The Bill

Season 15 (87 Episodes)

26 Seasons 1999 TV-14 6.7

The fifteenth series of The Bill, a British television drama, consisted of 87 episodes, broadcast between 7 January and 31 December 1999. The series saw a notable change as female officers were no longer introduced by the W acronym in ranking, with the last mention of this when Liz Rawton was introduced as a WDC in Follow Through. By the following episode, Walking on Water, female characters were simply introduced as PC/DC etc. On 5 June 2013, The Bill Series 15 Part 1 & 2 and The Bill Se...

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Season 15 Episodes:

Episode 1 Long Term Investment

1. Long Term Investment

Aired: Jan 7, 1999

D.I. Deakin and D.S. Beech follow a released kidnapper in the hope he'll lead...

Episode 2 Chasing Shadows

2. Chasing Shadows

Aired: Jan 14, 1999

During an operation investigating a Cafe illegally operating as a Casino, an ...

Episode 3 Follow Through

3. Follow Through

Aired: Jan 21, 1999

Kerry Holmes goes undercover in a women's prison after a serious assault take...

Episode 4 Walking on Water

4. Walking on Water

Aired: Jan 26, 1999

An informant turns up dead on his boat but questions are asked about this app...

Episode 5 The Wrong Horse

5. The Wrong Horse

Aired: Jan 28, 1999

Garfield and Hagen are assigned to protect a horse jockey due to give evidenc...

Episode 6 No Love Lost

6. No Love Lost

Aired: Feb 2, 1999

Boyden picks up an attractive young girl at a nightclub but quickly realises ...

Episode 7 Pond Life

7. Pond Life

Aired: Feb 4, 1999

DCI Meadows has to deal with violent protests when a local newspaper reveals ...

Episode 8 Murder, What Murder?

8. Murder, What Murder?

Aired: Feb 9, 1999

Garfield has to find the identify of a body with no head while fending off th...

Episode 9 Age of Chivalry

9. Age of Chivalry

Aired: Feb 11, 1999

Burnside and Rawton aggressively pursue a serial rapist and his accomplice.

Episode 10 Slinging Mud

10. Slinging Mud

Aired: Feb 18, 1999

D.C.I. Meadows attends the trial of a drug dealer, but finds himself in quest...

Episode 11 Under Duress

11. Under Duress

Aired: Feb 23, 1999

Boulton and Rawton investigate a house fire uncovering a secret, the house is...

Episode 13 Badlands

13. Badlands

Aired: Mar 2, 1999

Boulton is determined to catch a pair of brutal burglars, and he's certain lo...

Episode 14 Eyes Everywhere

14. Eyes Everywhere

Aired: Mar 4, 1999

With Quinnan still in critical condition, Sun Hill police are determined to c...

Episode 15 Yesterday's Hero

15. Yesterday's Hero

Aired: Mar 18, 1999

Quinnan recovers in hospital whilst Garfield and DS Boulton try to work toget...

Episode 16 On Air

16. On Air

Aired: Mar 23, 1999

Ch. Insp. Conway takes part in a radio phone-in show when a caller confesses ...

Episode 17 To Catch a Cobra

17. To Catch a Cobra

Aired: Mar 25, 1999

Burnside is on the trail of two Indian crime bosses but just how far is DS Bo...

Episode 19 Piggy in the Middle

19. Piggy in the Middle

Aired: Apr 1, 1999

Burnside's unorthodox methods drag Sun Hill C.I.D into a war with a gang of d...

Episode 21 Out and About

21. Out and About

Aired: Apr 8, 1999

Dave Quinnan returns to active duty after two weeks recovering in admin. He i...

Episode 22 Kiss Chase

22. Kiss Chase

Aired: Apr 13, 1999

PC Ashton is accused of getting a teenage girl pregnant and to make matters w...

Episode 23 On the Road

23. On the Road

Aired: Apr 15, 1999

Lennox and Rawton go to Salisbury to bring in an experienced con-man for ques...

Episode 24 Pressure Point

24. Pressure Point

Aired: Apr 20, 1999

DC Proctor attempts to make a name for himself in CID whilst Lennox learns ab...

Episode 25 Look Away Now

25. Look Away Now

Aired: Apr 22, 1999

PC Harker comes into loggerheads with CID on how to deal with a problem family.

Episode 28 True Lies

28. True Lies

Aired: May 4, 1999

PC Harker is informed from a woman about a robbery taking place the next nigh...

