First broadcast 30th December 1980.
A bored Rumpole living in Florida retirement uses an inquiry from Phyllida as a pretext to re-establish himself back in chambers
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
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)
Moray Watson ... George Frobisher
Jonathan Coy ... Henry
Maureen Darbyshire ... Dianne
Ian Gelder ... Nick Rumpole
Deborah Fallender ... Erica Rumpole
Maxine Johnson ... Tiffany Jones
Phil Marquis ... Paul Hayes
Dick Sterling ... Prof. Nathan Blowfield
Ken Rahgers ... William
Jorge Gil ... Young Man At Farm (as Jorge Gill)
Christine Page ... Post Girl
Leonard Maguire ... Dr. McClintock
Alan Lake ... Meacher
Derek Benfield ... Albert Handyside
Roger Booth ... Alderman Pertwee
Robert Hartley ... Judge Matthew
John Humphry ... Prosecuting Counsel
Bill Fraser ... Judge Roger 'The Mad Bull' Bullingham
Gerald Cross ... Moreton Colefax Q.C.
John Alkin ... Mike Mowbray
Peter Hughes ... Prof. Ackerman
T.R. Bowen ... Lord Freith (as Trevor Bowen)
