Seasons & Episodes
Rumpole and the Younger Generation
Rumpole defends young Jim Timson, who has been grassed up for robbery with violence by 'Peanuts' Molloy - one of a rival
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 ('Three Fingers') Dog
Rumpole and the Honourable Member
Rumpole defends Ken Aspen, a politician accused of raping a party worker. The defendant admits there was intercourse but
Rumpole and the Married Lady
Rumpole defends a woman (Mrs Thripp) in a divorce action brought by her husband, claiming infidelity. She Who Must Be Ob
Rumpole and the Learned Friends
Guthrie Featherstone, with Rumpole as his junior, defends a safe-cracker who claims to have been framed by the notorious
Rumpole and the Heavy Brigade
Rumpole is busy defending the youngest son of a family of villains on a murder charge. His client has all the evidence s
Rumpole and the Man of God
Rumpole defends a vicar who is charged with stealing three shirts from a department store, but the troubled clergyman re
Rumpole and the Case of Identity
With the Christmas season in full swing, Rumpole defends Dave Anstey on the charge of stabbing a sales assistant in an o
Rumpole and the Show Folk
Rumpole travels to the north of England and practices his own theatricality in defense of Maggie Hartley, an actress acc
Rumpole and the Fascist Beast
Rumpole defends Captain Rex Parkin, who is charged with inciting a riot by racist speeches. Rumpole also has a new pupil
Rumpole and the Course of True Love
Rumpole defends a flamboyanty romantic young schoolteacher who is accused of seducing a pupil.Meanwhile, Rumpole's colle
Rumpole and the Age for Retirement
Rumpole defends Percy Timson, a receiver of stolen property who has been framed for the theft of an important painting w
Rumpole and the Genuine Article
Rumpole defends Harold Brittling, an unsuccessful artist who has been charged with faking a major painting by the late S
Rumpole and the Golden Thread
Rumpole flies to Neranga, in Africa, to defend David Mazenze (his former law pupil) on a charge of murder. Rumpole meets
Rumpole and the Old Boy Net
Rumpole welcomes a new pupil, the beautiful Fiona Allways, and together they defend Mr and Mrs Napier-Lee, who are charg
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 Molloy gang - a gang
Rumpole and the Sporting Life
Rumpole gets out into rural England when Fiona Allways persuades him to defend her sister Jennifer, charged with murderi
Rumpole and the Last Resort
Rumpole turns to his wife, Hilda, for help in getting a slippery solicitor to pay what he owes. Meanwhile, Rumpole is bu
Rumpole and the Old, Old Story
Rumpole defends a business man who is accused of trying to murder his partner. After a squabble with 'She Who Must Be O
Rumpole and the Blind Tasting
Yet another of the Timsons needs Rumpole's services as an advocate, this time to answer charges of fencing stolen liquor
Rumpole and the Official Secret
Rumpole defends an elderly woman charged under the Official Secrets Act - she is claimed to have have leaked (so to spea
Rumpole and the Judge's Elbow
Rumpole defends a man charged with running massage parlours as brothels, and his former colleague in chambers Mr Justice
Rumpole and the Bright Seraphim
Rumpole travels to West Germany to defend a British soldier facing a court-martial charged with the murder of his sergea
Rumpole's Last Case
The Timsons are in trouble again, and in need of the services of their favourite 'brief'. The old firm is back in busine
Rumpole and the Bubble Reputation
Rumpole fights a claim for libel filed by a woman writer against a low newspaper. Claude Erskine-Brown moves in with Ru
Rumpole and the Barrow Boy
Young Nigel Timson has moved on from the world of East End villainy and is now working in financial services in the City
Rumpole and the Age of Miracles
Rumpole defends his clergyman nephew in an ecclesiastical court, against charges of adultery - of which the bishop takes
Rumpole and the Tap End
Rumpole defends Tony Timson on charges of attempted murder - with Tony's wife, April, claiming he tried to drown her - w
Rumpole and Portia
Rumpole defends Stanley Culp, a scrap dealer, on charges of selling arms to terrorists. The case comes before a newly ap
Rumpole and the Quality of Life
Rumpole defends Lady Perdita Derwent, charged with the murder of her elderly husband. Meanwhile, Ms Liz Probert complai
Rumpole a la Carte
A live mouse is served to Erskine-Brown in a London restaurant, and Rumpole finds himself defending the self-important c
Rumpole and the Summer of Discontent
Before Mr Justice Guthrie Featherstone, Rumpole defends a trade unionist on charges of recklessly causing the death of a
Rumpole and the Right to Silence
Rumpole defends a radical lecturer accused of murdering an unpopular university official - but his client refuses to giv
Rumpole at Sea
Without marked enthusiasm, Rumpole takes Hilda on a cruising holiday. He is appalled to learn that a High Court judge, M
Rumpole and the Quacks
Rumpole defends his own doctor, charged with sexually molesting a woman patient - and Rumpole's friend Phyllida is couns
Rumpole for the Prosecution
Rumpole agrees to act for the family of a dead girl who are bringing a private prosecution for murder against a policema
Rumpole and the Children of the Devil
Rumpole again defends the Timsons, when they are accused of Satanism and their daughter Tracy has been put into local au
Rumpole and the Miscarriage of Justice
Rumpole defends a policeman, Superintendent Gannon, who is accused of changing a teenager's statement confessing to murd
Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle
Rumpole flirts with a beautiful violinist and finds himself reluctantly defending her husband, who is charged with murde
Rumpole and the Reform of Joby Jonson
Rumpole defends a teenager charged with stealing from old people. Curiously, Rumpole's own apartment is promptly broken
Rumpole and the Family Pride
Rumpole and Hilda are invited for the weekend at a cousin's castle - but when they get there they find their relation fa
Rumpole on Trial
Hilda persuades Ballard to defend Rumpole when he faces a disciplinary hearing. Rumpole seems to have gone a good deal t
