

TV's Best Loved Barrister
December 17, 1975
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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.

Leo McKern
Horace Rumpole

Patricia Hodge
Phyllida Trant

Julian Curry
Claude Erskine-Brown

Robin Bailey
Mr. Justice Gerald Graves


John Mortimer
Jacqueline Davis

Peter Blythe
Samuel Ballard, Q.C.

Richard Murdoch
Uncle Tom

Jonathan Coy
Henry

Abigail McKern
Liz Probert

Marion Mathie
Hilda Rumpole

Specials
3 episodes
December 16, 1975

Season 1
6 episodes
April 3, 1978

Season 2
6 episodes
May 29, 1979

Season 3
6 episodes
October 11, 1983

Season 4
6 episodes
January 19, 1987

Season 5
6 episodes
November 23, 1988

Season 6
6 episodes
October 28, 1991

Season 7
6 episodes
October 29, 1992