One of the best-known fictional London clubs is the Sheridan Club, from John Mortimer’s ‘Rumpole of the Bailey’ stories, about the misadventures of “an Old Bailey hack.” The Club had both literary and onscreen incarnations - Mortimer wrote each version, with the long-running TV series (1978-92) typically having each season adapted into a short story collection; and the depiction of the Club is consistent across both versions.