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Summer's Lease

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

3.6

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Seasons

1

Episodes

4

LanguageEnglish
StatusEnded
PilotNov 1, 1989
Last AirNov 22, 1989

Overview

Molly Pargeter is a forty-something wife and mother of three girls, who 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 she has found escape in detective novels and books on art, especially about the fifteenth century Italian fresco painter Piero Della Francesca. Then in a newspaper's small ads Molly sees the details of a villa in Tuscany, Italy to let and after travelling to Italy to view the villa "La Felicita" she decides to take it for the family's August holiday.

Genres

  • Drama

Casts

Susan Fleetwood

Susan Fleetwood

Molly Pargeter

John Gielgud

John Gielgud

Haverford Downs

Michael Pennington

Michael Pennington

Hugh Pargeter

Rosemary Leach

Rosemary Leach

Nancy Leadbetter

Caroline Waldron

Henry Pargeter

Veronica Lazăr

Veronica Lazăr

Baronessa Dulcibene

Suzanne Hay

Sam Pargeter

Samantha Glenn

Samantha Glenn

Jack Pargeter

Siria Betti

Siria Betti

Giovanna

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