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The BillSeries 12

The twelfth series of The Bill, a British television drama, consisted of 156 episodes, broadcast between 2 January and 31 December 1996. On 6 February 2013, The Bill Series 12 Part 1 & 2 and The Bill Series 12 Part 3 & 4 DVD sets were released (in Australia). The show aired the death of PC Cathy Marshall early in the series, actress Lynne Miller departing after seven years in a mysterious plot that saw her drown whilst chasing a suspect, but it was never confirmed if she was pushed or slipped off a riverside barge during the pursuit. The death followed that of DS Jo Morgan in a four-part special towards the end of the previous series, with the first three of the four episodes rebroadcast in the summer as part of a single special episode; Target.

Episodes

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    E01 Call Waiting

    Jan 2, 1996 · 22m

    Skase and Croft investigate a series of hoax phone calls that are tearing a family apart.

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    E02 Second Sense

    Jan 4, 1996 · 22m

    Loxton and Slater deal with a woman drink-driver.

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    E03 Runners Up

    Jan 5, 1996 · 22m

    Meadows offers a bottle of scotch as a reward for catching an elusive burglar.

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    E04 Keeping It In The Family

    Jan 9, 1996 · 22m

    Lines and Skase try to avert an ice-cream war in Sun Hill after a vendor is assaulted.

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    E05 Home Truths

    Jan 11, 1996 · 22m

    Ackland and Jarvis follow up a vicious assault.

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    E06 Outer

    Jan 12, 1996 · 22m

    Boulton is determined to arrest a local drug dealer, at any cost.

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    E07 Better Half

    Jan 16, 1996 · 22m

    Beech and Croft investigate the murder of a hairdresser who had been fighting for a share of her dead fiancé's estate.

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    E08 No Assistance Required

    Jan 18, 1996 · 22m

    Datta is called to a burglary and is subjected to the unwanted affections of a civic-minded admirer. Monroe is suspicious when Loxton tries to settle an old score.

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    E09 Judgement Call

    Jan 19, 1996 · 22m

    Uniform and CID are on the lookout for escaped prisoner Jim Brodie, so both Brodie's wife and his drug dealer are under observation. PC Nick Slater and WPC Cathy Marshall pursue two burglers down to the riverfront, where one of them gives Slater a severe beating. Marshall sees a person on the barges and gives chase. By the time their backup arrives, delayed by PC Reg Hollis' dodgy belly, Marshall has disappeared. When her dead body is fished out of the river, the two crooks she and Slater had been pursuing are questioned over her possible murder. Searching the barge that Marshall was last seen, CID find evidence that someone has been sleeping rough on board - and it looks like it's their escaped prisoner, Brodie. The river police intercept Brodie fleeing to Amsterdam on his friend's boat, but there is not enough evidence to charge him for Cathy Marshall's murder.

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    E10 Old Dogs New Tricks

    Jan 23, 1996 · 22m

    As Sun Hill gets to grips with its new computer system, Boyden discovers that it pays to stay one step ahead of the opposition.

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    E11 Worst Fears

    Jan 25, 1996 · 22m

    While Deakin investigates the kidnapping of a five-year-old boy, Conway gets some unsettling news.

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    E12 One Night With You

    Jan 26, 1996 · 22m

    Five-year-old Tommy Laker is still missing, and Deakin discovers an evil and sinister ring which may hold the clue.

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    E13 Someone Else's Problem

    Jan 30, 1996 · 22m

    Datta and Quinnan look into the mysterious death of a jogger, while Ackland and Jarvis try to reconcile a couple of warring lovers.

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    E14 Bounds Of Decency

    Feb 1, 1996 · 22m

    Slater and Garfield struggle to keep the peace when two women fall out over the same man.

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    E15 Happy Birthday

    Feb 2, 1996 · 22m

    Meadows and Croft investigate the murder of an elderly woman, and question two young children living on the floor below who may have heard what happened.

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    E16 Stop The Music

    Feb 6, 1996 · 22m

    Croft and a badly-hungover Beech investigate when a body is found in a car with a large amount of crack cocaine.

