Ranked #2 of 6 in Season 5•matches the season avg
Young Nigel Timson has moved on from the world of East End villainy and is now working in financial services in the City of London. Rumpole is called on to defend Nigel against charges of insider trading. Meanwhile, Henry, the clerk in Rumpole's chambers, is thinking
Leo McKern
Horace Rumpole
Patricia Hodge
Phyllida Trant
Julian Curry
Claude Erskine-Brown
Peter Blythe
Samuel Ballard, Q.C.
Jonathan Coy
Henry
Marion Mathie
Hilda Rumpole
John Mortimer
Writer
Julian Amyes
Director
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"Rumpole and the Barrow Boy" is episode 2 of Rumpole of the Bailey season 5. It scored 8.2/10 from 104 votes, ranking #2 of 6 episodes this season (season average 8.2). Directed by Julian Amyes and written by John Mortimer, it aired on November 30, 1988.