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The Gentle Touch
Overview
The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980-1984. Commencing transmission on 11 April 1980, the series is notable for being the first British series to feature a female police detective as its leading character, ahead of the similarly themed BBC series Juliet Bravo by four months.
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Seasons
Season 1 (1980)
No overview available.
7 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Killers (1)
1980-04-11Episode 2: Recoil (2)
1980-04-18Episode 3: Help
1980-04-25Episode 4: Shock
1980-05-02Maggie is assigned to investigate the death of a woman discovered in a love nest.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 5: Blade
1980-05-09Episode 6: Rogue
1980-05-16Episode 7: Melody
1980-05-23Season 2 (1980)
No overview available.
10 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Something Blue
1980-09-05Episode 2: Decoy
1980-09-12Episode 3: Break-In
1980-09-19Episode 4: Menaces
1980-09-26When Ivor Stocker, a J.P. and successful businessman, rteceives a blackmail threat, it becomes a case for Det-Insp. Maggie Forbes...
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 5: Hammer
1980-10-03A series of robberies with violence have been reported. All have a similar pattern, and all are carried out by women. Maggie Forbes and her police team are puzzled to know who these women are. Or could it be one woman in many disguises.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 6: Chance
1980-10-10Det.-Insp. Maggie Forbes spends a frustrating day at the law courts. She feels she would be much usefully employed trying to solve the criminal cases that keep arriving on her desk.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 7: Loyalties
1980-10-17Episode 8: Maggie's Luck
1980-10-24Episode 9: Shame
1980-10-31Episode 10: The Ring
1980-11-07Season 3 (1981)
No overview available.
13 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Gifts
1981-11-06Episode 2: Doubt
1981-11-13Episode 3: The Hit
1981-11-20Detective Inspector Forbes has a marksman with a high-powered rifle loose on her patch.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 4: Scapegoat
1981-11-27Episode 5: Knife
1981-12-04Episode 6: Protection
1981-12-11Episode 7: Paint It Black
1981-12-18Episode 8: Affray
1982-01-01Episode 9: Black Fox, White Vixen
1982-01-08A famous television actress received death threats.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 10: One of Those Days
1982-01-15Episode 11: Vigil
1982-01-22Episode 12: Damage
1982-01-29Episode 13: Solution
1982-02-05Season 4 (1982)
No overview available.
13 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Right of Entry
1982-10-22Episode 2: Be Lucky Uncle
1982-10-29Episode 3: Cause and Effect
1982-11-05Episode 4: Auctions
1982-11-12Episode 5: Danny
1982-11-19Episode 6: Victims
1982-11-26Episode 7: The Meat Rack
1982-12-03Episode 8: Joker
1982-12-10Episode 9: Tough, Mrs. Rudge
1982-12-17Episode 10: Private Views
1983-01-07Episode 11: Pressures
1983-01-14Maggie suffers severe stress when faced with a bloody multiple murder.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 12: Weekend
1983-01-21Episode 13: Who's Afraid of Josie Tate?
1983-01-28When a loyal wife is determined to help her jailed husband get justice, Maggie is Forced to review the evidence.
Runtime: N/A minSeason 5 (1984)
No overview available.
13 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Finders, Keepers (1)
1984-09-01Episode 2: Losers, Weepers (2)
1984-09-08Episode 3: Do It Yourself
1984-09-15Episode 4: The Conference
1984-09-22Episode 5: The Good, the Bad and the Rest
1984-09-29Episode 6: Mad Dog
1984-10-06When animal rights campaigners free some dogs from a labratory, but fail to realise that one of the animlas is dangerously ill, a children's birthday party becomes a terrible nightmare for Maggie Forbes.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 7: Wise Child
1984-10-13Episode 8: Appearances Can Be Deceptive
1984-10-20Episode 9: Secrets
1984-10-27Episode 10: Fox and Hounds
1984-11-03Episode 11: Cure
1984-11-10Episode 12: A Woman's Word
1984-11-17Episode 13: Exit Laughing
1984-11-24A minor civil servant is found dead in exotic circumstances, and Maggie tries to protect his widow from publicity.
Runtime: N/A min