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    E17 Cold Light Of Day

    Feb 8, 1996 · 22m

    A reconstruction brings forward an unexpected witness to an assault on a 15-year-old boy.

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    E18 Back In Business

    Feb 9, 1996 · 22m

    Acting Superintendent Conway is stirred into action by a face from the past.

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    E19 Separate Rooms

    Feb 13, 1996 · 22m

    Lines investigates an allegation of underage sex.

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    E20 Going Guilty

    Feb 15, 1996 · 22m

    Cryer and Slater follow up on a murder but a legal loophole may allow the perpetrator to get away with it.

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    E21 Pieces Of Cake

    Feb 16, 1996 · 22m

    Beech is caught in the crossfire when uniform and C.I.D. fall out over a directive from Brownlow.

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    E22 Somebody's Home

    Feb 20, 1996 · 22m

    Quinnan and Keane have to help someone with a conviction for assaulting a police officer.

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    E23 Pointing The Finger

    Feb 22, 1996 · 22m

    Carver and Skase investigate an assault on an Asian schoolboy.

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    E24 Boy Meets Girl

    Feb 23, 1996 · 22m

    Croft investigates a series of vicious sexual assaults.

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    E25 Confession

    Feb 27, 1996 · 22m

    A man comes in to Sun Hill and confesses to murdering a woman who disappeared five years ago. D.C.I. Meadows, who headed the original investigation, and D.C. Carver talk to him and, when they are convinced he is lying, throw him out. The man soon returns, and this time he tells Carver something that wasn't in the news stories making the police take his confession more seriously.

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    E26 Home From Home

    Feb 29, 1996 · 22m

    Stamp and Slater are called to supervise the eviction of a father from his home.

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    E27 Open Wound

    Mar 1, 1996 · 22m

    Skase and Deakin deal with a wounded crack dealer shot in the yard of a pub.

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    E28 Perfect Match

    Mar 5, 1996 · 22m

    Beech and Croft try to track down a violent attacker.

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    E29 Someone Special

    Mar 7, 1996 · 22m

    Lines and Skase investigate a possible arson attack on a nightclub.

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    E30 Bits & Pieces

    Mar 8, 1996 · 22m

    Boyden and Slater search for the owner of a severed hand found on a rubbish tip.

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    E31 Home Help

    Mar 12, 1996 · 22m

    Cryer and Slater handle a tricky case involving a disabled former police officer and his wayward son.

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    E32 Kicked Out

    Mar 14, 1996 · 22m

    Jarvis and Page are called in to help in the deportation of an illegal immigrant who escapes from custody.

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    E33 On The Block

    Mar 15, 1996 · 22m

    Boulton loses a suspect during an arrest and has to ask Monroe to help get him back.

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    E34 Getting Off

    Mar 19, 1996 · 22m

    Boulton investigates a convicted drug addict and clashes with a drugs worker.

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    E35 Girls' Night

    Mar 21, 1996 · 22m

    Loxton and Page deal with a bridegroom who disrupts a hen night.

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    E36 Blood Brothers

    Mar 22, 1996 · 22m

    Meadows tries to get the truth from a terminally-ill Asian man after one of his sons is fatally injured during a family dispute.

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    E37 Broken Homes

    Mar 23, 1996 · 22m

    Loxton and Keane chase a local tearaway, who gets injured. Conway has to deal with the resulting accusations of police harassment.

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    E38 A Hornet's Nest

    Mar 28, 1996 · 22m

    Greig is accused with police brutality following a raid on a burglar's home.

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    E39 Dead Of Night

    Mar 29, 1996 · 22m

    Quinnan's whereabouts are questioned when he fails to notice an injured woman on the station doorstep. June Ackland becomes acting Sergeant.

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    E40 Party Pooper

    Apr 2, 1996 · 22m

    Slater's ability is questioned when he appears to mishandle two violent thugs at a party and his wallet, containing his warrant card, is stolen.

