The Bill - Season 8
Season 8
The eighth series of The Bill, a British television drama, consisted of 105 episodes, broadcast between 2 January – 31 December 1992. The series was released on DVD for the first time on 6 June 2012, in Australia. It features the above artwork, which features images of PC Steve Loxton and DC Mike Dashwood.
Network
DatesJan 2, 1992 - Dec 31, 1992
Episodes
Season 8Episode 130 min
The Best Policy
D.C.I. Reid's influence in high places suddenly makes D.I. Burnside look vulnerable to criticism. CID investigate an armed robbery.
Jan 2, 1992
Season 8Episode 230 min
A Friend in Need
P.C. Quinnan is the subject of a civil complaint. P.C.s Stamp and Stringer follow up on a fire at a home for ex-psychiatric patients, but find little care in the community.
Jan 7, 1992
Season 8Episode 330 min
Whose Side Are You On?
D.C. Lines investigates a mugging, and tries to get the victim charged with the murder of his assailant.
Jan 9, 1992
Season 8Episode 430 min
Lip Service
D.C. Lines is enjoying an off-duty pint in his local pub and becomes involved in a bar brawl.
Jan 14, 1992
Season 8Episode 530 min
Illegals
D.C. Lines investigates when a cellarful of illegal immigrants is discovered. He enlists the help of Sgt. Boyden, who takes a fancy to one of the females. Lines warns him off.
Jan 16, 1992
Season 8Episode 630 min
Fair Play
P.C. Quinnan investigates the illegal sale of steroids. P.C. Garfield is put on the spot when his old sparring partner is arrested.
Jan 21, 1992
Season 8Episode 730 min
Dinosaur
D.I. Burnside's unorthodox policing methods, which include flushing an informant's head down a toilet, set him on a collision course with D.C.I. Reid, who has already received several complaints about Sun Hill officers. Reid fears the worst when she is called in to Scotland Yard for an urgent meeting with MS15.
Jan 23, 1992
Season 8Episode 830 min
Joyride
A girl is seriously injured in a joyriding incident. Ch. Supt. Brownlow must decide whether he is prepared to risk a riot by sending officers into an estate to round up the culprits.
Jan 28, 1992
Season 8Episode 930 min
Not Waving
A student nurse is sexually assaulted. D.I. Burnside arrests the obvious suspect, but he escapes from police custody.
Jan 30, 1992
Season 8Episode 1030 min
Mates
Sgt. Cryer is finding being non-operational tedious. He goes undercover as a punter in a brothel, but his presence on the operation antagonises Sgt. Peters. Cryer goes to sees Ch. Supt. Brownlow about giving up his job as duty sergeant and going back to the relief.
Feb 4, 1992
Season 8Episode 1130 min
Lost Boy
D.S. Greig is led to a vice ring when searching for a missing thirteen-year-old boy. D.C. Dashwood and W.P.C. Ackland are brought into an operation against ponces running rent boys.
Feb 6, 1992
Season 8Episode 1230 min
Chicken
P.C. Stringer tries to stop some children from playing 'chicken' on the railway line, but one of them is run down by a train. Sgt. Peters transfers upstairs to the post of duty sergeant, swapping roles with Bob Cryer, who returns to the relief.
Feb 11, 1992
Season 8Episode 1330 min
Somebody Special
Acting D.I. Greig tries to recruit a hardened female thief as a snout, but finds her more than a match for him. D.C.I. Reid is promoted out of Sun Hill to MS15.
Feb 13, 1992
Season 8Episode 1430 min
Previous Convictions
Investigating an apparent accident in which a man's hand is crushed in a car-breaker's yard, Sgt. Maitland uncovers years of animosity, neglect and revenge.
Feb 18, 1992
Season 8Episode 1530 min
Beggar My Neighbour
A tramp is attacked, leading the police into a web of crime.
Feb 20, 1992
Season 8Episode 1630 min
It's a Small World
Thinking of leaving the force, D.C. Dashwood is tempted by a lucrative business opportunity with a firm of security consultants.
Feb 25, 1992
Season 8Episode 1730 min
Licence
A man convicted of strangling his wife has been released on licence, but the probation service fails to notify Sun Hill. His presence comes to light when his son causes a disturbance.
Feb 27, 1992
Season 8Episode 1830 min
Comeback
The community police station run by P.C. Smollett is fire-bombed. The area car is stolen from P.C. Loxton and W.P.C. Datta, and it is written off in an RTA.
Mar 3, 1992
Season 8Episode 1930 min
Fireproof
D.I. Burnside leads an investigation into the firebombing of the community police station.
