The Bill (1983)
The Bill (1983)
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.

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13x01 The Old Pals' Act

02 January, 1997 8:00 pm
Ch. Insp. Conway leads an after-hours raid on a pub, but W.P.C. Keane and P.C. Hollis, and two members of the public, are injured. Ch. Supt. Brownlow is called in and he finds that the son of an old friend is involved.

13x02 All's Fair

03 January, 1997 8:00 pm
WPC Debbie Keane and PC George Garfield respond to a call to about a mugging, the victim describes his attacker as a big black man who sprayed something in his eyes then stole his wallet. AT Sun Hill Wpc Polly Page and PC Dave Quinnan talk to a woman who has come in to report an attempted rape, she describes when and where it happened and that she only got away after she sprayed mace in his face, later when Dave and Debbie discover they are investigating two seperate incidents that happened in the same place at the same time they take them to CID DS Geoff Daly remembers the name of the mugging victim as the sole suspect in a rape from several months earlier, he and DC Rod Skase interview both alledged victims she remains true to her original statement but they punch holes in his story not least of which when Rod finds his apparently stolen wallet had been handed in at St. Hughes hospital at the time he was there having his eyes washed out they get him to admit that there was no muggin

13x03 Man Trap

09 January, 1997 8:00 pm
PC Dave Quinnan and WPC Norieka Datta go to the scene where a teenage boy has been found dead from a massive electric shock in the flat of one of his neighbours. Dave knows the boy as he has arrested him before for burglary they talk to the tenant he tells them that he came home to find his flat broken into and the boy dead. It looks like murder but who would want to kill him ? Dave discovers a secret about the tenant and WPC Page finds out that the victim's older brother may know more than he is letting on.

13x04 Bad Debt

10 January, 1997 8:00 pm
George Talbot a loan shark reports his business records stolen DS Don Beech and WDC Suzy Croft go to talk to him he is glad that Don is handling the case as he tells Suzy that the two of them are old friends. SGT Ackland and WPC Page respond to an anonymous 999 call about an a woman being assaulted in her home but when they get to the address they talk to the woman who lives there Janet Ford and her daughter Lorna despite having a bruise on her face she tells them it must have been a prank and that she got the bruise from walking into a door both June and Polly believe that she was beaten and that it was her Lorna who made the call but with no complaint being filed they return to Sun Hill. After over hearing Suzy joking with the others about Don's shady friends, DCI Meadows warns Don about who he associates with and doing them favours. Lorna comes into the station to talk to June and Polly she tells them what really happened that a man hit herbecause her mum didn't have money he sai

13x05 Professional Opinion

14 January, 1997 8:00 pm
PC Tony Stamp and WPC Debbie Keane go to the scene of an arguement outside a flat on on the Jasmine Allen estate between a man and woman, the man tells them that his wife is inside but the woman won't let him speak to her she tells them that his wife doesn't want to see him. They calm the situation down and persuade the man to leave as he is escorting him away the man tell Tony that she hasn't spoken to him since their sons funeral because she blames herself as he died after he took some of her methadone pills thinking they were sweets but he doesn't blame her he blames her doctor who he claims is prescribing to patients drugs in stronger than recommened doses, when he is later arrested for trying to attack the doctor DS Geoff Daly and DC Rod Skase investigate and in doing so without first checking the computer to make sure no one else is already investigating her almost ruin a drug squad case. After being told off by DCI Meadows he tells Geoff to help the drug squad detective Dave M

13x06 Testament

16 January, 1997 8:00 pm
DS John Boulton and WDC Suzy Croft invetigate the sudden death of an apparently healthy middle-aged woman who lived alone, the F.M.E tells them that it looks like she suffocated in her sleep which he says is unual for someone her age not to wake themselves if they're having breathing difficulties going through her belongings Suzy finds a few things out of place in an otherwise spotlessly tidy flat as well as the fresh flowers Polly found in the rubbish bin outside that lead them to belive that someone else had been inside the flat recently. her boss tells John and Suzy that she was a quiet person and he doesn't know of anyone from work who'd been to her home. They find from entries in her diaries that lead them to an old friend of hers he tells them that they had met up again recently for the first time in almost thirty years and had been seeing each other for dinner once or twice a week and that he went arond to see her the day she died but there was already a man there he describes t

