The Bill

Season 13 - Series 13 (152 Episodes)

26 Seasons 1997 TV-14 6.7

The thirteenth series of the British television drama The Bill was broadcast from 2 January to 30 December 1997. The series consisted of 152 episodes, including three-hour-long specials. There were just two cast departures in the series after four the year before; actor Tom Butcher left the role of PC Steve Loxton after seven years on the show, however he would return in two episodes in 1999 as a guest at Dave Quinnan's wedding. The other departure was that of Alan Westaway, who left his...

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Season 13 Episodes:

Episode 1 The Old Pals' Act

1. The Old Pals' Act

Aired: Jan 2, 1997

Ch. Insp. Conway leads a raid on an after-hours pub, but two officers are inj...

Episode 2 All's Fair

2. All's Fair

Aired: Jan 3, 1997

DS Daly investigates the case of an injured man who may be the victim of a mu...

Episode 3 Man Trap

3. Man Trap

Aired: Jan 9, 1997

PC Quinnan and WPC Blake go to the scene where a teenage boy has been found d...

Episode 4 Bad Debt

4. Bad Debt

Aired: Jan 10, 1997

DS Beech and WDC Croft investigate the theft of a loan shark's records, and C...

Episode 5 Professional Opinion

5. Professional Opinion

Aired: Jan 14, 1997

DS Daly and DC Skase investigate when a drug-addicted woman, whose son died f...

Episode 6 Testament

6. Testament

Aired: Jan 16, 1997

DS Boulton and WDC Croft investigate the sudden death of an apparently health...

Episode 7 A Policeman's Lot

7. A Policeman's Lot

Aired: Jan 17, 1997

PC Garfield objects when the officers of Sun Hill are forced to work with sec...

Episode 8 The Devil You Know

8. The Devil You Know

Aired: Jan 21, 1997

PC Garfield and WPC Keane attend to a girl who collapses at a party after tak...

Episode 9 Once Bitten

9. Once Bitten

Aired: Jan 23, 1997

DS Greig investigates a drug smuggling ring. The wife of one of the suspects ...

Episode 10 Turnaround

10. Turnaround

Aired: Jan 24, 1997

When a convicted paedophile disappears after being subject to a campaign of h...

Episode 11 Over the Fence

11. Over the Fence

Aired: Jan 28, 1997

Sgt Cryer and PC Loxton go to the scene of a disturbance between neighbours.

Episode 12 Grey Area

12. Grey Area

Aired: Jan 30, 1997

DCI Meadows and WDC Rawton investigate a doctor accused of killing a terminal...

Episode 13 One Big Happy Family

13. One Big Happy Family

Aired: Jan 31, 1997

When P.C. Garfield complains that Ch. Supt. Brownlow and Ch. Insp. Conway are...

Episode 14 Eye of the Beholder

14. Eye of the Beholder

Aired: Feb 4, 1997

DS Greig and WPC Datta are trying to secure a conviction in a domestic violen...

Episode 15 Say a Little Prayer

15. Say a Little Prayer

Aired: Feb 6, 1997

PC Quinnan and WPC Page try to find the culprit when a television set is thro...

Episode 16 Downfall

16. Downfall

Aired: Feb 7, 1997

DS Daly and DC Skase investigate after a man is found dead at the foot of the...

Episode 17 True to Life Player

17. True to Life Player

Aired: Feb 11, 1997

DS Boulton and DC Carver investigate an allegation that a football star raped...

Episode 18 Takeaway

18. Takeaway

Aired: Feb 13, 1997

Sgt Ackland investigates a complaint from a prisoner that he was given a pizz...

Episode 19 Your Call Too

19. Your Call Too

Aired: Feb 14, 1997

DC Skase and WDC Croft disagree when they have to choose between investigatin...

Episode 20 Breaking Up

20. Breaking Up

Aired: Feb 18, 1997

WDC Rawton investigates a woman claims that her ex-husband's mistress is tryi...

Episode 21 A Price to Pay

21. A Price to Pay

Aired: Feb 20, 1997

D.S. Boulton's sting operation backfires due to a case of mistaken identity, ...

Episode 22 Just Looking

22. Just Looking

Aired: Feb 21, 1997

Sgt Boyden deals with a man stopped for soliciting who claims he was searchin...