Episode 29 Back to Basics

29. Back to Basics

Aired: May 6, 1999

Jim Carver is due for tenure in 2 months, which means he will have to go back...

Episode 30 Makeover

30. Makeover

Aired: May 11, 1999

It's Jim Carver's first day back in uniform, and both he and his colleagues f...

Episode 31 Tinderbox

31. Tinderbox

Aired: May 18, 1999

Senior officers at Sun Hill and Barton Street are dragged off to a team-build...

Episode 32 Set-Up

32. Set-Up

Aired: May 25, 1999

A young gypsy girl is attacked in the street and Holmes suspects a racial mot...

Episode 33 Lone Ranger

33. Lone Ranger

Aired: Jun 1, 1999

Santini tries to convince his lover to set him up with some drug dealers so a...

Episode 34 Old Flame

34. Old Flame

Aired: Jun 8, 1999

Santini's girlfriend's club is firebombed and his old enemy DS Rosie Fox is i...

Episode 35 Push It

35. Push It

Aired: Jun 15, 1999

Santini is determined to find out if his lover had grassed on him, and when h...

Episode 36 Kiss Off

36. Kiss Off

Aired: Jun 22, 1999

Santini is desperate to conceal his involvement with his lover, the club and ...

Episode 37 Foreign Body

37. Foreign Body

Aired: Jun 24, 1999

An armed robber dies after his car crashes during a chase with the police. A ...

Episode 38 Borderline

38. Borderline

Aired: Jun 29, 1999

New PC Cass Rickman loses a gun that Beech believes was used in a recent shoo...

Episode 40 Pillow Talk

40. Pillow Talk

Aired: Jul 6, 1999

Quinnan thinks guarding a prisoner in hospital will be easy, until an armed i...

Episode 41 Heavy Plant Crossing

41. Heavy Plant Crossing

Aired: Jul 8, 1999

Garfield proposes to his girlfriend, whilst Boyden and Beech come to loggerhe...

Episode 42 Good Relations

42. Good Relations

Aired: Jul 13, 1999

Rising crime levels see the Copthorne Estate employ over-zealous security gua...

Episode 43 Big Fish

43. Big Fish

Aired: Jul 15, 1999

Skase chances his hand and nets an internationally wanted drug dealer, howeve...

Episode 44 Taxed

44. Taxed

Aired: Jul 20, 1999

PC Ashton is faced with contemptuousness from Smithy after losing his nerve i...

Episode 45 Cracked Up

45. Cracked Up

Aired: Jul 22, 1999

P.C. Ashton, reeling from P.C. Smith's accusations of cowardice, tries to hel...

Episode 46 Wedded Bliss

46. Wedded Bliss

Aired: Jul 27, 1999

PC Smith and PC Rickman deal with a disturbance at a registry office that lea...

Episode 47 Lucky Jim

47. Lucky Jim

Aired: Jul 29, 1999

Carver, depressed at the prospect of a life in uniform, develops a drink prob...

Episode 48 Screwdriver

48. Screwdriver

Aired: Aug 3, 1999

Tom Proctor finds himself compromised when during a rape investigation he bec...

Episode 49 Inside Out

49. Inside Out

Aired: Aug 5, 1999

Beech and Glaze go into a prison in the wake of a riot to investigate allegat...

Episode 50 Critical Mass

50. Critical Mass

Aired: Aug 10, 1999

Inspector Monroe is skeptical but cautious when a young woman rings Sun Hill ...

Episode 51 Ring-a-Ring O'Roses

51. Ring-a-Ring O'Roses

Aired: Aug 12, 1999

Ackland and Rawton track down a man who appears to be deliberately infecting ...

Episode 52 The Only Way Is Up

52. The Only Way Is Up

Aired: Aug 17, 1999

Meadows fails to notice a cry for help from a colleague, and soon has a crisi...

Episode 53 Rock Bottom

53. Rock Bottom

Aired: Aug 24, 1999

PC Sam Harker is offered the role of Youth Diversions Officer but soon clashe...

Episode 54 Sun Hill Boulevard

54. Sun Hill Boulevard

Aired: Aug 31, 1999

PC Rickman calls in sick after over-indulging at a barbecue the previous nigh...

Episode 55 Lola

55. Lola

Aired: Sep 1, 1999

Polly Page is called out to a trapped animal in a basement, but when it turns...

Episode 56 Integrity: Part 1

56. Integrity: Part 1

Aired: Sep 16, 1999

Sun Hill's efforts to protect the organisers of a local festival are in vain ...

