Malice Aforethought (1979) (Episode 1) from village girls r picture Watch Video

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✓ Published: 23-Apr-2024

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Part 1 of 4 of the classic period murder drama from 1979. Edmund Bickleigh is a doctor in a small Devon village, a henpecked husband who nevertheless attempts romances with a number of the village girls. Then Madeleine Cranmere takes residence at The Hall and he falls head over heels in love with her. They start an affair, but when his wife Julia finds out she ends their affair. It is then that Dr Bickleigh decides that Julia will have to go...<br/><br/>Starring Hywel Bennett, Cheryl Campbell, Judy Parfitt, Belinda Carroll, Christopher Guard, Harold Innocent, David Ashford, Ronan McCullough, Susan Porrett, Elizabeth Stewart, Briony McRoberts, Shirley Cain, Mary Laine and Vivienne Moore. This is from an old recording from when it was originally broadcast on March 15th 1979, and astonishingly has never been repeated on UK television. It is an adaptation of Francis Iles novel from 1931, set in 1928, and was famous for being a inverted detective novel, less a \