Episode 23 A Tangled Web

23. A Tangled Web

Aired: Feb 27, 1997

DI Deakin and WDC Croft investigate when a man is found shot with his brother...

Episode 24 Rolling in It

24. Rolling in It

Aired: Feb 28, 1997

PC Quinnan and PC Slater find drugs in a Lamborghini, but the owner blames hi...

Episode 25 Added Bonus

25. Added Bonus

Aired: Mar 4, 1997

DS Greig tries to establish why a man has confessed to a burglary that he did...

Episode 26 Holding On

26. Holding On

Aired: Mar 6, 1997

Sgt Cryer and WPC Blake respond to a young man's claims that his stolen car h...

Episode 27 Crime Management

27. Crime Management

Aired: Mar 7, 1997

DC Lines is forced into action when DI Deakin complains that he hasn't recrui...

Episode 28 Age Gaps

28. Age Gaps

Aired: Mar 11, 1997

DS Boulton and WDC Rawton try to persuade a teenage girl to turn informant af...

Episode 29 In the Dark

29. In the Dark

Aired: Mar 12, 1997

DC Skase hopes that information provided by a blind woman after a burglary ma...

Episode 30 Crying Wolf

30. Crying Wolf

Aired: Mar 13, 1997

Insp Monroe is called in to mediate when a former mental patient is accused o...

Episode 31 Confidence

31. Confidence

Aired: Mar 14, 1997

WPC Keane uses information supplied by a friend to help C.I.D in an operation...

Episode 32 All for Love

32. All for Love

Aired: Mar 18, 1997

DS Greig and DC Lines investigate an assault on a man who has previously kill...

Episode 33 Only the Lonely

33. Only the Lonely

Aired: Mar 20, 1997

DI Deakin and DC Skase investigate a fire, and find that a mother's grief has...

Episode 34 Copier

34. Copier

Aired: Mar 21, 1997

WDC Rawton investigates the assault of a woman in her new flat and tries to l...

Episode 35 Fashion Victims

35. Fashion Victims

Aired: Mar 25, 1997

PC Garfield and PC Slater arrest a boy for selling stolen goods.

Episode 37 No Claims Bonus

37. No Claims Bonus

Aired: Mar 28, 1997

WDC Croft is concerned when DS Boulton decides to use a former colleague, now...

Episode 38 Joker

38. Joker

Aired: Mar 31, 1997

DS Beech and WDC Croft investigate the killing of a stand-up comic.

Episode 39 Typecast

39. Typecast

Aired: Apr 1, 1997

Sgt Boyden and WPC Page try to find who is responsible for a series of graffi...

Episode 40 A Hard Rain

40. A Hard Rain

Aired: Apr 3, 1997

DS Boulton and WDC Croft have to deal with rival drug dealers when a customer...

Episode 41 Rings on Her Fingers

41. Rings on Her Fingers

Aired: Apr 4, 1997

PC Jarvis and WDC Rawton investigate the ram raiding of a shop, but how is th...

Episode 42 Strange Meeting

42. Strange Meeting

Aired: Apr 8, 1997

Ch. Insp. Conway coordinates the search for an escaped sex offender and a mis...

Episode 43 A Bitter Pill

43. A Bitter Pill

Aired: Apr 10, 1997

WDC Rawton and DC Skase investigate an attempted suicide by an ill woman, and...

Episode 45 Sisters

45. Sisters

Aired: Apr 15, 1997

D.S. Daly and W.D.C. Croft investigate the suspicious death of one of three s...

Episode 46 Flesh and Blood

46. Flesh and Blood

Aired: Apr 17, 1997

DS Beech investigates the sudden death of a baby on the night that his parent...

Episode 47 Parklife

47. Parklife

Aired: Apr 18, 1997

PC Loxton and WPC Keane deal with the burglary of a pharmacy and a violent st...

Episode 48 Two's Company

48. Two's Company

Aired: Apr 22, 1997

DS Greig and WDC Croft investigate a burglary and discover that the married h...

Episode 49 Inside Edge

49. Inside Edge

Aired: Apr 25, 1997

DCI Meadows and WDC Rawton investigate the assault of a prison officer.

Episode 51 Pay Back

51. Pay Back

Aired: May 1, 1997

DS Beech and DC Carver investigate a vicious attack, but have to piece the ev...

