The Gentle TouchTV(1980–1984)

Overview

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

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