Look carefully, writer John Mortimer makes a Hitchcock type of cameo at a canteen scene.
The police find criminal Hugh Timson hiding stolen silver items in bags of frozen peas. Rumpole luckily gets him off as none of the people whose items were stolen came forward to identify it. They were happy with the insurance money.
Timson might be running out of luck. The police find cases of wine in his garage and he is charged with the theft of vintage wine.
Rumpole has to defend him again. Luckily for Timson, Rumpole recently visited a blind wine tasting contest with Claude Erskine-Brown and happened to have come across the man who had his wine stolen by Timson.
A far from vintage episode. I find it hard to believe that the poetic Rumpole would not know how to do a wine tasting. There is I feel a slight decline in quality and writing.
Also after using some cunning to get a female pupil accepted by the chambers. He has to do the same again for another female pupil.
I assume Rosalyn Landor did not reprise her role as Fiona Allways. Samantha Bond plays Liz Probert, a daughter of a left wing council leader. The head of chambers, Ballard thinks that she is the daughter of a well known clergyman.