The Bill (1984)

Hollis is gossiping in the locker room. Able is sent to a pub to deal with a man on valium. The man ends going to his mother-in-law's and t…

D.C. Jim Carver and Ch. Insp. Conway face an embarrassing situation when a thief confesses to a crime that Jim has already cleared up... an…

Charles tells Derek to organise a group of officers needed to escort a German police officer around London who is looking for stolen truck…

Inspector Frazer and Taffy Edwards are about to discover there is life after Sun Hill.

Hollis is organising a blood bank at the station and Peters is not happy because Viv is lying down. She is sent to assist at an armed robbe…

Garfield and Norika investigate a report of a man hanging round a school's gate. A boy is missing so they start a full scale search. Inspec…

D.I. Burnside is delighted to be called out of a boring meeting at Stafford Row police station, especially as he thinks it's D.C. Carver wi…

Roach thinks Tosh has something going on the side. Penny is going to report Tosh for 'breach of regulations' by allowing a lodger to stay.…

Viv and Sgt. Cryer are on night patrol. They stop a lady wheeling a suitcase looking for an address. They are asked to assist Tony and Dave…

Burnside talks to his snout about the robbery of a video shop that was owned by the son of a dead villain who has taken over the family. An…

Dashwood is walking through an old subway and is approached by a snout with info about a potential gang war on the plot. Burnside is off wi…

Susanne and Ken investigate a domestic. The wife says she fell down stairs initially. Neighbour keeps interrupting. The wife owes money. Th…

Able and Susanne moan about ruined weekend, so do Turnham and Hollis. A street festival that had been thought to have been cancelled is goi…

Melvin is chasing a suspect and pulls his tracksuit top. The suspect had caused a disturbance after being caught fishing for something in a…

Cryer and Conway are training for the Divisional ¼ marathon. Cryer notices a man in a wheelchair being mugged by some youths and he pulls a…

Tony and Viv are investigating a break-in. Tosh talks to the old lady after the SOCO has been. Tosh thinks it is part of a string by a burg…

Burnside brings in a van of party goers involved with drugs. On the way up to tell Burnside he has to meet a snout, Tosh heard him trying G…

Reg and Turnham chuck out the drunks. Sgt. Peters later discovers the cell keys missing and thinks one of the drunks may have them. Carver…

A group of asian youths cause a diversion which one raids the till when Peters tries to stop them. His father is important in the community…

Roach is not getting far after a bank robbery. It appears to be an exact copy of a robbery that occurred eight years before. The same emplo…

Papa Reeves, an old friend from D.I. Burnside's uniform days, plans to end the life of his terminally-ill wife. Burnside takes time out fro…

Garfield and Quinnan go to a school that reports an intruder. The intruder has been patrolling the school. Quinnan seems out to wind Garfie…

A lady approaches Tony and tells him there are men in masks in the supermarket. He goes in to see and radios in about a robbery. He chases…

PC George Garfield gets a collar, and spends hours interogatting him - without the use of a tape machine! - only to discover he is a juveni…

Viv is typing a report while Tosh and Carver are reading the paper. She seems to be considered office girl. Tosh asks her to pick up a pros…

June and Tony walk through an underpass where the homeless sleep. There is a riot there later. The Surveyor's branch is visiting the statio…

Brownlow is off to the Forward Planning Meeting. Brownlow is worried Sunhill could not cope in 10-20 with reduced resources. Sunhill is goi…

Burnside moans about the result of a court case. Melvin comes in late and forgot he was due in court the day before. Melvin's honesty is be…

Penny complains to Munro about the alterations. They move to Barton Street temporarily. Brownlow is complaining about sharing a portacabin…

Burnside is talking to a snout about a delivery going through couriers. Tosh temporarily breaks the chain. The contents of the bag are guns…

When D.S. Roach's case against Mickey Owen, a protection racketeer, is thrown out of court, Roach comes under pressure from the Flying Squa…

Brownlow is not happy about the office arrangements at Barton Street. Burnside brings in a drug dealer who gets tripped up by Hollis. Penny…

