Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)

Rumpole and the Case of Identity (1979)

Leo McKern: Horace Rumpole

Quotes 

• Marigold Featherstone : Mr. Rumpole, do you handle divorce?

  Horace Rumpole : Aah!... Only rarely and then with a strong pair of tongs!

• [Last lines] 

  Horace Rumpole : [after an earlier tense exchange with Guthrie Featherstone regarding his privileged position]  Tough luck old love, you're lumbered with it.

• Erskine Brown : Rumpole, we simply *must* have a reliable head of chambers. Not somebody who's about to be involved in an unsavoury scandal.

  Horace Rumpole : I wonder what a *savoury* scandal would be. Fried on toast, perhaps, with an anchovy and a dash of Worcester sauce?

• Dave Anstey : It's cast-iron, my alibi.

  Horace Rumpole : I'm not altogether sure I like cast-iron alibis. They're the sort that sink quickest - to the bottom of the sea.