The Bill

January 5, 1993

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.

January 7, 1993

The law allows a known burglar to go free but Greig and Quinnan desperately try to pin him down again.

January 8, 1993

Stamp expects a dull evening on the party patrol until he is paired with a pretty young female Environmental Health Officer Diane Eckersley.

January 12, 1993

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.

January 14, 1993

Dave arrests a persistent young offender is arrested for burgling his parents house.

January 15, 1993

Datta investigates the sale of a missing newborn baby as she Monroe and CID are work against the clock to find her.

January 19, 1993

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.

January 21, 1993

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.

January 22, 1993

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.

January 26, 1993

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.

January 28, 1993

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.

January 29, 1993

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.

February 2, 1993

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.

February 4, 1993

George has a bad day. Firstly he fails to save the life of a glue sniffer and then allows a bail absconder to escape.

February 5, 1993

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.

February 9, 1993

A girl goes missing and Jim and Alan suspect a known villain of murdering her until another man walks into another station and confesses.

February 11, 1993

Frank lets Sun Hill's burglars know he and Operation Bumblebee mean business.

February 12, 1993

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.

February 16, 1993

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.

February 18, 1993

Burnside investigates when a female drug dealer is attacked by another dealer to get off his patch.

February 19, 1993

Greig investigates a stabbing and uncovers benefit fraud at a bed and breakfast establishment.

February 23, 1993

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.

February 25, 1993

The overdose of a boy on the Cockcroft Estate enables D.C.s Woods and Carver to link registered addicts to a doctor.

February 26, 1993

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.

March 2, 1993

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.

March 4, 1993

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

March 5, 1993

New trainee constable Croft learns some old style policing methods from Burnside.

March 9, 1993

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.

March 11, 1993

Burnside investigates the abduction of a villain's son.

March 12, 1993

Meadows investigates a burglary gone wrong while Cato is gunning for Loxton and Stringer.

March 16, 1993

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

March 18, 1993

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.

March 19, 1993

While on the trail of two rapists Morgan investigates an attempted abduction and puts her life in danger.

March 23, 1993

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.

March 25, 1993

Page goes undercover as a model to investigate a possible scam at a modelling agency.

March 26, 1993

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.

March 30, 1993

A young man with an intellectual disability goes missing and Burnside has to deal with the consequences for the parents.

April 1, 1993

Greig investigates a burglary at an ailing business a case that leads him to a missing schoolboy.

April 2, 1993

Woods goes undercover as a contract killer to expose a woman who wants her husband killed.

April 6, 1993

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.

April 8, 1993

Carver and Morgan investigate a career ending attack on a promising young boxer.

April 9, 1993

Loxton and Garfield corner a savage pit bull terrier at an illegal dogfight while Boyden tracks down a pensioner who has turned to crime.

April 13, 1993

Stamp and Ackland are keen to get a conviction against a woman for assault on a minicab driver, but she is acquitted.

April 15, 1993

Chief Inspector Cato arrests two youths, actions which cause a riot outside Sun Hill station.

April 17, 1993

A woman is keen to be get rid of her burglar boyfriend and his fence with whom she has been having an affair.

April 20, 1993

Two young brothers are suspected of burglary and Croft discovers that they were deserted by their mother and left to fend for themselves.

April 22, 1993

Ackland arrests a fifteen-year-old boy for shoplifting and finds herself investigating his relationship with a woman twenty years his senior.

April 24, 1993

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.

April 27, 1993

A young postwoman is beaten up but the motive is unclear and she seems unwilling to talk to the police.

April 29, 1993

When Lines hits the jackpot during a raid, it makes an already difficult court case for Greig even harder.

May 1, 1993

A mysteriously unmotivated break-in at a garage leads Burnside to a web of sexual deception and a jealous husband's rampage.

May 4, 1993

Maitland enlists McCann's help in reassuring a young black applicant whose wife has serious misgivings about the job but McCann is discovering racism within the force for himself.

May 6, 1993

Cato allows a demonstration to go ahead despite being warned that it could be hijacked by racists. When things turn ugly, he is forced to reverse his previous orders.

May 8, 1993

Roach is disgusted when a judge halts the trial of a man accused of crippling a police officer and decides to take matters into his own hands.