Greig, Carver and Tosh arrest a man for burglary and drugs. Burnside recuits him as a snout and Operation Middleman is on. The operation to…

Burnside is not happy about Wray talking to his snout. Wray interviews the suspect at Barton Street but he won't talk in the station. While…

Martella is called to a solictor's house where one of his clients has come to see if he will keep his promise to marry her. The client has…

Norika and Dave call at a flat that has graffiti on the door. Dave doesn't believe reports of harassment. Norika and Dave return to the fla…

Tosh talks to Conway about his report and later talks to a lady about being attacked and he thinks the attacks may be linked. Burnside is c…

Start of the observation. Burnside briefs the men. The Cleghorns think they are involved because of their breakin. Ted and Mike nearly catc…

A child is reported abducted. D.C. Lines interviews one witness and D.S. Roach the other. Three dog teams and TSG are joining in the search…

Garfield and Young are called to a party at a squat. They call back and get attacked by the party goers. The man who answered the door the…

P.C. Ken Melvin and P.C. Reg Hollis stop a young man for erratic driving, and a PNC check reveals the expensive car is stolen. Stamp and Qu…

It's the day of P.C. Ken Melvin's funeral, but the men and women of Sun Hill still have a job to do. P.C. Stamp volunteers to do a reading…

Tosh and Dashwood call at a house, where there seems to a party in the backyard, about an incident 2 years ago. The husband is trying to ce…

Brownlow is photographed outside the completed building. There are 8 rooms uncompleted. Garfield stops the Mayor attending the function. Pe…

Martella is in court. The case is the rape allegation. Marie wants to drop the case. Carver and Dashwood surprise Lines. Lines is asking ab…

Tony chases a suspect into a shopping precinct after a robbery. George stays with the victim. The foresnic evidence won't back up the posit…

Bob arrests a soccer player at half time for GBH. Monroe wants to take the man to the station after the game. The two team chairmen are try…

Meadows is conducting the investigation of the murders of Jenny Price and Graham Butler. A car has been reported seen in the vicinity but t…

A D.I. from Sheffield has information involving a big operation to catch a gang of five villains nicking heavy plant machinery. The snout t…

Roach and Lines are watching a man. Burnside needs an arrest to make up his figures. The man watched is shot by another man Burnside had ta…

6 weeks after the murder of Jenny Price, nothing seems to have happened. Wray thinks Lines should have followed up questioning of a school…

Ackland is called to a hospital where a doctor is concerned about child abuse. Another child could have done it. Cryer is having problems w…

A girl has been knocked off her bike. The girl is worried her father will be cross. The girl has bruises on her back and the mother is powe…

There has been a holdup. W.D.C. Martella goes to with the victim to the hospital. Her daughter who is a witness is in shock. D.C.Dashwood h…

P.C. Quinnan investigates a burglary at a school. He thinks a man with a dog talking to the children might be talking to in connection with…

Jim Carver is assaulted while trying to question a suspect - James Doyle - who is later revealed to be deaf. He firmly believes in his inti…

DC Jim Carver and PC Tony Stamp come across a Post Office burglary in progress. They take off in pursuit - and Jim finds himself looking do…

June and Tony are called to a disturbance outside a travel agents who has gone bust. The landlord has a wounded hand from breaking in and J…

Young, Garfield, Stamp and Loxton are playing cards. Young wins. The others decide to give Young a hard time as Garfield and Stamp are in C…

Lines and Carver catch some lads changing number plates on a car. An ex-special who gave the tip off caused one of the villains to break hi…

D.S. Roach and D.C. Dashwood investigate stolen electrical goods. D.I. Burnside talks to Dashwood about interviewing a suspect in the back…

Burnside briefs the troops about a raid. The informant is scared and wants to back out, and when the raid takes place, there is nothing the…

Garfield is in a shop when he notices a kid acting suspiciously. Burnside recognises the boy as being from a family of villains. The front…

Monroe is unhappy about Quinnan. Garfield is helping Conway in the Property Office and a jemmy was missing. Quinnan used it to open a door…

