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Summer's Lease
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Summer's Lease

1989-11-01 · 55 min / episode · ★ 7.2

Mystery · Drama

Fortysomething wife and mother Molly Pargeter leads a stable but dull life in 1980s West London. She feels overweight and there is no passion in her relationship with her husband Hugh, who is secretly seeing another woman. For most of her life, Molly has found escape in detective novels and art books, especially on 15th-century Italian fresco painter Piero Della Francesca. Suddenly, in the small ads, she spots the details of a Tuscany villa to let, and after a viewing, she takes it for holiday.

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Creators
John Mortimer
Production companies
BBC, GBH, Television New Zealand, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Countries
United Kingdom, United States of America, Australia, New Zealand
Status
Ended

Top Cast

Susan FleetwoodSusan FleetwoodMolly Pargeter
John GielgudJohn GielgudHaverford Downs
Michael PenningtonMichael PenningtonHugh Pargeter
Rosemary LeachRosemary LeachNancy Leadbetter
Caroline WaldronHenry Pargeter
Veronica LazărVeronica LazărBaronessa Dulcibene
Suzanne HaySam Pargeter
Samantha GlennSamantha GlennJack Pargeter
Siria BettiSiria BettiGiovanna

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