May 11, 1993

Dave and Tony attend to an assault victim at the market while sergeant Kendall organises an outing and take some local kids to Chessington World of Adventures, with a reluctant Steve assigned as a last-minute replacement for an ill Ron.

May 13, 1993

Lines and Morgan arrest two members of a shoplifting team.

May 15, 1993

Called to attend to a pub brawl, PC Tony Stamp and PC Dave Quinnan are stunned to find one man unconscious and the other Sun Hill's own DS Ted Roach. Roach is taken back to the station, and while DI Frank Burnside manages to pursuade the victim to drop the charges against him, nothing can be done when Roach headbutts Insp. Andrew Monroe during a heated argument. Ch. Supt. Brownlow calls in MS15 to investigate him, but Roach turns in his warrant card and walks out of the station.

May 18, 1993

With the departure of Roach one of his informants wants out Burnside and Monroe investigate threats against her.

May 20, 1993

An elderly ex copper is in London to search for his estranged daughter and claims that he has been robbed in his hotel which Lines investigates.

May 22, 1993

When a young woman's car is stolen with a baby on board CID fear an abduction and mount a search Garfield tries to mediate with a private clamping firm.

May 25, 1993

Carver and Woods are caught napping when a street robber escapes from under their noses but uncover a drugs operation at a takeaway restaurant. P.C. Loxton and Sgt. Maitland are in trouble when Loxton is accused of stealing money from a drunk in the cells.

May 27, 1993

Stamp's driving prowess is questioned when he fails to stop a runaway road-roller and Jarvis finds a revolver in a rubbish bin while Burnside investigates a murder confession.

May 29, 1993

When the body of a 14-year-old boy is washed up by the tide Cryer feels that he owes the parents an explanation.

June 1, 1993

Burnside disagrees with Conway's approach to a young offender.

June 3, 1993

Page and Monroe attend what appears to be a cot death, but it transpires that the baby has a head injury Meadows investigates.

June 5, 1993

Garfield introduces a boxer friend to a business manager but Pearce has the manager under investigation.

June 8, 1993

Loxton's prisoner is released after Page makes a mistake in the CAD room whilst Loxton and Jarvis try to get the prisoner back before Cato finds out.

June 10, 1993

Datta assists a woman who has reported her husband missing while Lines uncovers a loan-sharking operation.

June 12, 1993

Greig and Croft investigate a burglary the property is found in a garden shed but was it stolen?

June 15, 1993

Stringer clashes with Cato about a serious shortage of officers and the ban on overtime meanwhile two families fight out their differences.

June 16, 1993

A woman walking home late at night thinks she is being followed by a young man and blinds him with oven cleaner. Is it self-defence or assault?

June 19, 1993

P.C. Quinnan goes undercover as a refuse collector to investigate a series of burglaries.

June 22, 1993

Insp. Monroe deals with the case of an alcoholic former coal miner who tries to organise exploited workers.

June 24, 1993

A prisoner admits to crimes he didn't commit to gain a transfer.

June 26, 1993

A woman alleges rape by her estranged husband, but he insists that she consented. D.I. Burnside investigates.

June 29, 1993

D.I. Burnside questions three robbers after a botched getaway and is given conflicting stories as they try to incriminate one another.

July 1, 1993

W.P.C. Datta tries to help a battered wife. W.P.C. Ackland and D.S. Greig find some strange connections when a housebreaking is linked to a lonely hearts advert.

July 3, 1993

Monroe acts quickly after a tip-off about a robbery at a supermarket. Meanwhile CID try to foil a kidnapping and robbery plot, only to be impeded by lack of resources.

July 6, 1993

P.C. Loxton and Garfield swap jobs. Loxton has to deal with the new screen phones in the CAD room, while Garfield attends a fatal RTA.

July 8, 1993

D.S. Greig suspects that his informant is giving him the run around, but it becomes clear that she is being fed false information.

July 10, 1993

A man found knocking on old people's doors turns out to be suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and attempting to contact family members. Sgt. Cryer realises that one old lady has cause to be afraid.

July 13, 1993

Sgt. Cryer and P.C. Garfield attend a warehouse where a seventeen-year-old boy has fallen from a forklift truck to his death. Cryer is convinced it was no accident.

July 15, 1993

P.C. Jarvis assists the investigation into a violent lorry hijack, where the driver suffered a fatal head injury.

