Saturday, 14 October 2017
812 C.A.T.S. Eyes
First viewed : April 1986
This is a bit out of sequence but when doing a bit of research on the series I realised I must have seen it a year earlier than I thought. C.A.T.S. Eyes was a spin-off from The Gentle Touch taking Jill Gascoigne's Maggie Forbes character out of the police station and into a private detective agency which was really a front for a Home Office covert unit. Don Warrington from Rising Damp was the man from the Ministry. In the first series Maggie was number two on the team headed by Pru ( Rosalyn Landor ) and they were assisted by sexpot Fred ( Lesley Ash ). For the second series, Maggie was promoted to replace Pru and the glamour quotient was doubled by Tessa ( Tracy Louise Ward ).
Ward was the sister of dubiously-talented Hollywood actress Rachel Ward and it was the publicity around her entrance that prompted me to tune in as she looked pretty hot. The series was a cross between Charlie's Angels and The Professionals. There was little cross over from The Gentle Touch as the more outlandish and feminocentric storylines meant it was very different in tone.
The series was popular but expensive to make so the plug was pulled after three seasons. After the series ended Gascoigne rarely appeared on UK TV. She moved to Los Angeles with husband Alfred Molina and worked mainly in theatre. In 2009 she pulled out of a planned run in Eastenders and is now in a care home suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. Shortly after the series ended Ward married the Marquess of Worcester and soon gave up acting in favour of environmental politics. She is now the Duchess of Beufort.
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