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The Bill

Season 8 Episode 105: When Push Comes to Shove

Dec 31, 1992TV-1425m8.1

Sun Hill officers are drinking after shift when some troublemakers arrive at the pub. WPC Ackland tries to calm the situation, but PCs Loxton and Quinnan decide that she needs their protection, and provoke a fight with a violent thug.

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

The station has received multiple calls from a guest house owner, claiming to...

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 has been assaulted, and Lesley Anderson is the only witness to t...

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

Seasons: 26

Current Status: Ended

Network: ITV1

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres:Drama, Crime