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The Bill Season 8 Episodes
Season 8 Episode Guide
105 Episodes 1992 - 1992
Episode 1
The Best Policy
25 mins
A man is shot during an armed robbery at a DIY warehouse - but why is Kim Reid so keen to hand the investigation over to Burnside?
Episode 2
A Friend in Need
25 mins
PC Quinnan is the subject of a civil complaint. PCs Stamp and Stringer follow up a fire at a home for ex-psychiatric patients, but find little care in the community.
Episode 3
Whose Side Are You On?
25 mins
When a teenage mugger is stabbed by his would-be victim on the Jasmine Allen, it looks like a genine case of self-defence. Tosh Lines isn't so sure though, and decides to dig a little deeper into the life of the man who was mugged.
Episode 4
Lip Service
25 mins
DC Lines is enjoying an off-duty pint in his local pub and becomes involved in a bar-brawl.
Episode 5
Illegals
25 mins
DC Lines Investigates when a cellar full 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 6
Fair Play
25 mins
PC Quinnan investigates the illegal sale of steroids. PC Garfield is put on the spot when his old sparring partner is arrested.
Episode 7
Dinosaur
25 mins
Burnside is furious when provided with false information about an armed robbery, while Reid meets some of her friends in high places.
Episode 8
Joyride
25 mins
Sun Hill is terrorised by teenage joyriders, but what can be done to stop them?
Episode 9
Not Waving
25 mins
A student nurse is sexually assaulted in a nurses' quarters building. DI Burnside arrests the obvious suspect from a nearby gypsy encampment, but does he have the right man?
Episode 10
Mates
25 mins
Cryer is finding being non-operational tedious. He goes undercover as a punter in a brothel, and does a good job - but his presence on the operation antagonises Peters. After some reflection, he goes to see Brownlow about giving up his job as duty sergeant, and going back on the relief.
Episode 11
Lost Boy
25 mins
Following investigations into the disappearance of a thirteen-year-old boy, Greig recruits Ackland and Dashwood for an undercover operation at Victoria Station as they attempt to bust an operation running rent boys.
Episode 12
Chicken
25 mins
Stringer tries to stop some children 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 13
Somebody Special
25 mins
D.C.I. Reid prepares to move on from Sun Hill, while D.S. Greig tries to cultivate an informant.
Episode 14
Previous Convictions
25 mins
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 15
Beggar My Neighbour
25 mins
A tramp is attacked, leading the police into a web of crime.
Episode 16
It's a Small World
25 mins
Thinking of leaving the force , DC Dashwood is tempted by a lucrative business opportunity with a firm of security consultants.
Episode 17
Licence
25 mins
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 18
Comeback
25 mins
Sgt. Cryer's first day back in uniform is an eventful one. P.C. Smollett is excited about the new Community Police Office. The area car is stolen from PC Loxton and WPC Datta.
Episode 19
Fireproof
25 mins
Burnside leads the investigation into the fire at the new Community Police Office.
Episode 20
The Paddy Factor
25 mins
Carver and Martella are shadowing a car thief, but all three get more than they bargained for when they stumble across an apparent IRA arms cache.
Episode 21
The Wild Rover
25 mins
The Anti-Terrorist Squad believe they will have a quick result, but Roach has his doubts.
Episode 22
Coincidence
24 mins
A small boy known for lying claims to have been the subject of an attempted abduction in an adventure playground.
Episode 23
Going Soft
25 mins
A routine trip to a magistrate for a warrant turns into a nightmare for DC Dashwood when he is taken prisoner by two hooded burglars.
Episode 24
Re-Hab
25 mins
DCI Meadows arrives to take charge of Sun Hill CID. He becomes involved with a father suspected of murdering his drug addict son.
Episode 25
Acting Detective
25 mins
A woman who collapsed at an airport is found to be a mule, smuggling drugs in the stomach. DI Burnside, with only limited time to mount an operation, gets WPC French to take the courier's place to place in attempt to uncover the dealer.
Episode 26
Stopover
24 mins
PC Smollett tries to offer a follow-up service to victims of crime. A woman whose husband is in prison and who runs a guest house, keeps reporting an intruder on the premises. Smollett gives her support, but PC Garfield thinks he is wasting his time.
Episode 27
Suspects
25 mins
DS Greig arrests a suspect for an armed robbery, but is proved wrong.