Episode 52 A Place of Your Own

52. A Place of Your Own

Aired: May 2, 1997

PC Garfield and WPC Page search for a missing teenage girl and come across a ...

Episode 55 Split Second

55. Split Second

Aired: May 9, 1997

A hostage situation results when WPC Page arrives on the scene of a failed ar...

Episode 56 Old Fools

56. Old Fools

Aired: May 13, 1997

DS Greig and WDC Croft enlist the help of two pensioners to trap a team of bu...

Episode 57 Auld Lang Syne

57. Auld Lang Syne

Aired: May 15, 1997

PC Slater and WPC Page find an apologetic stranger in an elderly couple's gar...

Episode 58 Warnings

58. Warnings

Aired: May 16, 1997

Sgt Boyden and WPC Datta respond to an apparent sighting of a missing woman b...

Episode 59 Calling Time

59. Calling Time

Aired: May 20, 1997

DS Boulton and WDC Rawton investigate when a pub landlord is run over after g...

Episode 60 Black and Blue

60. Black and Blue

Aired: May 22, 1997

PC Jarvis and WPC Keane arrest a nanny for stealing from her employers.

Episode 61 A Bunch of Fives

61. A Bunch of Fives

Aired: May 23, 1997

When DS Beech is found beaten and unconscious, Sun Hill search for his attack...

Episode 62 Short, Sharp, Shock

62. Short, Sharp, Shock

Aired: May 27, 1997

DS Boulton and DC Skase investigate a mugging, but the victim's father takes ...

Episode 63 Get You Back

63. Get You Back

Aired: May 29, 1997

PC Quinnan and WPC Keane deal with a teenage girl with a broken nose who clai...

Episode 64 Powers of Persuasion

64. Powers of Persuasion

Aired: May 30, 1997

DS Boulton and WDC Rawton have to decide whether to find the driver of a car ...

Episode 66 The Wrath of God

66. The Wrath of God

Aired: Jun 5, 1997

DC Skase and DC Carver have to deal with a preacher who specialises in dodgy ...

Episode 67 Knight Errant

67. Knight Errant

Aired: Jun 6, 1997

PC Loxton struggles to cope with a young female suspect who makes no secret o...

Episode 68 Punch Bag

68. Punch Bag

Aired: Jun 10, 1997

DC Skase and WDC Croft investigate the circumstances leading to a mother endi...

Episode 69 Best Eaten Cold

69. Best Eaten Cold

Aired: Jun 12, 1997

DS Greig and WDC Rawton investigate a journalist's claims that he acted in se...

Episode 70 Lucky Day

70. Lucky Day

Aired: Jun 13, 1997

DCI Meadows is concerned when DC Lines seems to be getting too involved in in...

Episode 72 No More Milk

72. No More Milk

Aired: Jun 19, 1997

WDC Rawton and WPC Page have to deal with a 14-year-old tearaway and half a m...

Episode 73 An Englishman's Home

73. An Englishman's Home

Aired: Jun 20, 1997

PC Garfield and WPC Blake are called to help enforce a demolition order on a ...

Episode 74 Loyal to the Last

74. Loyal to the Last

Aired: Jun 24, 1997

WPC Blake arrests a woman for assault and DS Beech tries to persuade her to h...

Episode 75 Rent

75. Rent

Aired: Jun 26, 1997

Sgt Boyden and WPC Keane investigate the hit-and-run of a young busker.

Episode 76 Last Respects

76. Last Respects

Aired: Jun 27, 1997

Meadows hopes that a family funeral will lure a couple of jewel thieves into ...

Episode 77 Too Much to Lose

77. Too Much to Lose

Aired: Jul 1, 1997

PC Stamp tries to persuade an unhappy convict not to ruin his chances of rele...

Episode 78 Do Unto Others

78. Do Unto Others

Aired: Jul 3, 1997

PC Loxton and WPC Keane try to sift the truth from three conflicting stories ...

Episode 79 Mid-Life Crisis

79. Mid-Life Crisis

Aired: Jul 4, 1997

DS Daly and DC Skase discover that a jeweller is fencing stolen goods.

Episode 80 Performing

80. Performing

Aired: Jul 8, 1997

Sgt Boyden and WPC Page come to the aid of a former porn actress who is worri...

Episode 81 Playing with Fire

81. Playing with Fire

Aired: Jul 10, 1997

DCI Meadows and DC Lines suspect that the owner of a beauty salon set it on f...

