First broadcast 12th 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.
Leo McKern ... Horace Rumpole
Eleanor Bron ... Maggie Hartley
John Wells ... Daniel Derwent
Derek Benfield ... Albert Handyside
Paul Rogers ... Tommy Pierce
Bernard Archard ... Jarvis Allen
Sebastian Shaw ... Mr. Justice Skelton
Harry Markham ... Mr. Croft
Brian Stirner ... Alan Copeland
Hetty Baynes ... Christine Hope (as Henrieta Baynes)
Roger Hume ... Police Inspector
Roger Brierley ... Roach
Edward Burnham ... Sego
Pauline Taylor ... Elsie (as Polly Taylor)
John Quarmby ... First Barrister
Charles Rayford ... Clerk
Walter Henry ... Foreman
Lewis Alexander ... Sheriff of the County
Reg Thomason ... Man in Public Gallery
