Malice Aforethought
Malice Aforethought is a 2005 ITV drama based on Anthony Berkeley Cox’s 1931 novel of the same name, made by Granada Television. There was an earlier BBC television adaptation of this novel in 1979. Dr. Edmund Bickleigh is married to a particularly overbearing woman who reminds him at every turn that he is living in her house. But the good doctor has outside interests to help him cope.
- Genre: Crime, Drama
- Studio: ITV1
- Keyword: poison, based on novel or book, wife murder, 1920s, murder plot, unhappy marriage
- Cast: Ronnie Masterson, Phyllis Ryan, Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Barbara Flynn, Ben Miller, Megan Dodds