The Bill

Season 8 - Series 8 (105 Episodes)

26 Seasons 1992 TV-14 6.7

The eighth series of The Bill, a British television drama, consisted of 105 episodes, broadcast between 2 January – 31 December 1992. 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 PC Steve Loxton and DC Mike Dashwood.

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Season 8 Episodes:

Episode 1 The Best Policy

1. The Best Policy

Aired: Jan 2, 1992

A man is shot during an armed robbery at a DIY warehouse - but why is Kim Rei...

Episode 2 A Friend in Need

2. A Friend in Need

Aired: Jan 7, 1992

PC Quinnan is the subject of a civil complaint. PCs Stamp and Stringer follow...

Episode 4 Lip Service

4. Lip Service

Aired: Jan 14, 1992

DC Lines is enjoying an off-duty pint in his local pub and becomes involved i...

Episode 5 Illegals

5. Illegals

Aired: Jan 16, 1992

DC Lines Investigates when a cellar full of illegal immigrants is discovered....

Episode 6 Fair Play

6. Fair Play

Aired: Jan 21, 1992

PC Quinnan investigates the illegal sale of steroids. PC Garfield is put on t...

Episode 7 Dinosaur

7. Dinosaur

Aired: Jan 23, 1992

Burnside is furious when provided with false information about an armed robbe...

Episode 8 Joyride

8. Joyride

Aired: Jan 28, 1992

Sun Hill is terrorised by teenage joyriders, but what can be done to stop them?

Episode 9 Not Waving

9. Not Waving

Aired: Jan 30, 1992

A student nurse is sexually assaulted in a nurses' quarters building. DI Burn...

Episode 10 Mates

10. Mates

Aired: Feb 4, 1992

Cryer is finding being non-operational tedious. He goes undercover as a punte...

Episode 11 Lost Boy

11. Lost Boy

Aired: Feb 6, 1992

Following investigations into the disappearance of a thirteen-year-old boy, G...

Episode 12 Chicken

12. Chicken

Aired: Feb 11, 1992

Stringer tries to stop some children playing 'chicken' on the railway line, b...

Episode 13 Somebody Special

13. Somebody Special

Aired: Feb 13, 1992

D.C.I. Reid prepares to move on from Sun Hill, while D.S. Greig tries to cult...

Episode 14 Previous Convictions

14. Previous Convictions

Aired: Feb 18, 1992

Investigating an apparent accident in which a man's hand is crushed in a car-...

Episode 16 It's a Small World

16. It's a Small World

Aired: Feb 25, 1992

Thinking of leaving the force , DC Dashwood is tempted by a lucrative busines...

Episode 17 Licence

17. Licence

Aired: Feb 27, 1992

A man convicted of strangling his wife has been released on licence, but the ...

Episode 18 Comeback

18. Comeback

Aired: Mar 3, 1992

Sgt. Cryer's first day back in uniform is an eventful one. P.C. Smollett is e...

Episode 19 Fireproof

19. Fireproof

Aired: Mar 5, 1992

Burnside leads the investigation into the fire at the new Community Police Of...

Episode 20 The Paddy Factor

20. The Paddy Factor

Aired: Mar 10, 1992

Carver and Martella are shadowing a car thief, but all three get more than th...

Episode 21 The Wild Rover

21. The Wild Rover

Aired: Mar 12, 1992

The Anti-Terrorist Squad believe they will have a quick result, but Roach has...

Episode 22 Coincidence

22. Coincidence

Aired: Mar 17, 1992

A small boy known for lying claims to have been the subject of an attempted a...

Episode 23 Going Soft

23. Going Soft

Aired: Mar 19, 1992

A routine trip to a magistrate for a warrant turns into a nightmare for DC Da...

Episode 24 Re-Hab

24. Re-Hab

Aired: Mar 24, 1992

DCI Meadows arrives to take charge of Sun Hill CID. He becomes involved with ...

Episode 25 Acting Detective

25. Acting Detective

Aired: Mar 26, 1992

A woman who collapsed at an airport is found to be a mule, smuggling drugs in...

Episode 26 Stopover

26. Stopover

Aired: Mar 31, 1992

PC Smollett tries to offer a follow-up service to victims of crime. A woman w...

Episode 27 Suspects

27. Suspects

Aired: Apr 2, 1992

DS Greig arrests a suspect for an armed robbery, but is proved wrong.

Episode 29 Party Politics

29. Party Politics

Aired: Apr 9, 1992

WDC Martella celebrates her birthday. DI Burnside and DS Roach go to a party ...

Episode 31 A Can of Worms

31. A Can of Worms

Aired: Apr 16, 1992

A road accident draws attention to a local taxi company, which is the source ...

Episode 32 Timing

32. Timing

Aired: Apr 21, 1992

DCI Meadows tries to find the link between three arson attacks. DS Roach and ...

Episode 34 Trial and Error

34. Trial and Error

Aired: Apr 24, 1992

A armed robber who put an innocent bystander in a wheelchair has his house fi...

