Season
The Bill: Series 9
Overview
The ninth series of The Bill, a British television drama, consisted of 155 episodes, broadcast between 5 January – 31 December 1993. The series was released on DVD for the first time on 3 October 2012, in Australia. In 2020, Audio Commentaries were released for the episodes 'Blind Spot' (with writer Roger Davenport) and 'Compliments of the Service' with actor Mike Burnside (D.A.C. Trevor Hicks).
Details
- Series
- The Bill
- Season
- Season 9
- Air date
- 1993-01-05
- Episodes
- 155 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Dying Breed
Carver is injured in an armed robbery at Bennetts Jewellers and Woods discovers a link between the burglary the murder of Sammy Chambers in 1988 and Robbie Campbell.
Episode 2: Fact Of Life
The law allows a known burglar to go free but Greig and Quinnan desperately try to pin him down again.
Episode 3: All Through The Night
Stamp expects a dull evening on the party patrol until he is paired with a pretty young female Environmental Health Officer Diane Eckersley.
Episode 4: New Tune Old Fiddle
Conway learns of a new chief inspector being posted to Sun Hill as Community Liaison Officer and he feels that he's been overlooked and applies for it himself without telling Brownlow.
Episode 5: Delinquent
Dave arrests a persistent young offender is arrested for burgling his parents house.
Episode 6: Bringing Up Baby
Datta investigates the sale of a missing newborn baby as she Monroe and CID are work against the clock to find her.
Episode 7: Rainy Days & Mondays
Loxton And Marshall get called to a women's hostel when one of the girls claims to have been indecently assaulted by the night guard Alan And Steve later get wind that the warden is up to no good herself.
Episode 8: Supply & Demand
Harris visits Jardine the joint founder of Operation Bumblebee while Garfield takes on a complaint about a pornographic home video of a housewife in a bubble bath leads to a result for Alistair Donna and the Sun Hill Operation Bumblebee team.
Episode 9: On The Cards
Martella is taken off a two-week old murder hunt to work on a case involving obscene phone calls but soon stumbles on to evidence that leads her Dave Frank and Jim to the killer.
Episode 10: Shock To The System
Charles returns from holiday to discover the news that Derek has been appointed new area Community Liaison Officer and Sgt Jane Kendall of Prescott Street arrives for Her Youth And Community and Section Staff Sergeant interview to pit her wits against Sun Hill's own Lamont.
Episode 11: Living It Down
Social worker Lynda Chambers Frank and Viv lead the search for Debbie Fisher a missing victim of abuse but instead they jointly uncover a child pornography ring.
Episode 12: Heat Of The Moment
A woman admits to killing her husband but insists that she did it in the heat of the moment. Viv believes her, Meadows on the other hand is convinced that the crime was premeditated.
Episode 13: Shake Rattle N Roll
PC Mike Jarvis has an unusual first day having to watch Charles loses his temper with Monroe over pub landlord and Known villain Terry McGill.
Episode 14: No Thanks To You
George has a bad day. Firstly he fails to save the life of a glue sniffer and then allows a bail absconder to escape.
Episode 15: A Better Life
An elderly woman disturbs an intruder in her home and Alistair is convinced that a known villain has committed the burglary, but the victim insists that he is not the culprit.
Episode 16: Echo
A girl goes missing and Jim and Alan suspect a known villain of murdering her until another man walks into another station and confesses.
Episode 17: Fagins
Frank lets Sun Hill's burglars know he and Operation Bumblebee mean business.
Episode 18: Cried Too Late
An arrested woman shoplifter refuses to talk to the police when Datta finally breaks through the wall of silence a tragic tale of domestic violence unfolds.
Episode 19: Gone For A Soldier
Ackland is teamed up with military policeman Dakin who has come to Sun Hill to find a young soldier David Armstrong who has gone Absent Without Leave with an army gun.
Episode 20: Persuasion
Burnside investigates when a female drug dealer is attacked by another dealer to get off his patch.
Episode 21: Hard Man
Greig investigates a stabbing and uncovers benefit fraud at a bed and breakfast establishment.
Episode 22: Missionary Work
Conway has to decide which of two grant bids he should recommend to Hicks he and Garfield want to use police funds to support a local youth club while Cato and Brownlow have their own ideas.
