Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)

Rumpole's Return (1980)

Richard Murdoch: Uncle Tom

Quotes 

• [Rumpole has announced that his stay in Florida with his son was just a holiday, and that he is not retiring after all] 

  Uncle Tom : How long will you be staying with us this time, Horace?

  Horace Rumpole : How long? Oh, who knows how long. You know, I well remember that awful old Lord Chief when I was first at the Bar. He gave an eighty-year-old man fifteen years for persistent theft, at Bodmin Assizes. "But my Lord," the old man said, "I shall never do fifteen years." "Well," the old Lord Chief encouraged him, "you must just do as much of it as you can." And *I* will do just as much of it as I can.