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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15x01 Long Term Investment

07 January, 1999 8:00 pm

15x02 Chasing Shadows

14 January, 1999 8:00 pm
During an operation investigating a Cafe illegally operating as a Casino, an officer is kidnapped, prompting DCI Meadows and the team to search through the night.

15x03 Follow Through

21 January, 1999 8:00 pm
Kerry Holmes goes undercover in a women's prison after a serious assault takes place there.

15x04 Walking on Water

26 January, 1999 8:00 pm
An informant turns up dead on his boat but questions are asked about this apparent suicide as well as Don Beech's loyalty.

15x05 The Wrong Horse

28 January, 1999 8:00 pm
Garfield and Hagen are assigned to protect a horse jockey due to give evidence against a corrupt bookmaker.

15x06 No Love Lost

02 February, 1999 8:00 pm
Boyden picks up an attractive young girl at a nightclub but quickly realises that she was not as old as he thought.

15x07 Pond Life

04 February, 1999 8:00 pm
DCI Meadows has to deal with violent protests when a local newspaper reveals the location of a registered paedophile in safe accommodation in Sun Hill.

15x08 Murder, What Murder?

09 February, 1999 8:00 pm
DescriptionGarfield has got problems juggling a body with no head along with a clingy reporter who fancies him.

15x09 Age of Chivalry

11 February, 1999 8:00 pm
D.C.I. Burnside and D.C. Rawton pursue a serial rapist and his accomplice.

15x10 Slinging Mud

18 February, 1999 8:00 pm
Meadows goes to court and finds himself on trial.

15x11 Under Duress

23 February, 1999 8:00 pm
Boulton and Rawton clash when a house fire reveals a sordid secret.

15x12 Sleeping With the Enemy

25 February, 1999 8:00 pm
Gritty action with the boys and girls in blue; Burnside investigates a predatory gang of women with Lennox and Skase as bait.

15x13 Badlands

02 March, 1999 8:00 pm
DS John Boulton is determined to catch a pair of brutal thieves, and he is certain that local crook Mick Glover is one of them. Ignoring protests from Uniform, who already have Glover under surveillance, Boulton leads a disasterous raid on Glover's flat, which puts PCs Quinnan and Garfield's informant Janie in grave danger. When Quinnan and Garfield find Janie's flat on the Jasmine Allen estate vandalised, Quinnan pursues the suspects, but finds himself seperated from Garfield, who can only watch in horror as his friend is beaten and stabbed by a gang of youths.

15x14 Eyes Everywhere

04 March, 1999 8:00 pm
With PC Quinnan in a critical condition in St Hugh's Hospital, the police descend on the Jasmine Allen estate, determined to catch those responsible. PC Garfield manages to identify most of the gang, and a young boy, Kevin White, bought in for questioning names them as the 'Sun Hill Massive'. Garfield and DS Boulton come to blows when Boulton denies any responsiblity for the attack on Quinnan. Acting on a tip-off, the police raid Mick Glover's flat again, finding he is responsible for the burgleries, and that his son Ben and Kevin White were the ones who stabbed Quinnan.

15x15 Yesterday's Hero

18 March, 1999 8:00 pm
Tension between DS Boulton and PC Garfield over Dave Quinnan's stabbing reaches boiling point on an obbo with PC Hollis. Garfield explodes when pushed too far, and he headbutts Boulton, nearly breaking his nose. It's up to Reg to step in and help Garfield come to terms with his feelings of helplessness over the incident. PC Dave Quinnan, still at St Hugh's, resolves to help Juke, a fellow patient who claims the police have done nothing to find the person who stabbed him, although he soon comes to realise that Juke's wounds are self-inflicted.

15x16 On Air

23 March, 1999 8:00 pm
Conway gets beginner's nerves on his first radio talk show, but has to find his feet fast when a caller starts confessing to a crime.

15x17 To Catch a Cobra

25 March, 1999 8:00 pm
Burnside is on the trail of two Indian crime bosses but just how far is DS Boulton willing to help?