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    E41 More Haste

    Apr 4, 1996 · 22m

    Keane has a bad day in court, while Monroe follows up on a domestic incident.

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    E42 Beating The Odds

    Apr 5, 1996 · 22m

    Boulton investigates a notorious local bookie and prompts suspicions about Beech's private life.

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    E43 Animal

    Apr 9, 1996 · 22m

    Boyden and Datta try to secure a conviction against a vicious pimp.

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    E44 Dangerous Game

    Apr 11, 1996 · 22m

    Boulton, Carver and Deakin take part in a Flying Squad operation against a vicious gang of armed robbers.

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    E45 Dancers

    Apr 12, 1996 · 22m

    Ch. Supt. Brownlow organises a tea dance for the Met Police Pensioners & Widows society. PCs Jarvis and Quinnan spend the afternoon dancing with admiring elderly ladies, WPC Polly Page is harrassed by a wheelchair-bound admirer, and PC Reg Hollis does a magic show. Brownlow is dreading the arrival of Geoffrey Allerton, an ex-copper who goes out of his way to complain about everything. When the minivan misses Allerton, Brownlow asks PC Tony Stamp to pick him up on the way to the bakery to pick up some cakes. When Stamp steps out of the bakery, he is horrified to find Brownlow's car has been stolen whilst Allerton was buying some tobacco. Packing Allerton and the cakes onto a bus, a desperate Stamp tries to retrieve Brownlow's car after it is impounded. When Allerton arrives at the dance at last, he causes a fuss when he recognises an armed blagger from a fifteen year old case at the wedding next door.

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    E46 And Nothing But

    Apr 16, 1996 · 22m

    Loxton arrests a black man he suspects is responsible for a mugging and is accused of racism.

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    E47 Tale Of Two Cities

    Apr 18, 1996 · 22m

    Greig is in pursuit of a local drug dealer. Two teenagers arrested for possession refuse to provide any information about their supplier.

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    E48 Cheating

    Apr 19, 1996 · 22m

    Quinnan and Hollis have to decide whether a pub quiz champion is breaking the rules. Skase deals with the unfaithful wife of a local villain.

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    E49 Decent Proposals

    Apr 23, 1996 · 22m

    Loxton and Quinnan investigate an employment agency that provides lucrative opportunities to women with financial troubles.

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    E50 Going For A Song

    Apr 25, 1996 · 22m

    Carver calls on a former colleague to help with an antique clock that is a target for theft.

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    E51 Value Added

    Apr 26, 1996 · 22m

    Hollis goes undercover in the seedy world of vice in pursuit of the unscrupulous owner of a clip joint.

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    E52 Professional Ethics

    Apr 30, 1996 · 22m

    Greig and Lines investigate graffiti attacks on motor vehicles and uncover a fraud.

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    E53 Accidents Will Happen

    May 2, 1996 · 22m

    Boyden and Page look into a protection racket.

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    E54 Time Spent

    May 3, 1996 · 22m

    Beech uncovers the relationship between a former boss and a local crime lord. Carver is caught between two troubled lovers.

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    E55 Conspiracy Of Silence

    May 7, 1996 · 22m

    Deakin and Boulton investigate a fatal stabbing and uncover jealousy and deceit.

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    E56 Cold Feet & Hot Coffee

    May 9, 1996 · 22m

    Loxton and Page go undercover at a wedding to prevent a jilted lover spoiling the bride's big day.

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    E57 Rollover

    May 10, 1996 · 22m

    Deakin comes down hard on a snout who tries to buck the system, and gets an unexpected result.

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    E58 Tough Love

    May 14, 1996 · 22m

    Hollis and Garfield deal with an attack on a school bully.

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    E59 With This Ring

    May 16, 1996 · 22m

    Keane comes across a suspect antiques dealer. Greig and Croft investigate a burglary and reopen a feud between two sisters.

