Rumpole of the Bailey - The Complete Series - 15-DVD Box Set ( Rumpole Of The Bailey - Series 1-7 )

Rumpole of the Bailey - The Complete Series - 15-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

$98.99

Original Title: Rumpole Of The Bailey - Series 1-7
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
Emmy Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
2250 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1978-1991 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Donald McWhinnie
Roger Bamford

Written By:
John Mortimer

Actors:
Leo McKern ..... Horace Rumpole (42 episodes, 1978-1992)
Jonathan Coy ..... Henry (37 episodes, 1978-1992)
Julian Curry ..... Claude Erskine-Brown (35 episodes, 1978-1992)
Marion Mathie ..... Hilda Rumpole (24 episodes, 1987-1992)
Richard Murdoch ..... Uncle Tom (23 episodes, 1978-1991)
Maureen Derbyshire ..... Dianne - Secretary / ... (23 episodes, 1978-1991)
Peter Blythe ..... Samuel 'Soapy Sam' Ballard, Q.C. / ... (22 episodes, 1983-1992)
Peggy Thorpe-Bates ..... Hilda Rumpole (16 episodes, 1978-1983)
Peter Bowles ..... Guthrie Featherstone, QC MP / ... (16 episodes, 1978-1992)
Patricia Hodge ..... Phyllida 'Portia' Erskine-Brown / ... (16 episodes, 1978-1992)
Joanna Van Gyseghem ..... Marigold Featherstone / ... (14 episodes, 1978-1992)
Denis Lill ..... Mr. Bernard (14 episodes, 1983-1992)
Abigail McKern ..... Elizabeth 'Mizz Liz' Probert / ... (12 episodes, 1988-1992)
Denys Graham ..... Percy Hoskins (10 episodes, 1983-1991)
Moray Watson ..... George Frobisher / ... (9 episodes, 1978-1988)
Robin Bailey ..... Judge Gerald Graves / ... (7 episodes, 1987-1992)
Christopher Milburn ..... Dave Inchcape (7 episodes, 1991-1992)
Eric Dodson ..... Jack Pommeroy (7 episodes, 1983-1991)
Bill Fraser ..... Judge Roger 'The Mad Bull' Bullingham / ... (5 episodes, 1978-1988)
Rowena Cooper ..... Matron Marguerite 'Matey' Ballard / ... (5 episodes, 1988-1992)
Camille Coduri ..... Dot Clapton (5 episodes, 1992)
Peter Cartwright ..... Keith / ... (5 episodes, 1979-1988)
William Lawford ..... Usher / ... (5 episodes, 1983-1991)
James Grout ..... Mr. Justice Ollie Oliphant / ... (4 episodes, 1991-1992)
Rosalyn Landor ..... Fiona Allways (4 episodes, 1983)
Samantha Bond ..... Liz Probert / ... (4 episodes, 1987)
Frank Mills ..... Fig Newton / ... (4 episodes, 1983-1991)
Ron Pember ..... Dennis Timson / ... (4 episodes, 1987-1992)
