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Melissa

Award-winning war correspondent Guy Foster, distraught after the loss of his first wife, joins a cruise to Cape Town, where he meets beautiful and mysterious Melissa. A sophisticated blonde PR girl, Melissa is travelling with an exuberant group of media friends. Guy falls desperately in love with the exotic Melissa and she suggests they marry. But while they celebrate, dark events begin to take place. An elderly widower is ‘accidentally’ lost overboard. The bodies of a middle-aged couple are discovered in Cape Town. Then one of Melissa’s friends is brutally killed. The finger of suspicion falls on Guy – and when Melissa herself is killed, he is found bending over her bloodied corpse.

1997 |1 Season  | 55m |  Drama, Crime

Cast

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Jennifer Ehle

Melissa McKensie

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Tim Dutton

Guy Foster

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Julie Walters

Paula Hepburn

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Adrian Dunbar

Graeme Hepburn

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Bill Paterson

DCI Cameron

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Michael Angelis

D.I. Kilshaw

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Gary Cady

Don Page

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Christopher Ryan

Les Maurice

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Hugh Quarshie

George Bond

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Andrew Schofield

Charlton Ffoulkes

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Diana Weston

Hope Magenta

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Gary Bleasdale

Statto

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David Ross

Selwyn-Swanton

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Faith Edwards

Bonnie Foster

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David Ross

Dr Selwyn Swanton

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Nigel Pegram

South African Doctor

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Neville Phillips

South African Priest

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Clarence Smith

Stevie Charleston

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Ben Miles

Editor

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Terence Harvey

Awards Presenter

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Christopher Adamson

1st Hood

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Jamie Foreman

2nd Hood

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Lionel Blair

Himself, Party Guest

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Pat Cash

Himself, Party Guest

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Willie Thorne

Himself, Party Guest

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Morgan Deare

American Reporter

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Creator

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Status

Ended

Languages

English

Network

Channel 4