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    E60 Final Drive

    May 17, 1996 · 22m

    P.C. Mike Jarvis is on the last few days of the Advanced Driving Course at Hendon. He gets on well with fellow team-member W.P.C. Sommer, but both of them cannot stand the third officer in their group, P.C. Penrose, the smug, over-bearing son of a ""Black-Rat"" (traffic officer) who sees himself as the best driver on the course, let alone in the Met. The trio attends a quiz night the night before their ""final drive"", the all-important test of their advanced driving skills, and Jarvis stops Penrose from drinking too much before the test. Battling station rumours that he is being re-assessed, P.C. Tony Stamp arrives at Hendon to check on Jarvis's progress - and is pleased when Jarvis passes his final drive easily - just a few points short however of becoming a Class 1 (Area Car) driver. A hung-over and ungrateful Penrose also misses out on his Class 1 rating, but W.P.C. Sommer makes it.

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    E61 Voices

    May 21, 1996 · 22m

    Datta and Greig suspect that a woman who claims she can hear voices may hold the key to a series of sexual assaults.

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    E62 Party On

    May 23, 1996 · 22m

    Deakin and Croft have to deal with a gang of delinquents when one of them is bottled at an ecstasy party.

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    E63 Hard Enough

    May 24, 1996 · 22m

    Boulton and Carver clash when a householder is arrested for murdering a burglar with a baseball bat. Boulton thinks it is justified to kill an intruder, but Carver does not; will it impede their investigation?

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    E64 Cuckoo

    May 28, 1996 · 22m

    Page and Monroe are dragged into a family squabble.

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    E65 Helping Hands

    May 30, 1996 · 22m

    Datta and Garfield arrest a G.P. for possession of cannabis, but he claims it is for use by one of his patients.

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    E66 Jekyll & Hyde

    May 31, 1996 · 22m

    Brownlow witnesses a violent outburst on the road.

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    E67 Knocking On The Door

    Jun 4, 1996 · 22m

    New DS Geoff Daly steps in to help Skase when a straightforward drugs bust goes wrong.

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    E68 Lies & Statistics

    Jun 6, 1996 · 22m

    Boyden tries to help a young offender.

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    E69 Butting In

    Jun 7, 1996 · 22m

    Jarvis steps in to help Page deal with a violent attack, but there are complications.

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    E70 The Bagman

    Jun 11, 1996 · 22m

    Deakin investigates a violent attack on a small-time crook whom he suspects to have fallen in with bad company.

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    E71 Overstepping The Mark

    Jun 13, 1996 · 22m

    Lines tries to get a juvenile offender to inform on a gang of dangerous thugs, while Daly is troubled by a determined probation officer.

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    E72 Filth

    Jun 20, 1996 · 22m

    Deakin and Boulton investigate when a pimp is discovered badly beaten in a pile of rubbish.

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    E73 Camper

    Jun 21, 1996 · 22m

    Slater and Boyden are involved in a drugs bust involving a camper van.

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    E74 Spill

    Jun 25, 1996 · 22m

    PCs Quinnan and Stamp are first on the scene of a major chemical spill when a tanker truck hits some scaffolding near the Sun Hill tube station. Insp. Monroe arrives to supervise the evacuation of the area, as the fire department try to work out what chemical has been spilt, although a lack of documentation on the truck makes this difficult. The driver dies in hospital, but when his wife in informed by Uniform, she doesn't seem very upset. Further investigation reveals she is behind a scheme to provide unlicenced or disqualified drivers to the trucking company.

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    E75 Apron Strings

    Jun 27, 1996 · 22m

    Cryer and Keane discover a woman dead in her bath and suspect her son of foul play.

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    E76 One Step Ahead

    Jun 28, 1996 · 22m

    Meadows and Skase pursue an ex-convict who has sworn revenge on an informant. Boyden is called to help a prostitute who believes she is being followed.

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    E77 Starting Young

    Jul 2, 1996 · 22m

    Jarvis and Keane deal with a boy in possession of a pensioner's prescription.

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    E78 Tarts Cards

    Jul 4, 1996 · 22m

    Boyden and Slater investigate a series of offensive telephone calls.

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    E79 Born Again

    Jul 5, 1996 · 22m

    Boulton investigates an assault on an old man.

