Lady Killers - Season 1

First aired: 7/20/1980 7 episodes

Dramatic reconstructions of some of Britain's most infamous murder trials involving women.

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Episodes

1. Murder at the Savoy Hotel

Aired: 7/20/1980

The story of Marie Marguerite Fahmy who shot dead her Egyptian husband in 1923 at London's Savoy Hotel.

2. Not for the Nervous

Aired: 7/27/1980

The story of Kate Webster, a maid who killed her employer Julia Thomas in Richmond in 1879.

3. Lucky, Lucky Thirteen!

Aired: 8/3/1980

The story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain.

4. Killing Mice

Aired: 8/10/1980

The story of Mary Pearcey, who murdered her employer and baby in 1890.

5. Don't Let Them Kill Me on Wednesday

Aired: 8/17/1980

The case of Charlotte Bryant, who was hanged for poisoning her husband with weed-killer.

6. Miss Madeleine Smith

Aired: 8/24/1980

The story of Madeleine Smith, a respectable spinster who was accused of killing her lover in 19th-century Edinburgh. The case was famously found to be "not proven".

7. Suffer Little Children

Aired: 8/31/1980

The story of 'baby farmer' Amelia Dyer, convicted in 1896 of the murder of several children in her care.