Episode 57 Integrity: Part 2

57. Integrity: Part 2

Aired: Sep 19, 1999

Smithy puts Brownlows operation in jeopardy when he gets too close to a forme...

Episode 58 Cold Calling

58. Cold Calling

Aired: Sep 21, 1999

Rawton is furious when Meadows stops her investigation on a violent offender ...

Episode 59 Millennium

59. Millennium

Aired: Sep 23, 1999

Meadows introduces CID to the new DS Claire Stanton.

Episode 60 The Three Sergeants

60. The Three Sergeants

Aired: Sep 28, 1999

Accusations fly when a prisoner dies in the custody of Cryer, Ackland and Boy...

Episode 61 Trade Off

61. Trade Off

Aired: Sep 30, 1999

Glaze arrests one of Beech's informants, but agrees to caution him for a favo...

Episode 62 Treading Water

62. Treading Water

Aired: Oct 5, 1999

Carver and Rickman wander through a CID investigation allowing a suspect to g...

Episode 63 Look Again

63. Look Again

Aired: Oct 7, 1999

PC Hollis turns up late for work, an angry Boyden assigns him to a heated evi...

Episode 64 Love and War: Part 1

64. Love and War: Part 1

Aired: Oct 12, 1999

PC Garfield's partner Jenny returns from South Africa, leaving him eager to k...

Episode 66 Hot Money

66. Hot Money

Aired: Oct 19, 1999

Burnside and Meadows set up an undercover operation in a local casino.

Episode 67 Crash Landing

67. Crash Landing

Aired: Oct 21, 1999

Daly investigates when a light aircraft makes a crash landing in Sun Hill, ca...

Episode 68 Father's Day

68. Father's Day

Aired: Oct 28, 1999

Boyden's estranged daughter Amy turns up at Sun Hill claiming to have informa...

Episode 69 Sweet Sixteen

69. Sweet Sixteen

Aired: Nov 2, 1999

DC Skase goes undercover to investigate a series of robberies but is himself ...

Episode 70 Denial

70. Denial

Aired: Nov 4, 1999

A drunken Jim Carver is approached by a former DS whom he met while in CID, w...

Episode 71 Walking the Line

71. Walking the Line

Aired: Nov 9, 1999

A polish shopkeeper tells police he was attacked by three black youths. Lenno...

Episode 72 Cover Stories

72. Cover Stories

Aired: Nov 16, 1999

Burnside realises Carvers drinking is becoming a problem when he repeatedly l...

Episode 73 Security

73. Security

Aired: Nov 18, 1999

CID investigate a vicious hate campaign against an officer from Barton Street.

Episode 76 Homework

76. Homework

Aired: Nov 30, 1999

Whilst Ackland is preparing a romantic meal with her new boyfriend, her neigh...

Episode 77 Knowing You

77. Knowing You

Aired: Dec 2, 1999

DC Holmes gets personally involved in a case involving a brutal pimp and teen...

Episode 78 Consumers

78. Consumers

Aired: Dec 7, 1999

Fears grow when Carver has gone missing and a violent offender is arrested wi...

Episode 79 Lock In

79. Lock In

Aired: Dec 9, 1999

Alcoholic P.C. Carver reaches rock bottom when he wakes up next to a dead wom...

Episode 80 Money for Nothing

80. Money for Nothing

Aired: Dec 14, 1999

A group of the constables led by Sergeant Boyden invest in a greyhound, but i...

Episode 81 A Night to Forget

81. A Night to Forget

Aired: Dec 15, 1999

Quinnan's stag night is being organised by Reg Hollis, but will everything go...

Episode 82 A Day to Remember

82. A Day to Remember

Aired: Dec 16, 1999

Quinnan's wedding day dawns, but the reappearance of Garfield is just one of ...

Episode 83 Judgement Day

83. Judgement Day

Aired: Dec 21, 1999

Rawton is on edge after receiving a malicious parcel from an old villain she ...

Episode 84 Haunted

84. Haunted

Aired: Dec 23, 1999

CID deal with ghosts and haunted houses as they stage an obbo in a derelict f...

Episode 86 Blowing It All Away

86. Blowing It All Away

Aired: Dec 30, 1999

On a night out with her friends, PC Rickman meets two men who offer her drugs...

Episode 87 All Change

87. All Change

Aired: Dec 31, 1999

It's New Years Eve 1999 and in an attempt to keep order on the streets full w...

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Current Status: Ended

Network: ITV1

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres: Drama, Crime