First broadcast 3rd 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.
Leo McKern ... Horace Rumpole
Peggy Thorpe-Bates ... Hilda Rumpole
Peter Bowles ... Guthrie Featherstone (as PeterBowles)
Moray Watson ... George Frobisher
Patricia Hodge ... Phyllida Trant
Julian Curry ... Claude Erskine Brown
Richard Murdoch ... Uncle Tom
David Yelland ... Nick Rumpole
Donald Eccles ... Mr Justice Vosper
Jeffrey Perry ... Simon Vosper
Joanna Van Gyseghem ... Lady Marigold Featherstone
Jonathan Coy ... Henry
Maureen Darbyshire ... Dianne
Struan Rodger ... Detective Inspector Brush
John Hartley ... Detective Constable Hurst
Tony Sibbald ... Professor Julius Kramer
James Bree ... Mr Glassworth
Julia McCarthy ... Noreen Timson
Frank Coda ... Uncle Cyril Timson
George Hilsdon ... Percy Timson
Toni Palmer ... Vi Timson
Peter Childs ... Fred Timson
Michael Lees ... Mr Turner
Charles Hodgson ... Mr Rowland
Louis Haslar ... Usher
