The Bill

Season 7 - Series 7 (105 Episodes)

26 Seasons 1991 TV-14 6.7

The seventh series of The Bill, a British television drama, consisted of 105 episodes, broadcast between 1 January – 31 December 1991. The series was released on DVD for the first time on 6 June 2012, in Australia. It features the above artwork, which features images of Sgt. Alec Peters and WDC Viv Martella. A number of The Bill Audio Commentaries for Series 7 episodes have been recorded with director Stuart Urban and camera operator Alison Chapman, specifically for the episodes 'Cry Ha...

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Season 7 Episodes:

Episode 1 Grief

1. Grief

Aired: Jan 1, 1991

Brownlow gets grief about a tree damaging the roof of his holiday home, and m...

Episode 2 The Chase

2. The Chase

Aired: Jan 3, 1991

A service station is robbed - Loxton and Hollis give chase in the Area Car, w...

Episode 3 The Attack

3. The Attack

Aired: Jan 8, 1991

WPC Marshall is viscously attacked in the street in broad daylight by two you...

Episode 4 Crown v Cooper

4. Crown v Cooper

Aired: Jan 10, 1991

Loxton and Garfield are in trouble at court, when their witness statements of...

Episode 6 Machines

6. Machines

Aired: Jan 17, 1991

Ted Roach isn't too convinced when a serial fraudster fails to turn up for a ...

Episode 7 Loophole

7. Loophole

Aired: Jan 22, 1991

PC Young is feeling out of sorts, and isn't best impressed when Loxton and Qu...

Episode 8 Bottle

8. Bottle

Aired: Jan 24, 1991

Sgt Maitland is on the warpath, and determined to knock the relief into shape...

Episode 9 Samaritan

9. Samaritan

Aired: Jan 29, 1991

A seemingly well-to-do man is arrested after he's seen appearing to attack an...

Episode 10 Fear or Favour

10. Fear or Favour

Aired: Jan 31, 1991

Brownlow's attempts to smooth things over on the crime-ridden Jasmine Allen e...

Episode 11 Start to Finish

11. Start to Finish

Aired: Feb 5, 1991

Brownlow has an important interview at the selection board - but circumstance...

Episode 12 Night and Day

12. Night and Day

Aired: Feb 7, 1991

Following a night-time burglary at an attractive young woman's flat, Stringer...

Episode 13 Favours

13. Favours

Aired: Feb 12, 1991

Following a burglary at a scrapyard, suspicion falls on the security company ...

Episode 14 In Chambers

14. In Chambers

Aired: Feb 14, 1991

DS Greig thinks he has all the physical evidence he needs to nail his suspect...

Episode 16 Too Many Chiefs

16. Too Many Chiefs

Aired: Feb 21, 1991

Dave and Cathy find trouble at a children's home for girls. There's a suicide...

Episode 17 Every Mother's Son

17. Every Mother's Son

Aired: Feb 26, 1991

Sun Hill are trying to help a brave doctor who is being lured to the dangerou...

Episode 18 Furthers

18. Furthers

Aired: Feb 28, 1991

A violent criminal has escaped from prison bent on revenge - and Dashwood is ...

Episode 19 Closing the Net

19. Closing the Net

Aired: Mar 5, 1991

Burnside doesn't seem too impressed with Lines and Martella's slightly scient...

Episode 20 The Public Interest

20. The Public Interest

Aired: Mar 7, 1991

Ackland is baffled as to why the CPS has decided not to proceed with ABH char...

Episode 21 Photo Finish

21. Photo Finish

Aired: Mar 12, 1991

Datta and Garfield are on an obbo (from a neighbouring flat) on the rear a pu...

Episode 22 Just Deserts

22. Just Deserts

Aired: Mar 14, 1991

A man working at a building site dies after accidentally falling from scaffol...

Episode 23 832 Receiving

23. 832 Receiving

Aired: Mar 19, 1991

WPC French has to face some harsh realities when she answers a call about a d...

