Episode
The Bill: The Public Interest
Overview
A man comes in to talk to someone in authority because an ex-employee is having sex with a 15 year old. CPS has thrown out June's assault case. She is thinking of taking a private prosecution and ends her shift feeling very cynical.
Details
- Series
- The Bill
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 20
- Air date
- 1991-03-07
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
The Public Interest is Episode 20 in Series 7 of The Bill. It aired on 1991-03-07. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 19: Closing The Net
A young girl is approached by a man in a playground. Burnside thinks that they can't do anything until a crime is committed. tosh is noticing the suspect getting bolder. Ron has also noticed a pattern. A girl goes missing from a playground. A shop keeper is pushing the armed robbery button when he is being spat at by children.
Episode 21: Photo Finish
Datta is watching a pub when a youth is seen leaving with drugs. While reading a playboy in the boy's room, Garfield finds over £200 hidden in the magazine and an acqinance of the boy is seen going into the pub and then arrested of possible possession. Garfield thinks the boy, whose room they are using for the obbo, is a dealer. Sue gets a hot tip for a double but Steve never placed the bet. Her first horse won and the second horse had a photo before being confirmed as coming second by a nose.
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Episode 18: Furthers
A man is murdered by a shotgun after talking to Dashwood. A man who has escaped from prison turns up in Dashwood's flat after he has put the safety chain on the door. A gunshot has been reported at Dashwood's because the escapee's girlfriend was shot. He turns the gun on himself after making Dashwood look like a prat.
Episode 22: Just Desserts
burnside and Lines go for a lunchtime drink. Tony and George go to a building site where a self-employed tiler fell off the top floor. An eye witness says he was pushed. The victim had killed a woman about 5 years before in a drink driving accident.
Episode 17: Every Mother's Son
June, Tony, Dave and Reg are doing an obbo. Dave and Reg are lost while the doctor is attacked. The doctor was called to a hoax emergency call. The lady who was supposed to have made the call is being harassed since her son was arrested for murder. Reg comes up with a Trojan Horse idea to protect the doctor. The mother of the murderer commits suicide. Barry and Steve are called to a burglary at a chemists. One of the suspects collapses. Steve is getting cocky about his arrest.
Episode 23: 832 Receiving
June and Delia catch a girl who has stolen a purse. June suspects the mother of fraud. Delia goes back out and watches 3 youths interfere with a car before she is told to investigate reports of screaming coming from a flat. The lady's baby has died. Delia is badly affected by the death.
Episode 16: Too Many Chiefs
After dropping off a girl at a children's home, Dave and Cathy get called back in for a potential suicide. The girl Dave brought back in the morning seems to be the last person to see the dead girl alive. The man in charge of the home resigns. The dead girl had a boyfriend who, according to her diary, took her to Spain and Wales as well as other places. There was an unreported break-in. This and some photographs the disappearing girl had seem to be connected to the suicide.
Episode 24: The Better Part Of Valour
Burnside and Reed go to an accident involving a security van. Ted thinks it is an inside job. Ted finds a job application for a man with form. Tosh talks to the guard. Martella talks to a witness who is worried about the wrong people finding out. She is supposed to be in Scotland.
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 25: Double Or Quits
Delia and Viv talk about a perpetual villain before they go to court. Viv's witness is having second thoughts. D.C.I. Reed gets a phone call about Viv reading previous charges in court.
Jim and Ted watch 3 men enter a house. A girl is hastily let out who turns out to be a friend of Ted. Jim watches 3 youths enter the house . Jim gets punched in the nose.
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 26: We Could Be Heroes
Tony and Dave rush an injured woman to hospital when the ambulance is delayed after an accident. They go to see the driver of the other car. He is a sales rep who hopes to be banned from driving. A man complains to Monroe about obstruction by Tony and Dave.