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"The Bogman of Letchmoor Heath" is the second episode of the first season of the television series She-Wolf of London. It was directed by Roger Cheveley and written by Anthony Adams. It first aired in the United States on NBC on Tuesday, October 16th, 1990. A seamstress from Letchmoor Heath named Gertie discovers the preserved remains of a bogman buried on her property. She contacts her sister Elizabeth in London who asks Ian Matheson and Randi Wallace to go to the heath to inspect it. When they arrive however, they discover that Aunt Gertie has been murdered. They decide to stay in town to investigate her death, but soon find that the bogman has come to life and has been killing people in the village.

In the small English town of Letchmoor Heath, an elderly seamstress named Gertie is going through her fields when she digs up a petrified man buried in the peat. She unearths the "bogman" and brings him back to a local pub called the Three Horseshoes. She brags to the other patrons about her find, most of whom find the aged corpse to be the most exciting thing to happen in the heath for quite some time. One man however, an old blind drunk named Angus things otherwise. He exclaims that the bogman is a harbinger of doom. The others scoff at his wild notions and shuffle him off into a corner.

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