Episode
The Bill: Man Of The People
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- The Bill
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 42
- Air date
- 1992-05-26
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Man Of The People is Episode 42 in Series 8 of The Bill. It aired on 1992-05-26. The runtime is 22 min.
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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 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.
More episodes from this season
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.