Summer's Lease
tv show
4 total episodes
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1 seasons
A family's holiday in Tuscany leads in intrigue and mystery in this BBC classic
First Aired November 01, 1989
Overview
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.
Cast
Susan Fleetwood
as
Molly Pargeter
John Gielgud
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Haverford Downs
Michael Pennington
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Hugh Pargeter
Rosemary Leach
as
Nancy Leadbetter
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Caroline Waldron
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Henry Pargeter
Veronica Lazăr
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Baronessa Dulcibene
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Suzanne Hay
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Sam Pargeter
Samantha Glenn
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Jack Pargeter
Siria Betti
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Giovanna
Gabrielle Anwar
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Chrissie Kettering
Denis Lill
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Ken Corduroy
Massimo Sarchielli
as
Don Marco
Crew
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Tim Harvey
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Production Design
Remi Adefarasin
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Director of Photography
Martyn Friend
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Director
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Diana Brookes
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Script Supervisor
Tariq Anwar
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Editor
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Colin Rogers
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Producer
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Justin Amsden
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Sound Editor
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Aad Wirtz
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Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Nigel Hess
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Original Music Composer
John Mortimer
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Screenplay