Phillippa Troy (Penelope Keith) is an acerbic, no-nonsense barrister who defends safe crackers, cannibals, photographers, hot air balloonists, irate football fans, and sleepwalking murderers.
The sports car-driving widow regularly does battle with pompous bible-thumping prosecutor Gerald Triggs (Simon Williams) and wise-cracking Judge Wallace (Charles Kay), continually – but not continuously – correcting their grammar and behaviour whilst skating close to the edge of moral practice herself to win her cases.
She also writes best-selling children’s books featuring a hedgehog called Prickly Peter who wears trainers and rides a mountain bike.
Eamon Boland co-stars as Phillippa’s hypochondriac Instructing Solicitor Arthur Bryant, with John Junkin as her clerk, Steven.
The ITV series ran from 17 January to 21 February 1994.
Penelope Keith died of cancer at her home in Surrey in June 2026, aged 86.
Phillippa Troy
Penelope Keith Gerald Triggs
Simon Williams Judge Wallace
Charles Kay Arthur Bryant
Eamon Boland Steven
John Junkin Susan
Emma Davies Usher
David Hatton
Episodes
What Goes Up | One for the Album | A Night to Remember | A Slip of the Pen | The Cannibal | Safe as Houses
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The sports car-driving widow regularly does battle with pompous bible-thumping prosecutor Gerald Triggs (Simon Williams) and wise-cracking Judge Wallace (Charles Kay), continually – but not continuously – correcting their grammar and behaviour whilst skating close to the edge of moral practice herself to win her cases.
