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Notable as the first British series to feature a female police officer (predating Juliet Bravo by four months), Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes raises her teenage son while navigating a male-dominated police force following the murder of her police commissioner husband.
Last Episode Aired
1984-11-24
S5E13 — Exit Laughing
A minor civil servant is found dead in exotic circumstances, and Maggie tries to protect his widow from publicity.
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Billed Cast
Jill Gascoine
DI Maggie Forbes
William Marlowe
DCI Bill Russell
Paul Moriarty
DS Jake Barratt
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