Rumpole and the Man of God
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: 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.