Summer's Lease 34 years old

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.

Credits

Gabrielle Anwar
Gabrielle Anwar

Chrissie Kettering

John Gielgud
John Gielgud

Haverford Downs

Leslie Phillips
Leslie Phillips

William Fosdyke

Susan Fleetwood
Susan Fleetwood

Molly Pargeter

Cast

Name Character
Gabrielle Anwar She was 19 , now 54 years old as Chrissie Kettering
Feodor Chaliapin, Jr. He was 84 , 86 years old when he died
John Gielgud He was 85 , 96 years old when he died as Haverford Downs
Leslie Phillips He was 65 , now 100 years old as William Fosdyke
Susan Fleetwood She was 45 , 51 years old when she died as Molly Pargeter
Denis Lill He was 47 , now 82 years old
Jeremy Kemp He was 54 , 84 years old when he died
Rosemary Leach She was 53 , 81 years old when she died as Nancy Leadbetter
Mel Martin She was 42 , now 77 years old
Annette Crosbie She was 55 , now 90 years old as Connie Tapscott
Frederick Treves He was 64 , 86 years old when he died

Crew

Name Job title
John Mortimer Writing He was 66 , 85 years old when he died Writer
Martyn Friend Directing He was 46 , now 81 years old Director
Summer's Lease (34 years)

Ended

  • First Air Date: 1989-11-01
  • Runtime: [55] minutes
  • Number of Episodes: 4