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The Bill

  • 29 Series
  • 2,388 Episodes
  • Category: Crime Drama
  • Subtitles available

Long-running drama with the bobbies and detectives at London's Sun Hill police station.

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All episodes for series 8 of The Bill

  • S8 E1 · Up Behind

    CID are trailing a known criminal believed to be responsible for a series of burglaries.

  • S8 E2 · Appearances

    Following an argument with a drunken pub customer, a young barman is hit by a car outside.

  • S8 E3 · Principled Negotiation

    DI Burnside and DS Roach look favourably on an ex-villian with a loan-shark problem.

  • S8 E4 · Sign of Our Times

    DC Lines speaks to an armed robber about why he has taken to crime to solve his problems.

  • S8 E5 · Priorities

    PCs Stringer and Loxton attend to the theft at an old people's home.

  • S8 E6 · Users

    DI Burnside suspects that a drug dealer is using teenage girls as couriers.

  • S8 E7 · Man of the People

    PC Stringer wins the election for Federation Rep, beating the incumbent PC Hollis.

  • S8 E8 · Runaway

    DS Roach investigates the beating of a teenage girl.

  • S8 E9 · Exposures

    A young model claims that she was sexually assaulted during a photographic session.

  • S8 E10 · Better the Devil

    PC Stringer gets involved with a household and discovers a case of parental cruelty.

  • S8 E11 · Prisoners

    Sgt. Boyden has anything but a quiet night on duty in the custody suite.

  • S8 E12 · World to Rights

    WPC Marshall, on attachment to the Domestic Violence Unit, is attacked.

  • S8 E13 · Do the Right Thing

    PC Stringer is mugged by a gang and determines to get his own back.

  • S8 E14 · Hiding to Nothing

    PC Stamp is ambushed by a gang of youths on a local estate.

  • S8 E15 · Punching Judy

    A woman lies critically injured in hospital, beaten up by her husband.

  • S8 E16 · Vicious Circles

    PC Hollis arrests a woman for being drunk in charge of a baby.

  • S8 E17 · Up All Night

    P.C. Garfield is assaulted while in pursuit of a suspect, but where was Sgt. Boyden?

  • S8 E18 · Part of the Furniture

    DC Dashwood is to be transferred to the Arts and Antiques Squad.

  • S8 E19 · Snake and Ladders

    It's PC Garfield's first day back at Sun Hill after the attack.

  • S8 E20 · Street Cleaning

    Sgt Cryer gets the relief to put the Garfield-Boyden conflict behind them and get to work.

  • S8 E21 · Hands Up

    Chief Inspector Conway decides he needs to get back on the beat.

  • S8 E22 · A Scandalous Act

    PC Garfield brings in a teenage girl arrested at a drugs party, and she accuses him of sexually assaulting her. Det Supt Kim Reid comes back to question him.

  • S8 E23 · Raiders

    A ram-raid ends in tragedy when a boy is killed. But what was his part in the affair?

  • S8 E24 · Talk Out

    A middle-aged couple arrive at the front desk and report their neighbour missing.

  • S8 E25 · True Confessions

    DS Roach is put under pressure when a suspect retracts a confession.

  • S8 E26 · Private Enterprise

    A bumbling minicab driver claims to know nothing about the blood stains in his boot.

  • S8 E27 · Getting Through

    The night shift is saddled with a feud between two men.

  • S8 E28 · Last Night of Freedom

    Someone is stabbed on a stag night, but the likely suspect can't remember anything.

  • S8 E29 · Cutting Loose

    A prisoner is brought down from Manchester for an identity parade.

  • S8 E30 · Soft Target

    PC Smollett discovers that a local villain is driving people out of their flats.

  • S8 E31 · I've Never Been to Harrogate

    An elderly lady is found unconscious after apparently having been burgled.

  • S8 E32 · Human Resources

    Two con men are preying on women through the small ads in the local paper.

