Summer's Lease (1989)
Synopsis
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 secretly seeing another woman. 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 ads 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.
First Air Date: 1989-11-01
Last Air Date: 1989-11-22
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 4
Networks: BBC One, PBS
Top Cast
- Susan Fleetwood as Molly Pargeter
- John Gielgud as Haverford Downs
- Michael Pennington as Hugh Pargeter
- Rosemary Leach as Nancy Leadbetter
- Caroline Waldron as Henry Pargeter
- Veronica Lazăr as Baronessa Dulcibene
- Suzanne Hay as Sam Pargeter
- Samantha Glenn as Jack Pargeter
- Siria Betti as Giovanna
Seasons
Miniseries (1989)
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Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Villa to Let
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Ep. 2: Where the Water Goes
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Ep. 3: A Battlefield
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Ep. 4: The Urbino Trail
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