The Bill

Season 4 - Series 4 (48 Episodes)

26 Seasons 1988 TV-14 6.7

The fourth series of The Bill, a British television drama, consisted of forty-eight episodes, broadcast between 19 July – 29 December 1988. This series was the first to adopt a half-hour format, and the theme tune had its first of several updates. The series was first released on DVD on 4 December 2006 in Australia, incorrectly packaged as Seasons 4 & 5, when in fact the set only contained the entire series four. The series was later issued in four separate volumes in the United Kingdom, ...

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Season 4 Episodes:

Episode 1 Light Duties

1. Light Duties

Aired: Jul 19, 1988

Recently transferred to CID, DC Carver is feeling seasick while he and DS Roa...

Episode 3 Good Will Visit

3. Good Will Visit

Aired: Jul 26, 1988

P.C. Pete Ramsey arrives at Sun Hill after being transferred from Barton Stre...

Episode 4 Home Sweet Home

4. Home Sweet Home

Aired: Jul 28, 1988

Sgt. Cryer leads a raid to enforce an eviction order on a squat occupied by u...

Episode 5 All in Good Faith

5. All in Good Faith

Aired: Aug 2, 1988

WPC Martella and WPC Ackland report a bogus gasman to Acting DI Roach.

Episode 6 Just Call Me Guvnor

6. Just Call Me Guvnor

Aired: Aug 4, 1988

Burnside arrives to takeover Sun Hill CID. He takes charge of an undercover o...

Episode 7 Caught Red Handed

7. Caught Red Handed

Aired: Aug 9, 1988

When Carver spots Yorkie having a secret meeting with a drug dealer in a pub,...

Episode 8 Homes and Gardens

8. Homes and Gardens

Aired: Aug 11, 1988

Yorkie befriends Mickey Cozen, a man with the mental age of 7. After taking h...

Episode 9 Country Cousin

9. Country Cousin

Aired: Aug 16, 1988

DS Jarvis arrives in London to arrest a suspect believed to be living in Sun ...

Episode 12 Hold Fire

12. Hold Fire

Aired: Aug 25, 1988

A traffic accident leaves many people dead and Yorkie in hospital. CID discov...

Episode 13 Bad Faith

13. Bad Faith

Aired: Aug 30, 1988

When a known burglar escapes from custody, CID are convinced he will return t...

Episode 14 Requiem

14. Requiem

Aired: Sep 1, 1988

After human remains are discovered in a sub-divided townhouse, CID launch a h...

Episode 15 Trespasses

15. Trespasses

Aired: Sep 6, 1988

After finding a newborn baby dumped in a skip, Ramsey tries to discover why s...

Episode 17 Runaround

17. Runaround

Aired: Sep 13, 1988

An agoraphobic old lady thinks her neighbours are being burgled. CID investig...

Episode 18 The Trap

18. The Trap

Aired: Sep 15, 1988

Burnside sets a trap to settle an old score by parking a van full of VHS reco...

Episode 19 Community Relations

19. Community Relations

Aired: Sep 20, 1988

P.C.s Melvin and Ramsey conduct an observation from a shed, Ch. Insp. Conway ...

Episode 20 A Dogs Life

20. A Dogs Life

Aired: Sep 22, 1988

When Ramsey investigates a theft at a library, CID discover the man rumoured ...

Episode 21 Trouble & Strife

21. Trouble & Strife

Aired: Sep 27, 1988

PC Ramsey befriends Joanna Mancini, a pregnant women suffering from domestic ...

Episode 22 Running Late

22. Running Late

Aired: Sep 29, 1988

WPC Brind makes an enemy of Burnside when she gets in the way of a CID operat...

Episode 23 They Say We're Rough

23. They Say We're Rough

Aired: Oct 4, 1988

Cryer and Martella investigate an army surplus shop that appears to be stocke...

Episode 24 Blue for a Boy

24. Blue for a Boy

Aired: Oct 6, 1988

When a young baby is kidnapped by a mystery man, CID turn their attentions to...

Episode 25 Chasing the Dragon

25. Chasing the Dragon

Aired: Oct 11, 1988

D.S. Roach spots a drug deal taking place on the Rochester Estate, but he, Ca...

Episode 26 The Coop

26. The Coop

Aired: Oct 13, 1988

While trying to take their lunch break, P.C. Edwards and W.P.C. Ackland inves...

Episode 28 Witness

28. Witness

Aired: Oct 20, 1988

PC Ramsey & PC Smith are looking after a witness in a court case who is apply...

Episode 29 Here We Go Loopy Lou

29. Here We Go Loopy Lou

Aired: Oct 25, 1988

Bob, Claire and Taffy investigate the report of a man carrying a cross which ...

Episode 30 Stop and Search

30. Stop and Search

Aired: Oct 27, 1988

Sgt Cryer introduces two special constables who will be joining the relief: M...

Episode 31 Spook Stuff

31. Spook Stuff

Aired: Nov 1, 1988

W.P.C. Martella and P.C. Stamp take an American woman who has been caught sho...

Episode 32 Evacuation

32. Evacuation

Aired: Nov 2, 1988

It's a busy day on the station front desk, and P.C. Smith fails to notice tha...

Episode 33 Personal Imports

33. Personal Imports

Aired: Nov 8, 1988

P.C. Melvin sees a chemist being robbed, but he has powder thrown in his face...

Episode 34 Paper Chase

34. Paper Chase

Aired: Nov 10, 1988

A schoolgirl has been abducted, and D.I. Burnside is determined to find her. ...

Episode 35 Intruder

35. Intruder

Aired: Nov 15, 1988

While Melvin and Haynes are on the beat, they are nearly decoyed away from a ...

Episode 36 Conflict

36. Conflict

Aired: Nov 17, 1988

D.Cs Tosh Lines and Jim Carver are carrying out an obbo (observation) on a ma...

Episode 37 Duplicates

37. Duplicates

Aired: Nov 22, 1988

Due to her slight resemblance to a missing woman, W.P.C. Brind reluctantly ag...

Episode 38 Snout

38. Snout

Aired: Nov 24, 1988

D.I. Burnside visits D.C. Carver's prisoner, and interrogates him alone, agai...

Episode 39 Old Habits

39. Old Habits

Aired: Nov 29, 1988

W.P.C. Brind is called to the house of an elderly lady, who has just been rob...

Episode 40 The Silent Gun

40. The Silent Gun

Aired: Dec 1, 1988

P.C. Haynes arrives at a house to investigate what seems like a routine distu...

Episode 42 Getting Stressed

42. Getting Stressed

Aired: Dec 8, 1988

Frazer witnesses an accident on the way to work. On informing the man she has...

Episode 43 Tigers

43. Tigers

Aired: Dec 13, 1988

D.I. Burnside receives a phone call from an Asian boy who is frightened that ...

Episode 44 Guessing Game

44. Guessing Game

Aired: Dec 15, 1988

Neighbours report an elderly man who hasn't been seen for days. P.C. Ramsey b...

Episode 45 The Assassins

45. The Assassins

Aired: Dec 20, 1988

Yorkie and Haynes investigate a removal van. The elderly driver doesn't think...

Episode 46 Outmoded

46. Outmoded

Aired: Dec 22, 1988

Sun Hill police are being called out to a series of bogus shouts which the Ya...

Episode 47 Digging Up the Past

47. Digging Up the Past

Aired: Dec 27, 1988

An excavator on a building site has uncovered some human remains, and Sgt. Cr...

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Current Status: Ended

Network: ITV1

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres: Drama, Crime