- Rumpole is defending a young member of the Timson clan, an extended family of light-fingered but otherwise moral South London villains. To his distress, his own son appears to be acquiring some of the Timson traits.
- Horace Rumpole is a middle-aged "junior" barristers who excels at criminal cases. Rumpole defends Jim Timson, the youngest member of the lovable but criminal Timson clan. Timson is accused of theft but the main evidence against him comes from Peanuts Molloy, a members of another well known criminal family with whom the Timson's have been feuding and refuse to speak to as a matter of principle. At home meanwhile, his wife Hilda, whom he refers to as "she who must be obeyed", has hopes for Rumpole to be elected Head of Chambers now that her father has decided to retire. Guthrie Featherstone becomes the Chamber's first QC in anyone's memory. Nick Rumpole visits from school with news about his future education.—garykmcd
- London, 1967. Horace Rumpole is an aging barrister. While lesser barristers have gone on to greater things and corporate law is where the money and glamour is at, Rumpole sticks to criminal cases at the Old Bailey. He gets the job of defending Jim Timson, youngest member of the famed Timson clan of petty criminals. The odds are stacked against his client and his family background doesn't help.—grantss
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What is the broadcast (satellite or terrestrial TV) release date of Rumpole and the Younger Generation (1978) in Australia?
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