15x18 Weekends Are For Wimps

30 March, 1999 8:00 pm
Conway gives up his weekend to cover for Brownlow and Meadows, when a wanted man surfaces however he is faced with a moral dilemma.

15x19 Piggy in the Middle

01 April, 1999 8:00 pm
Luke catches two men trying to commit an arson attack in the dead of night.

15x20 Sex, Lies and Videotape

06 April, 1999 8:00 pm
Ch. Supt. Brownlow has agreed for a fly-on-the-wall documentary crew to film in the station. D.S. Boulton and D.C. Carver soon become the subject of their attention, as they film a raid on a drug dealer that Boulton has been eyeing up for sometime.

15x21 Out and About

08 April, 1999 8:00 pm
P.C. Quinnan is back from sick leave, but can he still cut it as a police officer?

15x22 Kiss Chase

13 April, 1999 8:00 pm
PC Ashton is accused of getting a teenage girl pregnant and to make matters worse she is also the key witness in a domestic violence case.

15x23 On the Road

15 April, 1999 8:00 pm
DCs Lennox and Rawton go to Salisbury to bring in a con-man for questioning, but he proves to be a slippery customer.

15x24 Pressure Point

20 April, 1999 8:00 pm
DC Proctor attempts to make a name for himself in CID whilst Lennox learns about forensic science.

15x25 Look Away Now

22 April, 1999 8:00 pm
PC Harker comes into loggerheads with CID on how to deal with a problem family.

15x26 A Question of Trust (1)

27 April, 1999 8:00 pm
Boulton pursues a suspect aggressively which leads to the suspects death.

15x27 A Question of Trust (2)

29 April, 1999 8:00 pm
Boulton awaits to hear back from the jury investigating his conduct regarding a criminals death whilst he was pursuing him.

15x28 True Lies

04 May, 1999 8:00 pm
PC Harker is informed from a woman about a robbery taking place the next night, however Boyden questions this information.

15x29 Back to Basics

06 May, 1999 8:00 pm
Jim Carver is due for tenure in 2 months, which means he will have to go back to uniform and transfer to a different station, but his old friend and trainer June comes up with an alternative compromise.

15x30 Makeover

11 May, 1999 8:00 pm
It's Jim Carver's first day back in uniform, and he puts up with some good-natured ribbing from his new colleagues. Paired with P.C. Luke Ashton, they are called to the Canley Arms Hotel, where the landlord has been brutally attacked and robbed. When D.C. Rod Skase and Carver's replacement, D.C. Danny Glaze, arrive to investigate, Carver can't help putting his detective skills back to work - while following a lead on the case, he gets into trouble with Sgt. Boyden when he leaves Ashton dealing with a gang of teenage shoplifters on his own. Forensic evidence points to the Baker brothers, and Carver's persistence pays off when he finds out the location of the missing brother, Mark Baker.

15x31 Tinderbox

18 May, 1999 8:00 pm
Senior officers at Sun Hill and Barton Street are dragged off to a team-building exercise.

15x32 Set-Up

25 May, 1999 8:00 pm
A young gypsy girl is attacked in the street and Holmes suspects a racial motive.

15x33 Lone Ranger

01 June, 1999 8:00 pm
PC Eddie Santini tries to convince his lover, Jess Orton, to set him up with some drug dealers - he wants out of Sun Hill, and DS Timpney, his friend in Area Drugs, has promised him a place in the squad if Santini can get him evidence on them. At parade, Sgt. Bob Cryer assigns the relief a door-knocking campaign to warn the elderly residents of the area about two bogus callers posing as social workers who are responsible for a string of robberies. Leaving PC Hagen to cover for him, Santini meets Jessica, but not before hearing the culprits have been following the local Meals-On-Wheels van. Jessica has met up with an old friend, Ferguson, who is a big-time drugs importer. She wants Eddie to pose as her husband when they next meet to seal the deal. When Eddie returns to duty, Cryer is furious. An old army Major has had all his medals stolen by the bogus callers, and Santini had neglected to warn him. A desperate Santini gets Hagen to investigate the Major, and finds his claim is a scam.