Episode 25 Double or Quits

25. Double or Quits

Aired: Mar 26, 1991

Carver and Roach get slightly more than they bargained for during an obbo on ...

Episode 26 We Could Be Heroes

26. We Could Be Heroes

Aired: Mar 28, 1991

Quinnan and Stamp are in trouble when, under pressure at the aftermath of a h...

Episode 27 Cold Turkey: Part 1

27. Cold Turkey: Part 1

Aired: Apr 2, 1991

A tense siege situation emerges after different lines of investigation lead t...

Episode 28 Cold Turkey: Part 2

28. Cold Turkey: Part 2

Aired: Apr 4, 1991

The siege-situation at the flat continues, while WPC June Ackland attempts to...

Episode 29 Now We're Motoring

29. Now We're Motoring

Aired: Apr 9, 1991

DCI Reid is skeptical that Tosh Lines is really pulling his weight - but when...

Episode 30 Dead Man's Boots

30. Dead Man's Boots

Aired: Apr 11, 1991

Cryer pushes for an old lady to be rehoused, following her continual harassme...

Episode 31 Caught Napping

31. Caught Napping

Aired: Apr 16, 1991

The Serious Crime Squad are all over Sun Hill like a rash - investigating the...

Episode 32 Hammer to Fall

32. Hammer to Fall

Aired: Apr 18, 1991

DCI Reid knocks Sun Hill CID back into shape - and asserts her own authority ...

Episode 33 Cry Havoc

33. Cry Havoc

Aired: Apr 23, 1991

A violent criminal resists arrest on a sink-estate, stabbing Sgt Peters in th...

Episode 34 Rules of Engagement

34. Rules of Engagement

Aired: Apr 25, 1991

Martella's secret affair becomes Sun Hill knowledge when her ex-con boyfriend...

Episode 35 Delivery on Time

35. Delivery on Time

Aired: Apr 30, 1991

A burglar posing as a delivery man is attacking women in their homes, and nee...

Episode 36 Black Monday

36. Black Monday

Aired: May 2, 1991

A man who'd apparently drowned himself 5 years' ago, just before he was about...

Episode 37 Jobs for the Boys

37. Jobs for the Boys

Aired: May 7, 1991

Two burglaries the same night - one a major theft at a cash and carry, the ot...

Episode 38 Without Consent

38. Without Consent

Aired: May 9, 1991

When a street-prostitute who's been raped goes to Sun Hill to report the crim...

Episode 39 Saints and Martyrs

39. Saints and Martyrs

Aired: May 14, 1991

Ackland decides to press ahead with a private prosecution against the man who...

Episode 40 Observation

40. Observation

Aired: May 16, 1991

As Sun Hill CID joins forces with the Flying Squad for a night-time obbo, thi...

Episode 41 The Greater Good

41. The Greater Good

Aired: May 21, 1991

When Carver and Lines see a car being driven into a scrapyard, they are surpr...

Episode 42 The Best You Can Buy

42. The Best You Can Buy

Aired: May 23, 1991

WPC Ackland's assault hearing against Everton Warwick finally comes to court ...

Episode 43 Addict

43. Addict

Aired: May 25, 1991

Alec Peters is back at Sun Hill on light duties, and looking forward to getti...

Episode 44 Black Mark

44. Black Mark

Aired: May 30, 1991

Dashwood is in trouble when one of his snouts makes a corruption allegation a...

Episode 46 The Harder They Fall

46. The Harder They Fall

Aired: Jun 6, 1991

When Loxton gets caught up in an early hours scuffle following a burglary at ...

Episode 47 Something Personal

47. Something Personal

Aired: Jun 11, 1991

Carver and Dashwood find a young woman unconscious in a squat - overdosed on ...

Episode 48 Hijack

48. Hijack

Aired: Jun 13, 1991

A lorry driver has had his valuable load stolen at gunpoint by hijackers posi...

Episode 49 With Intent

49. With Intent

Aired: Jun 18, 1991

When the CPS and an incompetent brief appear to let two violent burglars off ...