Episode 23: Hypocritical Oath
The overdose of a boy on the Cockcroft Estate enables D.C.s Woods and Carver to link registered addicts to a doctor.
Episode 24: Trivial Pursuits
Loxton ignores a call to a domestic argument between two lovers as a waste of time but when he is called back to the same address, he finds himself staring down the barrel of a gun.
Episode 25: Out Of The Mouths
Hollis takes the Bumblebee message into a local school, asking for help in the fight against burglary. One of the boys asks him to help end a domestic nightmare.
Episode 26: Keeping In Touch
An employee of a private security firm is identified by the elderly blind woman he assaulted.
Episode 27: If It Isn't Hurting
New trainee constable Croft learns some old style policing methods from Burnside.
Episode 28: Keeping Out Of Trouble
A woman claims to have inside information about a series of violent raids on petrol stations which are nipped in the bud by Meadows and Roach.
Episode 29: School Of Hard Knocks
Burnside investigates the abduction of a villain's son.
Episode 30: A Little Family Business
Meadows investigates a burglary gone wrong while Cato is gunning for Loxton and Stringer.
Episode 31: Breaking The Chain
Kendall tries to keep a young offender from a life of crime.
Episode 32: The Fortress
The owner of an off licence shop makes a citizen's arrest of a young shoplifter and Maitland arrests the shopkeeper for use of unreasonable force.
Episode 33: In Broad Daylight
While on the trail of two rapists Morgan investigates an attempted abduction and puts her life in danger.
Episode 34: Credible Witness
Stringer feels discredited when his description of a thief fleeing from a jeweller's shop conflicts with that of the main witness, who works in the shop.
Episode 35: The Price Of Fame
Page goes undercover as a model to investigate a possible scam at a modelling agency.
Episode 36: The Short Straw
When her car breaks down on the way to the station, DC Viv Martella misses an important CID briefing about an obbo on a suspected armed robbery, and is furious when she is taken off the case by DI Frank Burnside. As CID and SO19 wait outside the target, Martella and PC Tony Stamp follow up a simple case to arrest a suspected bag snatcher. As they wait outside the suspect's house, a van pulls up, obscuring their view. Having missed the briefing, Martella fails to recognise the van's occupants as the armed robbers, and when she approaches their van she is shot and killed. Stamp is wounded, but manages to give a description of the van which is spotted by a traffic police motorcycle. As the India 99 police helicopter and SO19 cars pursue Martella's killers across London, PC Loxton and WPC Ackland disobey Ch. Insp. Cato's orders and pursue the suspect vehicle in the Area Car. The vehicle hits a bulldozer and explodes, killing all inside.
Episode 37: Missing
A young man with an intellectual disability goes missing and Burnside has to deal with the consequences for the parents.
Episode 38: Goods Received
Greig investigates a burglary at an ailing business a case that leads him to a missing schoolboy.
Episode 39: Double Enmity
Woods goes undercover as a contract killer to expose a woman who wants her husband killed.
Episode 40: Hard Evidence
A murder investigation team arrive at Sun Hill. Meadows is uneasy at the Corby's approach who is willing to exploit his relationship with Woods to get a result regardless of the evidence.
Episode 41: High Hopes & Low Life
Carver and Morgan investigate a career ending attack on a promising young boxer.
Episode 42: On The Loose
Loxton and Garfield corner a savage pit bull terrier at an illegal dogfight while Boyden tracks down a pensioner who has turned to crime.
Episode 43: Out Of Court
Stamp and Ackland are keen to get a conviction against a woman for assault on a minicab driver, but she is acquitted.
Episode 44: Bedfellows
Chief Inspector Cato arrests two youths, actions which cause a riot outside Sun Hill station.
Episode 45: Cat & House
A woman is keen to be get rid of her burglar boyfriend and his fence with whom she has been having an affair.
Episode 46: Brothers
Two young brothers are suspected of burglary and Croft discovers that they were deserted by their mother and left to fend for themselves.
Episode 47: Playing Away
Ackland arrests a fifteen-year-old boy for shoplifting and finds herself investigating his relationship with a woman twenty years his senior.
