Episode
The Bill: Fear or Favour
Overview
Jasmine Allen Estate representatives are visiting the station. Tony and Delia walk the Estate and talk to one of the residents. They chase a drug dealer to a club and the men on the door won't let them through. June and Steve arrest the dealer after he leaves the club but June is attacked when the men from the club turn up. The man who assualted her was one of the representatives from the Estate on the council.
Details
- Series
- The Bill
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 1991-01-31
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Fear or Favour is Episode 10 in Series 7 of The Bill. It aired on 1991-01-31. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 9: Samaritan
Stamp and Stringer come across a man and a woman struggling. Stamp grabs the woman who collapses. The man says he saw her wandering and went to help her and she attacked him with her nails. Initial reports from the hospital are that she was the victim of an attempted rape but the bruises were from an epileptic fit.
Episode 11: Start To Finish
Brownlow is having transport problems to get to a meeting. He helps at an accident. Tom Penny who now is security guard comes in to check an arrest Dave made of a supposedly pregnant woman. He talks to Tad about the amount of stealing at the business he is now at.
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Episode 12: Night and Day
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Episode 7: Loophole
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Episode 13: Favours
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Episode 6: Machines
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Episode 14: In Chambers
Greig gets the evidence for an arson case from the property officer and goes to a conference in chambers and parks in the wrong space. The suspect is not responsible for his actions, according to pschriatics unfit to plead. Greig is not happy that the case he spent months on might be chucked out. Delia and Su are being given cheek by 2 black youths. Delia takes home leaving su to deal with an alleged shoplifting. Su wants to let the shoplifter off with a caution but, on taking home, finds a room full of goods stolen from supermarkets.
Episode 5: The Girl Can't Help It
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Episode 15: Kids Don't Cry Anymore
June sees a boy being bullied at a playground. On investigation she finds a lunch box with packets in it as well as a notebook with a list of names and some drawings. The list is of drugs but the prices are kids prices and the packets hold grass clippings and flour - almost like the children are playing shop. She goes to the local school to see if she can get some names. Dashwood's transfer has been turned down. Burnside thinks Brownlow stopped it because Dashwood is dressed smarted than Brownlow. The retired head of the murder squad offers to help Dashwood. Roach's ex senior officer comes into CID asking for help with a case. He is now head of a security firm and wants to impress the partners and wants Roach's help because Ted is a good thief taker. Roach doesn't want to help because he still hasn't forgiven his boss for putting an innocent man in prison. He nicks a man at the pub with stolen watches.
Episode 4: Crown V. Cooper
Loxton is going to court with Garfield. One of the witnesses is giving them a hard time. Dashwood is also there griping about missing paperwork. Garfield is worried about his notes and Loxton is very confident the attacker will get charged. Loxton and the defendant tell 2 different versions of the attack. The defendant gets off and he is last seen heading into a pub with a child left crying in the car.
Episode 16: Too Many Chiefs
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