Entertainment & Sports
Jun. 16, 2023
Stream It Tonight! "Rumpole of the Bailey" (1978-1992)
Gentle parody rules in this 44-episode British television criminal justice series.
Paul Bergman
Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Law
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Paul continues teaching evidence.
Michael Asimow
Professor
UCLA School of Law
Email: asimow@law.ucla.edu
Michael is Dean's Executive professor of law at Santa Clara Law School, teaching contracts as well as law and popular culture.
W hy Watch? John Mortimer’s curmudgeonly barrister Horace Rumpole defends Runyonesque characters in delightful and gentle satires of British criminal justice.
Horace Rumpole (Leo McKern) is an irascible but skilled London barrister who is “much more interested in blood stains and disputed hairs than House of Lords opinions.” Rumpole is beleaguered by d...
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