Simon Rouse
Jack Meadows
Series SeasonSeason 8 episodes1992
The Bill
Series 8
The eighth series of The Bill, a British television drama, consisted of 105 episodes, broadcast between 2 January – 31 December 1992. The series was released on DVD for the first time on 6 June 2012, in Australia. It features the above artwork, which features images of PC Steve Loxton and DC Mike Dashwood.
Episodes
Each episode has its own detail page.
Episode 122 min1992-01-02
The Best Policy
D.C.I. Reid's influence in high places suddenly makes D.I. Burnside look vulnerable to criticism. CID investigate an armed robbery.
Episode 222 min1992-01-07
A Friend In Need
P.C. Quinnan is the subject of a civil complaint. P.C.s Stamp and Stringer follow up on a fire at a home for ex-psychiatric patients, but find little care in the community.
Episode 322 min1992-01-09
Whose Side Are You On?
D.C. Lines investigates a mugging, and tries to get the victim charged with the murder of his assailant.
Episode 422 min1992-01-14
Lip Service
D.C. Lines is enjoying an off-duty pint in his local pub and becomes involved in a bar brawl.
Episode 522 min1992-01-16
Illegals
D.C. Lines investigates when a cellarful of illegal immigrants is discovered. He enlists the help of Sgt. Boyden, who takes a fancy to one of the females. Lines warns him off.
Episode 622 min1992-01-21
Fair Play
P.C. Quinnan investigates the illegal sale of steroids. P.C. Garfield is put on the spot when his old sparring partner is arrested.
Episode 722 min1992-01-23
Dinosaur
D.I. Burnside's unorthodox policing methods, which include flushing an informant's head down a toilet, set him on a collision course with D.C.I. Reid, who has already received several complaints about Sun Hill officers. Reid fears the worst when she is called in to Scotland Yard for an urgent meeting with MS15.
Episode 822 min1992-01-28
Joyride
A girl is seriously injured in a joyriding incident. Ch. Supt. Brownlow must decide whether he is prepared to risk a riot by sending officers into an estate to round up the culprits.
Episode 922 min1992-01-30
Not Waving
A student nurse is sexually assaulted. D.I. Burnside arrests the obvious suspect, but he escapes from police custody.
Episode 1022 min1992-02-04
Mates
Sgt. Cryer is finding being non-operational tedious. He goes undercover as a punter in a brothel, but his presence on the operation antagonises Sgt. Peters. Cryer goes to sees Ch. Supt. Brownlow about giving up his job as duty sergeant and going back to the relief.
Episode 1122 min1992-02-06
Lost Boy
D.S. Greig is led to a vice ring when searching for a missing thirteen-year-old boy. D.C. Dashwood and W.P.C. Ackland are brought into an operation against ponces running rent boys.
Episode 1222 min1992-02-11
Chicken
P.C. Stringer tries to stop some children from playing 'chicken' on the railway line, but one of them is run down by a train. Sgt. Peters transfers upstairs to the post of duty sergeant, swapping roles with Bob Cryer, who returns to the relief.
Episode 1322 min1992-02-13
Somebody Special
Acting D.I. Greig tries to recruit a hardened female thief as a snout, but finds her more than a match for him. D.C.I. Reid is promoted out of Sun Hill to MS15.
Episode 1422 min1992-02-18
Previous Convictions
Investigating an apparent accident in which a man's hand is crushed in a car-breaker's yard, Sgt. Maitland uncovers years of animosity, neglect and revenge.
Episode 1522 min1992-02-20
Beggar My Neighbour
A tramp is attacked, leading the police into a web of crime.
Episode 1622 min1992-02-25
It's A Small World
Thinking of leaving the force, D.C. Dashwood is tempted by a lucrative business opportunity with a firm of security consultants.
Episode 1722 min1992-02-27
Licence
A man convicted of strangling his wife has been released on licence, but the probation service fails to notify Sun Hill. His presence comes to light when his son causes a disturbance.
Episode 1822 min1992-03-03
Comeback
The community police station run by P.C. Smollett is fire-bombed. The area car is stolen from P.C. Loxton and W.P.C. Datta, and it is written off in an RTA.
Episode 1922 min1992-03-05
Fireproof
D.I. Burnside leads an investigation into the firebombing of the community police station.
Episode 2022 min1992-03-10
The Paddy Factor
D.C. Carver and W.D.C. Martella have a car thief under observation, and see him shot as he gets into a car. The Anti-Terrorist Squad is called in, and the IRA is suspected.
Episode 2122 min1992-03-12
The Wild Rover
D.S. Roach ignores the Anti-Terrorist Squad, and investigates a possible IRA cell.
