TV series · 1980
The Gentle Touch
First aired 11 April 1980 Crime / Drama TMDB ↗
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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William Marlowe
as DCI Bill Russell
Jill Gascoine
as DI Maggie Forbes
Paul Moriarty
as DS Jake Barratt
Everyone else (31) ↓
James Ottaway
as George Taylor
John Barron
Avis Bunnage
as Auntie Win
Charlotte Mitchell
Harold Kasket
as Mr Solomon
Trevor Peacock
Peter Birrel
Michael Graham Cox
as DI Jack Slater
Pamela Buchner
as Mrs Janie Russell
Angela Douglas
Bernard Holley
as DI Mike Turnbull
Peter Spraggon
as Station Officer
Brian Croucher
as Harry Blanden
Ken Campbell
Paul Angelis
as Phil Wogan
Edward Peel
Judy Loe
Rosalind Ayres
Derek Thompson
as DS Jimmy Fenton
Enn Reitel
as TDC Power
Kevin O'Shea
as DS Peter Phillips
Art Malik
Lesley Manville
Nigel Rathbone
as Steve Forbes
Leslie Ash
Lynsey Baxter
Christopher Villiers
Brian Gwaspari
as DI Bob Croft
Ben Thomas
as Eskimo
Michael Cronin
as Sgt Dave Bryant
Jean Hastings
as WPC Evans