Season
The Bill: Series 8
Overview
The eighth series of The Bill, a British television drama, consisted of 105 episodes, broadcast between 2 January – 31 December 1992. The series was released on DVD for the first time on 6 June 2012, in Australia. It features the above artwork, which features images of PC Steve Loxton and DC Mike Dashwood.
Details
- Series
- The Bill
- Season
- Season 8
- Air date
- 1992-01-02
- Episodes
- 105 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: The Best Policy
D.C.I. Reid's influence in high places suddenly makes D.I. Burnside look vulnerable to criticism. CID investigate an armed robbery.
Episode 2: A Friend In Need
P.C. Quinnan is the subject of a civil complaint. P.C.s Stamp and Stringer follow up on a fire at a home for ex-psychiatric patients, but find little care in the community.
Episode 3: Whose Side Are You On?
D.C. Lines investigates a mugging, and tries to get the victim charged with the murder of his assailant.
Episode 4: Lip Service
D.C. Lines is enjoying an off-duty pint in his local pub and becomes involved in a bar brawl.
Episode 5: Illegals
D.C. Lines investigates when a cellarful of illegal immigrants is discovered. He enlists the help of Sgt. Boyden, who takes a fancy to one of the females. Lines warns him off.
Episode 6: Fair Play
P.C. Quinnan investigates the illegal sale of steroids. P.C. Garfield is put on the spot when his old sparring partner is arrested.
Episode 7: Dinosaur
D.I. Burnside's unorthodox policing methods, which include flushing an informant's head down a toilet, set him on a collision course with D.C.I. Reid, who has already received several complaints about Sun Hill officers. Reid fears the worst when she is called in to Scotland Yard for an urgent meeting with MS15.
Episode 8: Joyride
A girl is seriously injured in a joyriding incident. Ch. Supt. Brownlow must decide whether he is prepared to risk a riot by sending officers into an estate to round up the culprits.
Episode 9: Not Waving
A student nurse is sexually assaulted. D.I. Burnside arrests the obvious suspect, but he escapes from police custody.
Episode 10: Mates
Sgt. Cryer is finding being non-operational tedious. He goes undercover as a punter in a brothel, but his presence on the operation antagonises Sgt. Peters. Cryer goes to sees Ch. Supt. Brownlow about giving up his job as duty sergeant and going back to the relief.
Episode 11: Lost Boy
D.S. Greig is led to a vice ring when searching for a missing thirteen-year-old boy. D.C. Dashwood and W.P.C. Ackland are brought into an operation against ponces running rent boys.
Episode 12: Chicken
P.C. Stringer tries to stop some children from playing 'chicken' on the railway line, but one of them is run down by a train. Sgt. Peters transfers upstairs to the post of duty sergeant, swapping roles with Bob Cryer, who returns to the relief.
Episode 13: Somebody Special
Acting D.I. Greig tries to recruit a hardened female thief as a snout, but finds her more than a match for him. D.C.I. Reid is promoted out of Sun Hill to MS15.
Episode 14: Previous Convictions
Investigating an apparent accident in which a man's hand is crushed in a car-breaker's yard, Sgt. Maitland uncovers years of animosity, neglect and revenge.
Episode 15: Beggar My Neighbour
A tramp is attacked, leading the police into a web of crime.
Episode 16: It's A Small World
Thinking of leaving the force, D.C. Dashwood is tempted by a lucrative business opportunity with a firm of security consultants.
Episode 17: Licence
A man convicted of strangling his wife has been released on licence, but the probation service fails to notify Sun Hill. His presence comes to light when his son causes a disturbance.
Episode 18: Comeback
The community police station run by P.C. Smollett is fire-bombed. The area car is stolen from P.C. Loxton and W.P.C. Datta, and it is written off in an RTA.
Episode 19: Fireproof
D.I. Burnside leads an investigation into the firebombing of the community police station.
Episode 20: The Paddy Factor
D.C. Carver and W.D.C. Martella have a car thief under observation, and see him shot as he gets into a car. The Anti-Terrorist Squad is called in, and the IRA is suspected.
Episode 21: The Wild Rover
D.S. Roach ignores the Anti-Terrorist Squad, and investigates a possible IRA cell.
Episode 22: Coincidence
A small boy known for lying claims to have been the subject of an attempted abduction in an adventure playground.
Episode 23: Going Soft
A routine trip to a magistrate for a warrant turns into a nightmare for D.C. Dashwood when he is taken prisoner by two hooded burglars.
Episode 24: Re-Hab
Jack Meadows arrives to take charge of Sun Hill CID. He becomes involved with a father suspected of murdering his drug addict son.
Episode 25: Acting Detective
A woman who collapsed at an airport is found to be a mule, smuggling drugs in her stomach. D.I. Burnside, with only limited time to mount an operation, gets W.P.C. French to take the courier's place in an attempt to uncover the dealer.
Episode 26: Stopover
P.C. Smollett tries to offer a follow-up service to victims of crime. A woman whose husband is in prison, and who runs a guesthouse, keeps reporting an intruder on the premises. Smollett gives her support, but P.C. Garfield thinks he is wasting his time.
Episode 27: Suspects
D.S. Greig arrests a suspect for an armed robbery, but is proved wrong.
Episode 28: All The King's Horses
A lorry overturns and sheds its load outside a school, burying a boy and girl and putting P.C. Loxton to the test.
Episode 29: Party Politics
W.D.C. Martella celebrates her birthday. D.I. Burnside and D.S. Roach go to a party attended by a crooked businessman, who makes Burnside an offer he can't refuse.
