Cigar-puffing, whiskey-sipping, insult-generating defense barrister Horace Rumpole proves why he's one of the most unexpectedly successful attorneys in Great Britain.
- Drama
- Year 1978 - 1992
- 7 Seasons
Cigar-puffing, whiskey-sipping, insult-generating defense barrister Horace Rumpole proves why he's one of the most unexpectedly successful attorneys in Great Britain.
- Year: 1978
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.
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.
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.
E4 • Rumpole & the Married Lady
A 10-year-old interferes in his parents' divorce case; Hilda suspects Rumpole of having an affair.
E5 • Rumpole & the Learned Friends
Rumpole is disheartened upon discovering that he is to be teamed with Guthrie Featherstone to defend a safe blower.
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
Leo McKern
Horace Rumpole
Jonathan Coy
Henry
Julian Curry
Claude Erskine-Brown
Marion Mathie
Hilda Rumpole
Richard Murdoch
Uncle Tom
Maureen Darbyshire
Dianne
Peter Blythe
Samuel Ballard Q.C.
- Crew
Donald McWhinnie
Director
John Mortimer
Writer