Episode 50 Initiative

50. Initiative

Aired: Jun 20, 1991

A series of robberies around a sink-estate on Sun Hill's patch point to the c...

Episode 51 Careless Whispers

51. Careless Whispers

Aired: Jun 25, 1991

Following a couple of simultaneous dawn raids by uniform and CID, it appears ...

Episode 52 Minimum Force

52. Minimum Force

Aired: Jun 27, 1991

On arriving at the scene of a household burglary, Sun Hill officers find that...

Episode 53 Skeletons

53. Skeletons

Aired: Jul 2, 1991

A man from the Asian community is viscously stabbed and left in his car on wa...

Episode 54 Targets

54. Targets

Aired: Jul 4, 1991

Following a spate of street robberies by youths (and some info from a youth a...

Episode 55 The Negotiator

55. The Negotiator

Aired: Jul 9, 1991

A tense situation for Sun Hill ensues when Hollis and a young shop assistant ...

Episode 56 Reputations

56. Reputations

Aired: Jul 11, 1991

Carver's snout has info about a robbery at a jeweller's, and pushes him in th...

Episode 58 Joey

58. Joey

Aired: Jul 18, 1991

June Ackland is helping out at a local comprehensive school as a liaison offi...

Episode 59 Your Shout

59. Your Shout

Aired: Jul 23, 1991

Cathy Marshall is all set for her promotion board - but problems arise when s...

Episode 60 Ladykiller

60. Ladykiller

Aired: Jul 25, 1991

Martella drives to a car fire to find a lady was trapped in the car.

Episode 61 A Corporal of Horse

61. A Corporal of Horse

Aired: Jul 30, 1991

Marshall is acting sergeant with C relief. She watches one of the relief driv...

Episode 62 Cause and Effect

62. Cause and Effect

Aired: Aug 1, 1991

Sun Hill officers attend a break-in at an animal-testing research centre, and...

Episode 63 Getting Involved

63. Getting Involved

Aired: Aug 6, 1991

A man's car is being continually vandalised, and Smollett is reminded of a fa...

Episode 64 Benefit of the Doubt

64. Benefit of the Doubt

Aired: Aug 8, 1991

Ted Roach investigates the aftermath of a prostitute who was assaulted and th...

Episode 65 Crack-Up

65. Crack-Up

Aired: Aug 13, 1991

Sun Hill is involved in an incident at a pawn shop.

Episode 66 The Last Laugh

66. The Last Laugh

Aired: Aug 15, 1991

Three cars race to the scene of an armed robbery - only to discover it's a ho...

Episode 67 Access

67. Access

Aired: Aug 20, 1991

CID investigate a burglary of an OAP, who has an asthma attack. Stamp talks t...

Episode 68 Six of One

68. Six of One

Aired: Aug 22, 1991

PC Stringer chases a girl on foot who has stolen goods from a jewellers but P...

Episode 69 Married to the Job

69. Married to the Job

Aired: Aug 27, 1991

Stamp arrives at his shift in a foul mood - and seems to be taking it out on ...

Episode 70 Domestic

70. Domestic

Aired: Aug 29, 1991

Burnside is not exactly sympathetic when a victim of domestic violence withdr...

Episode 71 Stress Rules

71. Stress Rules

Aired: Sep 3, 1991

Brownlow comes back from a conference and wants to start an anti-stress progr...

Episode 72 They Also Serve

72. They Also Serve

Aired: Sep 5, 1991

The relief are acting as reserve troops for a demonstration. At a meal break,...

Episode 73 Inside Job

73. Inside Job

Aired: Sep 10, 1991

A shop assistant is attacked and robbed of the week's takings by thieves on a...

Episode 74 Bones of Contention

74. Bones of Contention

Aired: Sep 12, 1991

Sgt Cryer investigates when anonymous letters expose PC Stringer's affair, in...

Episode 75 Wide of the Mark

75. Wide of the Mark

Aired: Sep 17, 1991

When a small-time crook is brought in with some stolen video recorders, he co...

