Episode
The Bill: True To Life Player
Overview
A football star's return to Sun Hill turns sour when he is accused of raping an underage fan. Boulton and Carver investigate
Details
- Series
- The Bill
- Season
- Season 13
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 1997-02-11
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
True To Life Player is Episode 17 in Series 13 of The Bill. It aired on 1997-02-11. The runtime is 22 min.
Previous / Next
More episodes from this season
Episode 15: Say A Little Prayer
Quinnan and Page try to find the culprit who threw a television set from the balcony of a block of flats and narrowly missed Slater.
Episode 19: Your Call Too
Croft and Skase disagree when they have to choose between investigating an assault charge and a cocaine deal.
Episode 14: The Eye Of The Beholder
Datta is trying to secure a conviction in a domestic violence case, but the victim unwittingly leaves out important details when giving evidence.
Episode 20: Breaking Up
Rawton investigates a woman's claims that her ex-husband's mistress is trying to kill her.
Episode 13: One Big Happy Family
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
Episode 21: A Price To Pay
Boulton tries to trap a roomful of crooks, but Greig gets his man.
Episode 12: Grey Area
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.
Episode 22: Just Looking
Boyden deals with a man stopped for soliciting who claims he was searching for his missing daughter.
Episode 11: Over The Fence
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.
Episode 23: A Tangled Web
Deakin and Croft investigate when a man is found shot with his brother's wife, as two unhappy marriages reach crisis point.