Mar 5, 1992
Season 8Episode 2030 min
The Paddy Factor
D.C. Carver and W.D.C. Martella have a car thief under observation, and see him shot as he gets into a car. The Anti-Terrorist Squad is called in, and the IRA is suspected.
Mar 10, 1992
Season 8Episode 2130 min
The Wild Rover
D.S. Roach ignores the Anti-Terrorist Squad, and investigates a possible IRA cell.
Mar 12, 1992
Season 8Episode 2230 min
Coincidence
A small boy known for lying claims to have been the subject of an attempted abduction in an adventure playground.
Mar 17, 1992
Season 8Episode 2330 min
Going Soft
A routine trip to a magistrate for a warrant turns into a nightmare for D.C. Dashwood when he is taken prisoner by two hooded burglars.
Mar 19, 1992
Season 8Episode 2430 min
Re-Hab
Jack Meadows arrives to take charge of Sun Hill CID. He becomes involved with a father suspected of murdering his drug addict son.
Mar 24, 1992
Season 8Episode 2530 min
Acting Detective
A woman who collapsed at an airport is found to be a mule, smuggling drugs in her stomach. D.I. Burnside, with only limited time to mount an operation, gets W.P.C. French to take the courier's place in an attempt to uncover the dealer.
Mar 26, 1992
Season 8Episode 2630 min
Stopover
P.C. Smollett tries to offer a follow-up service to victims of crime. A woman whose husband is in prison, and who runs a guesthouse, keeps reporting an intruder on the premises. Smollett gives her support, but P.C. Garfield thinks he is wasting his time.
Mar 31, 1992
Season 8Episode 2730 min
Suspects
D.S. Greig arrests a suspect for an armed robbery, but is proved wrong.
Apr 2, 1992
Season 8Episode 2830 min
All the King's Horses
A lorry overturns and sheds its load outside a school, burying a boy and girl and putting P.C. Loxton to the test.
Apr 7, 1992
Season 8Episode 2930 min
Party Politics
W.D.C. Martella celebrates her birthday. D.I. Burnside and D.S. Roach go to a party attended by a crooked businessman, who makes Burnside an offer he can't refuse.
Apr 9, 1992
Season 8Episode 3030 min
Trials and Tribulations
W.P.C. Marshall becomes a vital witness in a murder trial, and soon realises that someone is trying to intimidate her.
Apr 14, 1992
Season 8Episode 3130 min
A Can of Worms
A traffic accident draws attention to a minicab firm.
Apr 16, 1992
Season 8Episode 3230 min
Timing
D.C.I. Meadows tries to find the link between three arson attacks. D.S. Roach and D.C. Dashwood track down an escaped prisoner, but Roach seems more interested in his beautiful wife.
Apr 21, 1992
Season 8Episode 3330 min
A Nice Little Line in Plastic
P.C. Quinnan and W.P.C. Datta arrest a girl using stolen credit cards and uncover a major racket.
Apr 23, 1992
Season 8Episode 3430 min
Trial and Error
Apr 28, 1992
Season 8Episode 3530 min
Owning Up
P.C.s Loxton and Stringer follow up on a mugging but their case is nearly ruined when it collides with an investigation by D.S. Greig and D.C.I. Meadows. Can W.P.C. Ackland crack the case?
Apr 30, 1992
Season 8Episode 3630 min
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.
May 5, 1992
Season 8Episode 3730 min
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?
May 7, 1992
Season 8Episode 3830 min
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.
May 12, 1992
Season 8Episode 3930 min
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.
May 14, 1992
Season 8Episode 4030 min
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.
May 19, 1992
Season 8Episode 4130 min
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.
May 21, 1992
Season 8Episode 4230 min
Man of the People
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.
May 26, 1992
Season 8Episode 4330 min
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.
May 28, 1992
Season 8Episode 4430 min
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.
Jun 2, 1992
Season 8Episode 4530 min
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.
Jun 4, 1992
Season 8Episode 4630 min
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.
Jun 9, 1992
Season 8Episode 4730 min
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.
Jun 11, 1992
Season 8Episode 4830 min
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.
Jun 16, 1992
Season 8Episode 4930 min
Hiding to Nothing
P.C. Stamp is ambushed by a gang of youths on a local estate. In trying to assist him, W.P.C. Ackland crashes the Area car, much to P.C. Loxton's delight.
Jun 18, 1992
Season 8Episode 5030 min
Punching Judy
A woman lies critically injured in hospital, beaten up by her husband. D.S. Greig and D.C.I. Meadows interview the husband. W.P.C. Marshall decides to quit the Domestic Violence Unit.