15x34 Old Flame

08 June, 1999 8:00 pm
As he and PC Quinnan investigate a burglar alarm, PC Eddie Santini sees Jessica Orton meeting covertly with Ferguson. Making excuses, Santini borrows the panda car and races to the Ortons' club where he confronts Jessica. As she storms off, there is a huge explosion. Santini is shocked when one of the officers assigned by AMIP to investigate the explosion is his old nemesis, DS Rosie Fox. Fox is suspiscious of Santini's involvement, but her colleagues put it down to the animosity between them. As Santini returns to his flat, where his lover PC Vicky Hagen is waiting, he is kidnapped by Ferguson who assigns him the task of picking up a consignment of drugs from Amsterdam.

15x35 Push It

15 June, 1999 8:00 pm
Jessica Orton is brought in for questioning, but is released without charge. When she returns home, PC Santini is waiting for her, desperate to know if she grassed him up. They fight, and Santini hits Jessica, knocking her down the stairs and killing her. Realising her house is being watched, he escapes out the back. Vicki Hagen finds a set of keys under Santini's bed which she brings to the station to return to him.

15x36 Kiss Off

22 June, 1999 8:00 pm
Vicki Hagen finds Eddie Santini's tickets to Amsterdam, and questions him about them, but he is evasive. DCI Pallister takes DS Fox off the Jessica Orton case after her accusations against Santini, but she decides to do some investigation of her own. Santini, meanwhile, acquires a gun and some Class-A drugs to plant in Ferguson's boss's house when DS Timpney and the Area Drugs Squad raid it. Fox stumbles upon the house and is captured by Ferguson. His boss Mr Sherman is displeased that Santini allowed a police officer to find them. When Area Drugs arrive at Sun Hill for the raid, CID realise that both Santini and Fox are in trouble. Sure enough, Ferguson's radio scanner warns him of the forthcoming raid and he locks Santini in the same room as Fox. The two argue, but are pulled apart when Santini attacks Fox. She manages to escape, and Sherman's men are intercepted by SO19. Back at Sun Hill, Fox realises the keys in Hagen's possession are Jessica Orton's - and she arrests Santini for m

15x37 Foreign Body

24 June, 1999 8:00 pm
An armed robber dies after his car crashes during a chase with the police, and the body of an English woman is found in the boot. When it appears she has been murdered, D.C.I. Meadows and D.C. Skase head to France to interview the suspect's sister.

15x38 Borderline

29 June, 1999 8:00 pm
New PC Cass Rickman loses a gun that Beech believes was used in a recent shooting.

15x39 Confessions of a Zookeeper

01 July, 1999 8:00 pm
Conway organises a charity 'lock-up' in the Sun Hill cells.

15x40 Pillow Talk

06 July, 1999 8:00 pm
Quinnan thinks guarding a prisoner in hospital will be easy, until an armed intruder walks in.

15x41 Heavy Plant Crossing

08 July, 1999 8:00 pm
Garfield proposes to his girlfriend, whilst Boyden and Beech come to loggerheads whilst chasing gangs.

15x42 Good Relations

13 July, 1999 8:00 pm
Things always seem to turn sour as Reg's caravan becomes the target of a young arsonist on its triumphant return to the streets of Sun Hill.

15x43 Big Fish

15 July, 1999 8:00 pm
Despite what people say, they still catch the odd villain at Sun Hill as Deakin nets an international drug dealer.

15x44 Taxed

20 July, 1999 8:00 pm
PC Ashton is faced with contemptuousness from Smithy after losing his nerve in a confrontation with a knife-wielding suspect.

15x45 Cracked Up

22 July, 1999 8:00 pm
With Dale Smith on his case and his colleagues thinking he has lost his bottle, is this the end of the line for Luke Ashton?

15x46 Wedded Bliss

27 July, 1999 8:00 pm
PC Smith and PC Rickman deal with a disturbance at a registry office that leads to Proctor and Holmes discovering an immigration scam.

