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The Mallens

Drama
5.0·1979·2 Seasons

The Mallens is a British television drama based on four Catherine Cookson novels, The Mallen Streak, The Mallen Girls, The Mallen Secret, and The Mall...

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Episodes (7)

Cast

Caroline Blakiston

Caroline Blakiston

Anna Brigmore

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Matthew Long

Harry Bensham

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Michael Thomas

Dan Bensham

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Julie Shipley

Sarah Waite

Victoria Williams

Victoria Williams

Kate Bensham

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Jeremy Clay

Jim Waite

June Ritchie

June Ritchie

Constance Radlet

Juliet Stevenson

Juliet Stevenson

Barbara Bensham (née Mallen)

OVERVIEW

The Mallens is a British television drama based on four Catherine Cookson novels, The Mallen Streak, The Mallen Girls, The Mallen Secret, and The Mallen Curse. Produced by Granada Television for ITV1, it ran for thirteen episodes from 10 June 1979 to 3 July 1980. A ruthless 19th-century Northumberland squire, Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall, has a genetic white streak (poliosis) in his hair and fathers numerous illegitimate children, all of whom inherit the white streak and live disastrous lives.