The Bill (series 15) - Episodes

Episodes

# Title Episode notes Directed by Written by Original air date
1 "Long Term Investment" Jonathan Campbell David G. McDonagh 7 January 1999
Deakin and Beech keep watch on a newly-released kidnapper, hoping he will lead them straight to the £300,000 ransom he and an associate were paid for the safe return of their last victim.
2 "Chasing Shadows" Omid Djalili guest stars. Herbert Wise Alan Pollock 14 January 1999
Meadows leads an operation to rescue a missing undercover officer.
3 "Follow Through" Tom Cotter Steve Handley 21 January 1999
Holmes goes undercover as a prison inmate to crack a drugs ring.
4 "Walking on Water" Chris Lovett Graham Mitchell 26 January 1999
Daly sets out to prove that Beech is corrupt but struggles to find any evidence.
5 "The Wrong Horse" Final Appearance of PC Jamila Blake Brian Farnham Stephen Plaice 28 January 1999
Garfield and Hagen volunteer to protect a jockey due to give evidence against a crooked bookmaker.
6 "No Love Lost" Barbara Durkin guest stars. Peter Lydon Katherine Way 2 February 1999
Boyden picks up an attractive young girl at a nightclub, but the morning after he realises that she was not quite as old as he thought.
7 "Pond Life" Tim Holloway Matthew Leys 4 February 1999
Meadows has to deal with the protests when a local newspaper reveals the whereabouts of a registered paedophile in safe accommodation at Sun Hill.
8 "Murder, What Murder?" Tamzin Malleson guest stars. Derek Lister Terry Hodgkinson 9 February 1999
Garfield has to find the identity of a body with no head while fending off the amorous attentions of journalist Carrie Winkler.
9 "Age of Chivalry" Steve Shill Simon Moss 11 February 1999
Burnside and Rawton pursue a serial rapist and his accomplice.
10 "Slinging Mud" Harry Bradbeer David Hoskins 18 February 1999
Meadows is in court for the prosecution of a notorious drug dealer, but finds himself on trial over the discovery of £5,000 stashed under a desk in C.I.D.
11 "Under Duress" Zelda Tinska guest star. David Moore Dale Overton 23 February 1999
Boulton and Rawton investigate a house fire and uncover a sordid secret.
12 "Sleeping With the Enemy" Glynis Barber and Lorraine Chase guest star. Jo Johnson A. Valentine 25 February 1999
Lennox and Skase go under cover at a sales conference to help Burnside investigates a predatory gang of women.
13 "Badlands" Peter Copley guest stars. Nick Laughland Scott Cherry 2 March 1999
Boulton is determined to catch a pair of brutal thieves, and he is certain that local crook Mick Glover is one of them. Ignoring protests from Quinnan and Garfield, who already have Glover under surveillance, Boulton leads a disastrous raid on Glover's flat, which puts informant Janie in grave danger. When Quinnan and Garfield find Janie's flat on the Jasmine Allen Estate vandalised, Quinnan pursues the suspects, but finds himself separated from Garfield, who can only watch in horror as his friend is beaten and stabbed by a gang of youths.
14 "Eyes Everywhere" Ian White Neil Clarke 4 March 1999
With Quinnan in a critical condition in St Hugh's Hospital, the police descend on the Jasmine Allen estate, determined to catch those responsible. Garfield manages to identify most of the gang. A young boy, Kevin White, is brought in for questioning and names them as the 'Sun Hill Massive.' Garfield and Boulton come to blows when Boulton denies any responsibility for the attack on Quinnan.
15 "Yesterday's Hero" Delyth Thomas Len Collin 18 March 1999
Tension between Boulton and Garfield over Quinnan's stabbing reaches boiling point on an obbo with Hollis. Garfield explodes when pushed too far, and he headbutts Boulton, nearly breaking his nose. It's up to Reg to step in and help Garfield come to terms with his feelings of helplessness over the incident. Quinnan, still at St Hugh's, resolves to help Juke, a fellow patient who claims the police have done nothing to find the person who stabbed him, although he soon comes to realise that Juke's wounds are self-inflicted.
16 "On Air" Tommy Boyd Guest Stars Brian Farnham Len Collin 23 March 1999
Conway takes part in a radio phone-in show when a caller confesses to a brutal sex assault.
