It Could Happen to Anybody (1984)

"It never done a woman any harm to be at the end o' a back-hander." In a society where drunkenness and battered wives are treated as 'normal', Jean McLeod attempts to hold her family together. But after a particularly severe beating she decides to fight back.

Producers
Original title	It Could Happen to Anybody
Directors	Laurence Moody
Writers	Hugh McManus

Cast

Ann Scott-Jones

as Jean MacLeod

Joseph Brady

as Jim McLeod

William McBain

as John McLeod

Joe Mullaney

as Willy McLeod

Samuel Ovens

as Hughie McLeod

Jennifer Carey

as Moira MacLeod

Irene Sunters

as Big Bessie

Ian McNicol

as Pluke

Frank Wylie

as Det Sgt Brady

Jake D'Arcy

as Det Con Newman

Doreen Keogh

as Sister Patricia

Ron Donachie

as Big Lick

Peter Raffan

as Bobby Cannon

Joan Scott

as Mrs. Cannon

Harriet Buchan

as Panel chairwoman

Ron Paterson

as Panel member

Dorothy Anne Stiven

as Ward sister

A.S. Ross

as Policeman