Jun 23, 1992
Season 8Episode 5130 min
Vicious Circles
P.C. Hollis arrests a woman for being drunk in charge of a baby, and finds himself drawn into a complicated family set-up.
Jun 25, 1992
Season 8Episode 5230 min
Up All Night
P.C. Garfield pursues a burglar and is beaten up. Sgt. Boyden's inaction brings hostility from the relief and trouble for D.S. Roach.
Jun 30, 1992
Season 8Episode 5330 min
Part of the Furniture
D.C. Dashwood is to be transferred to the Art and Antiques Squad. D.S. Roach hands him a burglary at an infants' school as a wind-up, but it develops into a case that allows Dashwood to show the others a thing or two.
Jul 2, 1992
Season 8Episode 5430 min
Snakes & Ladders
It's P.C. Garfield's first day back after the attack. The relief place bets on the likelihood of Garfield punching Sgt. Boyden, but Garfield eventually takes his revenge.
Jul 7, 1992
Season 8Episode 5530 min
Street Cleaning
Sgt. Cryer gets the relief to put the Garfield-Boyden conflict behind them and get back to work, to sort out the takeover of genuine beggars' pitches by violent professional thieves.
Jul 9, 1992
Season 8Episode 5630 min
Hands Up
Conway decides he needs to get back on the beat, and arrests a drunk for criminal damage.
Jul 14, 1992
Season 8Episode 5730 min
A Scandalous Act
P.C. Garfield brings in a teenaged girl arrested at a drugs party, and she accuses him of sexually assaulting her.
Jul 16, 1992
Season 8Episode 5830 min
Raiders
A ram-raid ends in tragedy when a boy is killed. But what was his part in the affair?
Jul 21, 1992
Season 8Episode 5930 min
Talk Out
A middle-aged couple arrive at the front desk and report their neighbour missing, but W.P.C. Ackland isn't sure that they are telling the whole truth.
Jul 23, 1992
Season 8Episode 6030 min
True Confessions
D.S. Roach is put under pressure when a suspect retracts a confession and accuses the police of oppression.
Jul 28, 1992
Season 8Episode 6130 min
Private Enterprise
D.C.I. Meadows tackles CID about passing intelligence to the collator; but D.S. Roach is reluctant to share information relating to his current operation.
Jul 30, 1992
Season 8Episode 6230 min
Getting Through
The night shift is saddled with a feud between two men who come to the front desk with allegations of GBH against each other.
Aug 4, 1992
Season 8Episode 6330 min
Last Night of Freedom
Someone is stabbed on a stag night, but the likely suspect can't remember a thing about it.
Aug 6, 1992
Season 8Episode 6430 min
Cutting Loose
Burnside and Lines are returning a chief suspect to prison when they are ambushed by a gang of masked men, who spring him.
Aug 11, 1992
Season 8Episode 6530 min
Soft Target
P.C. Smollett discovers that a local villain is driving people out of their flats and reletting them to squatters. At Sun Hill, a civilian typist is discovered to be having an affair with a known villain.
Aug 13, 1992
Season 8Episode 6630 min
I've Never Been to Harrogate
D.S. Greig and D.C. Woods investigate the mysterious collapse of an old lady who has been burgled.
Aug 18, 1992
Season 8Episode 6730 min
Human Resources
Two con men are preying on women through the small ads in the local paper. Lack of personnel for D.S. Roach's operation places W.D.C. Martella in danger.
Aug 20, 1992
Season 8Episode 6830 min
Exit
A loan shark is attacked. D.S. Greig has a vital witness who is young, blonde and pretty, but she keeps stringing him along, and then disappears.
Aug 25, 1992
Season 8Episode 6930 min
Loyalties
Acting on information from a snout, D.I. Burnside mounts a raid on crack-houses. When details of the raid are leaked, D.C.I. Meadows challenges Burnside over the trustworthiness of his team.
Aug 27, 1992
Season 8Episode 7030 min
Snapshot
A complaint over loud music quickly escalates into an armed siege, as a man waves a gun at P.C.s Stamp and Quinnan.
Sep 1, 1992
Season 8Episode 7130 min
Letting Go
Reg is playing with a train set before going out. He is looking for a place to live as he is moving out of the section house but ends up moving to a different corridor instead. Greig and Tosh investigates a stabbing in a station car park. The case is being dropped but Greig goes to see the widow and finds a new lead. June and Reg act as back up to bailiffs trying to evict a family. The case is turned over to Tosh.
