Summer's Lease

Summer's Lease

📺 Series 1 seasons GB
โ˜… 7.5 /10 1989

A Family's Holiday In Tuscany Leads In Intrigue And Mystery In This Bbc Classic

Molly Pargeter is a forty-something wife and mother of three girls, who 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 seeing another woman, albeit just for lunches. For most of her life she has found escape in detective novels and books on art, especially about the fifteenth century Italian fresco painter Piero Della Francesca. Then in a newspaper's small adds Molly sees the details of a villa in Tuscany, Italy to let and after travelling to Italy to view the villa "La Felicita" she decides to take it for the family's August holiday.

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Cast

Susan Fleetwood
Susan Fleetwood
Molly Pargeter
John Gielgud
John Gielgud
Haverford Downs
Michael Pennington
Michael Pennington
Hugh Pargeter
Rosemary Leach
Rosemary Leach
Nancy Leadbetter
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Caroline Waldron
Henry Pargeter
Veronica Lazar
Veronica Lazar
Baronessa Dulcibene
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Suzanne Hay
Sam Pargeter
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Samantha Glenn
Jack Pargeter
Siria Betti
Siria Betti
Giovanna
Denis Lill
Denis Lill
Ken Corduroy

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Summer's Lease theme tune (1989)
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Opening Credits
Summer's Lease theme tune (1989)