A Question of Guilt Season 1 (1980)
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.
A Question of Guilt Season 1 Episodes
Constance Kent: Part 1
29 June 1860; Chief Inspector Jonathan Whicher is called to look into the murder of three-year-old Francis Saville Kent, at a large countryhouse in Rode in the County of Wiltshire. The body is discovered in a privy-house.
Constance Kent: Part 2
Three years before the murder, Constance returns from school and argues with her stepmother. She cuts her hair short before fleeing with her younger brother. Her father banishes her for two years but during that period, her brother dies.
Constance Kent: Part 3
Samuel Kent rides to Trowbridge to get the police when baby Francis is missing, believed carried off in a blanket. He offers £10 reward for anyone who finds the child. A maid finds the murdered infant in an out building.
