First broadcast 19th January 1987.
After a fight with his wife Rumpole stays with Erskine-Browns and finds that Portia is prosecuting one of his clients.
Leo McKern ... Horace Rumpole
Marion Mathie ... Hilda Rumpole
Peter Blythe ... Samuel Ballard Q.C.
Patricia Hodge ... Phyllida Erskine-Brown
Julian Curry ... Claude Erskine-Brown
Maurice Denham ... Mr. Justice Gwent-Evans
David Waller ... Captain Gleason
Richard Murdoch ... Uncle Tom
Jonathan Coy ... Henry
Maureen Darbyshire ... Dianne
Victoria Wicks ... Amanda Gleason
Robin Sachs ... Hugo Lutterworth
Jelena Budimir ... Daphne
Jeffery Dench ... Denis Driscoll
Richard Evans ... Det. Insp. Relph
William Simons ... Det. Sgt. Wilmer
Finola Keogh ... Mrs. Slammery
Neville Phillips ... Posnet
Henry Power ... Tristan Erskine-Brown
Lucy Speed ... Isolde Erskine-Brown