Ranked #2 of 6 in Season 6•+0.1 vs season avg
Before Mr Justice Guthrie Featherstone, Rumpole defends a trade unionist on charges of recklessly causing the death of a truck-driver who was crossing a union picket-line. Guthrie is thinking about a strike of his own, to hit back at new rights of audience for mere solicitors
Leo McKern
Horace Rumpole
Marion Mathie
Hilda Rumpole
John Mortimer
Writer
Julian Amyes
Director
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"Rumpole and the Summer of Discontent" is episode 2 of Rumpole of the Bailey season 6. It scored 8.2/10 from 91 votes, ranking #2 of 6 episodes this season (season average 8.1). Directed by Julian Amyes and written by John Mortimer, it aired on November 4, 1991.