Release Date

01 Nov, 1989

Runtime

00:55: (HH:MM)

Total Episode/Season

4/1

Synopsis

A family's holiday in Tuscany leads in intrigue and mystery in this BBC classic

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.

Original Title

Summer's Lease

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Miniseries

01 Nov, 1989

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.

Created By

John Mortimer

Actors

Susan Fleetwood

John Gielgud

Michael Pennington

Rosemary Leach

Caroline Waldron

Veronica Lazăr

Suzanne Hay

Samantha Glenn

Siria Betti

Crew

Martyn Friend

John Mortimer

John Mortimer

Colin Rogers

Tim Harvey

Aad Wirtz

Nigel Hess

Tariq Anwar

Justin Amsden

Remi Adefarasin

Diana Brookes