Rumpole of the Bailey
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a...
Rumpole of the Bailey
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.
Rumpole of the Bailey
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a...
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Episode 1: Play for Today / Pilot (a.k.a Rumpole and the Confession of Guilt)
Rumpole defends a Jamaican youth charged with attempted murder. Things look grim at first but then w...
Episode 2: Mortimer's Musings
An interview with Rumpole's creator, John Mortimer.
Episode 3: Rumpole's Return
Retirement on the East Coast of the Former Colonies, at Hilda's behest, is not proving to be Rumpole...
Episode 1: Rumpole and the Younger Generation
Rumpole defends young Jim Timson, who has been grassed up for robbery with violence by 'Peanuts' Mol...
Episode 2: Rumpole and the Alternative Society
Rumpole is in the west of England to visit an old friend from his days in the Royal Air Force, Sam (...
Episode 3: Rumpole and the Honourable Member
Rumpole defends Ken Aspen, a politician accused of raping a party worker. The defendant admits there...
Episode 4: Rumpole and the Married Lady
Rumpole defends a woman (Mrs Thripp) in a divorce action brought by her husband, claiming infidelity...
Episode 5: Rumpole and the Learned Friends
Guthrie Featherstone, with Rumpole as his junior, defends a safe-cracker who claims to have been fra...
Episode 6: Rumpole and the Heavy Brigade
Rumpole is busy defending the youngest son of a family of villains on a murder charge. His client ha...
Episode 1: Rumpole and the Man of God
Rumpole defends a vicar who is charged with stealing three shirts from a department store, but the t...
Episode 2: Rumpole and the Case of Identity
With the Christmas season in full swing, Rumpole defends Dave Anstey on the charge of stabbing a sal...
Episode 3: Rumpole and the Show Folk
Rumpole travels to the north of England and practices his own theatricality in defense of Maggie Har...
Episode 4: Rumpole and the Fascist Beast
Rumpole defends Captain Rex Parkin, who is charged with inciting a riot by racist speeches. Rumpole...
Episode 5: Rumpole and the Course of True Love
Rumpole defends a flamboyanty romantic young schoolteacher who is accused of seducing a pupil.Meanwh...
Episode 6: Rumpole and the Age for Retirement
Rumpole defends Percy Timson, a receiver of stolen property who has been framed for the theft of an...
Episode 1: Rumpole and the Genuine Article
Rumpole defends Harold Brittling, an unsuccessful artist who has been charged with faking a major pa...
Episode 2: Rumpole and the Golden Thread
Rumpole flies to Neranga, in Africa, to defend David Mazenze (his former law pupil) on a charge of m...
Episode 3: Rumpole and the Old Boy Net
Rumpole welcomes a new pupil, the beautiful Fiona Allways, and together they defend Mr and Mrs Napie...
Episode 4: Rumpole and the Female of the Species
Rumpole defends Tony Timson, who is accused of driving the getaway car for a bungled robbery by the...
Episode 5: Rumpole and the Sporting Life
Rumpole gets out into rural England when Fiona Allways persuades him to defend her sister Jennifer,...
Episode 6: Rumpole and the Last Resort
Rumpole turns to his wife, Hilda, for help in getting a slippery solicitor to pay what he owes. Mean...
Episode 1: Rumpole and the Old, Old Story
Rumpole defends a business man who is accused of trying to murder his partner. After a squabble wit...
Episode 2: Rumpole and the Blind Tasting
Yet another of the Timsons needs Rumpole's services as an advocate, this time to answer charges of f...
Episode 3: Rumpole and the Official Secret
Rumpole defends an elderly woman charged under the Official Secrets Act - she is claimed to have hav...
Episode 4: Rumpole and the Judge's Elbow
Rumpole defends a man charged with running massage parlours as brothels, and his former colleague in...
Episode 5: Rumpole and the Bright Seraphim
Rumpole travels to West Germany to defend a British soldier facing a court-martial charged with the...
Episode 6: Rumpole's Last Case
The Timsons are in trouble again, and in need of the services of their favourite 'brief'. The old fi...
Episode 1: Rumpole and the Bubble Reputation
Rumpole fights a claim for libel filed by a woman writer against a low newspaper. Claude Erskine-Br...
Episode 2: Rumpole and the Barrow Boy
Young Nigel Timson has moved on from the world of East End villainy and is now working in financial...
Episode 3: Rumpole and the Age of Miracles
Rumpole defends his clergyman nephew in an ecclesiastical court, against charges of adultery - of wh...
Episode 4: Rumpole and the Tap End
Rumpole defends Tony Timson on charges of attempted murder - with Tony's wife, April, claiming he tr...
Episode 5: Rumpole and Portia
Rumpole defends Stanley Culp, a scrap dealer, on charges of selling arms to terrorists. The case com...
Episode 6: Rumpole and the Quality of Life
Rumpole defends Lady Perdita Derwent, charged with the murder of her elderly husband. Meanwhile, Ms...
Episode 1: Rumpole a la Carte
A live mouse is served to Erskine-Brown in a London restaurant, and Rumpole finds himself defending...
Episode 2: Rumpole and the Summer of Discontent
Before Mr Justice Guthrie Featherstone, Rumpole defends a trade unionist on charges of recklessly ca...
Episode 3: Rumpole and the Right to Silence
Rumpole defends a radical lecturer accused of murdering an unpopular university official - but his c...
Episode 4: Rumpole at Sea
Without marked enthusiasm, Rumpole takes Hilda on a cruising holiday. He is appalled to learn that a...
Episode 5: Rumpole and the Quacks
Rumpole defends his own doctor, charged with sexually molesting a woman patient - and Rumpole's frie...
Episode 6: Rumpole for the Prosecution
Rumpole agrees to act for the family of a dead girl who are bringing a private prosecution for murde...
Episode 1: Rumpole and the Children of the Devil
Rumpole again defends the Timsons, when they are accused of Satanism and their daughter Tracy has be...
Episode 2: Rumpole and the Miscarriage of Justice
Rumpole defends a policeman, Superintendent Gannon, who is accused of changing a teenager's statemen...
Episode 3: Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle
Rumpole flirts with a beautiful violinist and finds himself reluctantly defending her husband, who i...
Episode 4: Rumpole and the Reform of Joby Jonson
Rumpole defends a teenager charged with stealing from old people. Curiously, Rumpole's own apartment...
Episode 5: Rumpole and the Family Pride
Rumpole and Hilda are invited for the weekend at a cousin's castle - but when they get there they fi...
Episode 6: Rumpole on Trial
Hilda persuades Ballard to defend Rumpole when he faces a disciplinary hearing. Rumpole seems to hav...
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