The Gentle Touch
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.
Top cast
Jill Gascoine
DI Maggie Forbes
William Marlowe
DCI Bill Russell
Paul Moriarty
DS Jake Barratt
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
Eskimo
Michael Cronin
Sgt Dave Bryant
Pamela Buchner
Mrs Janie Russell
Jean Hastings
WPC Evans
Peter Spraggon
Station Officer
Where to watch
Stream
Amazon Prime Video
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Shout! Factory Amazon ChannelAvailability for US · streaming data provided by JustWatch via TMDB.
Details
- Status
- Ended
- First air date
- April 11, 1980
- Last air date
- November 24, 1984
- Seasons
- 5
- Episodes
- 56
- Episode runtime
- 50m
- Network
- ITV1
- Original language
- EN
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