Summer's Lease

"A family's holiday in Tuscany leads in intrigue and mystery in this BBC classic"

Fortysomething wife and mother Molly Pargeter 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, Molly has found escape in detective novels and art books, especially on 15th-century Italian fresco painter Piero Della Francesca. Suddenly, in the small ads, she spots the details of a Tuscany villa to let, and after a viewing, she takes it for holiday.

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Created By	John Mortimer
Status	Ended
Original Name	Summer's Lease
First Air Date	November 1, 1989
Last Air Date	November 22, 1989
Seasons	1
Episodes	4
Episode Runtime	55min
Language	English
Original Language	English
Production Countries	United Kingdom, United States of America, Australia, New Zealand
Production Companies	BBC GBH Television New Zealand Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Networks	PBS BBC Two

S01E04

The Urbino Trail

As holiday's end draws nearer, Molly realises that the answer to her mystery is at the end of the Piero Della Francesca Trail. As she sets off on her trip of discovery, Haverford's night of passion ends in farce.

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