Malice Aforethought

6.0 (3 votes)• 1979• 55m•Ended

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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.

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Languages: English

Starring Cast: Hywel Bennett, Cheryl Campbell, Belinda Carroll, David Ashford, Vivienne Moore

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Hywel Bennett

Dr Edmund Bickleigh

Cheryl Campbell

Madeleine Cranmere

Belinda Carroll

Ivy Ridgeway

David Ashford

William Chatford

Vivienne Moore

Maid

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