Breaking Bad
2008 · Drama · Crime
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TV series / 1980
The Gentle Touch
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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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.
Cast
Jill GascoineDI Maggie Forbes
William MarloweDCI Bill Russell
Paul MoriartyDS Jake Barratt
Brian GwaspariDI Bob Croft
Nigel RathboneSteve Forbes
Derek ThompsonDS Jimmy Fenton
Kevin O'SheaDS Peter Phillips
James OttawayGeorge Taylor
Bernard HolleyDI Mike Turnbull
Michael Graham CoxDI Jack Slater
Ben ThomasEskimo
Michael CroninSgt Dave Bryant
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Pamela BuchnerMrs Janie Russell
Jean HastingsWPC Evans
Peter SpraggonStation Officer · Sgt Harry Cooper
Avis BunnageAuntie Win
Hazel ClyneMaisie
George SewellDave Connally
Maev AlexanderWPC Sandra Williams
Ray Lonnen
Lesley ManvilleShirley Davis
Jason SavageDale Blanden
Stephen YardleyJed Blanden
Brian CroucherHarry Blanden
Sue NichollsJoanne Blanden
Art Malik
Leslie Ash
Catherine Schell
Hugh Cross
Judy Loe
David Daker
Charlotte Mitchell
Peter Cellier
Simon Gipps-Kent
Patrick NewellJames
Gwyneth Powell
Colin McCormack
Angela Douglas
Nichola McAuliffe
Trudie Styler
Derek Benfield
Harold KasketMr Solomon
Jennifer Hilary
Rosemary Martin
John Barron
Nigel Humphreys
Andrew Burt
Paul AngelisPhil Wogan
Derek Martin
Patsy Palmer
John Bardon
Ellen Thomas
Kate Williams
Myra Frances
Peter Birrel
Michael Praed
Carmen Silvera
Edward Peel
Geoffrey Burridge
Michael Melia
Joss AcklandIvor Stocker
Joan Hickson
Linda Robson
Christopher Ellison
Arthur White
Alan Lake
Rupert Frazer
Gillian TaylforthMary Felix
Patsy Smart
Rosalind Ayres
Larry Martyn
Don Fellows
Christopher Villiers
Jill Baker
Frederick Hall
Linda Regan
Ken Campbell
Stella Tanner
Lynda La Plante
Lynsey Baxter
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