| Starring: | Ben Miller Barbara Flynn Richard Armitage |
| Creator: | Anthony Berkeley Cox (Novel), Andrew Payne (Screenplay) |
| Language: | English |
| Composer: | Stephen McKeon |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Producer: | Keith Thompson |
| Executive Producer: | Charles Elton Rebecca Eaton |
| Runtime: | 180 min |
| Company: | Granada Television WGBH World 2000 Entertainment |
| Network: | ITV |
| Num Episodes: | 2 |
| Num Series: | 1 |
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.
Set in a 1920's village in Devon, the plot concerns the complicated love life of Dr. Edmund Bickleigh and his plans to resolve his unhappy marriage by murdering his wife. It is an early and well-known example of the "inverted detective story".