The Mallens
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.
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Caroline Blakiston
Anna Brigmore · 13 eps
Mary Healey
Mary Peel · 11 eps
Gillian Lewis
Jane Radlet · 9 eps
Matthew Long
Harry Bensham · 8 eps
Julia Chambers
Constance Radlet (née Farrington) · 7 eps
John Duttine
Donald Radlet · 7 eps
Ian Saynor
Matthew Radlet · 7 eps
Pippa Guard
Barbara Farrington · 7 eps
Michael Thomas
Dan Bensham · 6 eps
Julie Shipley
Sarah Waite · 6 eps
Victoria Williams
Kate Bensham · 6 eps
Jeremy Clay
Jim Waite · 6 eps
June Ritchie
Constance Radlet · 6 eps
Juliet Stevenson
Barbara Bensham (née Mallen) · 6 eps
Gerry Sundquist
Michael Radlet · 6 eps
John Southworth
Michael Radlet Sr · 6 eps
Dick Irwin
Taggart · 5 eps
John Hallam
Thomas Mallen · 5 eps
Anne Reid
Mathilda Bensham · 4 eps
Polly Hemingway
Aggie Moorhead · 4 eps
