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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.
Top Cast
Hywel Bennett as Dr Edmund Bickleigh
Cheryl Campbell as Madeleine Cranmere
Belinda Carroll as Ivy Ridgeway
David Ashford as William Chatford
Vivienne Moore as Maid
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