Episode #1.1
- Episode aired Dec 11, 1994
- 1h 20m
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5.5/10
14
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While trying to kill his nagging wife, Henry Parr manages to poison his best friend and then ruin his funeral.While trying to kill his nagging wife, Henry Parr manages to poison his best friend and then ruin his funeral.While trying to kill his nagging wife, Henry Parr manages to poison his best friend and then ruin his funeral.
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- TriviaThe episode opens with an establishing shot from a crane at rooftop level, showing the street in which Henry Farr lives. The same shot then continues as the camera moves forwards towards Henry's front door, descends to ground level and looks up at him as he walks out and stands on the doorstep.
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[first lines]
Henry Farr: [voiceover] I didn't precisely decide to murder my wife. It was simply that I could think of no other way of prolonging her absence from me indefinitely. I could kill her and nobody need know.
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Episode 1
Adapted from his own book by Nigel Williams. The Wimbledon Poisoner is a black comedy that oftens lurches into the farcical.
Henry Farr (Robert Lindsay) is a hen pecked solicitor who has had enough of his nagging wife Elinor (Alison Steadman.) So he fantasises about murdering her.
Fantasy turns into reality as he obtains some poison and adds it to some chicken he cooks for her. Unfortunately their friend Dr Donald Templeton (Larry Lamb) drops in, eats the chicken instead and drops dead.
Later the whole estate seems to have been poisoned when they drank the infected wine during the doctor's wake
Inspector Rush (Philip Jackson) a neighbour gets to be rather suspicious.
This relies a lot on Lindsay's comedy skills as Farr also provides the narration of his inner thoughts. He wonders if strangulation would had been easier.
Farr is hapless as his plans go wrong at every turn. Even Dr Donald Templeton funeral goes awry. The priest thinks he is someone else, under pressure Farr gives an expletive laden eulogy.
The first episode is powered by both Lindsay and Steadman. She has the touch of Beverly Moss, the character she played in Abigail's Party.
Henry Farr (Robert Lindsay) is a hen pecked solicitor who has had enough of his nagging wife Elinor (Alison Steadman.) So he fantasises about murdering her.
Fantasy turns into reality as he obtains some poison and adds it to some chicken he cooks for her. Unfortunately their friend Dr Donald Templeton (Larry Lamb) drops in, eats the chicken instead and drops dead.
Later the whole estate seems to have been poisoned when they drank the infected wine during the doctor's wake
Inspector Rush (Philip Jackson) a neighbour gets to be rather suspicious.
This relies a lot on Lindsay's comedy skills as Farr also provides the narration of his inner thoughts. He wonders if strangulation would had been easier.
Farr is hapless as his plans go wrong at every turn. Even Dr Donald Templeton funeral goes awry. The priest thinks he is someone else, under pressure Farr gives an expletive laden eulogy.
The first episode is powered by both Lindsay and Steadman. She has the touch of Beverly Moss, the character she played in Abigail's Party.
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