Episode
The Bill: The Old Men's Run
Overview
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 muscle when he gives chase. Cryer is under pressure. Because Penny is sick, Cathy is acting sergeant and out on the beat. Quinnan and Stamp go to an accident. Two rival gangs are involved. Roach tries to take a witness statement from 2 Asians. Carver is interviewing one of the occupants of the car. Able tries to talk to an Asian neighbour of the injured man who dies in hospital.
Details
- Series
- The Bill
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 1990-02-20
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
The Old Men's Run is Episode 15 in Series 6 of The Bill. It aired on 1990-02-20. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 14: Something To Hide
Melvin is chasing a suspect and pulls his tracksuit top. The suspect had caused a disturbance after being caught fishing for something in a pond - a wrapped up gun shape but when the wrapping is removed it turns out to be a diamond necklace instead. Turnham talks to Norika on the way to a break-in although there are no signs of forced entry and the only thing missing is a ring. Tosh investigates and ties together both jewelry thefts. Turnham and Norika get involved in a fight in a pub.
Episode 16: Legacies
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 burglar who has just got bail. The old lady's solictor is a partner of the suspect's solictor. The suspect's house has a fire set by the only straight member of the family. Brownlow and Burnside argue over clear-up figures. Burnside thinks Stafford Row have fiddled with their figures. Melvin brings in a man who claims to have lost his memory so he plays him some Roy Orbison tapes to help him regain his memory.
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Episode 13: Workers In Uniform
Able and Susanne moan about ruined weekend, so do Turnham and Hollis. A street festival that had been thought to have been cancelled is going ahead and the relief have to work. Hollis meets with Brownlow about the relief working at the street festival. Dave uses the area car to deliver some files to another station and causes some damage which he covers up. Turnham is blamed for the damage.
Episode 17: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
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 Greig's clarinet. Tosh's snout is in hospital. His daughter has problems accepting what her father does and he dies of a stroke. Burnside also talks to a man who has lost 30 leather coats. Viv is going undercover in his factory. She is offered a dope cigarette and after the operation recuits the dealer as a snout. The boss's son is very interested in her. Roach and June interview a girl who had 'Class A' drugs in her pocession. Her father turns out to be a commander but she won't say who she is. Brownlow, who has known the family for a long time, is still going to charge the girl even if it means her father's career is ruined.
Episode 12: Blood Sucker
Susanne and Ken investigate a domestic. The wife says she fell down stairs initially. Neighbour keeps interrupting. The wife owes money. The husband is suspected of slashing tyres. The wife's child benefit book was taken by the money lender. Munro talks to Cathy about regular updates of clear-up figures. Dave voices his opinion of battered women. The calculators he has been selling are wonky. Not only does he have to refund the buyers but the money he got initially he has to put into Brownlow's charity box. Brownlow asks about the money lender and states he would like to nick him as he is the money man behind a lot of crime. Ken and Susanne find the husband in the money lender's shop, having been hit by the putter Roach warned the money lender would be considered an offensive weapon.
Episode 18: Something Special
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 and Greig give Dashwood a hard time about buying a country cottage. A detective supt. comes and asks for 1 of Burnside's men for an operation that is going to last 6 months. Grieg thinks it is in Northern Ireland. Roach helps Norika bring in a street walker with a baby.
Episode 11: Against The Odds
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 with a bad back and Greig is acting D.I. again. He takes Viv off earlies. Greig is not happy about the snout and makes Dashwood write everything down. Conway is pleased Burnside is off sick. He is in the custody suite checking on times prisoners have been held. Conway is also not happy about the info of the gang war.
Episode 19: Enemies
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. The boy wanted to show off to his mates. A Supt. from Area (community liason officer) visits Sunhill to try to nip any racial problems in the bud. Norika brings in a man who has hit his daughter. Norika has nearly calmed the girl down but the Supt. gets her back up again. After further talking by Norika it ends happily. June is having problems getting crime victims answering a survey about stress.
Episode 10: Michael Runs The Family Now
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 incident at a pub is thought of as being retribution of the robbery. Burnside's snout's wife is having an affair with the villain. A lady, who had been to self-defense classes run by Stamp, breaks a man's arm. Sgt. Cryer thinks she used excessive force but she tells Stamp she was being 'felt up'. Man has form for previous indecent assaults.
Episode 20: Safe Place
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 employee was involved in both robberies and has signed himself into a psychiatric hospital. Viv goes undercover. He appears to be a natural born victim.
Episode 9: Addresses
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 at a house where a man is dropping the contents of his flat off the roof. They then attend a burglar alarm. The lady reappears followed by 3 youths. They take her to another address.
Episode 21: Burnside Knew My Father
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 from interviewing a suspected armed robber to convince Reeves that if he does so, not only will he be charged with her murder, but Burnside could also be charged as an accessory. With the robber's solicitor demanding his immediate release, Burnside has an ace up his sleeve: a surveillance photo of the man committing the crime. Meanwhile, W.P.C. Ackland deals with a domestic dispute between a mother and son when the boy is found locked out of the flat wearing only his underpants.