Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series) Rumpole and the Age for Retirement (1979) User Reviews

"I have always said that exercise is the short cut to the graveyard"

[ygwerin1 · 8/10 · 12 February 2020]

Hilda She Who Must Be Obeyed is unusually solicitous of Rumpole's welfare, as he returns home after a hard day's graft.

Rumpole received a letter from a Professor Julius Cramer in Baltimore, inviting him to lecture in his University.

Rumpole's son Nick phoned from the States to talk of his pending visit home.

Nick joined his dad in court where Rumpole is representing Percy of the Clan Timpson, charged with being in possession of a priceless work of art.

She Who Must is in cahoots with their son Nick to bamboozle Rumpole into early Retirement, the aim is to to present him with an offer he couldn't ignore.

Hilda spreads the idea of Rumpole's Retirement via Philida Trant ney Erskine Brown, thus seeping it into the Chambers Grapevine. The notion spreads like wildfire to apparently all and sundry, leaving the only person in the dark over the endeavour that of Rumpole himself.

Rumpole and the Age for Retirement

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 2 September 2019]

The conclusion of the second series and Thames Television were probably wondering if a third series would be commissioned or whether the main actors would commit any further. Leo McKern was spending more time in the land of his birth, Australia.

Retirement is certainly in the air for Rumpole. Even his clients think he has passed it. The judges never saw eye to eye with his cross examination of the police or the jokes in his closing speeches.

Rumpole's son Nick returns from America and he has concocted an outrageous plan to lure Rumpole to teach law at a university in Baltimore.

There is a small matter of defending Percy Timson, veteran head of a criminal family who has found with a valuable painting in his lock up garage. Percy knew nothing about the painting. A case of being fitted up by some members of his own family who thought he was passed it and wanted him out of the way for a bit. The problem is that the painting is so valuable, conservatively estimated to be worth £500,000, Percy is looking at more than just a few months in jail but several years.

It really is a case whether Rumpole would call it a day. The head of Chambers throws a lavish dinner party in his honour. The world has moved on, policemen such as Inspector Brush are no friend of lawyers or the police rulebook. Phyllida Trant has now had a baby and her husband Claude Erskine-Brown is willing to do his own share of bringing up the baby.