Law and Disorder is a British

United Kingdom

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 sitcom

Situation comedy

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 that aired on ITV

ITV

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 in 1994. Starring Penelope Keith

Penelope Keith

Penelope Anne Constance Keith, CBE, DL is an English actress.Having started her television career in the 1950s, Penelope Keith became a household name in the United Kingdom in the 1970s when she played Margo Leadbetter in the sitcom The Good Life...

, it was written by Alex Shearer

Alex Shearer

Alex Shearer is a British novelist.Shearer was recognized as a television scenario writer at age 29 after having produced over 30 works. He was active as a writer for television, movies, theatre, and radio for 14 years, and then devoted himself to becoming a novelist.His maiden work was The...

, who had also written No Job for a Lady

No Job for a Lady

No Job for a Lady is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1990 to 1992. Starring Penelope Keith, it was written by Alex Shearer, and directed and produced by John Howard Davies...

, which Keith appears in. It was directed and produced by John Howard Davies

John Howard Davies

John Howard Davies was an English television director and producer and former child actor.Davies was born in Paddington, London, the son of the scriptwriter Jack Davies...

. Law and Disorder was made for the ITV

ITV

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 network by Central

Central Independent Television

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 and Thames Television

Thames Television

Thames Television was a licensee of the British ITV television network, covering London and parts of the surrounding counties on weekdays from 30 July 1968 until 31 December 1992....

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Cast

• Penelope Keith
  Penelope Keith
  Penelope Anne Constance Keith, CBE, DL is an English actress.Having started her television career in the 1950s, Penelope Keith became a household name in the United Kingdom in the 1970s when she played Margo Leadbetter in the sitcom The Good Life...
  
   — Philippa Troy
• Simon Williams
  Simon Williams (actor)
  Simon Williams is an English actor known for playing James Bellamy in the period drama Upstairs, Downstairs. Frequently playing upper-class roles, he is also known for playing Dr...
  
   — Gerald Triggs
• Charles Kay
  Charles Kay
  Charles Kay is an English actor.Kay was born in Coventry, West Midlands, the son of Frances and Charles Beckingham Piff....
  
   — Judge Wallace
• Eamon Boland
  Eamon Boland
  Eamon Denis Boland is an English actor.He has played Tony Walker in Casualty, Frank O'Connor in Coronation Street, Gerry Hollis in Kinsey, Jim Gray in The Chief, Phil Fox in Fox...
  
   — Arthur Bryant
• John Junkin
  John Junkin
  John Francis Junkin was an English radio, television and film performer and scriptwriter.In 1960 Junkin joined Joan Littlewood's Stratford East Theatre Workshop, and played the lead in the original production of Sparrows Can't Sing...
  
   — Steven
• Emma Davies — Susan

Plot

The main character in Law and Disorder was Philippa Troy, a widowed acid-tongued barrister

Barrister

A barrister is a member of one of the two classes of lawyer found in many common law jurisdictions with split legal professions. Barristers specialise in courtroom advocacy, drafting legal pleadings and giving expert legal opinions...

, who used a no-nonsense, and sometimes illegal, approach to winning cases. She always won, often beating Gerald Triggs. Troy also wrote a series of children's books called Prickly Peter, and drove an open-top sports car

Sports car

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. Other characters were her solicitor

Solicitor

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 Arthur Bryant, clerk

Court clerk

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 Steven, her junior Susan and the Judge

Judge

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Episodes

1. "What Goes Up" (17 January 1994)
2. "One for the Album" (24 January 1994)
3. "A Night to Remember" (31 January 1994)
4. "A Slip of the Pen" (7 February 1994)
5. "The Cannibal" (14 February 1994)
6. "Safe as Houses" (21 February 1994)