Episode 48: Coming To Terms
The parents of a young man awaiting trial for the murder of a child are distressed when their home is broken into and they receive threatening phone call and Ackland discovers the connection.
Episode 49: Return To Sender
A young postwoman is beaten up but the motive is unclear and she seems unwilling to talk to the police.
Episode 50: Sticks & Stones
When Lines hits the jackpot during a raid, it makes an already difficult court case for Greig even harder.
Episode 51: Tangled Webs
Episode 52: Recruiting Officer
Episode 53: Give Em An Inch
Episode 54: By Hook Or By Crook
Episode 55: Home To Roost
Episode 56: In Safe Hands
Episode 57: Punch Drunk
Episode 58: Fall Out
Episode 59: Awaydays
Episode 60: Pride & Joy
Episode 61: Fast Food
Episode 62: Soft Touch
Episode 63: We Gave Him All Our Love
Episode 64: Hearts & Minds
Episode 65: Cry Baby
Episode 66: A Willing Victim
Episode 67: Rank Outsider
Episode 68: Tender Mercies
Episode 69: Double Take
Episode 70: Mouth & Trousers
Episode 71: Uses & Abuses
Episode 72: Picking A Winner
Episode 73: Broken
Episode 74: Insider Dealing
Episode 75: To Have & To Hold
Episode 76: Honour Among Thieves
Episode 77: Somebody To Love
Episode 78: Morning Has Broken
Episode 79: Swaps
Episode 80: Trust
Episode 81: Divided We Fall
Episode 82: A Duty Of Care
Episode 83: Family Values
Episode 84: A Matter Of Life & Death
Episode 85: Kith & Kin
Episode 86: Part Of The Family
Episode 87: Mighty Atoms
Episode 88: A Malicious Prosecution
Episode 89: Outbreak
Episode 90: Unreliable Witness
Episode 91: Sweet Charity
Episode 92: David & Goliath
Episode 93: What A Pair
Episode 94: Desirable Property
Episode 95: Blind Spot
Episode 96: Carrying The Load
Episode 97: Deadly Weapon
Episode 98: All The Wrong Connections
Episode 99: Give & Take
Episode 100: Desperate Measures
Episode 101: To Catch A Thief
Episode 102: Natural Reaction
Episode 103: Desperate Remedies
Episode 104: Bright Lights
Episode 105: Bare Faced Lies
Episode 106: But Not Forgotten
Episode 107: Push
Episode 108: Bad Reaction
Episode 109: Compliments Of The Service
Episode 110: Game Of Two Halves
Episode 111: The Knowledge
Episode 112: No Place Like Home
Episode 113: Customer Care
Episode 114: The Right Man For The Job
Episode 115: A Day In The Life Of
Episode 116: Having What It Takes
Episode 117: Play the Game
Episode 118: Unlucky For Some
Episode 119: Gift Of The Gab
Episode 120: A Class Act
Episode 121: Dangerous Trade
Episode 122: Cheating Heart
Episode 123: Somewhere To Hang My Hat
Episode 124: No Comment
Episode 125: Shrinkage
Episode 126: Street Legal
Episode 127: The Green Eyed Monster
Episode 128: Behind Closed Doors
Episode 129: Links In The Chain
Episode 130: Care In The Community
Episode 131: You Don't Always Get What You Want
Episode 132: Reason To Believe
Episode 133: Let Slip
Episode 134: Until Proven Guilty
Episode 135: The Hard Sell
Episode 136: Consequences
Episode 137: A Question Of Identity
Episode 138: Cutting Edge
Episode 139: Put Down
Episode 140: Left Behind
Episode 141: Real Villains
Episode 142: Questionable Judgement
Episode 143: Taking Care Of Business
Episode 144: The Law In Their Hands
Episode 145: Cause For Complaint
Episode 146: Blood Counts
Episode 147: Hurting Inside
Episode 148: Corroboration
Episode 149: Death Of A Ladies' Man
Episode 150: An Ill Wind
Episode 151: Keep On Trucking
Episode 152: A Family Trait
Episode 153: Paid In Full
Episode 154: Cause For Concern
Episode 155: Nothing Ventured