John Bardon ..... Fred Timson (4 episodes, 1987-1992)
Ann Way ..... Dodo Mackintosh (4 episodes, 1983-1988)
David Yelland ..... Nick Rumpole (3 episodes, 1978-1979)
Derek Benfield ..... Albert Handyside (3 episodes, 1978-1980)
Donald Eccles ..... Mr. Justice Vosper (3 episodes, 1979)
Peter Carlisle ..... Wilfred / ... (3 episodes, 1988-1992)
Struan Rodger ..... Detective Inspector Brush / ... (3 episodes, 1979-1988)
Richard Syms ..... Mr. Myers (3 episodes, 1983)
Neville Phillips ..... Usher / ... (3 episodes, 1978-1987)
Louis Haslar ..... Usher (3 episodes, 1979-1991)
Arthur Blake ..... Clerk / ... (3 episodes, 1983-1988)
David Squire ..... Peanuts Molloy / ... (3 episodes, 1987-1991)
John Mortimer ..... Judge at table / ... (3 episodes, 1987-1992)
Joanna David ..... Jennifer Postern / ... (2 episodes, 1983-1992)
Phyllida Law ..... Honoria Bird / ... (2 episodes, 1978-1987)
Nicholas Gecks ..... Charles 'Hearthrug' Hearthstoke / ... (2 episodes, 1987)
John Nettleton ..... Dr. Hugo Swabey / ... (2 episodes, 1979-1992)
Peter Cellier ..... Mr. Grayson / ... (2 episodes, 1979-1987)
Ronnie Stevens ..... Justice Simon Parsloe / ... (2 episodes, 1991-1992)
Richard Hampton ..... Mr. Pinhorn (2 episodes, 1991)
Edward de Souza ..... Mr. Bernard (2 episodes, 1978)
Roger Brierley ..... Mr. Cursitor / ... (2 episodes, 1979-1992)
Preston Lockwood ..... Lord Chancellor (2 episodes, 1988-1991)
Tim Wylton ..... Dr. Overton / ... (2 episodes, 1983-1992)
Donald Pickering ..... Attorney General / ... (2 episodes, 1987-1992)
Anthony Dawes ..... Dr. Lewis Bleen / ... (2 episodes, 1978-1991)
Maurice Denham ..... Mr. Justice Gwent-Evans / ... (2 episodes, 1987-1988)
Pamela Miles ..... Tricia Benbow (2 episodes, 1991)
Michael Lees ..... Major Graham Sykes / ... (2 episodes, 1979-1987)
Henry Power ..... Tristan Erskine-Brown (2 episodes, 1987-1988)
Brian Hall ..... Fred Bry / ... (2 episodes, 1978-1992)
Toni Palmer ..... Vi Timson (2 episodes, 1978-1979)
Roland Oliver ..... Det. Insp. Bellman (2 episodes, 1987)
Hugh Martin ..... Usher (2 episodes, 1978)
Peter Childs ..... Fred Timson (2 episodes, 1978-1979)
Frank Coda ..... Cyril Timson / ... (2 episodes, 1978-1979)
Kenton Moore ..... Court Usher / ... (2 episodes, 1983-1987)
William Haden ..... Court Official / ... (2 episodes, 1987-1991)
Stephen Gordon ..... D.I. Walcroft / ... (2 episodes, 1978-1991)
Peter Whitaker ..... Jack Pommeroy (1 episode, 1978-1979)