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    E80 Kick Me Hard

    Jul 9, 1996 · 22m

    Daly mounts an operation to catch muggers. Page goes undercover as a pregnant woman to act as bait.

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    E81 All Or Nothing

    Jul 11, 1996 · 22m

    Quinnan and Keane discover the body of a young girl in a pub toilet. Meanwhile, Monroe and Stamp both have words with Slater about his extensive overtime.

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    E82 Unlucky In Love

    Jul 12, 1996 · 22m

    Boyden investigates a dating agency that is rumoured to be providing underage girls.

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    E83 A Quick Return

    Jul 16, 1996 · 22m

    Cryer and Keane investigate a series of street robberies and find four teenagers trying to buy their way into drug-dealing.

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    E84 Sartorial Elegance

    Jul 18, 1996 · 22m

    Carver and Jarvis misjudge the condition of a witness, threatening Operation Eagle Eye.

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    E85 Don't Leave Me This Way

    Jul 19, 1996 · 22m

    Loxton and Keane follow up a mugging but suspect that the victim knows more than she is letting on.

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    E86 Big Bullies

    Jul 23, 1996 · 22m

    Monroe investigates a schoolboy's claim that he was assaulted by his teacher.

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    E87 Playing It By The Rules

    Jul 25, 1996 · 22m

    Deakin is handed the chance to bust a drug dealer when his wife turns informant.

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    E88 True Colours

    Jul 26, 1996 · 22m

    Daly is determined to find out why a white teenager is trying to take the blame for his black friends.

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    E89 Target

    Jul 29, 1996 · 22m

    While speaking to Ackland and Loxton about the problem of local dog mess, a woman is shot dead by a sniper. Meadows and his CID team are tasked to investigate, and suspect that the woman was not the intended target, and it is strongly possible the sniper was after Loxton, who is set to testify in court against an attempted murderer that afternoon. However, when Ackland's house is set alight that night, CID come to the conclusion that she is the intended target. Writing up a list of possible suspects, Ackland gets sucked into a deadly cat-and-mouse game to try to draw the killer out - resulting in the death of one of Sun Hill's best officers. 📌 Feature length rebroadcast of the episodes "Fire", "All Tucked Up" and "Bait" from Series 11.

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    E90 Dead Man's Hand

    Jul 30, 1996 · 22m

    Beech investigates the claim of one compulsive gambler to have murdered another.

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    E91 For Their Own Good

    Aug 1, 1996 · 22m

    Boulton uses an informant as the bait to catch a dangerous villain.

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    E92 Theory & Practice

    Aug 6, 1996 · 22m

    Ackland and McCann take the sergeant's exam. Cryer deals with a woman who is miscarrying and claims that she was assaulted by Page.

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    E93 Drinking Partners

    Aug 8, 1996 · 22m

    Greig and Skase investigate when a drunk man is found unconscious and badly injured at the bottom of a flight of stairs.

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    E94 Lean On Me

    Aug 9, 1996 · 22m

    Hollis gets ideas above his station when Barbara, a local tom with whom he has become friendly, tries to become his informant. Although Barbara claims that known fraduster David Gough is back out on the patch, Hollis struggles to convince Deakin and Meadows.

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    E95 Reminders

    Aug 13, 1996 · 22m

    Hours after his release from prison, Dael Abbott is hauled back into custody by Daly and Carver following a stabbing. Daly pressures Emma Gilmore, the girlfriend of Abbott's associate, Michael Ceely, into giving evidence.

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    E96 Minding

    Aug 15, 1996 · 22m

    Loxton and Keane arrest a woman for shoplifting, and later bail her from custody when she openly admits to the charge. But when she is discovered to have given a false identity, Grieg and Croft link the incident to a nanny believed to have kidnapped two of her charges.

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    E97 Follow The Van

    Aug 16, 1996 · 22m

    Don Beech investigates a set of aggravated robberies, trying to prove the owner of a red van committed them.

