The Gentle Touch

1980 · 50m

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.

Cast

Jill Gascoine

DI Maggie Forbes

William Marlowe

DCI Bill Russell

Paul Moriarty

DS Jake Barratt