The Aphrodite Inheritance

The Aphrodite Inheritance
GenreDrama
Created byMichael J. Bird
Directed byTerence Williams and Viktors Ritelis
Starring
Theme music composerGeorge Kotsonis
No. of series1
No. of episodes8
Production
ProducerAndrew Osborn
Production locationCyprus
Original release
NetworkBBC1
Release3 January (1979-01-03) –
21 February 1979 (1979-02-21)
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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.