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The following is a list of episodes of ''The Gentle Touch'', an ITV crime drama broadcast between 1980 and 1984, starring Jill Gascoine Jill Viola Gascoine (11 April 1937 – 28 April 2020) was an English actress and novelist. She portrayed Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes in the 1980s television series ''The Gentle Touch'' and its spin-off series '' C.A.T.S. Eyes''. In the 1 .... A total of five series were produced over the course of the series run. All five series have since been released on DVD. Episode list Series 1 (1980) Series 2 (1980) Series 3 (1981–1982) Series 4 (1982–1983) Series 5 (1984) References {{Reflist Gentle Touch episodes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gentle Touch
''The Gentle Touch'' is a British police procedural drama series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which began on 11 April 1980 and ran until 24 November 1984. The series is notable for being the first British series to feature a female police officer as its leading character, ahead of, by four months, the similarly themed BBC series '' Juliet Bravo''. Series history The series starred Jill Gascoine as Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes, who has worked her way up through the ranks of the police force and is based at the fictional Seven Dials police station in London. Maggie's husband, a police constable, is murdered during the first episode, leaving her to juggle her career with single parenthood, raising her teenage son. ''The Gentle Touch'' largely dealt with routine police procedures and offered a frank depiction of relevant social issues (including racism, sexism, homosexuality, mental health and euthanasia). It was relatively low on action and violence in compar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV (TV Network)
ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television network. It is branded as ITV1 in most of the UK except for central and northern Scotland, where it is branded as STV (TV channel), STV. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition to BBC Television (established in 1936). ITV is the oldest commercial network in the UK. Since the passing of the Broadcasting Act 1990, it has been Legal name, legally known as Channel 3 to distinguish it from the other analogue channels at the time: BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4. ITV was, for decades, a network of separate companies that provided regional television services and also shared programmes among themselves to be shown on the entire network. Each franchise was originally owned by a different company. After several mergers, the fifteen regional franchises are now held by two companies: ITV plc, which runs ITV1, the ITV1 cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Drama
Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), drama or gangster film, but also include Comedy film, comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as Mystery film, mystery, suspense or Film noir, noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" explaining that these categories are additive rather than exclusionary. ''China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Gascoine
Jill Viola Gascoine (11 April 1937 – 28 April 2020) was an English actress and novelist. She portrayed Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes in the 1980s television series ''The Gentle Touch'' and its spin-off series '' C.A.T.S. Eyes''. In the 1990s, she also became a novelist and published three books. Early life Gascoine was born in Lambeth, the daughter of Francis Gascoine, a quantity surveyor, and his wife Irene, née Greenwood. She was sent to a boarding school, which she said she hated, explaining later that she was ridiculed by schoolteachers. After leaving school, in the 1950s, she went to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to appear in a revue.Brian Pendreigh,"Obituary: Jill Gascoine, actress who played the first female police detective on British television" '' The Herald'', 1 May 2020 Career Early in her career in the 1950s, Gascoine was a soubrette in a Great Britain tour of the '' Crazy Gang Show''. In 1956, she was a chorus dancer in the Christmas season of ''The Adven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Hodson (director)
Christopher Hodson (12 January 1929 – 26 December 2015) was a British television director. Career Christopher Hodson (also credited as Chris Hodson) was a director of British TV series and TV movies from 1958 to 2000. He directed episodes of series including '' Upstairs, Downstairs'', '' The Main Chance'', ''The Bill'' and ''EastEnders''. He directed one feature film, ''The Best Pair of Legs in the Business'' (1973) with Reg Varney in a tragicomedic role, based on the '' ITV Playhouse'' play of the same name he directed in 1968. Director credits (television) * 1958–1959: '' Educating Archie'' (21 episodes) * 1958–1967: ''ITV Play of the Week'' (4 episodes) * 1959–1967: ''No Hiding Place'' (24 episodes) * 1959: ''Find the Singer'' (7 episodes) * 1959: '' ITV Television Playhouse'', "The Advocate" * 1960–1962: ''Somerset Maugham Hour'' (4 episodes) * 1960: ''Hotel Imperial'' (6 episodes) * 1961–1962: ''Here and Now'' (7 episodes) * 1961: ''Home Tonight'' (20 epi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
