In John Mortimer's satirical look at criminal law and the workings of the Old Bailey, Horace Rumpole is a barrister who spouts Wordsworth to himself and is famed among colleagues for his battered hat and general slovenliness.
- Drama
- Year 1978 - 1992
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E1 • Rumpole & the Younger Generation
Rumpole clears a teenager of a robbery charge but feels that the boy is destined for a life of crime.
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E2 • Rumpole & the Alternative Society
Rumpole, content to be defending a case in the peaceful West Country, is disturbed by the outcome of the trial.
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E3 • Rumpole & the Honourable Member
Rumpole's clerk is accused of stealing from petty cash; Rumpole learns that his son and his fiancee are coming to dinner.
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E4 • Rumpole & the Married Lady
A 10-year-old interferes in his parents' divorce case; Hilda suspects Rumpole of having an affair.
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E5 • Rumpole & the Learned Friends
Rumpole is disheartened upon discovering that he is to be teamed with Guthrie Featherstone to defend a safe blower.
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E6 • Rumpole & the Heavy Brigade
Rumpole is informed that he will return to the Old Bailey to defend Peter Delgado on a murder charge.
- Cast
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Leo McKern
Horace Rumpole
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Jonathan Coy
Henry
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Julian Curry
Claude Erskine-Brown
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Marion Mathie
Hilda Rumpole
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Richard Murdoch
Uncle Tom
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Maureen Darbyshire
Dianne
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Peter Blythe
Samuel Ballard Q.C.
- Crew
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Donald McWhinnie
Director
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John Mortimer
Writer
