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    Comedy TV Shows - 1960s TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

    Misleading Cases

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    1 9 6 7 – 1 9 6 8 (UK)
    13 x 30 minute episodes
    1 9 7 1 (UK)
    6 x 30 minute episodes

    The ancient and irascible Albert Haddock (played years above his age by Roy Dotrice) brought up and argued obscure points of arcane English law, such as in the debut episode where he tried to settle a bill by presenting a cheque written on the side of a cow.

    His adversary was usually Sir Joshua Hoot QC (Thorley Walters) and Avice Landon was Albert’s often bemused, but always patient wife.

    Stipendiary Magistrate Mr Justice Swallow (Alistair Sim) viewed Haddock’s rounds of unorthodox jurisprudence with tolerant admiration and occasional exasperation.

    Guest stars throughout the run of the show included such TV luminaries as Warren Mitchell, John Le Mesurier, Patricia Hayes, Irene Handl, Arthur Mullard and Fred Emney. John Cleese appeared in one episode just so he could work with Alistair Sim.

    The episodes were adapted from Oxford law graduate A.P. Herbert’s collection of legal absurdities which were first published in Punch magazine in 1924 and were later released over six books, the first of which was Misleading Cases, printed in 1927.

    Alan Melville adapted the stories for the first two series. The third series appeared three years after the second and was written by Christopher Bond and Michael Gilbert.

    Stipendiary Magistrate Mr Justice Swallow
    Alastair Sim
    Albert Haddock
    Roy Dotrice
    Sir Joshua Hoot QC
    Thorley Walters
    Florence Haddock
    Avice Landone

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