Episode 2222 min1992-03-17
Coincidence
A small boy known for lying claims to have been the subject of an attempted abduction in an adventure playground.
Episode 2322 min1992-03-19
Going Soft
A routine trip to a magistrate for a warrant turns into a nightmare for D.C. Dashwood when he is taken prisoner by two hooded burglars.
Episode 2422 min1992-03-24
Re-Hab
Jack Meadows arrives to take charge of Sun Hill CID. He becomes involved with a father suspected of murdering his drug addict son.
Episode 2522 min1992-03-26
Acting Detective
A woman who collapsed at an airport is found to be a mule, smuggling drugs in her stomach. D.I. Burnside, with only limited time to mount an operation, gets W.P.C. French to take the courier's place in an attempt to uncover the dealer.
Episode 2622 min1992-03-31
Stopover
P.C. Smollett tries to offer a follow-up service to victims of crime. A woman whose husband is in prison, and who runs a guesthouse, keeps reporting an intruder on the premises. Smollett gives her support, but P.C. Garfield thinks he is wasting his time.
Episode 2722 min1992-04-02
Suspects
D.S. Greig arrests a suspect for an armed robbery, but is proved wrong.
Episode 2822 min1992-04-07
All The King's Horses
A lorry overturns and sheds its load outside a school, burying a boy and girl and putting P.C. Loxton to the test.
Episode 2922 min1992-04-09
Party Politics
W.D.C. Martella celebrates her birthday. D.I. Burnside and D.S. Roach go to a party attended by a crooked businessman, who makes Burnside an offer he can't refuse.
Episode 3022 min1992-04-14
Trials & Tribulations
W.P.C. Marshall becomes a vital witness in a murder trial, and soon realises that someone is trying to intimidate her.
Episode 3122 min1992-04-16
A Can Of Worms
A traffic accident draws attention to a minicab firm.
Episode 3222 min1992-04-21
Timing
D.C.I. Meadows tries to find the link between three arson attacks. D.S. Roach and D.C. Dashwood track down an escaped prisoner, but Roach seems more interested in his beautiful wife.
Episode 3322 min1992-04-23
A Nice Little Line In Plastic
P.C. Quinnan and W.P.C. Datta arrest a girl using stolen credit cards and uncover a major racket.
Episode 3422 min1992-04-24
Trial & Error
An armed robber who put an innocent bystander in an wheelchair has his house firebombed by the victim's son. D.I. Burnside is determined to see justice done.
Episode 3522 min1992-04-30
Owning Up
P.C.s Loxton and Stringer follow up on a mugging but their case is nearly ruined when it collides with an investigation by D.S. Greig and D.C.I. Meadows. Can W.P.C. Ackland crack the case?
Episode 3622 min1992-05-05
Up Behind
It's Saturday night, but CID are at work trailing a known criminal believed to be responsible for a series of artifice burglaries involving pensioners.
Episode 3722 min1992-05-07
Appearances
Following an argument with a drunken pub customer, a young barmaid is hit by a car and later dies. P.C.s Quinnan and Stringer have their suspicions about the customer. Could it be manslaughter?
Episode 3822 min1992-05-12
Principled Negotiation
D.I. Burnside and D.S. Roach look favourably on an ex-villain with a loan-shark problem, but they expect favours in return.
Episode 3922 min1992-05-14
Sign Of Our Times
An armed robber admits to D.C. Lines that redundancy and the repossession of his house made him take to crime to solve his problems.
Episode 4022 min1992-05-19
Priorities
P.C.s Stringer and Loxton attend to a theft at an old people's home and begin to suspect that the ex-policeman who runs the home is ill-treating residents.
Episode 4122 min1992-05-21
Users
W.D.C. Martella arrests a woman for drug dealing. D.I. Burnside suspects that she is using teenage girls as couriers by offering them free holidays in Spain, but she is being exploited by a bigger dealer.
Episode 4222 min1992-05-26
Man Of The People
P.C. Stringer wins the election for the post of Federation Rep, beating the incumbent P.C. Hollis by fifty-eight votes to two. Ch. Supt. Brownlow decides to eat in the canteen with the other ranks, much to their discomfort.
Episode 4322 min1992-05-28
Runaway
D.S Roach investigates the beating of a teenage girl, and tries to establish if his suspect is also responsible for a number of murders being investigated by AMIP.
Episode 4422 min1992-06-02
Exposures
A young model claims that she was sexually assaulted during a photographic session. W.D.C. Martella discovers that every picture tells a story.