July 17, 1993

An elderly man is arrested for beating his wife, but the couple have a bigger secret to hide. P.C. Quinnan is guilty of dangerous driving.

July 20, 1993

When a woman is hospitalised, her son burgles her house and steals money, and her daughter starts to strip the house of its contents. Garfield and Marshall are forced to change their minds about a young offender who has befriended the woman, and to whom she has bequeathed her house.

July 22, 1993

The theft of a necklace reveals a case of domestic violence against a young Bangladeshi woman. Police examine immigration laws and find that she has no freedom at all.

July 24, 1993

Hours after a tough warning from Ch. Insp. Conway, a notorious young offender is in trouble again. He holds the clue to the whereabouts of a missing teenager.

July 27, 1993

A civil action is brought against P.C. Garfield, W.P.C. Marshall and Sgt. Cryer for wrongful arrest, malicious prosecution and false imprisonment. Meanwhile, P.C. Quinnan is accused of assaulting a college student.

July 29, 1993

A violent remand prisoner escapes from hospital. W.D.S. Morgan and W.P.C. Croft question the prison officers who fell asleep while guarding him.

July 31, 1993

A timid music teacher is intimidated by a violent ex-pupil. Ch. Insp. Cato is furious when P.C. Garfield lets a thief get away.

August 3, 1993

P.C.s Hollis and Stamp are caught in the crossfire when a mother and daughter fall out over a mutual boyfriend. Sgt. Cryer pursues bogus charity workers.

August 5, 1993

A mother refuses to testify against her husband, accused of abusing their 14-year-old son. P.C. Jarvis intercedes on the boy's behalf.

August 7, 1993

A man working for an illegal escort agency seems to be stealing cash and credit cards from his female clients. W.P.C. Ackland arranges a date with him.

August 10, 1993

There is series of break-ins at properties sold through a single agency. P.C. Quinnan enlists the assistance of an estate agent.

August 12, 1993

P.C. Jarvis and McCann know who is guilty of assault, but can't prove it. D.S. Pearce suggests that they should claim to have witnessed the incident.

August 14, 1993

W.D.S. Morgan and D.C. Lines investigate a lorry hijack. The husband of the depot owner is seriously assaulted.

August 17, 1993

The life of an unborn child hangs in the balance following a road traffic accident. The investigation uncovers a trail of corruption.

August 19, 1993

A girl accused of knocking down a young woman in the street has an alibi. D.C.I. Meadows crosses swords with an old enemy.

August 21, 1993

W.P.C. Polly Page sees W.D.S. Sally Johnson from Stafford Row plant drugs on a known dealer.

August 24, 1993

A 15-year-old boy is driven to desperate measures. W.P.C. Ackland has to decide whether he or his mother is at risk.

August 26, 1993

D.C. Carver arrests a pickpocket.

August 28, 1993

D.C. Carver catches a fourteen-year-old thief. He and D.C. Lines question a man about his relationship with the girl.

August 31, 1993

PC Garfield is tasked with retrieving an ill boy's inhaler but comes up against a series of other problems whilst doing so.

September 2, 1993

CID investigate attempts at sexual assault by an electrician who turns out to have connections with the local psychiatric hospital. W.D.S. Morgan puts herself on the line to catch him.

September 4, 1993

CID investigate the sale of stolen cigarettes and alcohol to pubs in the Sun Hill area. D.I. Burnside comes to the aid of an old friend, and D.S. Pearce goes to see a stripper.

September 7, 1993

An important visitor comes to Sun Hill to see D.I. Burnside, but he is gone.

September 9, 1993

W.P.C. Page gets stuck in a lift with a pregnant 15-year-old girl and has to assist with the birth.

September 10, 1993

Det. Insp. Harry Haines arrives for his first day at Sun Hill and helps track down a drug dealer who is distributing dangerous tablets.

September 15, 1993

A public relations exercise by Ch. Supt. Brownlow is threatened by a drugs raid on the Jasmine Allen estate.

September 16, 1993

W.D.C. Croft is in uniform for the day, to Ch. Insp. Cato's delight.

September 18, 1993

D.I. Haines gets involved in a war between an Asian minicab firm and a black cab operator.

September 21, 1993

Residents from the Greenfield Estate protest about the presence of an absconder from a nearby unit for young offenders.

