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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 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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes – Terence Feely (played by Jill Gascoine in The Gentle Touch) Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle – (played by Michael Kitchen in Foyle's War) DI Stuart Fraser – Taggart; Inspector Joseph French – Freeman Wills Crofts
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 ...
Jill Jacobson, a star of film and TV known for her work in Star Trek: The Next Generation and the soap operas Falcon Crest and Days of Our Lives, has died. She was 70 years old. She was 70 years old.