Episode 4522 min1992-06-04
Better The Devil
P.C. Stringer gets involved with a bizarre household, and discovers a horrifying case of parental cruelty in the attic. W.P.C. Marshall goes on attachment to the Domestic Violence Unit at Stafford Row.
Episode 4622 min1992-06-09
Prisoners
Sgt. Boyden and P.C. Hollis are hoping for a quiet night in the custody suite at Sun Hill, but that's not how it turns out.
Episode 4722 min1992-06-11
World To Rights
W.P.C. Marshall, on attachment to the Domestic Violence Unit at Stafford Row, makes an error of judgement and is attacked by a woman's husband.
Episode 4822 min1992-06-16
Do The Right Thing
P.C. Stringer is mugged by a gang, and determines to get his own back. P.C. Quinnan and W.P.C. Datta follow a cheque card fraudster.
Episode 4922 min1992-06-18
Hiding To Nothing
P.C. Stamp is ambushed by a gang of youths on a local estate. In trying to assist him, W.P.C. Ackland crashes the Area car, much to P.C. Loxton's delight.
Episode 5022 min1992-06-23
Punching Judy
A woman lies critically injured in hospital, beaten up by her husband. D.S. Greig and D.C.I. Meadows interview the husband. W.P.C. Marshall decides to quit the Domestic Violence Unit.
Episode 5122 min1992-06-25
Vicious Circles
P.C. Hollis arrests a woman for being drunk in charge of a baby, and finds himself drawn into a complicated family set-up.
Episode 5222 min1992-06-30
Up All Night
P.C. Garfield pursues a burglar and is beaten up. Sgt. Boyden's inaction brings hostility from the relief and trouble for D.S. Roach.
Episode 5322 min1992-07-02
Part Of The Furniture
D.C. Dashwood is to be transferred to the Art and Antiques Squad. D.S. Roach hands him a burglary at an infants' school as a wind-up, but it develops into a case that allows Dashwood to show the others a thing or two.
Episode 5422 min1992-07-07
Snakes & Ladders
It's P.C. Garfield's first day back after the attack. The relief place bets on the likelihood of Garfield punching Sgt. Boyden, but Garfield eventually takes his revenge.
Episode 5522 min1992-07-09
Street Cleaning
Sgt. Cryer gets the relief to put the Garfield-Boyden conflict behind them and get back to work, to sort out the takeover of genuine beggars' pitches by violent professional thieves.
Episode 5622 min1992-07-14
Hands Up
Conway decides he needs to get back on the beat, and arrests a drunk for criminal damage.
Episode 5722 min1992-07-16
A Scandalous Act
P.C. Garfield brings in a teenaged girl arrested at a drugs party, and she accuses him of sexually assaulting her.
Episode 5822 min1992-07-21
Raiders
A ram-raid ends in tragedy when a boy is killed. But what was his part in the affair?
Episode 5922 min1992-07-23
Talk Out
A middle-aged couple arrive at the front desk and report their neighbour missing, but W.P.C. Ackland isn't sure that they are telling the whole truth.
Episode 6022 min1992-07-28
True Confessions
D.S. Roach is put under pressure when a suspect retracts a confession and accuses the police of oppression.
Episode 6122 min1992-07-30
Private Enterprise
D.C.I. Meadows tackles CID about passing intelligence to the collator; but D.S. Roach is reluctant to share information relating to his current operation.
Episode 6222 min1992-08-04
Getting Through
The night shift is saddled with a feud between two men who come to the front desk with allegations of GBH against each other.
Episode 6322 min1992-08-06
Last Night Of Freedom
Someone is stabbed on a stag night, but the likely suspect can't remember a thing about it.
Episode 6422 min1992-08-11
Cutting Loose
Burnside and Lines are returning a chief suspect to prison when they are ambushed by a gang of masked men, who spring him.
Episode 6522 min1992-08-13
Soft Targer
P.C. Smollett discovers that a local villain is driving people out of their flats and reletting them to squatters. At Sun Hill, a civilian typist is discovered to be having an affair with a known villain.
Episode 6622 min1992-08-18
I've Never Been To Harrogate
D.S. Greig and D.C. Woods investigate the mysterious collapse of an old lady who has been burgled.
Episode 6722 min1992-08-20
Human Resources
Two con men are preying on women through the small ads in the local paper. Lack of personnel for D.S. Roach's operation places W.D.C. Martella in danger.
Episode 6822 min1992-08-25
Exit
A loan shark is attacked. D.S. Greig has a vital witness who is young, blonde and pretty, but she keeps stringing him along, and then disappears.
Episode 6922 min1992-08-27
Loyalties
Acting on information from a snout, D.I. Burnside mounts a raid on crack-houses. When details of the raid are leaked, D.C.I. Meadows challenges Burnside over the trustworthiness of his team.
