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Jill Viola Gascoine (11 April 1937 – 28 April 2020) was an English actress and novelist. She portrayed Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes in the 1980s television series The Gentle Touch and its spin-off series C.A.T.S. Eyes. In the 1990s, she also became a novelist and published three books.
The Gentle Touch is a British police procedural drama series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which began on 11 April 1980 and ran until 24 November 1984. The series is notable for being the first British series to feature a female police officer as its leading character, ahead of the similarly themed BBC series Juliet Bravo by four months.
The following is a list of episodes of The Gentle Touch, an ITV crime drama broadcast between 1980 and 1984, starring Jill Gascoine. [1] A total of five series were produced over the course of the series run.
C.A.T.S. Eyes is a British television series made by TVS for ITV between 1985 and 1987. The series was a spin-off from The Gentle Touch, and saw Jill Gascoine reprise her role as Maggie Forbes, portrayed as having left the police force to join an all-female private detective agency called "Eyes", based in Kent, that is a front for a Home Office team called C.A.T.S. (Covert Activities Thames ...
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At the time of her death, actress Estelle Winwood, who played Aunt Enchantra on TV's Bewitched, was 101 years old, and the oldest member of the Screen Actor's Guild. She also smoked three packs of ...
The series was a ratings hit, running for five seasons from 1980 to 1984, and was the first British police series with a female lead character (Det. Inspector Maggie Forbes, played by Jill Gascoine). In 1985, Feely created the Gentle Touch spin-off series C.A.T.S. Eyes , about a team of female private investigators who covertly work for the ...
Jill Jacobson, a character actress on television best known for her work on series like Falcon Crest and The New Gidget, has died, her manager Ben Padua confirmed to Entertainment Weekly. She was ...