13x07 A Policeman's Lot

17 January, 1997 8:00 pm
PC Garfeld objects when a guard from a private security firm catches a suspected burglar he, Debbie, Gary McCann and Nick Slater were chasing after they lose him and is only to happy to believe the suspect when he claims that the guard assaulted him he begins checking him out and finds he has a criminal record for assault and when the comes in with tools used in the break in that he claims he saw the boy throw over a wall when he was chasing him George accuses him of being violent in arresting the boy and manufacturing evidence. While on patrol PC Stamp and WPC Blake come across an elderly lady who has been knocked down and may have been robbed, as it in the area controlled by the security firm they go to their offices to see if any of them may have seen what happened but the bossis less than keen to help because of the hassle George is giving his guard. When he later does decide to help people are not only able to ruin the boy's alibi for the time of the burglary but clear up how the

13x08 The Devil You Know

21 January, 1997 8:00 pm
George and Debbie attend a call about a disturbance outside a community hall where a birthday party is going on inside they put out the name of the suspect wanted for causing criminal damage Dave recognises it, he has arrested him for drug dealing and burglary he and Nick pick him up and take him back to Sun Hill he tells them he was there because of the birthday girl Amanda Ray he wanted her to go with him to another party but her boyfriend made her stay he admits the criminal damage he did it to get back at her. Later when Debbie and George find Amanda collapsed outside the hall from a suspected drug overdose her father blames the boyfriend for giving her the drugs and his father a teacher at canley comprehensive for not supervising the party very well. After Debbie arrests the boyfriend at the hospital for possession of cannabis he talks to George off the record and the truth comes out about who bought the drugs.

13x09 Once Bitten

23 January, 1997 8:00 pm
When an ex-girlfriend of Sgt.Boyden who left him several years earlier because of his refusal to quit the police is arrested and brought in Sun Hill Matt finds himself caught between his feelings for and DS Grieg's investigation into a drug smuggling ring run by her husband and her brother in law, but it soon becomes clear to him what he must do when not only does Grieg's investigation implicate her it also looks like she has lied to him about why she left her husband but also that she may be using him to find out how much the police know about her involvement and to help her avoid getting arrested.

13x10 Turnaround

24 January, 1997 8:00 pm
A recently released paedophile is reported missing by his sister the only member of his family to stick by him when he was charged with abducting and raping a child she tells them it is down to his victim's father who has been harassing and threatening her and her brother since he got out of prison. DCI Meadows who ran the original case is reluctant to go after the father however DI Deakin persists and when DC Skase finds blood and other signs of a struggle in the man's garden shed but no body Meadows decides they have to talk the victim's father and that he shold be the one to do it he gets him to admit to following him and phoning him and his sister to tell them he should leave Sun Hill but he denies having seen him the day he disappeared or knowing what happened in his house. Later when evidence puts the father at the house shortly before he went missing Meadows and Deakin decide to follow him to let him lead them to where he is keeping him or where they buried the body but he lead

13x11 Over the Fence

28 January, 1997 8:00 pm
Sgt. Cryer and PC Loxton go to the scene of a disturbance between neighbours they manage to calm the situation down but when Steve recognises one of the neighbours from when he arrested him once a few years ago for burglary and then sees outside his house the box for an expensive computer which he suspects is stolen he and Bob find themselves drawn into another arguement between the two couples when they're both found to be in possession of computer equipment stolen during a ram raid robbery of a factory and each one claims to have bought it from the other.