Episode 7022 min1992-09-01
Snapshot
A complaint over loud music quickly escalates into an armed siege, as a man waves a gun at P.C.s Stamp and Quinnan.
Episode 7122 min1992-09-03
Letting Go
Reg is playing with a train set before going out. He is looking for a place to live as he is moving out of the section house but ends up moving to a different corridor instead. Greig and Tosh investigates a stabbing in a station car park. The case is being dropped but Greig goes to see the widow and finds a new lead. June and Reg act as back up to bailiffs trying to evict a family. The case is turned over to Tosh.
Episode 7222 min1992-09-08
Travelling Light
Viv helps Donna dress up for a reconstruction of a murder case. They find a man who spoke to the dead woman and gives them a new lead. The ex-boyfriend of the murder victim asks to see Burnside protesting his innocence.
Episode 7322 min1992-09-10
Radio Waves
Monroe talks to Conway about a problem with a car chase. Tony and Dave were chasing joy riders with Ron in the back. Norika and George help catch the children who were joy riding. CID think they might be part of a gang knocking off car stereos. The fathers have a fight in custody after their children were interviewed.
Episode 7422 min1992-09-15
A Blind Eye
Viv brings in an elderly mugging victim who helps make an identikit picture. Boyden gets spoken to by Monroe about working with the relief. Tony assists George with a disturbance when there is another mugging which turns out to be a misunderstanding. Tony see what he thinks is a mugger getting beaten up but the suspect turns out to be an off-duty copper.
Episode 7522 min1992-09-17
Sympathy For the Devil
Tosh is at the building society waiting for an armed robber. Dave and Barry assist CID and they catch an old age pensioner. Steve goes to a disturbance behind a pub. He finds an attacked man. He thinks it might be racially motivated. It turns out to be a revenge attack.
Episode 7622 min1992-09-22
Force Is Part of the Service
Brownlow and Conway have a meeting with councillors about the changes in the police force. Conway gives them a tour of the station. Steve brings in a man suspected of street robbery. The man accuses Steve of harassment. Reg tells Steve the bad news that he brought in the wrong man. The man makes a complaint against Steve and Brownlow wants it sorted honestly. Steve is trying to get George to back up his story.
Episode 7722 min1992-09-24
On the Record, Off the Record
CID investigates a break-in at a warehouse which resulted in the theft of personal CD players. Steve spots the van used in the robbery. After talking to a worker with form, fingers start pointing at the security guard. Jim gets spoken to by Meadows about complaints. He gets into further trouble after arresting a man on information received.
Episode 7822 min1992-09-29
Stoning the Glasshouse
Bob visits a friend who is the head of a neighbourhood watch. His son is stealing to support his drug habit. Bob's friend thinks the police are turning a blind eye towards the Cockcroft Estate. Conway gets a report on the Cockcroft Estate and a visit from the head of the Cockcroft Action Committee complaining of harassment.
Episode 7922 min1992-10-01
Tip-Off
Tosh is asked for by a burglar whom he put inside. He gives Tosh information that there might be a bank robbery. CID catches the robbers after the job but when Tosh tries to arrange protection for his informant he is too late as the man has had his face slashed. Reg talks to Donna for an article in the station newspaper.
Episode 8022 min1992-10-06
Open to Offers
Monroe and the relief go to a pub where some men are damaging it. One of the men tries to blackmail Dave over some moonlighting Dave did to get off the charge. Monroe thinks the men might be involved in protection. Dave tells both Sgts Boyden and Maitland who advises him to tell Monroe. Dave asks Barry's advice as Fed Rep. Barry asks Reg's advice as he was previous Fed Rep.
Episode 8122 min1992-10-08
Playing God
CID are tied up with a court case. A burglary suspect of Ted's may have to be released as he is at court. Tony brings in an old lady who has been abusive in the street. Dave and George find a man in the street who might have killed his wife who had terminal cancer.
Episode 8222 min1992-10-13
Crack of Doom
There is a search of people looking for crack. A man has a scuffle with another man and claims a piece of crack was planted on him. Tony discovers the man, an ex-boxer, lives over the road from the crack house and CID ask if they could use it as a base for an obbo.
Episode 8322 min1992-10-15
Spit and Polish
Steve is late for shift. Just as Steve is about to arrest a fine defaulter Dave is nearly run over by a speeding BMW. Steve really wants to arrest the fine defaulter, who has already left by the time he gets back, but Dave wants to deal with the driver. They find the body of the car owner's lover in the boot of the car.
