Summer's Lease 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 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.
- Created By
- First Aired on
Nov 01, 1989
- Popularity: 2.4633
- 6 votes
- Networks
- (GB)
(US)
- Production
BBC (GB)GBH (US)
- Status: Ended
Show Ended
1 seaons till Nov 22, 1989
Last episode: The Urbino Trail
Seasons & episodes
Total 1 seasons, 4 episodes
Miniseries
Aired
Episode 1Villa to Let55 min
Overview not available
Episode 2Where the Water Goes55 min
Overview not available
Episode 3A Battlefield55 min
Overview not available
Episode 4The Urbino Trail55 min
Overview not available
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Crew & Team
Director
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