7.9/10308 votes#1 - Strong Poison (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/25/1987
Harriet Vane, a crime writer, is charged with poisoning Philip Boyes, her former lover, with arsenic. The evidence against her seems overwhelming, but it is all circumstantial. The jury is divided and a new trial is ordered, to begin in four weeks' time. Wimsey visits Harriet, finds himself falling in love with her, and sets out to clear her name.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1082 votes#2 - Strong Poison (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/31/1987
Lord Peter asks Miss Murchison to go undercover has a secretary at Norman Urquhart's law firm. She learns he was illegitimate and now paying for a nurse to care for his mother. Insp. Parker confirms Philip Boyes was definitely poisoned.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1082 votes#3 - Strong Poison (3)
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/7/1987
Lord Peter asks his secretary Miss Climpson to find out what Urquhart's nurse Miss Booth knows. Faking a seance Miss Booth admits that Urquhart has forged Philip Boyes Will to make him the sole beneficiary but can Lord Peter break him.
Director: N/A
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8.2/10213 votes#4 - Have His Carcase (1)
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/14/1987
While on a walking tour of the West Country, Harriet stumbles on the body of a bearded man with his throat cut on a rocky outcropping near the sea.
Director: N/A
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8.0/1072 votes#5 - Have His Carcase (2)
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/21/1987
Mrs. Weldon says she intended to marry dancer Paul Alexis and believes he was murdered. Lord Peter tells journalist Salcombe Hardy that the owner of the razor was the murderer. Peter and Harriet attempt to recreate Alexis last movements.
Director: N/A
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8.1/1068 votes#6 - Have His Carcase (3)
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/28/1987
Old Pollock tells the police he sold Paul Alexis 300 gold sovereigns. Lord Peter and Harriet attempt to deal with his infatuation and her fragile state of mind. Looking for Mrs. Weldon's husband, Bunter has more questions than answers.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/1072 votes#7 - Have His Carcase (4)
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/5/1987
Peter and Harriet solve Paul Alexis coded letter and learn he was plotting to restore the monarchy to Russia. However his arranged meeting took place two hours before he died and witness Jem Pollock only saw Alexis meet with a young woman.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10228 votes#8 - Gaudy Night (1)
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/12/1987
Harriet Vane attends a reunion at her Oxford College and is asked by the Warden to investigate a series of poison pen notes that several members of staff have received. She takes up residence in the college and receives one of these notes herself. In the cloistered environment of the school, there is any number of possible suspects. In the absence of a motive however, it is difficult to determine if the culprit is a member of staff, a student or even if it is a man or a woman. When Lord Peter Wimsey visits the college - as much to see Harriet as for anything else - he agrees to assist in the investigation. What he finds is that one member of the staff had reason to seek vengeance.
Director: Michael Simpson
Writer: Philip Broadley
7.8/1069 votes#9 - Gaudy Night (2)
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/18/1987
Harriet Vane continues her research into the odd goings on her old college. She is attacked and knocked unconscious while investigating someone playing the organ in the college chapel in the middle of the night.
Director: Michael Simpson
Writer: Philip Broadley
8.0/1070 votes#10 - Gaudy Night (3)
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/26/1987
The prowler evades Harriet but leaves hairpin. Peter is asked to look over the evidence but Harriet is left flat when he follows an inquiry without her. Miss Devine's tale of an academic faking his thesis points to someone with a grudge.
Director: Michael Simpson
Writer: Philip Broadley
The Best Episodes of A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery Season 1
Every episode of A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery Season 1!
Three elegant murder mysteries adapted from the crime novels of Dorothy L. Sayers. Set in the 1930s, the relationship of amateur sleuth Lord Peter...
Genres:DramaCrimeMystery
Network:BBC Two
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Strong Poison (1)" is the best rated episode of "A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery" season 1. It scored 7.9/10 based on 308 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/25/1987. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Strong Poison (2)".