17 "To Catch a Cobra" Tom Cotter Manjit Singh 25 March 1999
Burnside is on the trail of two cunning Indian crime bosses. How far is Boulton willing to go to help?
18 "Weekends are for Wimps" First Appearance of PC Di Worrell Jo Shoop Nigel Baldwin 30 March 1999
Conway gives up his weekend to cover for Meadows (who is meant to be deputising for an absent Brownlow), but when a wanted man surfaces Meadows comes in spite of his 'flu.
19 "Piggy in the Middle" Brian Parker Clive Dawson 1 April 1999
Burnside's unorthodox methods drag Sun Hill C.I.D. into a war with a gang of drug dealers.
20 "Sex, Lies and Videotape" Beverly Hills guest stars. Paul Murton Tony Mulholland 6 April 1999
Boulton is not happy when a fly-on-the-wall documentary shows him in a bad light.
21 "Out and About" Pip Broughton Richard Stoneman 8 April 1999
Quinnan is back from sick leave, but can he still cut it as a police officer?
22 "Kiss Chase" Dominic Lees Maxwell Young 13 April 1999
Ashton is accused by a teenage girl, a key witness in a domestic violence case, of getting her pregnant.
23 "On the Road" Audrey Cooke Chris Ould 15 April 1999
Lennox and Rawton go to Salisbury to bring in a con-man for questioning, but he proves to be a slippery customer.
24 "Pressure Point" Brian Parker Rod Beacham 20 April 1999
Lennox finds himself at the cutting edge of forensic science when he tries to solve a burglary case.
25 "Look Away Now" James Cellan Jones Michael Jenner 22 April 1999
Harker and Beech disagree over how to handle a problem family.
26 "A Question of Trust, Part One" Audrey Cooke Julian Spilsbury 27 April 1999
Boulton pursues a suspect into the night which leads to a suspicious death with him being the only witness to the man's death and possible suspect in his murder.
27 "A Question of Trust, Part Two" Audrey Cooke Julian Spilsbury 29 April 1999
The jury retire to consider their verdict on Boulton, while back at Sun Hill nick, Daly tries to get him off the hook by leaning on one of the accomplices in the jewellery raid.
28 "True Lies" Jeremy Silberston Jaden Clarke 4 May 1999
Harker gets a tip-off from a woman about a series of robberies planned by her husband, but Boyden doubts the reliability of the informant.
29 "Back to Basics" Albert Barber Simon Sharkey 6 May 1999
Carver is worried about being transferred from Sun Hill and back to uniform, and plans a career change.
30 "Makeover" First Appearance of DC Danny Glaze DC Jim Carver is domoted to PC. Derek Lister Peter Mcinery 11 May 1999
It is Jim Carver's first day back in uniform, and he puts up with some good-natured ribbing from his new colleagues.
31 "Tinderbox" Tom Cotter Stephen Plaice 18 May 1999
The senior officers at Sun Hill are dragged off to a team-building exercise with their opposite numbers from Barton Street.
32 "Set-Up" Brian Parker Hugh Ellis 25 May 1999
A young gypsy girl is attacked in the street and Holmes suspects a racial motive.
33 "Lone Ranger" Steve Shill Rod Lewis 1 June 1999
Santini tries to convince his lover, Jess Orton, to set him up with some drug dealers - he wants out of Sun Hill, and DS Timpney, his friend in Area Drugs, has promised him a place in the squad if Santini can get him evidence on them.
34 "Old Flame" Phillipa Langdale Elizabeth Anne-Wheal 8 June 1999
The Ortons' club is firebombed and Santini is shocked when one of the officers assigned by AMIP to investigate the explosion is his old nemesis, DS Rosie Fox.
35 "Push It" Robert Del Maestro Elizabeth Anne-Wheal 15 June 1999
Santini is determined to find out if Jess Orton has grassed on him and when he breaks into her home to challenge her, events spiral out of control.
36 "Kiss Off" Ian White Elizabeth Anne-Wheal 22 June 1999
Santini is desperate to conceal his involvement with the Ortons, but he and Fox find themselves captured and facing possible execution by drug dealers.
37 "Foreign Body" Chris Lovett Tom Needham 24 June 1999
A suspected armed robber dies after his car crashes during a chase with police. He is identified as Alain Savoie, a French national, and the body of an English woman is found in the boot of his stolen car.
