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The Gentle Touch
Main title screen featuring Jill Gascoine
Created byTerence Feely
StarringJill Gascoine
William Marlowe
Brian Gwaspari
Paul Moriarty
Nigel Rathbone
Derek Thompson
Bernard Holley
Opening themeRoger Webb
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series5
No. of episodes56 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time60 mins (inc. commercials)
Production companyLondon Weekend Television
Original release
NetworkITV
Release11 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.

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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...

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List of The Gentle Touch episodes

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The following is a list of episodes of The Gentle Touch, an ITV crime drama broadcast between 1980 and 1984, starring Jill Gascoine. A total of five series...

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Jill Gascoine

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Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes in the 1980s television series The Gentle Touch and its spin-off series C.A.T.S. Eyes. In the 1990s, she also became a novelist...

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Floella Benjamin

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Court, The Gentle Touch and Dixon of Dock Green. She appeared as Juniper in the first episode of Bergerac (1981). Benjamin read two stories for the Story...

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Johnny Gentle

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they did not make the charts, and nor did an EP, The Gentle Touch, containing "I Like the Way", "Darlin' Won't You Wait", "Milk from the Coconut", and "This...

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Brigitte Kahn

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the original Star Wars trilogy. Kahn played Dagmar in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. Other TV credits include: Secret Army, The Sandbaggers, The Gentle Touch,...

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Judy Loe

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General Hospital playing the role from 1978 until 1979. In 1980, Loe appeared in one episode each of Heartland and The Gentle Touch before appearing in two...

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Brian Gwaspari

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throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He also starred in two police drama series, Specials and The Gentle Touch, appeared in The Professionals and starred in the two-part...

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Wanda Ventham

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appearances include The Sweeney, The Avengers, The Saint, Doctor Who, The Gentle Touch, Minder, Heartbeat and Holby City, and she appeared in two Carry On...

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William Marlowe

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Russell in The Gentle Touch (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)...

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Gary Holton

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and guest-starred as Rick Sloan in the television series The Gentle Touch. Holton also sang the theme tune to 1980s British children's drama, Murphy's Mob...

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Joanne Whalley

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including Juliet Bravo and The Gentle Touch. From 1982 to 1986 she studied and performed with the Royal Court Theatre starting at the 1982 Young Writers' Festival...

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Patsy Palmer

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her screen debut in the television programme The Gentle Touch in 1984. Like many other EastEnders actors, Palmer appeared on the children's drama show...

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Annette Badland

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Two's comedy The Last Song. 1982 saw Badland appear in several guest-starring roles in episodic television. ITV's crime drama The Gentle Touch, a police...

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Peter Moffatt

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(1978) and The Gentle Touch (1980). He also directed the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who serials State of Decay (1980), The Visitation...

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Limahl

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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. In 1980, he was given a small role in an episode of the ITV police series The Gentle Touch. In 1981, he...

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Lesley Manville

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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...

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Sherrie Hewson

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appearances in dramas such as Play for Today, The Sandbaggers, Minder, Juliet Bravo and The Gentle Touch, Hewson's talent for comedy saw her get invited...

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Cheryl Hall

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(1979) - Jean Tales of the Unexpected - Irene Rankin The Gentle Touch (1981) - Bonus In Loving Memory (1982) - Vera Venables The Bill (1984-1988) - Sadie...

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Lee Whitlock

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Burning, and The Bill (all 2007) and Ill Manors (2012). At age 12, Whitlock gave his debut in the British television series The Gentle Touch in 1980. In...

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Barbara Flynn

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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)...

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Tracy Hyde

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1981), The Gentle Touch (LWT, 1982), Now and Then (LWT, 1983–1984), Dempsey and Makepeace (LWT, 1985, "Nowhere to Run"), Bust (LWT, 1987) and The Bill (Thames...

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Alan Lake

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Juliet Bravo, The Gentle Touch, Hart to Hart, and Bergerac. In 1969, he recorded a pop single, "Good Times"/"Got To Have Tenderness" (the former a cover...

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