Episode 28
All the King's Horses
25 mins
A lorry overturns and sheds its load outside a school, burying a boy and girl and putting PC Loxton to the test.
Episode 29
Party Politics
25 mins
WDC Martella celebrates her birthday. DI Burnside and DS Roach go to a party attended by a crooked businessman, who makes Burnside an offer he can't refuse.
Episode 30
Trials and Tribulations
25 mins
WPC Marshall becomes a vital witness in a murder trial, and soon realises that someone is trying to intimidate her..
Episode 31
A Can of Worms
25 mins
A road accident draws attention to a local taxi company, which is the source of a local crime wave.
Episode 32
Timing
25 mins
DCI Meadows tries to find the link between three arson attacks. DS Roach and DC Dashwood track down an escaped prisoner, but Roach seems more interested in his beautiful wife.
Episode 33
A Nice Little Line in Plastic
25 mins
PC Quinnan and WPC Datta arrest a girl using stolen credit cards and uncover a major racket.
Episode 34
Trial and Error
25 mins
A armed robber who put an innocent bystander in a wheelchair has his house firebombed by the victim's son. DI Burnside is determined to see justice done.
Episode 35
Owning Up
25 mins
PCs Loxton and Stringer follow up on a mugging but their case is nearly ruined when it collides with an investigation by DS Greig and DCI Meadows. Can WPC Ackland crack the case?
Episode 36
Up Behind
25 mins
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 37
Appearances
25 mins
Following an argument with a drunken pub customer, a young barman is hit by a car outside, and left in a coma. PCs Quinnan and Stringer have their suspicions about the customer. Could it be manslaughter?
Episode 38
Principled Negotiation
25 mins
DI Burnside and DS Roach look favourably on an ex-villian with a loan-shark problem, but they expect favours in return.
Episode 39
Sign of Our Times
25 mins
An armed robber admits to DC Lines that redundancy and the repossession of his house made him take to crime to solve his problems.
Episode 40
Priorities
25 mins
PCs Stringer and Loxton attend to the theft at an old people's home and begin to suspect that the ex-policeman who runs the home is ill-treating residents,
Episode 41
Users
25 mins
WDC Martella arrests a woman for drug dealing. DI 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 42
Man of the People
25 mins
PC Stringer wins the election for the post of Federation Rep, beating the incumbent PC 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 43
Runaway
25 mins
DS Roach investigates the beating of a teenage girl, and tries to establish if his suspect is also responsible for a murder being investigated by AMIP.
Episode 44
Exposures
25 mins
A young model claims that she was sexually assaulted during a photographic session. WDC Martella discovers that every picture tells a story.
Episode 45
Better the Devil
25 mins
PC Stringer gets involved with a bizarre household, and discovers a horrifying case parental cruelty in the attic. WPC Marshall goes on attachment to the Domestic Violence Unit at Stafford Row.
Episode 46
Prisoners
25 mins
Sgt. Boyden has anything but a quiet night on duty in the custody suite.
Episode 47
World to Rights
25 mins
WPC Marshall on attachment to the Domestic Violence Unit at Stafford Row, makes an error of judgment and is attacked by a woman's husband.
Episode 48
Do the Right Thing
25 mins
PC Stringer is mugged by a gang and determines to get his own back. WPC Marshall follows a cheque card fraudster.
Episode 49
Hiding to Nothing
25 mins
PC Stamp is ambushed by a gang of youths on a local estate. In trying to assist him,. WPC Ackland crashes the Area car, much to PC Loxton's delight.
Episode 50
Punching Judy
25 mins
A woman lies critically injured in hospital, beaten up by her husband. DS Greig and DCI Meadows interview the husband. WPC Marshall decides to quit the Domestic Violence Unit.
Episode 51
Vicious Circles
25 mins
PC Hollis arrests a woman for being drunk in charge of a baby, and finds himself drawn into complicated family set-up.
Episode 52
Up All Night
25 mins
P.C. Garfield is assaulted while in pursuit of a suspect, but where was Sgt. Boyden?
Episode 53
Part of the Furniture
25 mins
DC Dashwood is to be transferred to the Arts and Antiques Squad. DS 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 54
Snakes & Ladders
25 mins
It's PC 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 reverse.