38 "Borderline" First Appearance of PC Cass Rickman Christopher Hodson Stephen Plaice 29 June 1999
A CID raid nets a gun which Beech believes could have been used in a recent shooting. New PC Cass Rickman is entrusted with the task of taking the gun to the lab for forensic testing, but when she stops the car to render assistance to a mugging victim, a young man reaches in and steals it.
39 "Confessions of a Zookeeper" Benedick Bates guest stars. Tania Diez Ray Brooking 1 July 1999
Conway organises a charity 'lock-up' in the Sun Hill cells - the prisoners for the night being himself, Monroe and a famous local boxer.
40 "Pillow Talk" Peter Cregeen Barry Simner 6 July 1999
Quinnan thinks that guarding a prisoner in hospital will be dull, until an armed intruder turns up.
41 "Heavy Plant Crossing" Lee Boardman guest stars. Ged Maguire Wendy Lee 8 July 1999
Boyden organises an obbo to catch a gang stealing an excavator from a building site, but the situation is made more complicated when another gang turn up carrying guns and a man is shot and abducted.
42 "Good Relations" Laura Sims Andy Armitage 13 July 1999
Rising crime levels on the council estates sees Brownlow with two additional problems: a gang of over-zealous security guards patrolling the Copthorne Estate, and a "mobile community liaison unit" - a caravan done up by Hollis.
43 "Big Fish" Albert Barber Len Collin 15 July 1999
Skase chances his hand and nets an internationally known drug dealer, however his hopes of recognition are shattered when two criminals masquerading as National Crime Squad officers whisk him out of custody from under Deakin's nose.
44 "Taxed" First Appearance of PC Dale Smith Gwennan Sage Maxwell Young 20 July 1999
Luke Ashton and Dale Smith chase a stabbing suspect onto an estate, but are separated and Ashton is paralysed with fear when confronted by the knife-wielding youth. Smithy is contemptuous of Ashton from that point on, who starts to feel that the rest of the relief is ganging up on him.
45 "Cracked Up" Temporary departure of PC Luke Ashton, Roger Daltrey guest stars. Justin Hardy Maxwell Young 22 July 1999
Ashton, reeling from Smith's accusations of cowardice, tries to help an ex-con who claims to have gone straight.
46 "Wedded Bliss" Neil Adams Chris Jury 27 July 1999
Smith and Rickman deal with a disturbance at a registry office, and Proctor and Holmes discover an ingenious immigration scam in which British lookalikes of Romanian illegal immigrants marry Irish women to gain UK residency.
47 "Lucky Jim" Richard Holthouse Nick Crittenden 29 July 1999
Carver, depressed at the prospect of a life in uniform, has money and drink problems.
48 "Screwdriver" Barbara Rennie Sheila Duncan 3 August 1999
Proctor assists a female DS in the investigation of a series of sexual assaults, but the evidence is misleading.
49 "Inside Out" N. G. Bristow Steve Handley 5 August 1999
Beech and Glaze go into a prison in the wake of a riot to investigate allegations of brutality made against the warders.
50 "Critical Mass" Nicholas Day guest stars. Laurence Moody Chris Ould 10 August 1999
Monroe is sceptical but cautious when a young woman rings Sun Hill and says she thinks her boyfriend may have hidden a bomb in the station.
51 "Ring-a-Ring O'Roses" James Thornton guest stars. Pip Broughton Tom Needham 12 August 1999
Ackland and Rawton track down a man who appears to be deliberately infecting prostitutes with HIV.
52 "The Only Way Is Up" Brian Farnham Candy Denman 17 August 1999
Meadows fails to notice a cry for help from a colleague, and soon has a crisis on his hands.
53 "Rock Bottom" Dominic Lees Chris McWatters 24 August 1999
Harker is offered the role of Youth Diversions Officer, and clashes with Daly over a former drug dealer turned counsellor.
54 "Sunhill Boulevard" Daniel Ainsleigh guest stars. Chris Lovett Stephen Plaice 31 August 1999
Rickman calls in sick after over-indulging at a barbecue for the relief the previous night, but finds herself dragged into drama at the local lido.
