Adapted by John Mortimer from his own novel, the British miniseries Summer's Lease starred Susan Fleetwood as British housewife Molly Pargeter who, with her family, spent an eventful summer vacation at La Felicita, a villa in Tuscany. Molly had hoped to soak in the local color and revel in the artistic masterpieces all around her, but instead ended up trying to solve a couple of mysteries involving a dried-up water supply and a missing landlord (who turned out to have several shady "friends"). In the process, Molly took up ...
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Adapted by John Mortimer from his own novel, the British miniseries Summer's Lease starred Susan Fleetwood as British housewife Molly Pargeter who, with her family, spent an eventful summer vacation at La Felicita, a villa in Tuscany. Molly had hoped to soak in the local color and revel in the artistic masterpieces all around her, but instead ended up trying to solve a couple of mysteries involving a dried-up water supply and a missing landlord (who turned out to have several shady "friends"). In the process, Molly took up with an old flame, all the while attempting to patch up her tottering marriage to the plodding Hugh Pargeter. Stealing the show (and winning several TV awards in the process) was John Gielgud as Molly's father, Haverford Downs, a libidinous and slightly daft author. First telecast by BBC2 in 1989, the four-part Summer's Lease was subsequently aired in America as part of PBS's Masterpiece Theatre anthology in the spring of 1991. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Denis Lill, Siria Betti, Samantha Glenn, Suzanne Hay, Veronica Lazar, Caroline Waldron, Rosemary Leach, Michael Pennington,... Very good. 1989 Run time: 220. Providing great media since 1972. All used discs are inspected and guaranteed. Digital copy/codes may be expired or not included. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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The item description is more or less accurate, but Molly does NOT take up with an old flame. Her renewed contact in Italy is with an old friend, Lucy Fortinbras, an uninhibited female as a teenager, when the two of them were on a school trip to Italy years before, and still at it with a visibly younger Italian male. The two of them interact to the detriment of Buck Kettering, the owner of La Felicita, the house in which the Pargeters are staying, although Lucy does not appear to form part of the plot to eliminate Buck as revenge for the death of Bill Fosdyke, the love of Mrs. Kettering. Back in London, Molly, on discovering through a daughter that Buck has died, briefly senses that she had something to do with it and then represses the thought and returns her attention to Jackie, her youngest daughter.
It is recommended to all who enjoyed the story to read the book by John Mortimer. The details are the same with a change of AIC to UIC and the name of the host whose home was disagreable to the count due to the presence of spiders and omosessuali changed to Peter Pergolese from something different. Both the book and the program are way above the level of the usual dreadful products to be found at public sources of books/videos or on the Internet, and viewers will feel afterwards a satisfaction rarely enjoyed from reading and viewing.
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