Episode
The Bill: Priorities
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- The Bill
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 40
- Air date
- 1992-05-19
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Priorities is Episode 40 in Series 8 of The Bill. It aired on 1992-05-19. The runtime is 22 min.
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