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Year: 1980
Genre: Crime
Channel: ITV1
Series: 3
Episodes available: 30
Available from: 27 Jan 2022
Available until: 26 Jan 2025

Jill Gascoine stars as Britain's first female TV detective in this ground-breaking 80s drama. No day s the same for Met detective Maggie Forbes as she grapples with the demands of the job & her quest to find her husband's killer.

Cast and Crew

Directors: Nic Phillips, Gerald Blake, Gerry Mill, John Reardon, Christopher Hodson, Paul Annett, Tony Wharmby, David Askey, Carol Wiseman, Christopher Baker, Peter Cregeen, John Davies, James Gatward, Peter Moffatt, Bill Turner, Jonathan Wright-Miller
Cast: Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe, Paul Moriarty, Brian Gwaspari, Nigel Rathbone, Derek Thompson, Kevin O'Shea, James Ottaway, Bernard Holley, Michael Graham Cox, Ben Thomas, Pamela Buchner, Michael Cronin, Avis Bunnage, Peter Spraggon, Jean Hastings, George Sewell, Maev Alexander, Hazel Clyne, Jason Savage, Lesley Manville, Ray Lonnen, Stephen Yardley, Gwyneth Powell, Katherine Stark, Judy Loe, Brian Croucher, Sue Nicholls, Michael Darby, John Pennington, Lynda Bellingham, Eamon Boland, David Battley, Matthew Scurfield, Brian Coburn, Richard Walker, Gorden Kaye, Derrick O'Connor, Peter Machin, Leslie Schofield, Moira Redmond, James Smillie, John Gregg, Gara Granda, Robert Longden, Rosemary Martin, Christopher Driscoll, Beth Harris, Martin Fisk, Peter Thistleton, Michael Melia, Floella Benjamin, Kate Dorning, Brian Osborne, Helen Cherry, John Bown, Joss Ackland, Rosalind Ayres, Lee Whitlock, John Barron, Shirley Cheriton, Robert Austin, Kenneth Gilbert, Chuck Julian, Christopher Villiers, Neil McCarthy, Harry Towb, Gaylie Runciman, Ken Campbell, Mary Peach, Enn Reitel, Peter Copley, Frederick Jaeger, Elizabeth Counsell, Lesley Daine, Michael Lees, Kathleen St. John, Mark Botham, Dudley Sutton, Andrew Burt, Ian Thompson, Victor Romero Evans, Trevor Peacock, Robert Fyfe, David Gant, Don Fellows, Tenniel Evans, Derek Martin, Patricia Garwood, Davyd Harries, Ian Price, Christopher Bramwell, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Tony Selby, David Daker, Lynn Farleigh, Gillian Raine, Sara Mason, Sheila Gish, Brian Bovell
Writers: Terence Feely, William Marlowe, Roger Marshall, Peter Hammond, Tony Parker, Tony Hoare, Ray Jenkins, Guy James, Brian Finch, Patricia Hooker, Kenneth Ware, Anthony Couch, David Crane, Anthony Biggam, Chris Barlas, Jeremy Burnham, James Doran, Geoff McQueen, Simon Masters

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