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    E98 Don't Kill The Messenger

    Aug 20, 1996 · 22m

    Mike Jarvis receives death threats from a youth who cannot accept that his father is a sex offender.

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    E99 Junior

    Aug 22, 1996 · 22m

    When fifteen-year-old Mickey Hoyle is arresting for joyriding, Beech employs him as a snout to expose a crooked car ring run by the Hislop brothers, Wayne and Paul. DS Frank Thomas from Scotland Yard assists Beech and a less than impressed Lines with the investigation.

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    E100 Pony Express

    Aug 23, 1996 · 22m

    Deakin has to decide whether to trust a Nigerian drug smuggler who offers to help catch a local dealer.

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    E101 Out Of Control

    Aug 27, 1996 · 22m

    Jarvis deals with a young tearaway and tries to persuade the boy's father to take responsibility for his son's actions.

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    E102 Day Tripper

    Aug 29, 1996 · 22m

    Greig hopes that a tip-off will help him to nail an old enemy but things don't go to plan.

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    E103 Waiting For Frank

    Aug 30, 1996 · 22m

    DI Deakin poses as a nervous printer, waiting at the dog track to meet a mysterious man named ""Frank"" and a bent copper called ""Beech"". It all turns out to be an elaborate sting operation with Wimbledon police to catch a conman dealing in stolen credit cards.

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    E104 A Day In The Life

    Sep 3, 1996 · 22m

    Keane is held hostage by a desperate armed robber.

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    E105 Second Chances

    Sep 5, 1996 · 22m

    Deakin gets a vital lead on an unsolved murder, but his witness is an illegal immigrant who is about to be deported.

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    E106 Repossession

    Sep 6, 1996 · 22m

    A petrol can, a lighter and a desperate man threatening to burn down a house. Can Conway talk him round?

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    E107 Liar

    Sep 10, 1996 · 22m

    Rawton gets involved in a dispute between a drug addict and Croft, who is trying to find a witness who can testify that she was assaulted.

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    E108 Detained

    Sep 12, 1996 · 22m

    Garfield and McCann investigate a vicious mugging.

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    E109 Karma

    Sep 13, 1996 · 22m

    Deakin and Boulton are called into a women's prison to investigate claims by an officer that an inmate was pushed down a flight of stairs by the prison psychiatrist.

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    E110 Stolen Moments

    Sep 17, 1996 · 22m

    McCann and Slater arrest a woman for petty theft, and she claims to have killed a cyclist while driving two years before.

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    E111 A Good Night Out

    Sep 18, 1996 · 22m

    The results of the sergeants exams are in, and W.P.C. June Ackland has passed - but P.C. Gary McCann hasn't. As the relief organise a big night out in celebration of Ackland's promotion, McCann volunteers for night shift duty with P.C. Reg Hollis. Ch. Supt. Brownlow offers to pull some strings at Area to allow Ackland to stay as Sun Hill rather than transferring. Ackland politely invites Brownlow to the pub, and is horrified when he accepts. When Brownlow finally heads home, Dave Quinnan calls several minicabs to go out for a late night curry, but June and Polly are seperated when their cab driver makes off with their bags and warrant cards after being pulled over by a Stafford Row probationer, P.C. Oliver Oxley. Oxley is about to arrest them until the Stafford Row CAD officer vouches for June. June helps Oliver overcome bullying at his station, while they search for her missing bag. With the help of McCann, Hollis, and some Stafford Row officers, the cab driver is found and arrested.

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    E112 Chatterbox

    Sep 19, 1996 · 22m

    Quinnan and a teenage burglary suspect are trapped in a broken lift in a housing estate.

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    E113 Too Close For Comfort

    Sep 20, 1996 · 22m

    Page and Daly take opposing views in a case of alleged rape involving two cousins.

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    E114 Blame

    Sep 24, 1996 · 22m

    Garfield and Datta deal with a family that is torn apart when the mother commits suicide by overdose of sleeping tablets.

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    E115 Once A Thief

    Sep 26, 1996 · 22m

    Beech gets a result when a barrister on his blacklist is robbed.

