Episode
The Bill: Skeletons
Overview
WPC June Ackland finds a man stabbed in his car, and DC Lines' investigation into the incident are impeded by the victim's unhelpful wife. PC Reg Hollis and PC Tony Stamp discover a number of human skeltons in a supposedly vacant flat. Hollis and DI Burnside think they have stumbled across a mass murderer on the manor, but upon arresting the flat's resident, they discover he has legally imported the skeletons from the Philippines in the hope of selling them to medical laboratories.
Details
- Series
- The Bill
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 53
- Air date
- 1991-07-02
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Skeletons is Episode 53 in Series 7 of The Bill. It aired on 1991-07-02. The runtime is 22 min.
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