Episode 55
Street Cleaning
25 mins
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 56
Hands Up
25 mins
Ch Insp Conway decides he needs to get back on the beat , and arrests a drunk for criminal damage.
Episode 57
A Scandalous Act
25 mins
PC Garfield brings in a teenaged girl arrested at a drugs party, and she accuses him of sexually assaulting her. DSU Kim Reid comes back to question him.
Episode 58
Raiders
25 mins
A ram-raid ends in tragedy when a boy is killed. But what was his part in the affair?
Episode 59
Talk Out
24 mins
A middle-aged couple arrive at the front desk and report their neighbour missing, but WPC Ackland isn't sure that they are telling the whole truth.
Episode 60
True Confessions
25 mins
DS Roach is put under pressure when a suspect retracts a confession and accuses the police of oppression.
Episode 61
Private Enterprise
25 mins
A bumbling minicab driver is pulled over, but claims to know nothing about the blood stains in the boot.
Episode 62
Getting Through
25 mins
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 63
Last Night of Freedom
25 mins
Someone is stabbed on a stag night, but the likely suspect can't remember a thing about it.
Episode 64
Cutting Loose
25 mins
A prisoner is brought down from Manchester for an identity parade after a new witness comes forward. Could she be too good to be true?
Episode 65
Soft Target
25 mins
PC 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 villian,
Episode 66
I've Never Been to Harrogate
25 mins
An elderly lady is found in her house unconscious with no visible signs of injury, but apparently having been burgled. Suspicion soon falls on a well-dressed middle-aged man in possession in several bottles of pills.
Episode 67
Human Resources
25 mins
Two con men are preying on women through the small ads in the local paper. Lack of personnel for DS Roach's operation places WDC Martella in danger.
Episode 68
Exit
24 mins
A loan shark has been assaulted, and Lesley Anderson is the only witness to the crime. But can D.S. Greig make any conviction when the witness not only seems erratic, but keeps constantly disappearing?
Episode 69
Loyalties
25 mins
Acting on information from a snout, DI Burnside mounts a dawn raid on neighboring crack-houses. When details of the raid appear to have been leaked, DCI Meadows challenges Burnside over the trustworthiness of his team.
Episode 70
Snapshot
25 mins
A complaint over loud music quickly escalates into an armed siege, as a man waves a gun at PCs Stamp and Quinnan.
Episode 71
Letting Go
25 mins
PC Hollis 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. Meanwhile, DS Greig's 'cold' murder case suddenly becomes a bit warmer - could he be on the right track?
Episode 72
Travelling Light
25 mins
WDC Viv Martella helps WPC Donna Harris dress up for a reconstruction of a murder case.
Episode 73
Radio Waves
25 mins
Insp Monroe talks to Ch Insp Conway about a problem with a car chase, involving kids apprehended for joyriding. But were the youngsters actually responsible for stealing the car in the first place?
Episode 74
A Blind Eye
25 mins
WDC Martella brings in an elderly mugging victim who helps makes an identikit picture. Sgt Boyden gets spoken to by Insp Monroe about working with the relief.
Episode 75
Sympathy for the Devil
25 mins
DI Burnside sets a trap for an armed robber at a building society, and is surprised to finds that the culprit is a man in his sixties.
Episode 76
Force Is Part of the Service
25 mins
Ch Supt Brownlow and Ch Insp Conway have a meeting with councillors about the change in the police force. Conway gives them a tour of the station.
Episode 77
On the Record, Off the Record
25 mins
CID investigates a break-in at a warehouse which resulted in the theft of personal CD players.
Episode 78
Stoning the Glasshouse
25 mins
Sgt Cryer visits a friend who is the head of a neighbourhood watch, who's concerned about drug dealing at a nearby pub. Sun Hill mount an undercover operation there - but get more trouble than they bargained for.
Episode 79
Tip-Off
25 mins
DC Lines is asked for by a burglar whom he put inside. He gives Tosh information that there might be a bank robbery.
Episode 80
Open to Offers
25 mins
Quinnan is in trouble when a prisoner recognizes him from having moonlighted as an electrician. He looks to be in serious trouble - should he come clean to Monroe, or front it out?
Episode 81
Playing God
25 mins
CID are tied up with a court case - and a burglary suspect of DS Roach may have to be released while he is tied up in court giving evidence. Meanwhile, a man reports that his wife is dead at home - but how exactly did she die?