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    E116 Party Animals

    Sep 27, 1996 · 22m

    Quinnan and Datta are called to a stag party where the strippergram accuses the guests of trying to gang-rape her.

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    E117 Natural Causes

    Oct 1, 1996 · 22m

    Slater and Ackland try to establish whether a pensioner who died on confronting a thief was murdered or died of natural causes.

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    E118 Known To Someone

    Oct 3, 1996 · 22m

    Daly and Croft obtain information from a conflicted young man who suspects his brother of a series of violent attacks on women.

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    E119 Champing At The Bit

    Oct 4, 1996 · 22m

    Jarvis and McCann attend the scene of an accident involving a woman driving a horsebox, who tests positive in a breath test. Deakin is after a violent attacker.

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    E120 Taking Out The Rubbish

    Oct 8, 1996 · 22m

    Carver and Greig investigate a burglary but the residents on the estate are too scared to give evidence. Monroe determines to clear out all the known trouble-makers.

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    E121 Presumed Innocent

    Oct 10, 1996 · 22m

    Cryer and Keane uncover the murky past of a teenage girl who has been killed in a road accident.

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    E122 Change Of Heart

    Oct 11, 1996 · 22m

    Meadows and Rawton try to persuade the girlfriend of a rape suspect to help in his arrest.

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    E123 Hedging Your Bets

    Oct 15, 1996 · 22m

    Tensions arise between Deakin and Beech after a bookie is robbed.

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    E124 Out Of The Past

    Oct 17, 1996 · 22m

    Meadows has to decide where his loyalties lie when an old friend is accused of murder.

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    E125 Road To Recovery

    Oct 18, 1996 · 22m

    Hollis is concerned about a patient who has recently been discharged from psychiatric care, and clashes with social services.

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    E126 Three Fools

    Oct 22, 1996 · 22m

    Greig and Skase investigate when three small-time villains are beaten up over their involvement in a counterfeit money-laundering operation.

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    E127 Track Marks

    Oct 24, 1996 · 22m

    Carver disapproves of Boulton's ruthless handling of an informant.

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    E128 In For The Kill

    Oct 25, 1996 · 22m

    Meadows and Croft interview a young waiter accused of trying to kill his boss.

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    E129 Remote Control

    Oct 29, 1996 · 22m

    Daly and Lines investigate a series of muggings at knifepoint.

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    E130 Telling Tales

    Oct 31, 1996 · 22m

    Quinnan tries to persuade an assault victim to testify against her former boyfriend. Boulton and Skase are led on a wild goose chase.

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    E131 Old Codgers

    Nov 1, 1996 · 22m

    A retired Police Sergeant arrives at Sun Hill claiming to know who murdered a girl more than 50 years previously. Against Quinnan and Greig's will, they both investigate.

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    E132 Trap

    Nov 5, 1996 · 22m

    Slater gets into trouble after following up on a tip-off about a till snatch.

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    E133 All In The Mind

    Nov 7, 1996 · 22m

    Monroe and Ackland suspect that a series of apparently unrelated incidents across Sun Hill may be linked to the release of a psychiatric patient trying to find her children.

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    E134 Trust Me

    Nov 8, 1996 · 22m

    Carver and Rawton follow up an irregularity on an insurance claim submitted by a decorator and uncover a double life.

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    E135 Nice Boy

    Nov 12, 1996 · 22m

    Croft and Boulton disagree on how to question a teenager who might be able to lead them to a violent gang.

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    E136 A Woman's Place

    Nov 14, 1996 · 22m

    Ackland introduces single-manning at Sun Hill, causing problems for Brownlow.

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    E137 Finishing School

    Nov 15, 1996 · 22m

    Slater and Keane reach the end of their probationary periods and face a final assessment.

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    E138 Death Of A Nobody

    Nov 19, 1996 · 47m

    The murder of a taxi driver has all the hallmarks of a gangland execution. But why would anyone want to kill a complete nobody? Meadows and Deakin investigate this special 1 hour episode.

