What is the first name of “Rumpole of the Bailey” on the TV series and what is his wife’s first name?
Horace Rumpole (Leo McKern) is married to Hilda Rum-pole (Peggy Thorpe-Bates, Marion Mathie) on the TV show “Rumpole of the Bailey”
(Thames, 1978-88).
He usually refers to her as “She Who Must Be Obeyed.”
The series has appeared on PBS’s “Mystery!” (1981).