Rumpole of the Bailey

Synopsis

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.

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Streaming on

• Britbox Apple TV Channel ↗
• PBS↗
• BritBox↗
• PBS Masterpiece Amazon Channel↗
• BritBox Amazon Channel↗
• Thirteen↗
• WETA+↗

Top of the call sheet

• 
  Leo McKern
  as Horace Rumpole
• 
  Patricia Hodge
  as Phyllida Trant
• 
  Julian Curry
  as Claude Erskine-Brown
• 
  Robin Bailey
  as Mr. Justice Gerald Graves
• 
  Peter Blythe
  as Samuel Ballard, Q.C.
• 
  Richard Murdoch
  as Uncle Tom

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