The Gentle Touch (1980)
- Genre
- drama television series, police television drama, crime television series
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 5 seasons, 56 episodes
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A female police sergeant leads a team of detectives in London. The show follows her work on criminal cases and the challenges of being a woman in a male dominated profession.
methodicalgroundedunderstatedlow-keyseriousrestrainedquietly tenseearnest
What happens
The Gentle Touch is a British police procedural drama series made by LWT 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, premiering four months ahead of the similarly themed BBC series Juliet Bravo. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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