Rumpole of the Bailey(1975)

series - first aired/released 1975-12-17 - audience 7.1

Drama, Comedy, Crime

Directed by Bill Hays, Brian Farnham, Derek Bennett, Donald McWhinnie, Graham Evans, Herbert Wise, James Cellan Jones, Jim Goddard, John Gorrie, Julian Amyes, Martyn Friend, Michael Simpson, Mike Vardy, Peter Hammond, Robert Knights, Robert Tronson, Rodney Bennett, Roger Bamford, Stuart Burge, Tony Dean Smith

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.