55 "Lola" Ian White Terry Hodgkinson 1 September 1999
Deakin leads C.I.D. and uniform on a series of disastrous raids to catch alleged DSS fraudsters, while Page is given the boring task of serving a court order.
56 "Integrity, Part One" First Appearance of PC Nick Klein Jim Shields Elizabeth-Anne Wheal 16 September 1999
Sun Hill efforts to protect the organisers of a community festival are in vain when the convoy is attacked.
57 "Integrity, Part Two" Robert Del Maestro Elizabeth-Anne Wheal 19 September 1999
Smith puts Brownlow's operation in jeopardy and Klein's career on the line when he gets too close to a former colleague.
58 "Cold Calling" Charles De'Ath guest stars. N. G. Bristow Carolyn Sally Jones 21 September 1999
Rawton is furious when Meadows pulls an obbo on a violent ex-con for budgetary reasons.
59 "Millennium" First Appearance of DS Claire Stanton Brian Parker Steve Griffiths 23 September 1999
Jack Meadows introduces new DS Claire Stanton to the rest of the C.I.D. team, who are jealous when she manages to land an eco-terrorism case on her first day.
60 "The Three Sergeants" Haluk Bilginer guest stars. Rob Bailey Rod Lewis 28 September 1999
Accusations fly when a prisoner dies in the custody of Cryer, Ackland and Boyden.
61 "Trade-Off" Steve Shill Peter Lloyd 30 September 1999
Glaze arrests one of Beech's informants, but agrees to do his sergeant a favour.
62 "Treading Water" Susan Tully David Hoskins 5 October 1999
Carver and Rickman wander through a C.I.D. obbo, allowing a suspect to go free.
63 "Look Again" Carol Wiseman Scott Cherry 7 October 1999
Hollis turns up late for parade, and an angry Boyden assigns him to an eviction followed by traffic duty.
64 "Love and War, Part One" Ian White Neil Clarke 12 October 1999
Garfield is in quite a state - his girlfriend Jenny Delaney has just returned from South America and he is eager to know if she has considered his marriage proposal. Unknown to him, Quinnan is also trying to contact Jenny.
65 "Love and War, Part Two" Final Appearance of PC George Garfield Ian White Neil Clarke 14 October 1999
Back at the section house, Garfield confronts Quinnan about his relationship with Jenny, and then storms off. Page and Stamp go looking for him, while Quinnan rushes off to see Jenny.
66 "Hot Money" Bruce MacDonald Don Webb 19 October 1999
Burnside and Meadows set up an undercover operation in a local casino.
67 "Crash Landing" Sally Dexter guest stars. Jo Shoop Nicholas McInerny 21 October 1999
Daly investigates when a light aircraft makes a crash landing in Sun Hill, carrying his ex-mistress.
68 "Father's Day" Paul Murton Barry Simner 28 October 1999
Boyden's estranged daughter Amy turns up at Sun Hill claiming to have information regarding a man's violent death and looking for protection.
69 "Sweet Sixteen" Christopher Hodson Marc Pye 2 November 1999
Skase goes undercover to investigate a series of robberies, but is himself abducted and robbed by the gang of teenage girls responsible.
70 "Denial" Paul Angelis guest stars. Albert Barber Gregory Evans 4 November 1999
Leaving a pub, a drunken Carver is approached by a former DS whom he met while in C.I.D. who offers him a job at a prestigious private investigation firm, and Carver jumps at the chance.
71 "Walking the Line" George Harris guest stars. Laurence Moody Julian Spilsbury 9 November 1999
A Polish shopkeeper tells police he was attacked by three black youths, and Duncan Lennox and Tom Proctor arrest the main suspect, Davy Rawlings. After an attempted escape, Rawlings accuses Lennox of racial abuse, saying that he called him a 'black bastard' during the arrest. As usual, Brownlow scrambles into damage control with more regard for the Met's public image than for the welfare of his officers. Danny Glaze is furious when Brownlow insists he take Proctor's place on the case to ease the 'racial sensitivities', but thanks to Gary McCann, he and Geoff Daly manage to find the 'third man' involved in the beating, who tells them what really went down. The other suspect in the van, Errol Price, is brought to the station by his father and he clears Lennox of any racial abuse during the arrest.
