly my mental image! He fits Dorothy Sayers' physical description of Lord Peter Wimsey and also the actress that played Harriet Vane was well casted. The whole feel of the scenery captured the time perfectly. A great recreation of a Dorothy Sayers' book! I'm afraid i've been ruined for Ian Carmichael (the other actor who plays Lord Peter Wimsey) ! In the beginning the recitation of the case was a little too long. i think this could have been condensed but it does set out the whole case before getting into the movie.

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