September 23, 1993

D.I. Haines is annoyed by a young man who refuses to take an allegation of rape seriously. P.C. Loxton looks after two children left alone by their mother and who have stolen £100 from a neighbour.

September 25, 1993

Sgt. Boyden deals with a case of joyriding which ends with a crash and uncovers an insurance fraud.

September 28, 1993

A woman parks her car with P.C. Loxton's permission, but it gets clamped. Loxton is unable to prevent a young man from committing suicide and blames Ch. Insp. Conway's parking initiative.

September 30, 1993

When the youngest member of a notorious crime family comes into the station to confess to a three-year-old murder, D.C.I. Meadows hopes he will be able to clear up a case from his time at AMIP.

October 2, 1993

Chief Inspector Cato's bullish tactics put noses out of joint, after a pub brawl turns into a murder enquiry.

October 5, 1993

One of the employees at a bingo hall reveals that a robbery there was an inside job.

October 7, 1993

D.S. Pearce and W.P.C. Croft investigate bogus callers who are stealing people's pension money.

October 9, 1993

When a drugs raid fails to deliver, it is D.C. Carver's dislike of a customer that reaps unexpected results.

October 12, 1993

A tragic accident involving a teenage boy alerts W.P.C. Page and P.C. Quinnan to an illegal trade in imported alcohol.

October 14, 1993

A man has persuaded two women to lend him money for a bar in Spain. The trouble starts when they find out about one another. Sgt. Boyden deals with the consequences.

October 16, 1993

An old soldier is found at the bottom of a flight of stairs, but did he fall or was he pushed? D.C. Lines and W.D.S. Morgan have their suspicions.

October 19, 1993

An old man has been murdered in his flat. D.C.I. Meadows has two suspects in custody, but both claim the right to silence.

October 21, 1993

Sgt. Cryer convinces Ch. Supt. Brownlow of the virtues of an arrest referral scheme offering counselling to those arrested on drugs offences. W.P.C. Ackland and P.C. Quinnan act to stop a gang of professional shoplifters.

October 23, 1993

P.C. Loxton investigates an assault and uncovers a ring of car thieves. P.C. Hollis launches a one-man public relations drive.

October 26, 1993

D.I. Haines works with AMIP on a murder investigation and uncovers some secrets in the victim's past.

October 28, 1993

An Indian woman is the victim of domestic violence. The husband is arrested, but community leaders attempt to secure his release so that he can be dealt with by the woman's family.

October 30, 1993

Sgt. Cryer and P.C. Garfield investigate a break-in at a storage warehouse, putting Meadows on the trail of a small-time drug dealer with heavyweight connections.

November 2, 1993

An old woman is found dead in an empty house and Quinnan and Garfield are called in to investigate. Jarvis arrests a violent youth for assault.

November 4, 1993

Quinnan and Ackland support a C.I.D. raid on the house of a burglary suspect. Croft and Greig persuade a young mother to help with their inquiries.

November 6, 1993

Haines and Morgan work on a murder investigation with AMIP when a body is found after an office party.

November 9, 1993

Page and Jarvis are called to deal when two rottweilers terrorise a shopping centre and attack a young girl.

November 11, 1993

Steele and Ackland find a man who has been beaten up to dissuade him from testifying against a vicious loan shark. The C.P.S. suggests dropping the case but Meadows secures the assistance of a lesser villain to get the evidence for a prosecution.

November 13, 1993

Quinnan witnesses a robbery. He suspects that a derelict shop is being used as an auction house for stolen property.

November 16, 1993

Meadows and Morgan lead a raid on a club in pursuit of a drug dealer who is laundering money through car sales.

November 18, 1993

A neighbour spots an HIV-positive drug addict breaking into a house.

November 20, 1993

Polly and Gary are called to the Parkmead Estate about a burglary at a flat which results in the wife assaulted and taken to St Hughes. The husband came home and discovered the burglar still there. When Polly talks to the husband at the hospital, he is very upset. He tells Polly and Gary what happened when he saw the burglar and says he chopped off 3 of the burglar's fingers when they were in the kitchen. the fingers were put into a jar of gherkins. Alan Woods tries to get the jar put into the canteen fridge but one of the canteen workers threatens to close down the canteen if it goes into the fridge. So he puts them into the fridge in the conference room. Tosh and Jim interview a patient who has lost 3 fingers who claims his fingers were caught in a lorry door.

