The Aphrodite Inheritance

The Aphrodite Inheritance is a BBC television series broadcast in 1979.

The eight-part serial, written by Michael J. Bird, followed his previous successful Mediterranean-set series The Lotus Eaters and Who Pays the Ferryman?. Whereas the two previous productions had been set and filmed in Crete, the action (and location filming) in The Aphrodite Inheritance took place in Cyprus.

The series starred Peter McEnery as a man visiting Cyprus to investigate the death of his brother and subsequently being drawn into a strange conspiracy, with the narrative twists of the serial employing various supernatural and mythological motifs. Other major cast members included Alexandra Bastedo, Brian Blessed, Paul Maxwell and Stefan Gryff.

Main cast

 * Peter McEnery as David Collier
 * Alexandra Bastedo as Helene
 * Stefan Gryff as Charalambos
 * Paul Maxwell as Eugene Hellman
 * Brian Blessed as Basileos
 * Godfrey James as Inspector Dimas
 * Tony Doyle as Martin Preece
 * William Wilde as Eric Morrison
 * Ray Jewers as Olsen
 * Karl Held as Travis

Crew

 * Series Created & Written by: Michael J. Bird
 * Produced by: Andrew Osborn
 * Directed by: Terence Williams (eps. 1-4) & Viktors Ritelis (eps. 5-8)
 * Designed by: Jon Pusey
 * Theme music composed by: George Kotsonis