Synopsis:

The popular TV series about an eccentric barrister, Horace Rumpole, who plays at being a part-time detective, dishing out his own brand of justice, and defending the 'little fellow'. All the while, smoking his ever-popular cigars and spouting Wordsworth. Contains all the episodes from series 1 to 7 and RUMPOLE'S RETURN. Horace Rumpole is an 'Old Bailey Hack,' one of the underpaid barristers who ply the courtrooms of the Old Bailey, London's criminal court. Rumpole refused to handle most suits and will never prosecute. He always defends. Each of his trials has both a victory and a defeat in them, his clients who are acquitted often angrier than those who are found guilty. There is always at least one and often two subplots.

Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: Rumpole and the Younger Generation
Original Air Date-3 April 1978
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.
Season 1, Episode 2: Rumpole and the Alternative Society
Original Air Date-10 April 1978
Rumpole defends a hippie-type schoolteacher on a narcotics charge and finds himself attracted to her and her lifestyle.
Season 1, Episode 3: Rumpole and the Honourable Member
Original Air Date-17 April 1978
An MP is accused of raping one of his assistants, and seems reluctant to defend himself. Rumpole is left with only one line of defence; attack the complainant's character, thereby infuriating his son's American fiancée.
Season 1, Episode 4: Rumpole and the Married Lady
Original Air Date-24 April 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 (She who must be obeyed) into the arms of her friend Dodo.
Season 1, Episode 5: Rumpole and the Learned Friends
Original Air Date-1 May 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.
Season 1, Episode 6: Rumpole and the Heavy Brigade
Original Air Date-15 May 1978
Rumpole returns to bloodstains as he defends an stuttering, apparently mentally-challenged petty crook on a murder charge.
Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: Rumpole and the Man of God
Original Air Date-29 May 1979
Rumpole defends a vicar accused of shoplifting three shirts although he refuses to testify in his own behalf.
Season 2, Episode 2: Rumpole and the Case of Identity
Original Air Date-5 June 1979
One instance of marital infidelity is at the root of Rumpole's current case involving a liquor store robbery while another threatens the stability of his chambers.
Season 2, Episode 3: Rumpole and the Show Folk
Original Air Date-12 June 1979
Rumpole goes on Circus, or rather on Circuit, in the north, where an actor and theatre manager has been shot with a stage prop. The case seems clear-cut, but everything depends on how one reads the script.
Season 2, Episode 4: Rumpole and the Fascist Beast
Original Air Date-19 June 1979
Captain Rex Parkin of the Pay Corps (retired) is charged with an offence under the Race Relations Act, and finds to his horror that Rumpole has taken under his wing a pupil barrister from the Punjab.
Season 2, Episode 5: Rumpole and the Course of True Love
Original Air Date-26 June 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, and Rumpole's client's career as a teacher.
Season 2, Episode 6: Rumpole and the Age for Retirement
Original Air Date-3 July 1979
Both Rumpole and his current client, Percy Timson, one of the patriarchs of the criminal clan, are under pressure by their families to retire.
Season 3
Season 3, Episode 1: Rumpole and the Genuine Article
Original Air Date-11 October 1983
Rumpole defends an eccentric artist in a forgery case before the newly appointed Judge Featherstone.
Season 3, Episode 2: Rumpole and the Golden Thread
Original Air Date-18 October 1983
Rumpole agrees to defend a cabinet minister of a former British African colony accused of murdering a prominent clergyman.
Season 3, Episode 3: Rumpole and the Old Boy Net
Original Air Date-25 October 1983
A seemingly respectable old school couple arrested for running a brothel for upper-class clients are reluctant to help in their own defense.
Season 3, Episode 4: Rumpole and the Female of the Species
Original Air Date-1 November 1983
Rumpole defends a petty thief on charges of armed robbery while trying to get Fiona accepted into his chamber.
Season 3, Episode 5: Rumpole and the Sporting Life
Original Air Date-8 November 1983
Rumpole reluctantly agrees to defend Fiona's sister, who's accused of murdering her husband with a shotgun.
Season 3, Episode 6: Rumpole and the Last Resort
Original Air Date-15 November 1983
Rumpole tries to collect an old debt from an elusive deadbeat solicitor while defending a vacation planner on fraud charges.
Season 4
Season 4, Episode 1: Rumpole and the Old, Old Story
Original Air Date-19 January 1987
After a fight with his wife Rumpole stays with Erskine-Browns and finds that Portia is prosecuting one of his clients.
Season 4, Episode 2: Rumpole and the Blind Tasting
Original Air Date-26 January 1987
Rumpole defends career criminal Hugh Timson for receiving a garageful full of stolen wine.
Season 4, Episode 3: Rumpole and the Official Secret
