BBC Two · Ended

The Dark Angel

Drama, Mystery · 1989

Last aired: S1 E3, Episode 3 · 1989-01-18

An adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu's gothic mystery novel about Maud, a young heiress romantically obsessed by the Byronic painting of her Uncle Silas.

Cast

Jane Lapotaire Madame de la Rougierre

Barbara Shelley Cousin Monica

Beatie Edney Maud Ruthyn

GR Guy Rolfe Dr. Bryerly

Tim Woodward Dudley Ruthyn

Peter O'Toole Uncle Silas Ruthyn

Simon Shepherd Captain Oakley

Season 1

E1 Episode 1 1989-01-04 · 60 min The arrival of a drunken drug-addicted governess and an encounter wth a brutish young man are the beginnings of a web of deception and terror for Maud.

E2 Episode 2 1989-01-11 · 60 min After her father's death, Maud moves in with Uncle Silas, refusing to believe the horrifying allegations about his involvement in the murder. Two sinister figures reappear from the past and stir up the doubts and fears...

E3 Episode 3 1989-01-18 · 60 min Maud is to go to France with Madame. At the hotel she's drugged and finds herself locked up in Bartram, instead of at Dover. She realises that her uncle wants her inheritance.

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