13x12 Grey Area

30 January, 1997 8:00 pm
Irene Stanton a sister at St Hughes comes into the station to see DCI Meadows he agrees to talk to her even though he is busy so heand WDC Rawton listen to her as she tells them that last night Dr. Jonathan Forsyth helped an elderly woman to die she explains that herself and nurse Diana Holt were on duty and the patient Mrs. Southwell asked them to contact Dr. Forsyth and that when he came he told her and Diana to wait outside he then drew the curtain around the bed and when he came out told them she had passed away but she was suspicious because she saw him inject her with something other than the morphine he signed out from the dispensery then slip the vial in his coat pocket so she is sure he committed euphanasia so she came to the police rather than go through the hospitals official channels for fear they would cover it up. Jack and Liz Investigate they talk to Irene's Superior Angela Marant who tells them she is a good nurse and can't imagine she would make this up or that F

13x13 One Big Happy Family

31 January, 1997 8:00 pm
P.C. Garfield's complaint that Ch. Supt. Brownlow and Ch. Insp. Conway are out touch with real police work brings an unexpected response: Conway goes on a ride along with P.C. Page and Brownlow goes for a walkabout in the station - much to the annoyance of Insp. Monroe, who feels he is being spied upon, and Sgt. Boyden who doesn't want him hanging around in custody. Brownlow is in CAD and reprimands Nick over the air for not using correct radio procedure. When Boyden is called away, Brownlow takes charge of the custody area where he clashes with D.S. Boulton over a prisoner's detention review time. P.C. Stamp and P.C. Slater do their best to avoid returning to the station while Brownlow is on the prowl, until they take what they think is an easy call about a fight at a kids' football match that ends with Nick being punched in the face by an irate father who he then arrests for assaulting him and the match referee. Page and Conway get on the trail of two men posing as TV engineers to ga

13x14 The Eye of the Beholder

04 February, 1997 8:00 pm

13x15 Say a Little Prayer

06 February, 1997 8:00 pm

13x16 Downfall

07 February, 1997 8:00 pm

13x17 True to Life Player

11 February, 1997 8:00 pm
A football star's return to Sun Hill turns sour when he is accused of raping an underage fan. Boulton and Carver investigate

13x18 Take Away

13 February, 1997 8:00 pm

13x19 Your Call Too

14 February, 1997 8:00 pm

13x20 Breaking Up

18 February, 1997 8:00 pm

13x21 A Price to Pay

20 February, 1997 8:00 pm

13x22 Just Looking

21 February, 1997 8:00 pm

13x23 A Tangled Web

27 February, 1997 8:00 pm

13x24 Rolling In It

28 February, 1997 8:00 pm

13x25 Added Bonus

04 March, 1997 8:00 pm

13x26 Holding On

06 March, 1997 8:00 pm

13x27 Crime Management

07 March, 1997 8:00 pm
DI Chris Deakin has a word to DS John Boulton about his team's informants. Boulton has done pretty well, but DC Tosh Lines hasn't recruited a snout for months. Under pressure, Lines tries to recruit Karen Walsh, the wife of the victim of a recent attack which he'd investigated, but she refuses to grass on her husband or his associates. Lines puts pressure on the Walshes' landlord Pat Beresford who he believes was responsible for the attack, and is delighted when Beresford contacts him offering information.

13x28 Age Gaps

11 March, 1997 8:00 pm

13x29 In the Dark

12 March, 1997 8:00 pm
A blind woman, Tracy Cooper, helps the police catch a dangerous sex killer. She doesn't realise, however, that the guilty party is her husband.

