Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)

Rumpole and the Learned Friends (1978)

Peter Bowles: Guthrie Featherstone

Quotes 

• [Guthrie Featherstone is leading Horace Rumpole in a case of safe-cracking] 

  Guthrie Featherstone, QC MP : Of course I'll mitigate.

  Horace Rumpole : Mitigate? "My Lord, my client only went in to buy a seven-penny stamp. But as he was kept waiting by ten old ladies with pension books, he lost his patience and blew the safe."

  Guthrie Featherstone, QC MP : [ironically]  Very good mitigation.

• Guthrie Featherstone, QC MP : If you ask me, this case is as dead as a doornail.

  Horace Rumpole : So are we all, eventually.