  • S8 E33 · Exit

    A loan shark is attacked. DS Greig has a vital witness who then disappears.

  • S8 E34 · Loyalties

    Burnside mounts a raid on crack-houses, however details of the raid are leaked.

  • S8 E35 · Snapshot

    A complaint over loud music quickly escalates into an armed siege.

  • S8 E36 · Letting Go

    PC Hollis is looking for a place to live as he is moving out of the section house.

  • S8 E37 · Travelling Light

    WDC Viv Martella helps WPC Donna Harris dress up for a reconstruction of a murder case.

  • S8 E38 · Radio Waves

    Inspector Monroe talks to Chief Inspector Conway about a problem with a car chase.

  • S8 E39 · A Blind Eye

    WDC Martella brings in an elderly mugging victim who helps makes an identikit picture.

  • S8 E40 · Sympathy for the Devil

    Burnside sets a trap for an armed robber and is surprised to find he is in his sixties.

  • S8 E41 · Force is Part of the Service

    Brownlow and Conway have a meeting with councillors about the change in the police force.

  • S8 E42 · On the Record, Off the Record

    CID investigates a break-in at a warehouse which resulted in the theft of CD players.

  • S8 E43 · Stoning the Glasshouse

    Sgt Cryer visits a friend who is the head of a neighbourhood watch.

  • S8 E44 · Tip-Off

    A burglar gives Tosh information that there might be a bank robbery.

  • S8 E45 · Open to Offers

    P.C. Quinnan is in trouble when a prisoner recognises him.

  • S8 E46 · Playing God

    A burglary suspect of DS Roach may have been be released as he is at court.

  • S8 E47 · Crack of Doom

    A former boxer is mistakenly arrested for possession of drugs.

  • S8 E48 · Spit and Polish

    Quinnan is nearly run down by a speeding Mercedes, but Loxton has a score to settle.

  • S8 E49 · Overdue

    Burnside has a promotion board, leaving Meadows to deal with an informant's tip-off.

  • S8 E50 · We Should Be Talking

    PC Garfield is following a silver car that might have been involved in a ramraid.

  • S8 E51 · Reasonable Grounds

    Datta sees a man about a missing child and Stringer has to tell a man his brother is dead.

  • S8 E52 · Discipline

    A man arrested outside a club but turns out to be a suspended detective.

  • S8 E53 · Minefield

    Sgt Maitland finds himself in the wrong when he discovers a serious procedural error.

  • S8 E54 · Gamers

    DC Lines Investigates a fire bombing of an Asian shop.

  • S8 E55 · Occupational Hazard

    When sex appeal doesn't get him what he wants, Harry Osborne turns vicious.

  • S8 E56 · Just Send Some Flowers

    WDC Martella investigates a burglary that occurred during a funeral.

  • S8 E57 · Waifs and Strays

    An old lady brings in a blood-stained book belonging to a missing girl in to the station.

  • S8 E58 · Happy Families

    DI Burnside wonders what's a smart girl like Sharon doing with a villian like Daniel Batt.

  • S8 E59 · Well Out of Order

    Meadows and Burnside want to go to the Tankeray estate to root out the criminal element.

  • S8 E60 · Into the Mire

    CID receive information that leads to the arrest of a prolific handler of stolen goods.

  • S8 E61 · Master of the House

    The body of a respectable family man is found on a notorious patch of wasteland.

  • S8 E62 · Fireworks

    Stamp uses old-fashioned policing methods to tackle kids playing with railway detonators.

  • S8 E63 · Cold Shoulder

    A local youth is stabbed in the centre of a densely populated housing development.

  • S8 E64 · Safety First

    Burnside investigates when a pawnbroker is shot in the leg with a legally-acquired gun.

  • S8 E65 · Counting the Cost

    Ackland intervenes when a family is being subjected to harassment from a scrap dealer.

  • S8 E66 · Compassion

    A probation officer seems eager to assist DI Burnside over the murder of a prostitute.

