Episode

The Bill: The Best Policy

Name: The Bill: The Best Policy
Released: 1992-01-02
Duration: 22 min
Cast: Simon Rouse, Tom Butcher, Louise Harrison, Lisa Geoghan, Andrew Paul

The BillSeries 81992-01-02

Overview

D.C.I. Reid's influence in high places suddenly makes D.I. Burnside look vulnerable to criticism. CID investigate an armed robbery.

Details

Series: The Bill
Season: Season 8
Episode: Episode 1
Air date: 1992-01-02
Runtime: 22 min

Episode context

The Best Policy is Episode 1 in Series 8 of The Bill. It aired on 1992-01-02. The runtime is 22 min.

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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.

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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.