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The Gentle Touch

1980 – 1984 · ITV1
5 seasons · 56 episodes
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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.

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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
Created by Terence Feely

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Status
Ended
Type
Scripted
First aired
Apr 11, 1980
Original language
EN
Production
ITV, LWT
Country
GB

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