13x30 Crying Wolf

13 March, 1997 8:00 pm

13x31 Confidence

14 March, 1997 8:00 pm

13x32 All For Love

18 March, 1997 8:00 pm

13x33 Only the Lonely

20 March, 1997 8:00 pm

13x34 Copier

21 March, 1997 8:00 pm

13x35 Fashion Victims

25 March, 1997 8:00 pm

13x36 Hook, Line and Sinker

27 March, 1997 8:00 pm

13x37 No Claims Bonus

28 March, 1997 8:00 pm

13x38 Joker

31 March, 1997 8:00 pm

13x39 Typecast

01 April, 1997 8:00 pm

13x40 A Hard Rain

03 April, 1997 8:00 pm

13x41 Rings On Her Fingers

04 April, 1997 8:00 pm

13x42 Strange Meeting

08 April, 1997 8:00 pm

13x43 A Bitter Pill

10 April, 1997 8:00 pm

13x44 Dial 'M' For Marmalade

11 April, 1997 8:00 pm

13x45 Sisters

15 April, 1997 8:00 pm

13x46 Flesh and Blood

17 April, 1997 8:00 pm

13x47 Parklife

18 April, 1997 8:00 pm

13x48 Two's Company

22 April, 1997 8:00 pm

13x49 Inside Edge

25 April, 1997 8:00 pm

13x51 Pay Back

01 May, 1997 8:00 pm
Beech and Carver investigate a vicious attack, but have to piece the evidence together when neither the suspect nor victim can remember what happened.

13x52 A Place of Your Own

02 May, 1997 8:00 pm

13x54 It's Good to Talk

08 May, 1997 8:00 pm

13x55 Split Second

09 May, 1997 8:00 pm

13x56 Old Fools

13 May, 1997 8:00 pm

13x57 Auld Lang Syne

15 May, 1997 8:00 pm
A man found nursing a broken ankle in a private garden claims he was taking a short cut over a fence. Rawton does not believe him, but can she prove otherwise?

13x58 Warnings

16 May, 1997 8:00 pm

13x59 Calling Time

20 May, 1997 8:00 pm

13x60 Black and Blue

22 May, 1997 8:00 pm

13x61 A Bunch of Fives

23 May, 1997 8:00 pm
DS Don Beech is found brutally beaten in an alley adjacent to a Chinese restuarant. Whilst his colleagues wish to extract retribution, Brownlow attempts to use more amenable methods, leading to a race for both CID and Uniform to find his attackers. But was Beech on police business at the time?

13x62 Short, Sharp, Shock

27 May, 1997 8:00 pm

13x63 Get You Back

29 May, 1997 8:00 pm

13x64 Powers of Persuasion

30 May, 1997 8:00 pm

13x66 The Wrath of God

05 June, 1997 8:00 pm

13x67 Knight Errant

06 June, 1997 8:00 pm

13x68 Punch Bag

10 June, 1997 8:00 pm

13x69 Best Eaten Cold

12 June, 1997 8:00 pm

13x70 Lucky Day

13 June, 1997 8:00 pm
DC Tosh Lines is going stir-crazy as DCI Jack Meadows has them transcribing interviews for the CPS. Asking Meadows if he can follow up a snout's information, Tosh heads for the Beckwith Arms pub, where he spots a dodgy motor. Approaching the owner, Pete Gapper, Tosh tries to ascertain if the car is stolen, and Gapper offers to sell him another car. Returning to the station, Tosh finds a furious D.I. Noble from the Stolen Vehicles Squad, who accuses him of compromising their operation. To make the best of the situation, and since Tosh believes this will be the suspect's last sale, he goes undercover to ensnare Gapper. As the police move in, Gapper pulls out a handgun, but the timely arrival of an SO19 team soon sees him arrested. Back at the station, Tosh is resentful that his younger colleagues get all the breaks and resources, but Meadows tells him that his experience earns him more respect than he thinks.

13x71 For Richer, For Poorer

17 June, 1997 8:00 pm

13x72 No More Milk

19 June, 1997 8:00 pm

13x73 An Englishman's Home

20 June, 1997 8:00 pm

13x74 Loyal to the Last

24 June, 1997 8:00 pm

13x75 Rent

26 June, 1997 8:00 pm

13x76 Last Respects

27 June, 1997 8:00 pm

13x77 Too Much to Lose

01 July, 1997 8:00 pm

13x78 Do Unto Others

03 July, 1997 8:00 pm

13x79 Mid-Life Crisis

04 July, 1997 8:00 pm

13x80 Performing

08 July, 1997 8:00 pm

13x81 Playing With Fire

10 July, 1997 8:00 pm

13x82 No Guarantees

11 July, 1997 8:00 pm

13x83 Gentleman Jim

15 July, 1997 8:00 pm
WPC Jamilla Blake rejoins the Met, and to the envy of the relief, is placed on attachment to CID. DC Jim Carver, behind on his paperwork, is far from pleased when Blake drags him around Sun Hill following up leads on a trivial car theft case. Their investigations, however, lead them to a gang of armed robbers.