Sep 3, 1992
Season 8Episode 7230 min
Travelling Light
Viv helps Donna dress up for a reconstruction of a murder case. They find a man who spoke to the dead woman and gives them a new lead. The ex-boyfriend of the murder victim asks to see Burnside protesting his innocence.
Sep 8, 1992
Season 8Episode 7330 min
Radio Waves
Monroe talks to Conway about a problem with a car chase. Tony and Dave were chasing joy riders with Ron in the back. Norika and George help catch the children who were joy riding. CID think they might be part of a gang knocking off car stereos. The fathers have a fight in custody after their children were interviewed.
Sep 10, 1992
Season 8Episode 7430 min
A Blind Eye
Viv brings in an elderly mugging victim who helps make an identikit picture. Boyden gets spoken to by Monroe about working with the relief. Tony assists George with a disturbance when there is another mugging which turns out to be a misunderstanding. Tony see what he thinks is a mugger getting beaten up but the suspect turns out to be an off-duty copper.
Sep 15, 1992
Season 8Episode 7530 min
Sympathy for the Devil
Tosh is at the building society waiting for an armed robber. Dave and Barry assist CID and they catch an old age pensioner. Steve goes to a disturbance behind a pub. He finds an attacked man. He thinks it might be racially motivated. It turns out to be a revenge attack.
Sep 17, 1992
Season 8Episode 7630 min
Force is Part of the Service
Brownlow and Conway have a meeting with councillors about the changes in the police force. Conway gives them a tour of the station. Steve brings in a man suspected of street robbery. The man accuses Steve of harassment. Reg tells Steve the bad news that he brought in the wrong man. The man makes a complaint against Steve and Brownlow wants it sorted honestly. Steve is trying to get George to back up his story.
Sep 22, 1992
Season 8Episode 7730 min
On the Record, Off the Record
CID investigates a break-in at a warehouse which resulted in the theft of personal CD players. Steve spots the van used in the robbery. After talking to a worker with form, fingers start pointing at the security guard. Jim gets spoken to by Meadows about complaints. He gets into further trouble after arresting a man on information received.
Sep 24, 1992
Season 8Episode 7830 min
Stoning the Glasshouse
Bob visits a friend who is the head of a neighbourhood watch. His son is stealing to support his drug habit. Bob's friend thinks the police are turning a blind eye towards the Cockcroft Estate. Conway gets a report on the Cockcroft Estate and a visit from the head of the Cockcroft Action Committee complaining of harassment.
Sep 29, 1992
Season 8Episode 7930 min
Tip-Off
Tosh is asked for by a burglar whom he put inside. He gives Tosh information that there might be a bank robbery. CID catches the robbers after the job but when Tosh tries to arrange protection for his informant he is too late as the man has had his face slashed. Reg talks to Donna for an article in the station newspaper.
Oct 1, 1992
Season 8Episode 8030 min
Open to Offers
Monroe and the relief go to a pub where some men are damaging it. One of the men tries to blackmail Dave over some moonlighting Dave did to get off the charge. Monroe thinks the men might be involved in protection. Dave tells both Sgts Boyden and Maitland who advises him to tell Monroe. Dave asks Barry's advice as Fed Rep. Barry asks Reg's advice as he was previous Fed Rep.
Oct 6, 1992
Season 8Episode 8130 min
Playing God
CID are tied up with a court case. A burglary suspect of Ted's may have to be released as he is at court. Tony brings in an old lady who has been abusive in the street. Dave and George find a man in the street who might have killed his wife who had terminal cancer.
Oct 8, 1992
Season 8Episode 8230 min
Crack of Doom
There is a search of people looking for crack. A man has a scuffle with another man and claims a piece of crack was planted on him. Tony discovers the man, an ex-boxer, lives over the road from the crack house and CID ask if they could use it as a base for an obbo.
Oct 13, 1992
Season 8Episode 8330 min
Spit and Polish
Steve is late for shift. Just as Steve is about to arrest a fine defaulter Dave is nearly run over by a speeding BMW. Steve really wants to arrest the fine defaulter, who has already left by the time he gets back, but Dave wants to deal with the driver. They find the body of the car owner's lover in the boot of the car.
Oct 15, 1992
Season 8Episode 8430 min
Overdue
Burnside talks to a snout in a bus queue about a delivery. Woods and Carver observe the delivery and CID raid the premises. The cartons contain bricks and motor parts instead of the stolen goods expected. Burnside goes to a promotions board and is passed over.
Oct 20, 1992
Season 8Episode 8530 min
We Should Be Talking
George is following a silver car that might have been involved in a ramraid. While checking in with the station, his radio goes dead. Sgt. Cryer discovers the radio link is down. June is investigating a failure to stop and enlists the help of people on the estate to help find a hurt kid.
