Summer's Lease (1989)

7.3/10(7)·TMDB 19891 Season· 4 Episodes

Summer's Lease (1 season, 4 episodes) streams free in HD on Zoovie — original run 1989. Originally on PBS, starring Susan Fleetwood, John Gielgud, and Michael Pennington. Drama and Mystery. Every episode on multiple servers, no signup.

What is Summer's Lease about?

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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Latest Episode

S1E4 · The Urbino Trail

Aired November 22, 1989

Status

Ended

Network

PBS, BBC Two

How many seasons of Summer's Lease are there?

Summer's Lease has 1 season with 4 total episodes, originally aired starting November 1, 1989 on PBS, BBC Two. Click any season below to browse all episodes with thumbnails, air dates, and full plot summaries.

Miniseries

4 episodes · Aired November 1, 1989

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Who stars in Summer's Lease?

Susan Fleetwood as Molly Pargeter, John Gielgud as Haverford Downs, Michael Pennington as Hugh Pargeter, Rosemary Leach as Nancy Leadbetter, Caroline Waldron as Henry Pargeter, Veronica Lazăr as Baronessa Dulcibene, Suzanne Hay as Sam Pargeter, Samantha Glenn as Jack Pargeter.

Molly Pargeter

Haverford Downs

Hugh Pargeter

Nancy Leadbetter

Henry Pargeter

Baronessa Dulcibene

Sam Pargeter

Jack Pargeter

Giovanna

Summer's Lease show details

First aired:: November 1, 1989
Last aired:: November 22, 1989
Status:: Ended
Type:: Miniseries
Total seasons:: 1
Total episodes:: 4
Created by:: John Mortimer
Original network:: PBS, BBC Two
Country:: United Kingdom, United States of America, Australia, New Zealand
Languages:: English
Content rating:: 12
Genres:: Drama, Mystery
IMDb:: tt0163961
TMDB:: View on TMDB
Wikidata:: Q94497371

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Summer's Lease theme tune (1989)

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