Episode 76 Hitting the Mark

76. Hitting the Mark

Aired: Sep 19, 1991

Meadows leads the investigation into the murder of Greig's informant.

Episode 77 Bending the Rules

77. Bending the Rules

Aired: Sep 24, 1991

A yob arrested for shoplifting turns out to be a respectable police officer. ...

Episode 78 Skint

78. Skint

Aired: Sep 26, 1991

Garfield hosts a birthday party he can't really afford, while Quinnan winds u...

Episode 80 Lest We Forget

80. Lest We Forget

Aired: Oct 3, 1991

Ch.Supt Brownlow is questioned by Yorkshire Police about his involvement in a...

Episode 81 Nutters

81. Nutters

Aired: Oct 8, 1991

Meadows and Burnside investigate the murder of a young man - nicknamed 'Hedge...

Episode 82 Downtime

82. Downtime

Aired: Oct 10, 1991

A suspected violent break-in begins to suggest more clues about the house occ...

Episode 83 Out of Order

83. Out of Order

Aired: Oct 15, 1991

PC Young reaches out to WPC Datta who rejects his advances.

Episode 84 Empire Building

84. Empire Building

Aired: Oct 17, 1991

A major operation takes place to catch people with unpaid fines.

Episode 85 Innocence

85. Innocence

Aired: Nov 22, 1991

Two boys are reported missing by their parents after they're sent to the shop...

Episode 86 Losing It

86. Losing It

Aired: Oct 24, 1991

PC Young discovers a suicide, and is deeply affected. Later, he visits Datta ...

Episode 87 Shots

87. Shots

Aired: Oct 29, 1991

Cryer and Conway attend a seminar at the Metropolitan Police Training Camp co...

Episode 88 The Square Peg

88. The Square Peg

Aired: Oct 31, 1991

A drunk man stuck up in a tree causes a public disturbance. Meanwhile, troubl...

Episode 90 Balls in the Air

90. Balls in the Air

Aired: Nov 7, 1991

Sgt. Boyden arrives for his first day at Sun Hill, and is clearly carrying so...

Episode 91 The Taste

91. The Taste

Aired: Nov 12, 1991

PC Smollett and Sgt Cryer each rediscover that there is more to policing than...

Episode 93 Discretion

93. Discretion

Aired: Nov 19, 1991

PC Smollett, as the new Home Beat Officer, introduces himself to the communit...

Episode 95 The Whole Truth

95. The Whole Truth

Aired: Nov 26, 1991

Datta appears in court and gets a hard time from the defence brief. Stringer ...

Episode 96 Profit and Loss

96. Profit and Loss

Aired: Nov 28, 1991

A Turkish woman is found dead by two bailiffs who broke into her flat and fou...

Episode 97 Thicker Than Water

97. Thicker Than Water

Aired: Dec 3, 1991

Loxton and Stringer attend a domestic where the husband is one of their own.

Episode 98 On the Take

98. On the Take

Aired: Dec 5, 1991

A stake-out fails to catch the crooks, and speculation starts about an inside...

Episode 99 Caring

99. Caring

Aired: Dec 10, 1991

June talks to a woman at the hospital who appears to be being battered, but i...

Episode 101 Imposters

101. Imposters

Aired: Dec 17, 1991

Marshall and Stamp try to find a missing homeless person. Meanwhile, Ackland ...

Episode 102 A Woman Scorned

102. A Woman Scorned

Aired: Dec 19, 1991

A dog finds a buried body. Reid considers her staffing options.

Episode 103 Vital Statistics

103. Vital Statistics

Aired: Dec 24, 1991

The pressure is on from on-high to increase the number of arrests. Meanwhile,...

Episode 104 Decent People

104. Decent People

Aired: Dec 26, 1991

PC Quinnan works undercover on a building site to investigate the theft of ki...

Episode 105 Breakout

105. Breakout

Aired: Dec 31, 1991

The Sun Hill officers' hope of a peaceful New Year's Eve is shattered when a ...

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Current Status: Ended

Network: ITV1

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres: Drama, Crime