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The Bill

Season 7 Episode 3: The Attack

26 SeasonsJan 08, 1991TV-1425m7.9

WPC Marshall is viscously attacked in the street in broad daylight by two young men she was tying to arrest. But can her attackers be found? Meanwhile, most of CID are on an obbo at a tobacco factory where a serious blag is meant to be...

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