Summer's Lease

Summer's Lease

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

Limited Series 1989 · 4 eps · ★ 7.3 · Mystery, Drama

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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

Networks: PBS, BBC Two

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Cast

Susan Fleetwood Molly Pargeter
John Gielgud Haverford Downs
Michael Pennington Hugh Pargeter
Rosemary Leach Nancy Leadbetter
Caroline Waldron Henry Pargeter
Veronica Lazăr Baronessa Dulcibene
Suzanne Hay Sam Pargeter
Samantha Glenn Jack Pargeter
Siria Betti Giovanna
Gabrielle Anwar Chrissie Kettering
Denis Lill Ken Corduroy
Massimo Sarchielli Don Marco

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