Original Air Date-2 February 1987
Rumpole defends an eccentric spinster accused of being a government whistle-blower.
Season 4, Episode 4: Rumpole and the Judge's Elbow
Original Air Date-9 February 1987
Rumpole defends the smarmy owner of a string of massage parlors on the charge of running 'disorderly houses' (i.e. bordellos).
Season 4, Episode 5: Rumpole and the Bright Seraphim
Original Air Date-16 February 1987
After an army sergeant is found stabbed to death wearing a woman's dress, Rumpole is assigned to defend the accused murderer.
Season 4, Episode 6: Rumpole's Last Case
Original Air Date-23 February 1987
While defending one of the Timson clan, Rumpole makes an exotic horse racing bet which may allow him to retire if he wins.
Season 5
Season 5, Episode 1: Rumpole and the Bubble Reputation
Original Air Date-23 November 1988
A notorious tabloid hires Rumpole to defend it in a libel suit being brought by a puritanical novelist it has accused of sexual promiscuity.
Season 5, Episode 2: Rumpole and the Barrow Boy
Original Air Date-30 November 1988
Nigel Timson, one of the few members of the notorious Timson clan to have a legitimate job, is defended by Rumpole on a charge of insider trading.
Season 5, Episode 3: Rumpole and the Age of Miracles
Original Air Date-7 December 1988
Rumpole defends Hilda's nephew, a canon who has accused of adultery in an ecclesiastical court.
Season 5, Episode 4: Rumpole and the Tap End
Original Air Date-14 December 1988
Featherstone's controversial remarks and ruling in a domestic violence case causes fallout from women's rights groups and concern from the Lord Chancellor.
Season 5, Episode 5: Rumpole and Portia
Original Air Date-21 December 1988
Rumpole defends a scrap dealer accused of selling arms to terrorists while Phyllida presides at the trial in her newly appointed job as recorder.
Season 5, Episode 6: Rumpole and the Quality of Life
Original Air Date-28 December 1988
Season 6
Season 6, Episode 1: Rumpole a la Carte
Original Air Date-28 October 1991
Rumpole agrees to defend an elitist restaurateur whom he dislikes when a live mouse jumps out from one of his gourmet meals.
Season 6, Episode 2: Rumpole and the Summer of Discontent
Original Air Date-4 November 1991
Rumpole defends a union activist accused of manslaughter while Hilda goes on strike as Rumpole's cook because of his late hours..
Season 6, Episode 3: Rumpole and the Right to Silence
Original Air Date-11 November 1991
A radical college professor accused of murder refuses to disclose his alibi while Ballard and Erskine Brown learn domestic lessons about the right to silence.
Season 6, Episode 4: Rumpole at Sea
Original Air Date-18 November 1991
While on a Mediterranean cruise, Rumpole is confronted with his old nemesis, Judge Graves, and the unexplained disappearance of one of his fellow passengers.
Season 6, Episode 5: Rumpole and the Quacks
Original Air Date-25 November 1991
Rumpole defends a Pakistani doctor accused of molesting a female patient, and Phyllida suspects Erskine-Brown of philandering.
Season 6, Episode 6: Rumpole for the Prosecution
Original Air Date-2 December 1991
Rumpole agrees to prosecute for the first time in a private complaint brought by the rich father of a murdered girl.
Season 7
Season 7, Episode 1: Rumpole and the Children of the Devil
Original Air Date-29 October 1992
A well-meaning social worker takes custody of an eight year-old Timson girl charging that the family is involved with devil worship.
Season 7, Episode 2: Rumpole and the Miscarriage of Justice
Original Air Date-5 November 1992
Rumpole finds himself in the unusual position of defending a police officer on a charge of falsifying a confession.
Season 7, Episode 3: Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle
Original Air Date-12 November 1992
After becoming enamored of a beautiful violinist, Rumpole finds himself defending her husband on a charge of murdering her lover.
Season 7, Episode 4: Rumpole and the Reform of Joby Jonson
Original Air Date-19 November 1992
Rumole defends a juvenile delinquent on charges of assaulting an elderly woman, and Hilda is concerned when a burglar breaks in to steal evidence from his briefcase.
Season 7, Episode 5: Rumpole and the Family Pride
Original Air Date-26 November 1992
The suspicious drowning of an anonymous old woman on an estate prompts the Lord to invite his cousins, the Rumpoles, for the weekend, and he asks Horace to represent him at the inquest.
Season 7, Episode 6: Rumpole on Trial
Original Air Date-3 December 1992
When Rumpole is charged by Judge Oliphant with contempt of court and faces disbarment, Hilda persuades Sam Ballard to defend him.

Horace Rumploe (Leo McKern) is a down-at-heel yet brilliant barrister. Fond of quoting Wordsworth, he comes to the defence of shoplifting vicars, overly amorous teachers and many others who pass through the doors of the Old Bailey. He is famed for always winning his cases, but there is one person who he has never beaten - his wife 'She Who Must Be Obeyed'!

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 17 February, 2011.