72 "Cover Stories" Ben Miles guest stars. Don Leaver Elizabeth-Anne Wheal 16 November 1999
Burnside realises that Carver's drinking is becoming a problem when he repeatedly lets him down during an operation.
73 "Security" Justin Chadwick Dale Overton 18 November 1999
Stanton and Proctor investigate a vicious intimidation campaign against an officer from Barton Street. Quinnan plans to propose to Jenny Delaney.
74 "Up in Smoke, Part One" Baz Taylor Simon Sharkey 23 November 1999
Meadows and Skase are furious when Carver turns up drunk to give evidence in a court case - evidence which is so unreliable the judge throws the case out of court. As his colleagues begin to realise the extent of Carver's problems, Monroe decides to put him on an easy task - escorting a convoy of confiscated drugs to a Home Office depot for destruction.
75 "Up in Smoke, Part Two" Baz Taylor Simon Sharkey 25 November 1999
DCI Scanlon from Kent Constabulary arrives to investigate the attack on the Home Office convoy. Carver pays Vernon Liggett a visit, but he denies any involvement.
76 "Homework" Bob Blagden Carolyn Sally Jones 30 November 1999
Ackland is planning a romantic evening alone with her new boyfriend, Steve Bryant, when her neighbour arrives from across the street with a shotgun she found under the floorboards of her lodger's room. C.I.D. arrive and want to set up an obbo - with June's flat as the perfect location.
77 "Knowing You" Rob Evans Steve Handley 2 December 1999
Holmes gets personally involved in a case involving a brutal pimp and his teenaged girls.
78 "Consumers" Gwennan Sage Len Collin 7 December 1999
Carver has gone missing. Among the relief fears for his safety grow when a youth is arrested in possession of his credit card.
79 "Lock In" Chris Lovett Len Collin 9 December 1999
Carver hits rock bottom, and Burnside is forced to arrest his old friend on suspicion of murder.
80 "Money For Nothing" Steve Shill Chris Jury 14 December 1999
Boyden, Klein, Quinnan, Rickman and Stamp - along with Quinnan's fiancée - form a syndicate to buy a greyhound.
81 "A Night to Forget" Tom Butcher guest stars. Rob Bailey Richard Stoneman 15 December 1999
Quinnan's stag night is being organised by Hollis, so will anything go right? The evening certainly promises a few surprises.
82 "A Day to Remember" Huw Higginson and Tom Butcher guest stars. Jo Johnson Richard Stoneman 16 December 1999
Quinnan's wedding day dawns, but the reappearance of Garfield is just one of the many clouds on the horizon.
83 "Judgement Day" Departure of DC Liz Rawton Michael Owen Morris Patrick Melanaphy 21 December 1999
Rawton is on edge after receiving an ill-conceived parcel from an old villain she put away in her SO10 days. After conducting a raid on a local warehouse manager, she is shocked when he reveals that he has kidnapped her for the sole purpose of handing her over to the man she once betrayed whilst undercover.
84 "Haunted" Hannah Yelland guest stars. Chris Lovett Tony Mulholland 23 December 1999
C.I.D. deal with problems from beyond the grave, as ghosts and clairvoyants play havoc at Sun Hill.
85 "When the Snow Lay Round About" Brian Murphy guest stars. Albert Barber Chris Ould 24 December 1999
With only two days to go until Christmas, the coppers are hoping for a silent night at Sun Hill.
86 "Blowing It All Away" Susan Tully Candy Denman 30 December 1999
On a night out with her friend Lynn, Rickman meets two men, Jamie and Ben, who offer her some dope which she refuses.
87 "All Change" William Beck guest stars. Michael Cocker Mark Holloway 31 December 1999
It's New Year's Eve 1999. The streets of Sun Hill are full to the brim with party-goers, and in an attempt to retain order on the streets, the entire C.I.D. team have been seconded back into uniform for the night. Boulton has other ideas, however, and continues on his rampage to bring Eddie Cochlan to justice. Meanwhile, Boyden, in an attempt to woo his latest conquest, has warned the relief not to arrest anyone before midnight. However, with both Stamp and Lennox determined to make the first arrest, he may not get the pleasure he was bargaining for. Meanwhile, Page and Quinnan get stuck in a lift whilst attending to a breach of the peace call, and Conway and Meadows have a long streak of bad luck whilst in search of an ever-elusive bottle of scotch.


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