Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)

Rumpole and the Younger Generation (1978)

Peter Childs: Fred Timson

Quotes 

• Fred Timson : It's, uh, young Jim's first, uh, appearance, like, at the Bailey.

  Horace Rumpole : [to himself]  Ah, his Bar Mitzvah, his First Communion!

• Horace Rumpole : [musing to himself]  Ah, the Timsons, en famille, in all their glory. It's like an old school reunion. I've never seen so many ex-clients at one go.

  [out loud] 

  Horace Rumpole : Ah, Mr. Bernard. You're instructing me?

  Mr. Bernard : Always, in a Timson case, Mr. Rumpole.

  Fred Timson : Nothing but the best for the Timsons. Best solicitor, best barrister going. Shall I do the honours? Vi, my wife.

  Horace Rumpole : [to himself]  I got Vi off on a handling charge, after the Croydon bank raid. Well, there was really no evidence.

  Fred Timson : ...Uncle Cyril...

  Horace Rumpole : [to himself]  What was his last outing, exactly? Carrying housebreaking instruments by night.

  Fred Timson : ...Uncle Dennis. Oh, you remember Den, surely ?

  Horace Rumpole : [to himself]  Oh yes. Conspiracy to forge log books.

  Fred Timson : ...and Den's Doris...

  Horace Rumpole : [to himself]  A bit of receiving a vast quantity of stolen scampi. Yes, acquitted by a majority.

  Fred Timson : ...and yours truly, Frederick Timson, the boy's father.

  Horace Rumpole : [to himself]  Ah, we had a slip-up with Fred's last spot of bother. I was away, with flu. George Frobisher took it over. He got three years. He must only just have got out.

  Fred Timson : Well, now you know the whole family, Mr. Rumpole.

  Horace Rumpole : [to himself]  A family to breed from, the Timsons! Without them, the Old Bailey would go out of business.