The Gentle Touch
Created by Terence Feely
Notable as the first British series to feature a female police officer (predating Juliet Bravo by four months), Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes raises her teenage son while navigating a male-dominated police force following the murder of her police commissioner husband.
- First aired
- 11 Apr 1980
- Episode length
- 50 min
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Writers
- Brian Finch, Pat Hooker, Roger Marshall and 2 others
- Executive producers
- Nick Elliott, Tony Wharmby
- Producers
- Jack Williams, Kim Mills, Michael Verney-Elliott
- Elsewhere
- TMDB
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- Crime
- Drama
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Cast
Jill Gascoine
DI Maggie Forbes
William Marlowe
DCI Bill Russell
Paul Moriarty
DS Jake Barratt
Ray Lonnen
Brian Gwaspari
DI Bob Croft
Nigel Rathbone
Steve Forbes
Derek Thompson
DS Jimmy Fenton
Kevin O'Shea
DS Peter Phillips
James Ottaway
George Taylor
Bernard Holley
DI Mike Turnbull
Michael Graham Cox
DI Jack Slater
Ben Thomas
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Seasons · 56 episodes
Season 1 · 1980
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Season 2 · 1980
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Season 3 · 1981
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Season 4 · 1982
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Season 5 · 1984
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