Episode 8422 min1992-10-20
Overdue
Burnside talks to a snout in a bus queue about a delivery. Woods and Carver observe the delivery and CID raid the premises. The cartons contain bricks and motor parts instead of the stolen goods expected. Burnside goes to a promotions board and is passed over.
Episode 8522 min1992-10-22
We Should Be Talking
George is following a silver car that might have been involved in a ramraid. While checking in with the station, his radio goes dead. Sgt. Cryer discovers the radio link is down. June is investigating a failure to stop and enlists the help of people on the estate to help find a hurt kid.
Episode 8622 min1992-10-27
Reasonable Grounds
Norika goes to see a man about a missing child. Barry has to tell a man his brother is dead after complaining of having to let a suspected burglar go with a caution. the man takes off as soon as he sees Barry.
Episode 8722 min1992-10-29
Discipline
An obbo on a club nearly goes wrong when a fight starts outside it. The man who started the fight turns out to be a D. S. suspended from the Drug Squad.
Episode 8822 min1992-11-03
Minefield
Sgt. Maitland finds himself in the wrong when he discovers a serious procedural error meant that a dangerous and possibly psychopathic man has been arrested twice for the same offence and released.
Episode 8922 min1992-11-05
Gamers
Tosh investigates a fire bombing of an Asian shop. Dave and Cathy investigates an Asian lady accused of shoplifting. Cathy thinks there is something going on. Her husband is gambling. Dave and Sgt. Boyden join the game.
Episode 9022 min1992-11-10
Occupational Hazard
When sex appeal doesn't get him what he wants, Harry Osborne turns vicious. W.D.C. Martella has to pick up the pieces.
Episode 9122 min1992-11-12
Just Send Some Flowers
W.D.C. Martella investigates a burglary that occurred during a funeral. D.C. Carver links it to previous burglaries and an employee with a criminal record who claims to be innocent.
Episode 9222 min1992-11-17
Waifs and Strays
A missing girl's blood-stained book leads D.C. Lines to uncover the family's dark secrets and come up with an unexpected result. P.C. Hollis has to deal with a lost dog. P.C. Loxton discovers the dog has been beaten and decides to keep it.
Episode 9322 min1992-11-19
Happy Families
What's a smart girl like Sharon doing with a villain like Daniel Batt? D.I. Burnside thinks it's all to do with female hormones, but W.D.C. Martella isn't so sure.
Episode 9422 min1992-11-24
Well Out of Order
Meadows and Burnside want to go in force to the Tankeray estate to root out the criminal element, but Brownlow is committed to a softer approach. P.C. Smollett proves more effective than C.I.D. at catching a dangerous mugger.
Episode 9522 min1992-11-26
Into The Mire
CID receive information that leads to the arrest of a prolific handler of stolen goods.
Episode 9622 min1992-12-01
Master Of The House
The body of a respectable family man is found on a notorious patch of wasteland.
Episode 9722 min1992-12-03
Fireworks
Stamp uses some old-fashioned policing methods to tackle the problem of children playing with railway detonators.
Episode 9822 min1992-12-08
Cold Shoulder
A local youth with form is stabbed in the centre of a densely populated housing development. D.C.I. Meadows investigates when no witnesses come forward.
Episode 9922 min1992-12-10
Safety First
D.I. Burnside investigates when a pawnbroker is shot in the leg with a legally-acquired shotgun during a robbery at his shop.
Episode 10022 min1992-12-15
Counting the Cost
A local hero who prevented a robbery, and was severely injured in the process, but received no compensation, is being harassed by a scrap dealer until W.P.C. Ackland turns the tables with some harassment of her own.
Episode 10122 min1992-12-17
Compassion
A probation officer seems eager to assist D.I. Burnside over the murder of a prostitute, but how close is she to the murderer?
Episode 10222 min1992-12-22
Finders Keepers
D.C. Carver finds a buried treasure and the glory should be his. D.C. Dashwood, now with the Art and Antiques Squad, takes the case away and gets a result.
Episode 10322 min1992-12-24
Return Match
When a collection of valuable dolls is stolen, D.C. Dashwood from the Art and Antiques Squad turns up, wrong-foots D.C. Lines and gets a result.
Episode 10422 min1992-12-29
High Places
An ex-criminal who used to be part of a circus high-wire act is found dead, apparently from a fall, but the pathologist says he died elsewhere.
Episode 10522 min1992-12-31
When Push Comes To Shove
Sun Hill officers are drinking after shift when some troublemakers arrive at the pub. W.P.C. Ackland tries to calm the situation, but P.C.s Quinnan and Loxton decide that she needs their protection, and provoke a fight with a violent thug.
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