  • S8 E67 · Finders Keepers

    DC Carver finds a buried treasure, but DC Dashwood takes the case away.

  • S8 E68 · Return Match

    Mike Dashwood returns to Sun Hill looking for stolen antique dolls.

  • S8 E69 · High Places

    D.I. Burnside investigates the death of a former high-wire artist and cat burglar.

  • S8 E70 · When Push Comes to Shove

    Sun Hill officers are drinking after shift when some troublemakers arrive at the pub.

  • S8 E71 · A Dying Breed

    D.I. Burnside investigates an armed robbery where D.C. Carver is shot at.

  • S8 E72 · Fact of Life

    Greig and Quinnan trap a burglar with the assistance of schoolboy on work experience.

  • S8 E73 · All Through the Night

    Stamp escorts a noise control officer on her duties.

  • S8 E74 · New Tune, Old Fiddle

    Changes are afoot at Sun Hill, and not everyone sees things the same way.

  • S8 E75 · Delinquent

    A persistent young offender is arrested for burgling his parents' house.

  • S8 E76 · Bringing Up Baby

    A new-born baby is missing, and the mother's account of what happened is rather confused.

  • S8 E77 · Rainy Days and Mondays

    The police are called when a residents at a women's hostel claims to have been assaulted.

  • S8 E78 · Supply and Demand

    "Operation Bumblebee" takes off at Sun Hill.

  • S8 E79 · On the Cards

    Martella is less than enthusiastic when taken off a murder hunt to work on another case.

  • S8 E80 · Shock to the System

    Brownlow is horrified to discover that Conway has been given a new role.

  • S8 E81 · Living it Down

    The search for a missing victim of abuse uncovers a child pornography ring.

  • S8 E82 · Heat of the Moment

    Martella is unhappy with the way Meadows treats a woman suspected of killing her husband.

  • S8 E83 · Shake, Rattle 'n' Roll

    PC Mike Jarvis has an unusual first day as Brownlow loses his temper with Monroe.

  • S8 E84 · No Thanks to You

    PC Garfield finds an unconscious teenage glue-sniffer who later dies in hospital.

  • S8 E85 · A Better Life

    DS Greig deals with a burglary suspect, but the victim doesn't believe he is responsible.

  • S8 E86 · Echo

    A girl goes missing, and DCs Carver and Woods suspect a known villian of murdering her.

  • S8 E87 · Fagins

    DI Burnside let's Sun Hill's burglars know he and Operation Bumblebee mean business.

  • S8 E88 · Cried Too Late

    An arrested women shoplifter refuses to talk to the police.

  • S8 E89 · Gone for a Soldier

    Ackland is teamed up with a military policeman who has come to Sun Hill to find a soldier.

  • S8 E90 · Persuasion

    A female drug-dealer is attacked by another dealer to get off his patch.

  • S8 E91 · Hard Man

    A drunk flees before he can be arrested, only to end up being stabbed nearby.

  • S8 E92 · Missionary Work

    Conway is settling into the job of Community Liaison Officer.

  • S8 E93 · Hypocritical Oath

    DC Carver and DC Woods deal with a fatal drug overdose. Is the victim's doctor involved?

  • S8 E94 · Trivial Pursuits

    PC Loxton finds himself staring down the barrel of a gun.

  • S8 E95 · School of Hard Knocks

    DI Burnside investigates the abduction of a villian's son.

  • S8 E96 · Keeping in Touch

    An employee of a security firm is identified by the elderly blind woman he assaulted.

  • S8 E97 · If it Isn't Hurting

    Trainee investigator Suzi Croft learns some old-style policing methods from DI Burnside.

  • S8 E98 · Keeping Out of Trouble

    A woman claims to have inside information about a series of raids on petrol stations.

  • S8 E99 · Out of the Mouths

    Hollis takes the Bumblebee message into a local school, asking for help to fight burglary.

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