Malice Aforethought is an ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

 drama based on Anthony Berkeley Cox

Anthony Berkeley Cox

Anthony Berkeley Cox was an English crime writer. He wrote under several pen-names, including Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley and A. Monmouth Platts.- Life :...

’s 1931 novel of the same name.

Synopsis

Set in a 1920's Devonshire village, the plot concerns the complicated love life of the Dr. Edmund Bickleigh and his plans to resolve his unhappy marriage.

Cast

• Dr Edmund Bickleigh – Ben Miller
  Ben Miller
  Bennet Evan "Ben" Miller is an English comedian, actor and director. He is perhaps best known as one half of comedy double act Armstrong and Miller, along with Alexander Armstrong. Together the pair wrote and starred in Channel 4 sketch show Armstrong and Miller, and the more recent BBC television...
  
  

• Julia Bickleigh – Barbara Flynn
  Barbara Flynn
  Barbara Flynn is an English actress. She first became known for her appearance in the ITV drama A Family at War, that followed the fortunes of a lower middle class family living in Liverpool from 1938 and through World War II.During the 1980s Flynn's acting skills led to her being cast in several...
  
  

• Ivy Ridgeway – Lucy Brown
  Lucy Brown
  Lucy Brown is an English actress best known for dual roles in the TV series Primeval.-Early life:Lucy Brown was born in Crawley, Sussex, but grew up in Cambridgeshire. She is the daughter of Christopher Brown and Helen Burleigh and has a younger brother named Mark...
  
  

• Madeleine Cranmere – Megan Dodds
  Megan Dodds
  Megan Lynne Dodds is an American stage and television actress.-Biography:Megan Dodds was born in Sacramento, California, and after High School she enrolled in a community college where she was cast as Bananas in John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves...
  
  

• Mrs Ridgeway – Kate O’Toole

• Widdicombe – Peter Vaughan
  Peter Vaughan
  Peter Vaughan is an English character actor, known for many supporting roles in a variety of British film and television productions. He has worked extensively on the stage, becoming known for roles such as police inspectors, Soviet agents and similar parts...
  
  

• William Chatford – Richard Armitage
  Richard Armitage (actor)
  Richard Crispin Armitage is an English actor famous for his roles as John Thornton in North and South, Guy of Gisborne in Robin Hood, and Lucas North in Spooks...
  
  

BBC adaptation

A four-part BBC adaptation - with Hywel Bennett

Hywel Bennett

Hywel Thomas Bennett is a Welsh film and television actor. Bennett is best known for his recurring title role as James Shelley in the television sitcom Shelley from 1979 to 1984 and its sequel The Return of Shelley from 1988 to 1992....

, Judy Parfitt

Judy Parfitt

Judy Parfitt is a BAFTA-nominated English theatre, film and television actress who began her career on stage in 1954.-Life and work:...

 and Cheryl Campbell

Cheryl Campbell

Cheryl Campbell is an English actor of stage, film and television.-Early years:Cheryl Campbell was educated at Francis Bacon Grammar School, St Albans; London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art...

- was broadcast in March 1979 and repeated in 1981.

External links

• ITV 2005:

• BBC 1979: