< Rumpole and the Younger Generation (1978)

EPISODE 1.1 (Rumpole of the Bailey) | 51m | Open in IMDB | WL | ? / 7.6 (200)

Crime, Drama, Mystery | Rumpole is defending a young member of the Timson clan, an extended family of light-fingered but otherwise moral South London villains. To his distress, his own son appears to be acquiring some of the Timson traits.

• Director: Herbert Wise
• Writer: John Mortimer
• Leo McKern (58) - Horace Rumpole
• Peggy Thorpe-Bates (64) - Hilda Rumpole
• David Yelland (31) - Nick Rumpole
• John Welsh (64) - C. H. Wystan
• Peter Bowles (42) - Guthrie Featherstone
• Joanna Van Gyseghem (37) - Lady Marigold Featherstone
• Moray Watson (50) - George Frobisher
• Derek Benfield (52) - Albert Handyside
• Jonathan Coy (25) - Henry
• Richard Murdoch (71) - Uncle Tom
• Julian Curry (41) - Claude Erskine-Brown
• Norman Ettlinger (58) - Percy Hoskins
• Richard Albrecht (28) - Tony Maclay
• Ralph Michael (71) - Mr Justice Everglade
• Edward de Souza (46) - Mr Bernard
• Edwin Brown - Chief Insp. 'Chalky' White
• Peter Childs (39) - Fred Timson
• Toni Palmer (46) - Vi Timson
• Keith Jayne (18) - Jim Timson
• Sean Clarke - 'Peanuts' Molloy