Episode
The Bill: A Fresh Start
Overview
Brownlow is photographed outside the completed building. There are 8 rooms uncompleted. Garfield stops the Mayor attending the function. Penny inspects the cells. A man trying to report a murder is manhandled to the cells. The body is linked to the murder of the abducted boy in Canley Fields. Brownlow won't stop long enough for Conway to tell him about the murder.
Details
- Series
- The Bill
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 44
- Air date
- 1990-05-31
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
A Fresh Start is Episode 44 in Series 6 of The Bill. It aired on 1990-05-31. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 43: Answers
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 celebrate his wedding anniversary. It turns out to be revenge by his ex-wife but because of the questions his new marriage may be over.
Episode 45: A Case To Answer
Martella is in court. The case is the rape allegation. Marie wants to drop the case. Carver and Dashwood surprise Lines. Lines is asking about stolen scotch. Burnside offers Lines some overtime. Burnside and Roach help Dashwood and Carver catch the gang. D.C.I. Wray talks to Brownlow about how he is going to run CID.
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Episode 42: Rites
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 at the church service. W.D.C. Martella is annoyed when D.I. Burnside keeps CID out on an obbo when the funeral service is about to start. Two old friends turn up at the church: P.C. Taffy Edwards, now in the Wales Police, and Yorkie Smith, now working for a security firm. The funeral goes off without a hitch, as Sun Hill pays its last respects to one of its officers.
Episode 46: Line-up
Tony chases a suspect into a shopping precinct after a robbery. George stays with the victim. The foresnic evidence won't back up the positive id in the line up.
Episode 41: Trojan Horse
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 Quinnan arrive to transport the prisoner to Barton Street, and Melvin and Hollis volunteer to drive the car back to Sun Hill. As Melvin moves some of the building materials from the station renovations so he can park, the car explodes in a huge fireball. Hollis, Conway and Melvin are rushed to hospital - but Ken Melvin soon dies from his injuries. SO13 arrive at Barton Street to interview the car thief, who it turns out stole the car from an army major who was a likely terrorist target. Sgt. Cryer is outraged that the disaster could have been prevented as SO13 had the major under surveillance and could have stopped the car being stolen.
Episode 47: Police Powers
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 trying to keep the situation between the soccer federation. Garfield has been injured.
Episode 40: The Night Watch
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 first time, is found in a cupboard. Roach offers Martella a drink. He gets a report of an attack. Viv takes the victim to the rape investigation suite. Roach and Viv clash over whether it was consensual
Episode 48: Action Book
Meadows is conducting the investigation of the murders of Jenny Price and Graham Butler. A car has been reported seen in the vicinity but the car had broken down. Paedophiles are being interviewed. Roach has been relieved of his role.
Episode 39: Canley Fields
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, although there is a possibility it is a hoax. After calling off the search, Roach says the witnesses should be charged with wasting police time, but there is a call reporting a child missing matching the witness's description.
Episode 49: Tactics
A D.I. from Sheffield has information involving a big operation to catch a gang of five villains nicking heavy plant machinery. The snout the D.I. was using turns out to be one of Sun Hill's informants, and Ch. Supt. Brownlow has words at the Super's meeting after the operation. D.I. Burnside is told to take a backseat to the CID operation. D.C. Dashwood raids an empty house, and D.C. Carver can't get into the house he goes to. Two uniformed officers accompanying D.S Roach are assaulted.
Episode 38: Somebody's Husband
Start of the observation. Burnside briefs the men. The Cleghorns think they are involved because of their breakin. Ted and Mike nearly catch the burglars responsible for the Cleghorns breakin but they can't find their shoes. June would have liked to be involved but gets sent to a house where the woman claims her husband has threatened to kill her. He is out but June discovers a radio scanner. He was turned down for the force. June follows him. June is attacked herself in the cemetry after helping another attack victim.
Episode 50: Scores
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 talked to. Burnside is after a man into hard core porn, vice and bribery. He has a score to settle. Burnside talks to both Cathy and Roach about his marriage.