Episode 35 Owning Up

35. Owning Up

Aired: Apr 30, 1992

PCs Loxton and Stringer follow up on a mugging but their case is nearly ruine...

Episode 36 Up Behind

36. Up Behind

Aired: May 5, 1992

It's Saturday night, but CID are at work trailing a known criminal believed t...

Episode 37 Appearances

37. Appearances

Aired: May 7, 1992

Following an argument with a drunken pub customer, a young barman is hit by a...

Episode 39 Sign of Our Times

39. Sign of Our Times

Aired: May 14, 1992

An armed robber admits to DC Lines that redundancy and the repossession of hi...

Episode 40 Priorities

40. Priorities

Aired: May 19, 1992

PCs Stringer and Loxton attend to the theft at an old people's home and begin...

Episode 41 Users

41. Users

Aired: May 21, 1992

WDC Martella arrests a woman for drug dealing. DI Burnside suspects that she ...

Episode 42 Man of the People

42. Man of the People

Aired: May 26, 1992

PC Stringer wins the election for the post of Federation Rep, beating the inc...

Episode 43 Runaway

43. Runaway

Aired: May 28, 1992

DS Roach investigates the beating of a teenage girl, and tries to establish i...

Episode 44 Exposures

44. Exposures

Aired: Jun 2, 1992

A young model claims that she was sexually assaulted during a photographic se...

Episode 45 Better the Devil

45. Better the Devil

Aired: Jun 4, 1992

PC Stringer gets involved with a bizarre household, and discovers a horrifyin...

Episode 46 Prisoners

46. Prisoners

Aired: Jun 9, 1992

Sgt. Boyden has anything but a quiet night on duty in the custody suite.

Episode 47 World to Rights

47. World to Rights

Aired: Jun 11, 1992

WPC Marshall on attachment to the Domestic Violence Unit at Stafford Row, mak...

Episode 48 Do the Right Thing

48. Do the Right Thing

Aired: Jun 16, 1992

PC Stringer is mugged by a gang and determines to get his own back. WPC Marsh...

Episode 49 Hiding to Nothing

49. Hiding to Nothing

Aired: Jun 18, 1992

PC Stamp is ambushed by a gang of youths on a local estate. In trying to assi...

Episode 50 Punching Judy

50. Punching Judy

Aired: Jun 23, 1992

A woman lies critically injured in hospital, beaten up by her husband. DS Gre...

Episode 51 Vicious Circles

51. Vicious Circles

Aired: Jun 25, 1992

PC Hollis arrests a woman for being drunk in charge of a baby, and finds hims...

Episode 52 Up All Night

52. Up All Night

Aired: Jun 30, 1992

P.C. Garfield is assaulted while in pursuit of a suspect, but where was Sgt. ...

Episode 54 Snakes & Ladders

54. Snakes & Ladders

Aired: Jul 7, 1992

It's PC Garfield's first day back after the attack. The relief place bets on ...

Episode 55 Street Cleaning

55. Street Cleaning

Aired: Jul 9, 1992

Sgt Cryer gets the relief to put the Garfield-Boyden conflict behind them and...

Episode 56 Hands Up

56. Hands Up

Aired: Jul 14, 1992

Ch Insp Conway decides he needs to get back on the beat , and arrests a drunk...

Episode 57 A Scandalous Act

57. A Scandalous Act

Aired: Jul 16, 1992

PC Garfield brings in a teenaged girl arrested at a drugs party, and she accu...

Episode 58 Raiders

58. Raiders

Aired: Jul 21, 1992

A ram-raid ends in tragedy when a boy is killed. But what was his part in the...

Episode 59 Talk Out

59. Talk Out

Aired: Jul 23, 1992

A middle-aged couple arrive at the front desk and report their neighbour miss...

Episode 60 True Confessions

60. True Confessions

Aired: Jul 28, 1992

DS Roach is put under pressure when a suspect retracts a confession and accus...

Episode 61 Private Enterprise

61. Private Enterprise

Aired: Jul 30, 1992

A bumbling minicab driver is pulled over, but claims to know nothing about th...

Episode 62 Getting Through

62. Getting Through

Aired: Aug 4, 1992

The night shift is saddled with a feud between two men who come to the front ...

Episode 64 Cutting Loose

64. Cutting Loose

Aired: Aug 11, 1992

A prisoner is brought down from Manchester for an identity parade after a new...

Episode 65 Soft Target

65. Soft Target

Aired: Aug 13, 1992

PC Smollett discovers that a local villain is driving people out of their fla...

Episode 67 Human Resources

67. Human Resources

Aired: Aug 20, 1992

Two con men are preying on women through the small ads in the local paper. La...

Episode 68 Exit

68. Exit

Aired: Aug 25, 1992

A loan shark is attacked. DS Greig has a vital witness who is young, blonde a...

Episode 69 Loyalties

69. Loyalties

Aired: Aug 27, 1992

Acting on information from a snout, DI Burnside mounts a dawn raid on neighbo...