Episode 82
Crack of Doom
25 mins
A former boxer is mistakenly arrested for possession of drugs, but ends up having his home used as the site of a surveillance operation.
Episode 83
Spit and Polish
25 mins
Quinnan is nearly run down by a speeding Mercedes, and he and Loxton give chase. Loxton isn't too happy, as he has a score to settle elsewhere - but could it be there are bigger fish to fry...
Episode 84
Overdue
25 mins
D.I. Burnside has a promotion board, leaving D.C.I. Meadows to deal with an informant's rather dubious tip-off.
Episode 85
We Should Be Talking
25 mins
PC Garfield is following a silver car that might have been involved in a ram-raid. But, while checking in with the station, his radio goes dead... Meanwhile, Ackland is on the trail of the owner of a missing shoe, found covered in blood.
Episode 86
Reasonable Grounds
25 mins
WPC Datta goes to see a man about a missing child. Meanwhile, Stringer has to tell a man his brother is dead - and doesn't quite get the reaction he'd expected.
Episode 87
Discipline
25 mins
A man arrested outside a club for being drunk and disorderly turns out to be a detective from the Drugs Squad, suspended on corruption charges. Can Meadows help to clear his name?
Episode 88
Minefield
25 mins
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 89
Gamers
25 mins
DC Lines Investigates a fire bombing of an Asian shop. PC Quinnan and WPC Marshall investigate an Asian lady accused of shoplifting.
Episode 90
Occupational Hazard
25 mins
When sex appeal doesn't get him what he wants, Harry Osborne turns vicious and WDC Martella has to pick up the pieces. Meanwhile, new copper on the relief Gary McCann gets out on the beat - and gets involved with a house-burgling youth.
Episode 91
Just Send Some Flowers
25 mins
WDC Martella investigates a burglary that occurred during a funeral.
Episode 92
Waifs & Strays
25 mins
An old lady brings in a blood-stained book belonging to a missing girl in to the station. DC Lines uncovers the family's dark secrets and comes up with an unexpected result.
Episode 93
Happy Families
25 mins
What's a smart girl like Sharon doing with a villian like Daniel Batt? DI Burnside thinks it's all to do with the female hormones, but WDC Martella isn't so sure.
Episode 94
Well Out of Order
25 mins
DCI Meadows and DI Burnside want to go in force to the Tankeray estate to root out the criminal element, but Ch Supt Brownlow is committed to a softer approach.
Episode 95
Into the Mire
25 mins
CID receive information that leads to the arrest of a prolific handler of stolen goods.
Episode 96
Master of the House
25 mins
The body of a respectable family man is found on a notorious patch of wasteland.
Episode 97
Fireworks
25 mins
PC Stamp uses old-fashioned policing methods to tackle the problem of children playing with railway detonators.
Episode 98
Cold Shoulder
25 mins
A local youth with form is stabbed in the centre of a densely populated housing development. DCI Meadows investigates when no witness comes forward.
Episode 99
Safety First
25 mins
D.I. Burnside investigates when a pawnbroker is shot in the leg with a legally-acquired shotgun during a robbery at his shop.
Episode 100
Counting the Cost
25 mins
A local hero and his family are harassed by a scrap dealer. W.P.C. Ackland intervenes when a family is being subjected to harassment from a scrap dealer.
Episode 101
Compassion
25 mins
A probation officer seems eager and anxious to assist DI Burnside over the murder enquiry of a prostitute, but how close is she to the murderer?
Episode 102
Finders Keepers
25 mins
DC Carver finds a buried treasure and the glory should be his. DC Dashwood, now with the Arts and Antiques Squad,takes the case away and gets a result.
Episode 103
Return Match
25 mins
Mike Dashwood returns to Sun Hill looking for stolen antique dolls. Who will he plague this time - DC Carver or DC Lines?
Episode 104
High Places
24 mins
D.I. Burnside investigates the death in mysterious circumstances of a former high-wire artist and cat burglar.
Episode 105
When Push Comes to Shove
25 mins
Sun Hill officers are drinking after shift when some troublemakers arrive at the pub. WPC Ackland tries to calm the situation, but PCs Loxton and Quinnan decide that she needs their protection, and provoke a fight with a violent thug.