The Case of The Croydon Poisonings

Air Date

Friday December 30, 2005

Production Code

Unknown

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• Stars

  • Julian Fellowes Julian Fellowes

• Guest Cast

  • Abigail Hollick Amy
  • David Yelland Doctor Elwell
  • Amanda Root Vera Sidney
  • Stella Gonet Grace Duff
  • Jean Marsh Violet Sidney
  • Richard Lumsden Thomas Sidney
  • Tom Chadbon Edmond Duff
  • Jennifer Calvert Margaret Sidney
  • Thomas Sangster John Duff
  • Jacqueline Clarke Aunt Gwen
  • Michael Haughey Dr. Jackson
  • Rachel Atkins Mrs. Noakes

• Directors

  • Delyth Thomas Director

• Writers

  • Julian Fellowes Writer
  • Julie Dixon Writer
Episode Cast and Crew Details

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• In an interview, Julian fellowes said that he had a particular soft spot for this episode because it is a very British murder. [edit]
• The funeral sequences were shot in the churchyard in Croydon where the real bodies of the victims are buried. [edit]
• This is the first time that writer /actress Jean Marsh has worked with actress Stella Gonet since the early 1990s. Marsh wrote the BBC drama The House of Eliott and Gonet played the lead Beatrice Eliott.
  
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• Violet: It's the children I feel sorry for. And to think, he could have been saved if he'd only worn a hat. [edit]
• Fellowes: And so Violet Sydney became the third member of her family to die within the year. At last the alarm bells were ringing, and not before time. [edit]
• Fellowes: Despite the similarity to Edmund's death, the world accepted that the car starter handle had done for Vera. And a few days later, she was buried next to her unfortunate brother in law. [edit]

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