Episode 70 Snapshot

70. Snapshot

Aired: Sep 1, 1992

A complaint over loud music quickly escalates into an armed siege, as a man w...

Episode 71 Letting Go

71. Letting Go

Aired: Sep 3, 1992

PC Hollis is playing with a train set before going out - he is looking for a ...

Episode 72 Travelling Light

72. Travelling Light

Aired: Sep 8, 1992

WDC Viv Martella helps WPC Donna Harris dress up for a reconstruction of a mu...

Episode 73 Radio Waves

73. Radio Waves

Aired: Sep 10, 1992

Insp Monroe talks to Ch Insp Conway about a problem with a car chase, involvi...

Episode 74 A Blind Eye

74. A Blind Eye

Aired: Sep 15, 1992

WDC Martella brings in an elderly mugging victim who helps makes an identikit...

Episode 79 Tip-Off

79. Tip-Off

Aired: Oct 1, 1992

DC Lines is asked for by a burglar whom he put inside. He gives Tosh informat...

Episode 80 Open to Offers

80. Open to Offers

Aired: Oct 6, 1992

Quinnan is in trouble when a prisoner recognizes him from having moonlighted ...

Episode 81 Playing God

81. Playing God

Aired: Oct 8, 1992

CID are tied up with a court case - and a burglary suspect of DS Roach may ha...

Episode 82 Crack of Doom

82. Crack of Doom

Aired: Oct 13, 1992

A former boxer is mistakenly arrested for possession of drugs, but ends up ha...

Episode 83 Spit and Polish

83. Spit and Polish

Aired: Oct 15, 1992

Quinnan is nearly run down by a speeding Mercedes, and he and Loxton give cha...

Episode 84 Overdue

84. Overdue

Aired: Oct 20, 1992

D.I. Burnside has a promotion board, leaving D.C.I. Meadows to deal with an i...

Episode 85 We Should Be Talking

85. We Should Be Talking

Aired: Oct 22, 1992

PC Garfield is following a silver car that might have been involved in a ram-...

Episode 86 Reasonable Grounds

86. Reasonable Grounds

Aired: Oct 27, 1992

WPC Datta goes to see a man about a missing child. Meanwhile, Stringer has to...

Episode 87 Discipline

87. Discipline

Aired: Oct 29, 1992

A man arrested outside a club for being drunk and disorderly turns out to be ...

Episode 88 Minefield

88. Minefield

Aired: Nov 3, 1992

Sgt Maitland finds himself in the wrong when he discovers a serious procedura...

Episode 89 Gamers

89. Gamers

Aired: Nov 5, 1992

DC Lines Investigates a fire bombing of an Asian shop. PC Quinnan and WPC Mar...

Episode 90 Occupational Hazard

90. Occupational Hazard

Aired: Nov 10, 1992

When sex appeal doesn't get him what he wants, Harry Osborne turns vicious an...

Episode 92 Waifs & Strays

92. Waifs & Strays

Aired: Nov 17, 1992

An old lady brings in a blood-stained book belonging to a missing girl in to ...

Episode 93 Happy Families

93. Happy Families

Aired: Nov 19, 1992

What's a smart girl like Sharon doing with a villian like Daniel Batt? DI Bur...

Episode 94 Well Out of Order

94. Well Out of Order

Aired: Nov 24, 1992

DCI Meadows and DI Burnside want to go in force to the Tankeray estate to roo...

Episode 95 Into the Mire

95. Into the Mire

Aired: Nov 26, 1992

CID receive information that leads to the arrest of a prolific handler of sto...

Episode 96 Master of the House

96. Master of the House

Aired: Dec 1, 1992

The body of a respectable family man is found on a notorious patch of wasteland.

Episode 97 Fireworks

97. Fireworks

Aired: Dec 3, 1992

PC Stamp uses old-fashioned policing methods to tackle the problem of childre...

Episode 98 Cold Shoulder

98. Cold Shoulder

Aired: Dec 8, 1992

A local youth with form is stabbed in the centre of a densely populated housi...

Episode 99 Safety First

99. Safety First

Aired: Dec 10, 1992

D.I. Burnside investigates when a pawnbroker is shot in the leg with a legall...

Episode 100 Counting the Cost

100. Counting the Cost

Aired: Dec 15, 1992

W.P.C. Ackland intervenes when a family is being subjected to harassment from...

Episode 101 Compassion

101. Compassion

Aired: Dec 17, 1992

A probation officer seems eager to assist DI Burnside over the murder of a pr...

Episode 102 Finders Keepers

102. Finders Keepers

Aired: Dec 22, 1992

DC Carver finds a buried treasure and the glory should be his. DC Dashwood, n...

Episode 103 Return Match

103. Return Match

Aired: Dec 24, 1992

Mike Dashwood returns to Sun Hill looking for stolen antique dolls. Who will ...

Episode 104 High Places

104. High Places

Aired: Dec 29, 1992

D.I. Burnside investigates the death in mysterious circumstances of a former ...

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Info about The Bill

Current Status: Ended

Network: ITV1

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres: Drama, Crime