15x47 Lucky Jim

29 July, 1999 8:00 pm
Carver, depressed at the prospect of a life in uniform, develops a drink problem.

15x48 Screwdriver

03 August, 1999 8:00 pm
Tom Proctor finds himself compromised when during a rape investigation he becomes enchanted by the shady female cop brought in to head the case.

15x49 Inside Out

05 August, 1999 8:00 pm
Beech and Glaze go into a prison in the wake of a riot to investigate allegations of brutality by the warders.

15x50 Critical Mass

10 August, 1999 8:00 pm
Insp. Monroe is skeptical but cautious when a young woman, Emma Crawford, rings Sun Hill and says she thinks her boyfriend may have hidden a bomb in the station.

15x51 Ring-a-Ring O'Roses

12 August, 1999 8:00 pm
A punter could be trying to infect the prostitutes of Sun Hill with the HIV virus; Ackland and Rawton investigate.

15x52 The Only Way Is Up

17 August, 1999 8:00 pm
Meadows has a crisis on his hands when he fails to hear a cry for help.

15x53 Rock Bottom

24 August, 1999 8:00 pm
Harker and Daly lock horns over the integrity of a reformed drug dealer.

15x54 Sunhill Boulevard

31 August, 1999 8:00 pm
PC Cass Rickman calls in sick after over-indulging at a barbecue for the relief the previous night. PC Harker and PC Stamp are called to the Sun Hill Lido swimming pool, where a young girl's body has been found in the water. Harker goes undercover at the pool.

15x55 Lola

01 September, 1999 8:00 pm
DI Deakin leads CID and Uniform on a series of disasterous raids to catch alleged DSS fraudsters, while PC Polly Page is given the boring task of serving a court order. As she does so, she hears scratching at the wall from the house next door, which they believe is a trapped dog. With the help of the RSPCA, they force entry and discover a young Spanish woman named Lola imprisoned in a hidden cellar. The owner of the house, Ricky Lee, insists that Lola is a fugitive from a Dutch prison who stowed away in his van and took refuge in his house. When Lola disappears from the hospital, Page and DC Kerry Holmes pay Ricky Lee another visit. Page is suspicious and asks to see the cellar again, but Lee attacks them. Once subdued, they find Lola in the cellar once again, and it looks as if Lee was planning to kill her.

15x56 Integrity (1)

16 September, 1999 8:00 pm
Sun Hill efforts to protect the organisers of a community festival are in vain when the convoy is attacked. New PC Nick Klein is friends with the organiser, Anil Indrani, but the brother of Klein's girlfriend Pam is arrested by PC Dale Smith as he rushes to fight off the attackers. Paired with Smithy the next day, Klein manages to defuse a tense situation when Smith confronts a group of black youths at the market. That night, Indrani's club is raided by officers from Barton Street, led by DS Vickers. Klein is certain that Vickers team has planted drugs on the Billy the DJ, and begins to suspect they were also responsible for the attack on Indrani. PC Smith is in trouble: the youths at the market were undercover police officers conducting an 'integrity test' and Smithy's attitude to racial matters leaves a lot to be desired. As Klein lights up a joint at Pam's house, DS Vickers raids the place and threatens to arrest him for possession unless he helps him destroy Indrani.

15x57 Integrity (2)

19 September, 1999 8:00 pm
The second of a two-parter as Smith's involvement with a dangerous racist puts Brownlow's covert operation in jeopardy - and Klein's career on the line.

15x58 Cold Calling

21 September, 1999 8:00 pm
Rawton and Meadows clash when a violent ex-con returns to Sun Hill.

15x59 Millennium

23 September, 1999 8:00 pm
It only comes around every 1,000 years, but life must go on for the Sun Hill team as it grapples with millennial madness; DS Claire Stanton has a tough first day in CID.

