For the 1956 British cinema film released in the United States as "The Gentle Touch", see The Feminine Touch (1956 film).
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The Gentle Touch
Main title screen featuring Jill Gascoine
Created by
Terence Feely
Starring
Jill Gascoine William Marlowe Brian Gwaspari Paul Moriarty Nigel Rathbone Derek Thompson Bernard Holley
Opening theme
Roger Webb
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Original language
English
No. of series
5
No. of episodes
56 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time
60 mins (inc. commercials)
Production company
London Weekend Television
Original release
Network
ITV
Release
11 April 1980 (1980-04-11) – 24 November 1984 (1984-11-24)
Related
C.A.T.S. Eyes
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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 the similarly themed BBC series Juliet Bravo by four months.
TheGentleTouch 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...
The following is a list of episodes of TheGentleTouch, an ITV crime drama broadcast between 1980 and 1984, starring Jill Gascoine. A total of five series...
Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes in the 1980s television series TheGentleTouch and its spin-off series C.A.T.S. Eyes. In the 1990s, she also became a novelist...
Court, TheGentleTouch and Dixon of Dock Green. She appeared as Juniper in the first episode of Bergerac (1981). Benjamin read two stories for the Story...
they did not make the charts, and nor did an EP, TheGentleTouch, containing "I Like the Way", "Darlin' Won't You Wait", "Milk from the Coconut", and "This...
General Hospital playing the role from 1978 until 1979. In 1980, Loe appeared in one episode each of Heartland and TheGentleTouch before appearing in two...
throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He also starred in two police drama series, Specials and TheGentleTouch, appeared in The Professionals and starred in the two-part...
appearances include The Sweeney, The Avengers, The Saint, Doctor Who, TheGentleTouch, Minder, Heartbeat and Holby City, and she appeared in two Carry On...
Russell in TheGentleTouch (1980–84). He appeared twice in Doctor Who (as Mailer in The Mind of Evil (1971) and as Lester in Revenge of the Cybermen (1975)...
and guest-starred as Rick Sloan in the television series TheGentleTouch. Holton also sang the theme tune to 1980s British children's drama, Murphy's Mob...
including Juliet Bravo and TheGentleTouch. From 1982 to 1986 she studied and performed with the Royal Court Theatre starting at the 1982 Young Writers' Festival...
her screen debut in the television programme TheGentleTouch in 1984. Like many other EastEnders actors, Palmer appeared on the children's drama show...
Two's comedy The Last Song. 1982 saw Badland appear in several guest-starring roles in episodic television. ITV's crime drama TheGentleTouch, a police...
(1978) and TheGentleTouch (1980). He also directed the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who serials State of Decay (1980), The Visitation...
performance in the latter earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Manville has also appeared in the films Dance with...
appearances in dramas such as Play for Today, The Sandbaggers, Minder, Juliet Bravo and TheGentleTouch, Hewson's talent for comedy saw her get invited...
(1979) - Jean Tales of the Unexpected - Irene Rankin TheGentleTouch (1981) - Bonus In Loving Memory (1982) - Vera Venables The Bill (1984-1988) - Sadie...
Burning, and The Bill (all 2007) and Ill Manors (2012). At age 12, Whitlock gave his debut in the British television series TheGentleTouch in 1980. In...
prominence playing Freda Ashton in the ITV drama series A Family at War (1970–1972). She went on to play the milk woman in the BBC comedy Open All Hours (1976–1985)...
1981), TheGentleTouch (LWT, 1982), Now and Then (LWT, 1983–1984), Dempsey and Makepeace (LWT, 1985, "Nowhere to Run"), Bust (LWT, 1987) and The Bill (Thames...
Juliet Bravo, TheGentleTouch, Hart to Hart, and Bergerac. In 1969, he recorded a pop single, "Good Times"/"Got To Have Tenderness" (the former a cover...