Oct 22, 1992
Season 8Episode 8630 min
Reasonable Grounds
Norika goes to see a man about a missing child. Barry has to tell a man his brother is dead after complaining of having to let a suspected burglar go with a caution. the man takes off as soon as he sees Barry.
Oct 27, 1992
Season 8Episode 8730 min
Discipline
An obbo on a club nearly goes wrong when a fight starts outside it. The man who started the fight turns out to be a D. S. suspended from the Drug Squad.
Oct 29, 1992
Season 8Episode 8830 min
Minefield
Sgt. Maitland finds himself in the wrong when he discovers a serious procedural error meant that a dangerous and possibly psychopathic man has been arrested twice for the same offence and released.
Nov 3, 1992
Season 8Episode 8930 min
Gamers
Tosh investigates a fire bombing of an Asian shop. Dave and Cathy investigates an Asian lady accused of shoplifting. Cathy thinks there is something going on. Her husband is gambling. Dave and Sgt. Boyden join the game.
Nov 5, 1992
Season 8Episode 9030 min
Occupational Hazard
When sex appeal doesn't get him what he wants, Harry Osborne turns vicious. W.D.C. Martella has to pick up the pieces.
Nov 10, 1992
Season 8Episode 9130 min
Just Send Some Flowers
W.D.C. Martella investigates a burglary that occurred during a funeral. D.C. Carver links it to previous burglaries and an employee with a criminal record who claims to be innocent.
Nov 12, 1992
Season 8Episode 9230 min
Waifs and Strays
A missing girl's blood-stained book leads D.C. Lines to uncover the family's dark secrets and come up with an unexpected result. P.C. Hollis has to deal with a lost dog. P.C. Loxton discovers the dog has been beaten and decides to keep it.
Nov 17, 1992
Season 8Episode 9330 min
Happy Families
What's a smart girl like Sharon doing with a villain like Daniel Batt? D.I. Burnside thinks it's all to do with female hormones, but W.D.C. Martella isn't so sure.
Nov 19, 1992
Season 8Episode 9430 min
Well Out of Order
Meadows and Burnside want to go in force to the Tankeray estate to root out the criminal element, but Brownlow is committed to a softer approach. P.C. Smollett proves more effective than C.I.D. at catching a dangerous mugger.
Nov 24, 1992
Season 8Episode 9530 min
Into the Mire
CID receive information that leads to the arrest of a prolific handler of stolen goods.
Nov 26, 1992
Season 8Episode 9630 min
Master of the House
The body of a respectable family man is found on a notorious patch of wasteland.
Dec 1, 1992
Season 8Episode 9730 min
Fireworks
Stamp uses some old-fashioned policing methods to tackle the problem of children playing with railway detonators.
Dec 3, 1992
Season 8Episode 9830 min
Cold Shoulder
A local youth with form is stabbed in the centre of a densely populated housing development. D.C.I. Meadows investigates when no witnesses come forward.
Dec 8, 1992
Season 8Episode 9930 min
Safety First
D.I. Burnside investigates when a pawnbroker is shot in the leg with a legally-acquired shotgun during a robbery at his shop.
Dec 10, 1992
Season 8Episode 10030 min
Counting the Cost
A local hero who prevented a robbery, and was severely injured in the process, but received no compensation, is being harassed by a scrap dealer until W.P.C. Ackland turns the tables with some harassment of her own.
Dec 15, 1992
Season 8Episode 10130 min
Compassion
A probation officer seems eager to assist D.I. Burnside over the murder of a prostitute, but how close is she to the murderer?
Dec 17, 1992
Season 8Episode 10230 min
Finders Keepers
D.C. Carver finds a buried treasure and the glory should be his. D.C. Dashwood, now with the Art and Antiques Squad, takes the case away and gets a result.
Dec 22, 1992
Season 8Episode 10330 min
Return Match
When a collection of valuable dolls is stolen, D.C. Dashwood from the Art and Antiques Squad turns up, wrong-foots D.C. Lines and gets a result.
Dec 24, 1992
Season 8Episode 10430 min
High Places
An ex-criminal who used to be part of a circus high-wire act is found dead, apparently from a fall, but the pathologist says he died elsewhere.
Dec 29, 1992
Season 8Episode 10530 min
When Push Comes to Shove
Sun Hill officers are drinking after shift when some troublemakers arrive at the pub. W.P.C. Ackland tries to calm the situation, but P.C.s Quinnan and Loxton decide that she needs their protection, and provoke a fight with a violent thug.
Dec 31, 1992
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