Episode 30: Trials & Tribulations
W.P.C. Marshall becomes a vital witness in a murder trial, and soon realises that someone is trying to intimidate her.
Episode 31: A Can Of Worms
A traffic accident draws attention to a minicab firm.
Episode 32: Timing
D.C.I. Meadows tries to find the link between three arson attacks. D.S. Roach and D.C. Dashwood track down an escaped prisoner, but Roach seems more interested in his beautiful wife.
Episode 33: A Nice Little Line In Plastic
P.C. Quinnan and W.P.C. Datta arrest a girl using stolen credit cards and uncover a major racket.
Episode 34: Trial & Error
An armed robber who put an innocent bystander in an wheelchair has his house firebombed by the victim's son. D.I. Burnside is determined to see justice done.
Episode 35: Owning Up
P.C.s Loxton and Stringer follow up on a mugging but their case is nearly ruined when it collides with an investigation by D.S. Greig and D.C.I. Meadows. Can W.P.C. Ackland crack the case?
Episode 36: Up Behind
It's Saturday night, but CID are at work trailing a known criminal believed to be responsible for a series of artifice burglaries involving pensioners.
Episode 37: Appearances
Following an argument with a drunken pub customer, a young barmaid is hit by a car and later dies. P.C.s Quinnan and Stringer have their suspicions about the customer. Could it be manslaughter?
Episode 38: Principled Negotiation
D.I. Burnside and D.S. Roach look favourably on an ex-villain with a loan-shark problem, but they expect favours in return.
Episode 39: Sign Of Our Times
An armed robber admits to D.C. Lines that redundancy and the repossession of his house made him take to crime to solve his problems.
Episode 40: Priorities
P.C.s Stringer and Loxton attend to a theft at an old people's home and begin to suspect that the ex-policeman who runs the home is ill-treating residents.
Episode 41: Users
W.D.C. Martella arrests a woman for drug dealing. D.I. Burnside suspects that she is using teenage girls as couriers by offering them free holidays in Spain, but she is being exploited by a bigger dealer.
Episode 42: Man Of The People
P.C. Stringer wins the election for the post of Federation Rep, beating the incumbent P.C. Hollis by fifty-eight votes to two. Ch. Supt. Brownlow decides to eat in the canteen with the other ranks, much to their discomfort.
Episode 43: Runaway
D.S Roach investigates the beating of a teenage girl, and tries to establish if his suspect is also responsible for a number of murders being investigated by AMIP.
Episode 44: Exposures
A young model claims that she was sexually assaulted during a photographic session. W.D.C. Martella discovers that every picture tells a story.
Episode 45: Better The Devil
P.C. Stringer gets involved with a bizarre household, and discovers a horrifying case of parental cruelty in the attic. W.P.C. Marshall goes on attachment to the Domestic Violence Unit at Stafford Row.
Episode 46: Prisoners
Sgt. Boyden and P.C. Hollis are hoping for a quiet night in the custody suite at Sun Hill, but that's not how it turns out.
Episode 47: World To Rights
W.P.C. Marshall, on attachment to the Domestic Violence Unit at Stafford Row, makes an error of judgement and is attacked by a woman's husband.
Episode 48: Do The Right Thing
P.C. Stringer is mugged by a gang, and determines to get his own back. P.C. Quinnan and W.P.C. Datta follow a cheque card fraudster.
Episode 49: Hiding To Nothing
P.C. Stamp is ambushed by a gang of youths on a local estate. In trying to assist him, W.P.C. Ackland crashes the Area car, much to P.C. Loxton's delight.
Episode 50: Punching Judy
A woman lies critically injured in hospital, beaten up by her husband. D.S. Greig and D.C.I. Meadows interview the husband. W.P.C. Marshall decides to quit the Domestic Violence Unit.
Episode 51: Vicious Circles
Episode 52: Up All Night
Episode 53: Part Of The Furniture
Episode 54: Snakes & Ladders
Episode 55: Street Cleaning
Episode 56: Hands Up
Episode 57: A Scandalous Act
Episode 58: Raiders
Episode 59: Talk Out
Episode 60: True Confessions
Episode 61: Private Enterprise
Episode 62: Getting Through
Episode 63: Last Night Of Freedom
Episode 64: Cutting Loose
Episode 65: Soft Targer
Episode 66: I've Never Been To Harrogate
Episode 67: Human Resources
Episode 68: Exit
Episode 69: Loyalties
Episode 70: Snapshot
Episode 71: Letting Go
Episode 72: Travelling Light
Episode 73: Radio Waves
Episode 74: A Blind Eye
Episode 75: Sympathy For the Devil
Episode 76: Force Is Part of the Service
Episode 77: On the Record, Off the Record
Episode 78: Stoning the Glasshouse
Episode 79: Tip-Off
Episode 80: Open to Offers
Episode 81: Playing God
Episode 82: Crack of Doom
Episode 83: Spit and Polish
Episode 84: Overdue
Episode 85: We Should Be Talking
Episode 86: Reasonable Grounds
Episode 87: Discipline
Episode 88: Minefield
Episode 89: Gamers
Episode 90: Occupational Hazard
Episode 91: Just Send Some Flowers
Episode 92: Waifs and Strays
Episode 93: Happy Families
Episode 94: Well Out of Order
Episode 95: Into The Mire
Episode 96: Master Of The House
Episode 97: Fireworks
Episode 98: Cold Shoulder
Episode 99: Safety First
Episode 100: Counting the Cost
Episode 101: Compassion
Episode 102: Finders Keepers
Episode 103: Return Match
Episode 104: High Places
Episode 105: When Push Comes To Shove