Some dustbins have been stolen. Stringer thinks there is something in it but Quinnan thinks it is a wind up. The bins are being used in a b…

Peters Loxton and Young go to court. The defendant says the police were heavy handed. A witness to a fraud is thinking twice about going th…

A solicitor calls at the station to ask Cryer to call to learn something to his advantage. Loxton was investigating a burglary and caught t…

Datta and Stamp investigate a domestic. The husband says his wife hasn't been herself lately. His wife tries to blame herself and is embarr…

Stamp and Stringer chase a group of black youths. Stringer's got away but Stamp corners one in a building who maintains he was trying to ge…

Cathy and Reg investigate an RTA involving a coachload of school children. The driver had been to an all-night party before he started work…

Cryer investigates a fight at a petrol station between football supporters that results in the death of the driver. Brownlow informs next o…

Monroe talks to Garfield and Hollis about their arrest rates. Quinnan and Datta are sent to investigate a loud party where a fight breaks o…

A D.S. from the Drug squad is looking for the D.C.I. Cathy recognises him. He is interested in Cathy and follows her on her beat as she che…

Brownlow is off to area for the commendation ceremony. Dave is getting one for the arrest of the man who murdered 2 children. His mother an…

Dashwood and Lines investigates a robbery. The witness is not prepared to give a statement until the gang is caught. Brownlow says CID have…

Burnside is in court giving evidence. Because of flooding at the prison, the prisoners are brought back to Sunhill. Burnside's prisoner is…

Ted is at the hospital seeing the 82 year old victim of a mugging. Her son is an ex-copper. It turns out that the son snapped and hit his m…

Garfield and Stamp see a burning car and a man putting it out. The man has HIV AIDS and George is worried about to process him so rings the…

Quinnan, Marshall and Monroe are on hand while squatters are evicted. One of the squatters takes a swing at the bailiff with a sword becaus…

Greig and Carver arrest a man on suspicion of handling stolen property. The priest thinks the father is beating the son who is found at the…

Loxton and Ackland argue about height requirements. They are called to an RTA where a pregnant woman was involved in a hit-and run at a cro…

Stamp and Datta call at a house where they find 2 women fighting because the woman being attacked is having an affair with the other woman'…

The police are out on the streets of Sun Hill enforcing a crackdown on prostitution. P.C. Stamp nicks an underage tom named Suzanne, and W.…

DC's Carver and Martella, DS Grieg, WPC Ackland, PC Quinnan and DI Burnside go on an interview technique training course. During role-play,…

A drunk in a restaurant is arrested by an off duty Roach. Penny is not happy that Roach doesn't come in with the drunk who knows the commis…

Sgt. Peters is taking roll call. Cathy is acting sergeant. Sgt. Peters is asked to investigate a smell causing a disturbance. The smell is…

A building site night watchman complains about illegal dumping on the site. Loxton pulls out a video from a bag. Roach and Lines investigat…

Hollis and Ackland are at the hospital waiting to hear how the victim from the burglary is whether she was raped. She wants to discharge he…

Reg welcomes Bob back from leave after the shooting. Top brass want to treat him with 'kid gloves' and don't want him to tkae his firearms…

Tony stops the driver of an American car. His dad had died in custody. While Jim is interviewing a suspect he has a heart attack. Brownlow…

DC Jim Carver brings a suspect into custody, but while he is busy trying to charm WPC Norika Datta, the suspect grabs a knife and takes her…

Penny gets pulled over after being at the pub. He thinks it is a wind-up. The officers are from Barton Street.

After the court case Sgt. Penny resigns for health reasons.

June is late for work. Monroe notices her arrival. Her friendship with Wray is the subject of station gossip. June thinks Monroe grassed th…

Monroe has horsemanure in his driveway. Tony and Reg plan to plant something in his car. The relief are working to rule. June tries to call…

Carver and Dashwood look after a very important witness. An attempted break-in could mean a move. Lines and Martella take over and there is…

Steve and Phil are called to a disturbance. They find two men attacking a car. One of the men was from Birmingham. Roach thinks the men cou…