Episode

The Bill: Breaking The Chain

Name: The Bill: Breaking The Chain
Released: 1993-03-16
Duration: 22 min
Cast: Simon Rouse, Tom Butcher, Louise Harrison, Lisa Geoghan, Andrew Paul

The BillSeries 91993-03-16

Overview

Kendall tries to keep a young offender from a life of crime.

Details

Series: The Bill
Season: Season 9
Episode: Episode 31
Air date: 1993-03-16
Runtime: 22 min

Episode context

Breaking The Chain is Episode 31 in Series 9 of The Bill. It aired on 1993-03-16. The runtime is 22 min.

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Episode 30: A Little Family Business 1993-03-12 | 22 min Meadows investigates a burglary gone wrong while Cato is gunning for Loxton and Stringer.

Episode 32: The Fortress 1993-03-18 | 22 min 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.

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Episode 27: If It Isn't Hurting 1993-03-05 | 22 min New trainee constable Croft learns some old style policing methods from Burnside.

Episode 35: The Price Of Fame 1993-03-25 | 22 min Page goes undercover as a model to investigate a possible scam at a modelling agency.

Episode 26: Keeping In Touch 1993-03-04 | 22 min An employee of a private security firm is identified by the elderly blind woman he assaulted.

Episode 36: The Short Straw 1993-03-26 | 22 min 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 25: Out Of The Mouths 1993-03-02 | 22 min 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 37: Missing 1993-03-30 | 22 min A young man with an intellectual disability goes missing and Burnside has to deal with the consequences for the parents.