13x84 Rift

17 July, 1997 8:00 pm

13x85 Stand By Your Man

18 July, 1997 8:00 pm

13x86 Replica

22 July, 1997 8:00 pm

13x87 Mr Friday Night

24 July, 1997 8:00 pm

13x88 Hitting the Nerve

25 July, 1997 8:00 pm

13x89 Thicker Than Mud

29 July, 1997 8:00 pm

13x90 Alternative Therapies

31 July, 1997 8:00 pm

13x91 Foxed

01 August, 1997 8:00 pm

13x92 These Foolish Things

05 August, 1997 8:00 pm

13x93 Neighbours

07 August, 1997 8:00 pm

13x94 Glass House

08 August, 1997 8:00 pm

13x95 This Old Man

12 August, 1997 8:00 pm

13x96 Tommy the Hero

14 August, 1997 8:00 pm

13x97 Driven To It

15 August, 1997 8:00 pm
When a local cabbie offers his services to help ensnare a drug pusher, Daly jumps at the idea.

13x98 A Man Out Walking His Dog

19 August, 1997 8:00 pm
Boyden is unsure as to the cause of death when a man's body is found in a car, poisoned by alcohol and exhaust fumes. Is it really a straightforward suicide?

13x99 Hunt

21 August, 1997 8:00 pm

13x101 This Land Is Ours

26 August, 1997 8:00 pm

13x102 Paying the Piper

28 August, 1997 8:00 pm

13x103 On the Hurry Up

29 August, 1997 8:00 pm

13x104 Not in the Script

02 September, 1997 8:00 pm
When Slater is recommended by Rawton for undercover work, he is overjoyed. His colleagues however ridicule him, and their interference almost costs them a trial operation. Will he bottle it?

13x105 Flower Power

04 September, 1997 8:00 pm

13x106 A Breach of Trust (1)

05 September, 1997 8:00 pm

13x107 A Breach of Trust (2)

09 September, 1997 8:00 pm

13x108 Fool

11 September, 1997 8:00 pm

13x109 Armed and Dangerous

12 September, 1997 8:00 pm

13x110 Animals

16 September, 1997 8:00 pm

13x111 Look Into My Eyes

18 September, 1997 8:00 pm

13x112 Performance Anxiety

19 September, 1997 8:00 pm

13x113 Different Strokes

23 September, 1997 8:00 pm

13x114 Sparks

25 September, 1997 8:00 pm
Beech loses his cool with an antsy DS from stafford row, while Skase falls for the charm of his female DC.

13x115 The Lion's Den

26 September, 1997 8:00 pm
Slater goes undercover as a Bouncer at a club run by the notorious Guy Walsh. As Slater gains his trust, will he be exposed?

13x116 The Needs of the Many

30 September, 1997 8:00 pm

13x117 Cross Purposes

02 October, 1997 8:00 pm

13x118 Free to Speak?

03 October, 1997 8:00 pm
Its Nick Slater's final day at Sun Hill, and takes Keane out for a farewell dinner. Loxton, Quinnan and Skase do their best to extinguish any intimate moments.

13x119 Dishonour Among Thieves

07 October, 1997 8:00 pm

13x120 Coup de Grace

09 October, 1997 8:00 pm

13x121 Night of the Long Knives

10 October, 1997 8:00 pm
The relief is furious at working in endless shifts, especially when Keane, Loxton and Jarvis have called in sick. Its Garfield's duty as Fed Rep to sort things out, when an evening turns from bad to worse.

