John Glenister	...	(Director)
	...	(Writer)
Leo McKern	...	Horace Rumpole
Peggy Thorpe-Bates	...	Hilda Rumpole
Albert Welling	...	Hubert Simpson
Robin Halstead	...	Rory Canter
Shelagh Stephenson	...	Smokey Revere
Carl Andrews	...	Benjamin Dole
Patsy Smart	...	Landlady
Gordon Salkilld	...	D.I. Wargrave
James Smith	...	D.C. Jarwood
Peter Bowles	...	Guthrie Featherstone QC MP [Chambers]
Patricia Hodge	...	Phyllida Erskine-Brown
John Price	...	Ken Cracknell
Julian Curry	...	Claude Erskine-Brown
Richard Murdoch	...	Uncle Tom
Radcliffe Grafton	...	Owen Glendour Owen (as Grafton Radcliffe)

Summary: 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.

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Rumpole has finally retired and has relocated to Miami where son Nick has a position at the university. Rumpole decided to retire after losing a long string of cases before Judge Bullingham, but is quite bored with ogling pretty girls and reading about interesting crimes in The Times. In Chambers, there is now a need to fill the vacancy a young radical lawyer seems to be the front runner. When he needs help on a case, Phyllida Erskine-Brown offers to write to Rumpole and asks for his assistance. To everyone's surprised, Rumpole returns to Chambers and finds himself with a nice little murder case to defend, yet again, before Judge Bullingham.