Episode 82 No Guarantees

82. No Guarantees

Aired: Jul 11, 1997

WDC Rawton tries to stop a loan shark who is terrorising his female customers...

Episode 83 Gentleman Jim

83. Gentleman Jim

Aired: Jul 15, 1997

A grumpy DC Carver is less than pleased at being paired with WPC Blake on wha...

Episode 84 Rift

84. Rift

Aired: Jul 17, 1997

Sgt Ackland and PC Slater attend to what appears to be a teenage catfight ove...

Episode 85 Stand by Your Man

85. Stand by Your Man

Aired: Jul 18, 1997

DS Daly tries to find out who is forcing a convict to smuggle drugs into a pr...

Episode 86 Replica

86. Replica

Aired: Jul 22, 1997

DS Daly leads an unsuccessful raid on a workshop suspected of being used to m...

Episode 87 Mr. Friday Night

87. Mr. Friday Night

Aired: Jul 24, 1997

Sgt Boyden and WPC Page investigate a burglary of some jewellery, but where t...

Episode 88 Hitting the Nerve

88. Hitting the Nerve

Aired: Jul 25, 1997

DS Greig and DC Carver react when one prosecution witness disappears and anot...

Episode 89 Thicker Than Mud

89. Thicker Than Mud

Aired: Jul 29, 1997

DI Deakin and DS Beech investigate an arson attack on a seemingly respectable...

Episode 91 Foxed

91. Foxed

Aired: Aug 1, 1997

DS Daly and DC Carver investigate the burglary of an antique shop and are str...

Episode 92 These Foolish Things

92. These Foolish Things

Aired: Aug 5, 1997

DCI Meadows leads the investigation when an adopted child is snatched from he...

Episode 93 Neighbours

93. Neighbours

Aired: Aug 7, 1997

PC Garfield and WPC Keane intervene in a feud between next-door neighbours.

Episode 94 Glass House

94. Glass House

Aired: Aug 8, 1997

DS Boulton and DC Lines try to persuade a woman to help them catch her husban...

Episode 95 This Old Man

95. This Old Man

Aired: Aug 12, 1997

PC Garfield is affected by the death of a old man.

Episode 96 Tommy the Hero

96. Tommy the Hero

Aired: Aug 14, 1997

While WDC Rawton is searching for two violent robbers, could a minor domestic...

Episode 97 Driven to It

97. Driven to It

Aired: Aug 15, 1997

DS Daly enlists the help of a cab driver to catch a drug dealer.

Episode 99 Hunt

99. Hunt

Aired: Aug 21, 1997

Sgt Boyden and DS Beech compete to find a couple before a vicious drug-dealer...

Episode 101 This Land Is Ours

101. This Land Is Ours

Aired: Aug 26, 1997

Sgt Cryer and Ch Supt Brownlow police a demonstration at a development site a...

Episode 102 Paying the Piper

102. Paying the Piper

Aired: Aug 28, 1997

DS Boulton's investigation is hampered by an informant who is putting family ...

Episode 103 On the Hurry Up

103. On the Hurry Up

Aired: Aug 29, 1997

P.C. Slater becomes the butt of everyone's jokes after crashing his patrol ca...

Episode 104 Not in the Script

104. Not in the Script

Aired: Sep 2, 1997

When PC Slater is recommended by WDC Rawton for undercover work, he is overjo...

Episode 105 Flower Power

105. Flower Power

Aired: Sep 4, 1997

PC Hollis discovers a hoard of illegally imported wildflower bulbs and helps ...

Episode 108 Fool

108. Fool

Aired: Sep 11, 1997

Sgt Boyden and PC Quinnan want to use a would-be stand-up comedian as an info...

Episode 109 Armed and Dangerous

109. Armed and Dangerous

Aired: Sep 12, 1997

PC McCann is convinced that a gun remains unaccounted for when a gang of arme...

Episode 110 Animals

110. Animals

Aired: Sep 16, 1997

Sgt Ackland and WPC Blake investigate the dangerous world of dog fighting - f...

Episode 111 Look Into My Eyes

111. Look Into My Eyes

Aired: Sep 18, 1997

DI Deakin and WPC Blake follow up allegations of attempted rape against a sta...

