Season 1
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Apr 3, 1978
Rumpole successfully defends a teenager accused of robbery with violence, but his victory is marred by the knowledge that, although innocent on this occasion, the boy is destined for a life of crime.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Apr 10, 1978
Rumpole is very content to be defending a drugs case in the peace of the West Country. However, the outcome of the trial is not so pleasing.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Apr 17, 1978
An MP is accused of raping one of his assistants, and he seems reluctant to defend himself. Rumpole is left with only one line of defense: attack the complainant's character, thereby infuriating his son's American fiancee.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Apr 24, 1978
After a long spell without cases, Rumpole is apparently divorcing his old friend and colleague George Frobisher. His client, meanwhile, threatens to drive Rumpole's wife, Hilda, into the arms of her friend Dodo.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: May 1, 1978
Rumpole accuses a dishonest policeman of framing his safecracker client and finds himself in legal trouble when he can't back up his claim.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: May 15, 1978
Rumpole defends a stuttering, apparently mentally challenged petty crook on a murder charge. His client has all the evidence stacked against him, but Rumpole's battered old bowler hat seems to be stealing all the attention in chambers.
Season 2
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: May 29, 1979
Rumpole defends a vicar accused of shoplifting three shirts, although he refuses to testify in his own behalf.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Jun 5, 1979
One instance of marital infidelity is at the root of Rumpole's case involving a liquor store robbery, while another affair threatens the stability of his chambers.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Jun 12, 1979
Rumpole goes on "circus," or rather on circuit, in the north, where an actor and theater manager has been shot with a stage prop. The case seems clear-cut, but everything depends on how one reads the script.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Jun 19, 1979
Captain Rex Parkin is charged with an offense under the Race Relations Act and finds to his horror that Rumpole has taken under his wing a pupil barrister from the Punjab.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Jun 26, 1979
What appears to be an uncontrollable outbreak of bed-hopping is about to ruin the chances of Guthrie Featherstone, QC, MP, becoming a judge, as well as torpedo Rumpole's client's career as a teacher.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Jul 3, 1979
Both Rumpole and his current client, Percy Timson, one of the patriarchs of a criminal clan, are under pressure by their families to retire.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Dec 30, 1980
After a string of losing cases, Rumpole has retired and moved to Florida, where he and his wife are staying with their son and daughter-in-law. But the endless sun and swimming pools are driving Rumpole mad, and when his old chambers sends him a letter questioning some bloodstain evidence, he hurries back to London to work on the case.
Season 3
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1983
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1983
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Oct 25, 1983
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1983
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1983
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1983
Season 4
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Jan 19, 1987
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Jan 26, 1987
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Feb 2, 1987
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Feb 9, 1987
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Feb 16, 1987
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Feb 23, 1987
Season 5
Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Nov 23, 1988
Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Nov 30, 1988
Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Dec 7, 1988
Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Dec 14, 1988
Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Dec 21, 1988
Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Dec 28, 1988
Season 6
Episode: 6x01 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1991
Episode: 6x02 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1991
Episode: 6x03 | Airdate: Nov 11, 1991
Episode: 6x04 | Airdate: Nov 18, 1991
Episode: 6x05 | Airdate: Nov 25, 1991
Episode: 6x06 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1991
Season 7
Episode: 7x01 | Airdate: Oct 29, 1992
Episode: 7x02 | Airdate: Nov 5, 1992
Episode: 7x03 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1992
Episode: 7x04 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1992
Episode: 7x05 | Airdate: Nov 26, 1992
Episode: 7x06 | Airdate: Dec 3, 1992