The Gentle Touch (Season 2)

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.

  • Poster for Something Blue

    Something Blue (Episode 1)

    Writer: Tony Hoare

    Air date: 1980-09-05

  • Poster for Decoy

    Decoy (Episode 2)

    Air date: 1980-09-12

  • Poster for Break-In

    Break-In (Episode 3)

    Air date: 1980-09-19

  • Poster for Menaces

    Menaces (Episode 4)

    Air date: 1980-09-26

    Overview: When Ivor Stocker, a J.P. and successful businessman, rteceives a blackmail threat, it becomes a case for Det-Insp. Maggie Forbes...

  • Poster for Hammer

    Hammer (Episode 5)

    Air date: 1980-10-03

    Overview: A 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.

  • Poster for Chance

    Chance (Episode 6)

    Air date: 1980-10-10

    Overview: Det.-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.

  • Poster for Loyalties

    Loyalties (Episode 7)

    Air date: 1980-10-17

  • Poster for Maggie's Luck

    Maggie's Luck (Episode 8)

    Air date: 1980-10-24

  • Poster for Shame

    Shame (Episode 9)

    Air date: 1980-10-31

  • Poster for The Ring

    The Ring (Episode 10)

    Air date: 1980-11-07

The Gentle Touch

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