Episode 112 Performance Anxiety

112. Performance Anxiety

Aired: Sep 19, 1997

Sun Hill's performance comes under scrutiny, and officers from CID and unifor...

Episode 113 Different Strokes

113. Different Strokes

Aired: Sep 23, 1997

PC Slater uses the skills learned on his recent undercover training course in...

Episode 114 Sparks

114. Sparks

Aired: Sep 25, 1997

DS Beech loses his cool with a DS from Severn Valley, while DC Skase falls fo...

Episode 115 The Lion's Den

115. The Lion's Den

Aired: Sep 26, 1997

PC Slater goes undercover as a bouncer at a club run by notorious Guy Walsh. ...

Episode 117 Cross Purposes

117. Cross Purposes

Aired: Oct 2, 1997

DS Boulton and Sgt Boyden both have an interest in the same pub landlord, but...

Episode 118 Free to Speak?

118. Free to Speak?

Aired: Oct 3, 1997

It's PC Slater's final day at Sun Hill, and he takes WPC Keane out for a fare...

Episode 120 Coup De Grace

120. Coup De Grace

Aired: Oct 9, 1997

DS Boulton finds himself trying to save a marriage when the husband is given ...

Episode 122 Straying

122. Straying

Aired: Oct 14, 1997

PC Stamp and WPC Page look into the case of a disappearing dog whose owner al...

Episode 123 A Bad Lot

123. A Bad Lot

Aired: Oct 16, 1997

PC Garfield attempts to deal with a twelve-year-old boy who is running amok o...

Episode 125 Force

125. Force

Aired: Oct 21, 1997

Insp. Monroe responds to suggestions that he is out of touch with front-line ...

Episode 126 Walkabout

126. Walkabout

Aired: Oct 23, 1997

WPC Page takes part in a reconstruction after the disappearance of a young wo...

Episode 129 Women at Work

129. Women at Work

Aired: Oct 30, 1997

DC Carver and WPC Blake investigate the hit-and-run of a woman employed by a ...

Episode 130 Solid Evidence

130. Solid Evidence

Aired: Oct 31, 1997

Insp Monroe leads the search for a little girl who has disappeared after scho...

Episode 131 Going Down

131. Going Down

Aired: Nov 4, 1997

WDC Croft feels let down by the parents of a young drug addict who had promis...

Episode 132 Accomplice

132. Accomplice

Aired: Nov 6, 1997

When a girl is abducted, it bears the hallmarks of a serial killer. DC Carver...

Episode 133 Last Fare

133. Last Fare

Aired: Nov 7, 1997

DS Beech and WDC Rawton investigate the assault and robbery of a minicab driver.

Episode 134 Stolen Thunder

134. Stolen Thunder

Aired: Nov 11, 1997

DI Deakin and DC Proctor are furious that an inexperienced young barrister ha...

Episode 135 P.C.

135. P.C.

Aired: Nov 13, 1997

PC Loxton carries out an illegal stop-and-search of a black man, unaware that...

Episode 136 No Trace

136. No Trace

Aired: Nov 14, 1997

A disenchanted Steve Loxton decides to resign from the force for good, but be...

Episode 139 Sands of Time

139. Sands of Time

Aired: Nov 21, 1997

As the theat of tenure looms over DC Jim Carver, he is desperate to prove him...

Episode 140 Identity Crisis

140. Identity Crisis

Aired: Nov 25, 1997

DS Boulton pressurises a young couple in the hope of getting a result.

Episode 143 Hot Plastic

143. Hot Plastic

Aired: Dec 4, 1997

DI Deakin tries to salvage an operation after an unsuccessful raid in which S...

Episode 144 Gaybashing

144. Gaybashing

Aired: Dec 5, 1997

Sgt Boyden and PC Quinnan investigate an assault in a public toilet, a notori...

Episode 146 Heartbreak Hotel

146. Heartbreak Hotel

Aired: Dec 11, 1997

DI Deakin and WDC Rawton investigate the assault of a man who has been charmi...

Episode 150 Out

150. Out

Aired: Dec 19, 1997

DS Daly puts the pressure on an ex-con who would risk another jail sentence r...

Episode 151 Twanky

151. Twanky

Aired: Dec 22, 1997

Putting on a Christmas panto proves to be the toughest case of the year for P...

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Current Status: Ended

Network: ITV1

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres: Drama, Crime