November 23, 1993

An invalid is found dead in bed, and the wife is charged with aiding and abetting a suicide.

November 25, 1993

A convicted wife-beater has been released on parole. He, his wife and son all end up in Sun Hill on suspicion of violent assaults.

November 27, 1993

Croft and Cryer examine the remains of a burned-out car on the Whitegate estate, where residents are concerned about the increase in lawlessness.

November 30, 1993

A homeless man is found murdered and a teenage girl has gone missing.

December 2, 1993

A store participating in Conway's business watch scheme has been burgled, and one of the suspects is beaten up.

December 4, 1993

Steele and Garfield arrest a father and son who assaulted the man they believe burgled their house. Loxton and Quinnan catch the real thief.

December 7, 1993

Monroe investigates a complaint about an unattended emergency call, which the victim attributes to racial prejudice.

December 9, 1993

A postman is attacked, and Carver discovers the remains of a mailbag in the embers of a fire. Pearce struggles with a false confession. McCann is in trouble over a false arrest.

December 11, 1993

A convicted burglar absconds while on day release from prison.

December 14, 1993

Carver and Jarvis are in court, but the case against a man accused of robbing a couple at knife point may fall because of poor identification evidence.

December 16, 1993

A woman reports her husband missing. Greig and Croft establish that the man is a bigamist and an armed robber.

December 18, 1993

A body is retrieved from a building yard after a deadly toxic gas was fed through the building.

December 21, 1993

While Garfield is giving tickets, a truck does a right hand turn and then the driver does a runner leaving the truck in the middle of the road. Tony and George have an argument after the truck is parked in the yard blocking access. Cato gets the truck moved back out. George checks the truck's travel disk. Tony and Norika find a front door open and find the house burgled and the occupants on holiday. A lady reports a burglary next door while the occupants are on holiday. It is the 3rd holiday burglary this month. CID are trying to find the link between the 3. Dave is told that a truck fitting the description was seen at the burglary. Donna finds out that all 3 holiday goers used the same coach firm to get to the airport.

December 23, 1993

A house is broken into and Greig thinks he knows who did it. Greig visits the suspect's house. The injured boy's watch turns up in the bed of the suspect's son's. Polly is sent to St. Hughes to investigate an assault. The mother of the boy thinks it is bullying and that her son is not the only one. Her son's watch is missing. The school is unco-operative with D. S. Morgan. The injured boy gives Morgan the name of Greig's suspect's son.

December 24, 1993

Ram raiders attempt to break into an Asain electrical store. Sgt. Boyden and George stop ithile Dave gives chase to another of the raiders. One of the neighbouring store owners brings in a bottle of stotch for Sgt. Boyden and the store owners give him a CD player. Monroe is not happy that Boyden was given something. Woods is sent to check on stolen money at B.P.C. Software. The suspect is an ex offender. When interviewed, the suspect claims she was set up because the security officer tried to assault her like he had with another employee.

December 28, 1993

Steve and Dave are talking when a speeding driver goes past. The driver tells Dave that the hospital had just rang and her husband was critical. Suzy calls on the driver because she returned home to find it burgled. Dave and Steve are sent to check out the address of the lady at the hospital(that Danny overhears) and surprises 2 blokes. While Tony is driving the burglars' van, one of them get into the van and tells Tony to get a move on. Tony and Norika are called to check a domestic disturbance. Norika is concerned about the asian wife. The husband is very dominating. The domestic starts again. On entering the house Norika and Tony find the husband stabbed and his wife in shock with a knife in her hand. Norika didn't notice the knife at first. The wife claims it was an accident. While Danny is at the hospital checking on the victim, he overhears a lady asking about her husband who is supposed to be injured at the hospital. Woods talks to friends of the couple and their d

December 31, 1993

George is chasing a suspect but loses him. Steve searches the area and spots him. When caught he has just dropped some LSD tabs. The suspect tries to do a deal with the D.I. about getting bail to attend his brother's wedding. Regional Crime Squad:Drugs are in the station and organising a raid on the factory. Meadows gets upset because of a missing witness and Meadows wants the D.I. to go and talk to the witness. The D.I. wants to be in on the drug raid. Haines talks to the very scared witness. Haines is head hunted back to the drug squad. Meadows is not happy when told by Brownlow.