15x60 The Three Sergeants

28 September, 1999 8:00 pm
Sgt. Matt Boyden is not looking forward to another night shift in Custody, but a noisy prisoner demanding food turns out to be the least of his worries. Sgt. June Ackland and PC Dale Smith bring in a drunk and disorderly vagrant who they nickname 'Olly'. Chaos sets in as a drink-driver, some cat-fighting prostitutes, an immigration officer with two deportees and two lay visitors conducting a surprise inspection arrive. As the F.M.E. takes a blood test from the drink driver, Boyden has Olly placed in a cell to rest. When the lay visitors inspect his cell, he is dead. Faced with a death in custody, Ch. Supt. Brownlow calls in CIB, and the three Sergeants on duty, Boyden, Ackland and Cryer argue amongst themselves over who was responsible. Ackland manages to find Olly's real identity, and his widow threatens to sue the Met, but June talks her out of it and discovers that his wife blames herself for his death.

15x61 Trade-Off

30 September, 1999 8:00 pm
Beech pulls rank when Glaze arrests one of his informants, and they agree on a deal which Glaze lives to regret.

15x62 Treading Water

05 October, 1999 8:00 pm
PCs Jim Carver and Cass Rickman wander through a CID obbo, allowing suspect Micky Harris to go free. Trying to make amends, Carver tries to contact a former snout from his CID days, Steve Raines. As they make enquiries, Carver's old friend, nightclub manager Alan Brooks notices Carver's dissatisfaction with uniform work and offers him a job as security manager at his club. Carver finds Raines, now a junkie, who gives Rickman a duff lead on a building society robbery. Carver convinces Raines's estranged wife Alice to give him a second chance, and eventually Raines agrees to testify against Harris. With the nightclub job all but his, Carver reluctantly prepares to hand in his notice, but when the job just as quickly falls through, he turns to a hip flask of vodka in his locker to console himself...

15x63 Look Again

07 October, 1999 8:00 pm
Poor old Reg Hollis faces tragedy when he uncovers a protection racket on a housing estate.

15x64 Love and War (1)

12 October, 1999 8:00 pm
Garfield is anxious to know where he stands with Jenny; Quinnan is behaving strangely, and seems to have something to hide.

15x65 Love and War (2)

14 October, 1999 8:00 pm
Crime fighting takes a back seat as Quinnan and Garfield clash.

15x66 Hot Money

19 October, 1999 8:00 pm
Burnside and Meadows take a gamble when they set up an undercover operation in a local casino.

15x67 Crash Landing

21 October, 1999 8:00 pm
A plane makes a crash landing in Sun Hill, plunging Daly into an investigation in which his ex-lover plays an uncomfortably crucial role.

15x68 Father's Day

28 October, 1999 8:00 pm
Family ties are rekindled at Sun Hill; Boyden's estranged daughter asks him for protection and when Boyden helps her out, they start to rekindle their relationship.

15x69 Sweet Sixteen

02 November, 1999 8:00 pm
Skase feels he is the laughingstock of CID when he is abducted and robbed by a gang of teenage girls and he's determined to get revenge.

15x70 Denial

04 November, 1999 8:00 pm
Carver loses a lot of friends when they realize how much he has changed; self-interested and drinking to excess, he finally goes too far.

15x71 Walking the Line

09 November, 1999 8:00 pm
A Polish shopkeeper tells police he was attacked by three black youths, and DC Lennox and DC Proctor arrest the main suspect, Davy Rawlings. After an attempted escape, Rawlings accuses Lennox of racial abuse, saying that he called him a 'black bastard' during the arrest. As usual, Ch. Supt. Brownlow scrambles into damage control with more regard for the Met's public image than for the welfare of his officers.

15x72 Cover Stories

16 November, 1999 8:00 pm
Burnside discovers Carver's drinking habit, but he has secrets of his own to protect.

15x73 Security

18 November, 1999 8:00 pm
Quinnan tries to catch the person who is threatening his friend, making it difficult to find the right moment to propose.

