The Gentle Touch
1980 • 56 ep
7.2
8
Creator:
Terence Feely
Writers:
Roger Marshall
•Terence Feely
•Brian Finch
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.
CrimeDrama
Cast
Jill Gascoine
DI Maggie Forbes
William Marlowe
DCI Bill Russell
Paul Moriarty
DS Jake Barratt
Brian Gwaspari
DI Bob Croft
N/A
Nigel Rathbone
Steve Forbes
Derek Thompson
DS Jimmy Fenton
N/A
Kevin O'Shea
DS Peter Phillips
N/A
James Ottaway
George Taylor
Bernard Holley
DI Mike Turnbull
Michael Graham Cox
DI Jack Slater
N/A
Ben Thomas
Eskimo
Michael Cronin
Sgt Dave Bryant
