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Melissa

55min

Drama

Crime

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.

Production Companies

Diplomat Films

Channel 4 Television

Episodes

Cast

Season 1

Part 1

1. Part 1

55min

12th May 1997

Whilst travelling in South Africa, war correspondent Guy Foster tragically loses his wife, but then he meets the beautiful Melissa. Soon, he becomes part of her world, PR, parties, and murder.

Part 2

2. Part 2

55min

13th May 1997

Guy, Melissa and her friends discuss alibis for Stevie's murder, while the police delve deeper and start suspecting Guy.

Part 3

3. Part 3

55min

14th May 1997

Out of work, Guy starts writing at home... and hitting the bottle. Paula and Graeme invite Melissa and Guy to Don's birthday, but when he refuses, she goes alone.

Part 4

4. Part 4

55min

19th May 1997

Guy is taken in by the police, but was the murder a case of mistaken identity after we learn the victim was wearing someone else's coat?

Part 5

5. Part 5

55min

20th May 1997

The police get through the evidence, the net closes in, and the killer is unmasked.

First air date

12th May 1997

Last air date

20th May 1997

Status

Ended

Type

Miniseries

Original language

en

Networks