Summer's Lease
A family's holiday in Tuscany leads in intrigue and mystery in this BBC classic
Ratings
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.
Production
BBC, GBH, Television New Zealand, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Language
EN
Status
Ended
First Aired
November 1, 1989
Last Aired
November 22, 1989
Networks
PBS, BBC Two
Created By
John Mortimer
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
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