Overview

Malice Aforethought is a four-part 1979 BBC Two miniseries by Philip Mackie, adapted from Anthony Berkeley Cox's (pen name Francis Iles) 1931 noir novel of the same name. For ten years, Julia Bickleigh has despised and bullied her husband. For ten years Dr Bickleigh has dreamed of romance ... and escape.

Top Cast

Hywel Bennett

Dr Edmund Bickleigh

Cheryl Campbell

Madeleine Cranmere

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Belinda Carroll

Ivy Ridgeway

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David Ashford

William Chatford

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Vivienne Moore

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