A shame the previous reviewer didn't like this episode, since I was struck by how outstandingly good it was. Everything in the storyline meshed neatly, including the wire-tape which had only caught the decorator's name. A thoroughly enjoyable hour's entertainment. Rumpole at his best with a hostile judge, giving as good as he got.
Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)
Rumpole and the Official Secret (1987)
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Rumpole and the Official Secret
Prismark1015 March 2020
Rosemary Tuttle is a career civil servant who has been charged with a breach of the Official Secrets Act. Leaking the tea and biscuit budget to a journalist.
An old school friend of Erskine Brown is contacted about the mater and he thinks Rumpole is just the right man for the theatrics needed at court.
Rumpole as in his mind a response to these absurd charges, the accused tells him that she is innocent.
Made at a time in the 1980s when several high profile incidents reached the courts where civil servants did leak information to the press, usually relating to the nuclear deterrent. This story was topical.
A serious case, balanced with comedy as Erskine Brown desperately wants to go to the opera to see Wagner.
As always Rumpole knows that the security services are watching and hearing his every move. He also fathoms that his client might had been stitched up.
An old school friend of Erskine Brown is contacted about the mater and he thinks Rumpole is just the right man for the theatrics needed at court.
Rumpole as in his mind a response to these absurd charges, the accused tells him that she is innocent.
Made at a time in the 1980s when several high profile incidents reached the courts where civil servants did leak information to the press, usually relating to the nuclear deterrent. This story was topical.
A serious case, balanced with comedy as Erskine Brown desperately wants to go to the opera to see Wagner.
As always Rumpole knows that the security services are watching and hearing his every move. He also fathoms that his client might had been stitched up.
Arrrrrghh crap TV at nanas
gibbs-1817222 November 2020
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