The Bill: Series 8

Episode 1: The Best Policy 1992-01-02 | 22 min 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 1992-01-07 | 22 min 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? 1992-01-09 | 22 min D.C. Lines investigates a mugging, and tries to get the victim charged with the murder of his assailant. Episode 4: Lip Service 1992-01-14 | 22 min D.C. Lines is enjoying an off-duty pint in his local pub and becomes involved in a bar brawl. Episode 5: Illegals 1992-01-16 | 22 min 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 1992-01-21 | 22 min 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 1992-01-23 | 22 min 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 1992-01-28 | 22 min 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 1992-01-30 | 22 min A student nurse is sexually assaulted. D.I. Burnside arrests the obvious suspect, but he escapes from police custody. Episode 10: Mates 1992-02-04 | 22 min 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 1992-02-06 | 22 min 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 1992-02-11 | 22 min 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 1992-02-13 | 22 min 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 1992-02-18 | 22 min 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 1992-02-20 | 22 min A tramp is attacked, leading the police into a web of crime. Episode 16: It's A Small World 1992-02-25 | 22 min Thinking of leaving the force, D.C. Dashwood is tempted by a lucrative business opportunity with a firm of security consultants. Episode 17: Licence 1992-02-27 | 22 min 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 1992-03-03 | 22 min 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 1992-03-05 | 22 min D.I. Burnside leads an investigation into the firebombing of the community police station. Episode 20: The Paddy Factor 1992-03-10 | 22 min 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 1992-03-12 | 22 min D.S. Roach ignores the Anti-Terrorist Squad, and investigates a possible IRA cell. Episode 22: Coincidence 1992-03-17 | 22 min A small boy known for lying claims to have been the subject of an attempted abduction in an adventure playground. Episode 23: Going Soft 1992-03-19 | 22 min 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 1992-03-24 | 22 min 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 1992-03-26 | 22 min 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 1992-03-31 | 22 min 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 1992-04-02 | 22 min D.S. Greig arrests a suspect for an armed robbery, but is proved wrong. Episode 28: All The King's Horses 1992-04-07 | 22 min 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 1992-04-09 | 22 min 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 1992-04-14 | 22 min 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 1992-04-16 | 22 min A traffic accident draws attention to a minicab firm. Episode 32: Timing 1992-04-21 | 22 min 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 1992-04-23 | 22 min P.C. Quinnan and W.P.C. Datta arrest a girl using stolen credit cards and uncover a major racket. Episode 34: Trial & Error 1992-04-24 | 22 min 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 1992-04-30 | 22 min 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 1992-05-05 | 22 min 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 1992-05-07 | 22 min 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 1992-05-12 | 22 min 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 1992-05-14 | 22 min 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 1992-05-19 | 22 min 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 1992-05-21 | 22 min 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 1992-05-26 | 22 min 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 1992-05-28 | 22 min 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 1992-06-02 | 22 min 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 1992-06-04 | 22 min 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 1992-06-09 | 22 min 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 1992-06-11 | 22 min 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 1992-06-16 | 22 min 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 1992-06-18 | 22 min 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 1992-06-23 | 22 min 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 1992-06-25 | 22 min Episode 52: Up All Night 1992-06-30 | 22 min Episode 53: Part Of The Furniture 1992-07-02 | 22 min Episode 54: Snakes & Ladders 1992-07-07 | 22 min Episode 55: Street Cleaning 1992-07-09 | 22 min Episode 56: Hands Up 1992-07-14 | 22 min Episode 57: A Scandalous Act 1992-07-16 | 22 min Episode 58: Raiders 1992-07-21 | 22 min Episode 59: Talk Out 1992-07-23 | 22 min Episode 60: True Confessions 1992-07-28 | 22 min Episode 61: Private Enterprise 1992-07-30 | 22 min Episode 62: Getting Through 1992-08-04 | 22 min Episode 63: Last Night Of Freedom 1992-08-06 | 22 min Episode 64: Cutting Loose 1992-08-11 | 22 min Episode 65: Soft Targer 1992-08-13 | 22 min Episode 66: I've Never Been To Harrogate 1992-08-18 | 22 min Episode 67: Human Resources 1992-08-20 | 22 min Episode 68: Exit 1992-08-25 | 22 min Episode 69: Loyalties 1992-08-27 | 22 min Episode 70: Snapshot 1992-09-01 | 22 min Episode 71: Letting Go 1992-09-03 | 22 min Episode 72: Travelling Light 1992-09-08 | 22 min Episode 73: Radio Waves 1992-09-10 | 22 min Episode 74: A Blind Eye 1992-09-15 | 22 min Episode 75: Sympathy For the Devil 1992-09-17 | 22 min Episode 76: Force Is Part of the Service 1992-09-22 | 22 min Episode 77: On the Record, Off the Record 1992-09-24 | 22 min Episode 78: Stoning the Glasshouse 1992-09-29 | 22 min Episode 79: Tip-Off 1992-10-01 | 22 min Episode 80: Open to Offers 1992-10-06 | 22 min Episode 81: Playing God 1992-10-08 | 22 min Episode 82: Crack of Doom 1992-10-13 | 22 min Episode 83: Spit and Polish 1992-10-15 | 22 min Episode 84: Overdue 1992-10-20 | 22 min Episode 85: We Should Be Talking 1992-10-22 | 22 min Episode 86: Reasonable Grounds 1992-10-27 | 22 min Episode 87: Discipline 1992-10-29 | 22 min Episode 88: Minefield 1992-11-03 | 22 min Episode 89: Gamers 1992-11-05 | 22 min Episode 90: Occupational Hazard 1992-11-10 | 22 min Episode 91: Just Send Some Flowers 1992-11-12 | 22 min Episode 92: Waifs and Strays 1992-11-17 | 22 min Episode 93: Happy Families 1992-11-19 | 22 min Episode 94: Well Out of Order 1992-11-24 | 22 min Episode 95: Into The Mire 1992-11-26 | 22 min Episode 96: Master Of The House 1992-12-01 | 22 min Episode 97: Fireworks 1992-12-03 | 22 min Episode 98: Cold Shoulder 1992-12-08 | 22 min Episode 99: Safety First 1992-12-10 | 22 min Episode 100: Counting the Cost 1992-12-15 | 22 min Episode 101: Compassion 1992-12-17 | 22 min Episode 102: Finders Keepers 1992-12-22 | 22 min Episode 103: Return Match 1992-12-24 | 22 min Episode 104: High Places 1992-12-29 | 22 min Episode 105: When Push Comes To Shove 1992-12-31 | 22 min