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    E139 Up The Wall

    Nov 21, 1996 · 22m

    Hollis learns an important lesson in community policing when some friendly advice that he gives a resident on noise pollution backfires.

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    E140 Boiling Point

    Nov 22, 1996 · 22m

    Loxton is investigated by the Complaints Investigation Bureau over an accusation that he assaulted a suspected burglar, although he claims to have been acting in self-defence.

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    E141 Mirror Image

    Nov 26, 1996 · 22m

    Boulton arrests a woman for drug dealing, but Rawton suspects that she may be a victim of mistaken identity.

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    E142 Public Relations

    Nov 28, 1996 · 22m

    Skase and Hollis demonstrate two differing approaches to police work when a young journalist writing about policing spends a day at Sun Hill.

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    E143 Lock 'Em In

    Nov 29, 1996 · 22m

    Cryer and Page assist the distraught wife of a prisoner who reports her son missing and who fears that her husband is out to get her.

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    E144 Opportunity Costs

    Dec 3, 1996 · 22m

    Brownlow orders Meadows and Conway to review their budgets, but Meadows decides to investigate the unsolved murder of a prostitute instead.

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    E145 Paying For It

    Dec 5, 1996 · 22m

    Beech and Rawton investigate the apparent assault of a father by his son and uncover a family secret.

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    E146 Many Happy Returns

    Dec 6, 1996 · 22m

    Boulton and Skase take part in a joint exercise with Customs and Excise to crack a fencing operation. Meadows is concerned that Sun Hill might end up footing the bill but not getting a result.

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    E147 Black Money

    Dec 10, 1996 · 22m

    Croft and Rawton investigate some shady Romanian businessmen and a suitcase full of black paper.

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    E148 Scorned

    Dec 12, 1996 · 22m

    Croft and Rawton investigate a dentist accused of indecent assault by one of his patients.

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    E149 Stolen Kisses

    Dec 13, 1996 · 22m

    Monroe, Datta and Loxton talk down a nursery cleaner when she holds a 3-year-old girl hostage, then investigate the woman's claims she is the girl's biological mother.

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    E150 Jumping To Conclusions

    Dec 17, 1996 · 22m

    Carver's patience is tested by a compulsive liar. Ackland and Quinnan search for a girl allegedly abducted by a religious cult.

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    E151 Toe The Line

    Dec 19, 1996 · 22m

    Monroe and Conway uncover a bogus wheel-clamping operation.

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    E152 A Gun To The Head

    Dec 20, 1996 · 22m

    Beech and Daly are put in an impossible situation when a judge decides to reveal the name of their informant.

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    E153 Merrily On High

    Dec 24, 1996 · 22m

    The Assistant Commissioner has declared Sun Hill Police Station an alcohol-free zone - terrible news for Ch. Supt. Brownlow and Ch. Insp. Conway who hope to enjoy a ""liquid lunch"" when they take the A.C. to a posh French restaurant. It's even worse news for the detectives in C.I.D., who have decided they are not going to give up their Christmas party without a fight. D.C. Skase shows D.C. Croft how a police officer can get ""donations"" for the party from the local publicans, but as they return, Hicks, Brownlow and Conway arrive back from their lunch for a tour of the station. They are forced to pretend Skase is a prisoner, and an unhappy Rod is locked in the cells for several hours. An elderly man is arrested after a road rage incident in a supermarket carpark, but the police manage to reunite him with his estranged family for Christmas.

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    E154 Hers

    Dec 26, 1996 · 22m

    Stamp and Page look into the theft of a hearse containing the coffin of a thief who died in a traffic accident.

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    E155 Hat Trick

    Dec 27, 1996 · 22m

    Boulton and Skase investigate a car-ramming incident involving a member of a local pub team.

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    E156 The Right Thing

    Dec 31, 1996 · 22m

    New WPC Jamila Blake joins Sun Hill after three years away from the job. She pairs with Stamp, and they find an overdosed boy during a foot pursuit, and Cryer takes an interest when he discovers the victim is on the basketball same team as a former Sun Hill officer’s son.

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