13x122 Straying

14 October, 1997 8:00 pm

13x123 A Bad Lot

16 October, 1997 8:00 pm

13x124 Crimes of a Lesser Passion

17 October, 1997 8:00 pm

13x125 Force

21 October, 1997 8:00 pm

13x126 Walkabout

23 October, 1997 8:00 pm

13x127 Shades of Grey (1)

24 October, 1997 8:00 pm

13x128 Shades of Grey (2)

28 October, 1997 8:00 pm

13x129 Women at Work

30 October, 1997 8:00 pm

13x130 Solid Evidence

31 October, 1997 8:00 pm

13x131 Going Down

04 November, 1997 8:00 pm

13x132 Accomplice

06 November, 1997 8:00 pm
When a girl is abducted, it bears the hallmarks of a serial killer Carver helped put away years ago. Did he work alone?

13x133 Last Fare

07 November, 1997 8:00 pm

13x134 Stolen Thunder

11 November, 1997 8:00 pm

13x135 P.C.

13 November, 1997 8:00 pm

13x136 No Trace

14 November, 1997 8:00 pm
Despite resigning, Loxton helps Quinnan settle the score with a slimey lawyer.

13x138 After All These Years

20 November, 1997 8:00 pm

13x139 Sands of Time

21 November, 1997 8:00 pm
As the threat of tenure looms over DC Jim Carver, he is desperate to prove himself to Meadows by capturing a jewel thief who absconded years ago. Carver meets DC Lines' informant, who sends him on the trail, but Lines is skeptical. Will the cocky young DC or the veteran copper be proved right?

13x140 Identity Crisis

25 November, 1997 8:00 pm

13x141 The Same Stripe (1)

28 November, 1997 8:00 pm
When a good deed misfires badly, Ackland finds herself on the wrong end of an investigation.

13x142 The Same Stripe (2)

02 December, 1997 8:00 pm
Ackland's trusted informer disappears without trace.

13x143 Hot Plastic

04 December, 1997 8:00 pm

13x144 Gaybashing

05 December, 1997 8:00 pm
Boyden And Quinnan investigate when a man is found unconscious in an outhouse, a notorious spot for homosexuals.

13x145 Potential For Conflict

09 December, 1997 8:00 pm
P.C. Tony Stamp arrives at Hendon Police College to check on the progress of new recruit P.C. Luke Ashton, who will soon be posted to Sun Hill provided he can pass the course. Ashton's confidence takes a dive when he is subjected to bullying by fellow recruit Pete Warner, and with it, his scores for the course. On a night out at the pub, Ashton saves Warner from a bashing by drunken youths, but it's still touch and go. It comes down to his final test, and his new-found confidence sees him through. Meanwhile, back at Sun Hill, the officers compete over the cushy task of ""puppywalking"" the new recruit, but P.C. Reg Hollis has a plan...

13x146 Heartbreak Hotel

11 December, 1997 8:00 pm

13x147 Humpty Dumpty (1)

12 December, 1997 8:00 pm
Ashton is puppy walked by Stamp, yet his day goes from bad to worse when a boy falls from a roof. Was it murder or suicide?

13x148 Humpty Dumpty (2)

16 December, 1997 8:00 pm
As it becomes increasingly likely that Jimmy was murdered, and whoever killed him killed Bannerman, Cryer and Ashton attempt to solve the riddle before its too late.

13x149 Humpty Dumpty (3)

18 December, 1997 8:00 pm
With Patrick Massie still in custody, will Cryer prove his guilt before he worms his way out?

13x150 Out

19 December, 1997 8:00 pm

13x151 Twanky

22 December, 1997 8:00 pm
PC Polly Page attempts to direct the Sun Hill team in a pantomime performance of ""Aladdin"", but has to put up with Brownlow and Conway sniping at each other through the script, and a deranged man attempting to kill DI Deakin.

13x152 Things That Go Bump in the Night

30 December, 1997 8:00 pm
Boyden and Page find a notorious safecracker, blown up and semi conscious state, in a dilapidated building.

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