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It is the start of the second series of Rumpole and it seems Leo McKern has sprouted hair. It is certainly longer or it might just be a wig.

Rumpole believes that men of the cloth make bad witnesses. Unfortunately he has to defend a vicar from shoplifting charges. He is accused of stealing some shirts and does not have much of an explanation.

To make matters worse. The trial judge is Judge Bullingham who is never a friend of the accused or defence lawyers.

Rumpole suspects that the good reverend is lying to him and might be protecting someone else.

However Rumpole is also left in a dilemma with another matter. How to protect someone dear to him. George Frobisher has applied to become a judge and is planning to get engaged. However Rumpole recognises the woman he wants to marry from a past case when she comes to the Rumpole household for dinner.

As always writer John Mortimer brings out the romantic in Rumpole with some florid verse and some verbosity in the courtroom. Rumpole also witnesses a miracle in the courtroom.