15x74 Up in Smoke (1)

23 November, 1999 8:00 pm
DCI Meadows and DC Skase are furious when PC Jim Carver turns up drunk to give evidence in a court case - evidence which is so unreliable the judge throws the case out of court. As his colleagues begin to realise the extent of Carver's problems, Insp. Monroe decides to put him on an easy task - escorting a convoy of confiscated drugs to a Home Office depot for destruction. As Carver enjoys a sly drink with depot floorman Vernon Liggett, he accidentally mentions the convoy's destination. The next day, he and Stamp drop behind as Carver dashes out to be sick. When they catch up, the convoy is under attack from four armed men. With little regard for his own safety, Carver dashes forward and tackles one of the men, who abandon their assault, although an SO19 officer is shot during the raid. Despite his heroics that day, Carver is in trouble for breaking procedure, and it could be far worse as there could be an inquiry into how the convoy route was known.

15x75 Up in Smoke (2)

25 November, 1999 8:00 pm
DCI Scanlon from Kent Constabulary arrives to investigate the attack on the Home Office convoy. PC Jim Carver pays Vernon Liggett a visit, but he denies any involvment. Scanlon and Meadows interview the warehouse staff, with Liggett high on their list of suspects, but when DC Lennox goes to his flat, Liggett has disappeared. One of Liggett's colleagues mentions him drinking with a copper named Jim, and Lennox confronts Carver and demands he admit his mistake to Meadows. Insp. Monroe makes Carver go on leave, but when Carver returns to the station he is so drunk he passes out in the yard. Sgt. Ackland and hide him in the FME's room and a van, but he ends up in the Elcott Arms where Lennox drags him out and forces him to confess. Tracing a call Liggett made from the pub to a hotel, Lennox poses as a taxi driver to drive their suspect to a nightclub where he and his associates are arrested in an SO19 raid.

15x76 Homework

30 November, 1999 8:00 pm
Sgt. June Ackland is planning a romantic evening alone with her new boyfriend, Steve Bryant, when her neighbour arrives from across the street with a shotgun she found under the floorboards of her lodger's room. CID arrive and want to set up an obbo - with June's flat as the perfect location.

15x77 Knowing You

02 December, 1999 8:00 pm
Holmes falls out with Proctor when he publicly undermines her.

15x78 Consumers

07 December, 1999 8:00 pm
Jim Carver has gone missing. Among the relief fears for his safety grow when a youth is arrested in possession of his credit card.

15x79 Lock In

09 December, 1999 8:00 pm
Jim Carver hits rock bottom when Burnside is forced to arrest his old friend for murder.

15x80 Money For Nothing

14 December, 1999 8:00 pm
When the Sun Hill team forms a syndicate to buy a greyhound, Quinnan's Jenny discovers she is part of it.

15x81 A Night to Forget

15 December, 1999 8:00 pm
Quinnan's stag night is being organized by Hollis, who hopes it will go right; the evening certainly promises a few surprises.

15x82 A Day to Remember

16 December, 1999 8:00 pm
Things start going wrong on Quinnan's wedding day; Garfield's unexpected reappearance is only the beginning.

15x83 Judgement Day

21 December, 1999 8:00 pm
Lennox and Rawton are drawn closer together when a dangerous ghost from Rawton's past returns to haunt her.

15x84 Haunted

23 December, 1999 8:00 pm
DS Stanton, DC Lennox and DC Proctor are on an obbo at a spooky old building called the Old Pumping Station, which is supposed to be haunted. The trio tell each other ghost stories: back in his uniform days, Proctor was assigned to watch the house of a serial murderer. Investigating a noise, he meets a young woman called Cathy, who turns out to have been on of the killer's victims. A skeptical Stanton reveals how a psychic's assistance with a case she worked on turned out to be a hoax. Lennox, when he was in the Glasgow police, meets a dying crime boss who promises revenge from beyond the grave.

15x85 When the Snow Lay All Around

24 December, 1999 8:00 pm
A young runaway waiting for his foster parents, a bickering Russian barbershop quartet and a drunk and disorderly elf from the North Pole are all part of the job for the Sun Hill night shift on Christmas Eve.

15x86 Blowing It All Away

30 December, 1999 8:00 pm
PC Rickman becomes increasingly friendly with a drug user and soon comes under suspicion of using drugs herself.

15x87 All Change

31 December, 1999 8:00 pm
It's New Year's Eve 2000, all police leave has been cancelled and even CID officers are back in uniform for the night.

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