Series 13

152 episodes · Jan 2, 1997

The thirteenth series of the British television drama The Bill was broadcast from 2 January to 30 December 1997. The series consisted of 152 episodes, including three-hour-long specials. There were just two cast departures in the series after four the year before; actor Tom Butcher left the role of PC Steve Loxton after seven years on the show, however he would return in two episodes in 1999 as a guest at Dave Quinnan's wedding. The other departure was that of Alan Westaway, who left his role of PC Nick Slater after two and a half years. Their characters were replaced by PCs Luke Ashton and Sam Harker, with actors Scott Neal and Matthew Crompton appearing as guest actors on a number of times, both of the actor's most recent guest stints coming the previous year.

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S13E1

The Old Pals' Act

Jan 2, 199722m

Conway leads a raid on an after-hours pub, but during the raid, both Hollis and Keane are injured. Meanwhile, McCann and Slater stop a young boy trying to make an exit through the fire escape and find him in possession of cannabis and a substantial amount of money. Brownlow is called in when the boy is discovered to be the son of the local district judge.

S13E2

All's Fair

Jan 3, 199722m

McCann and Keane investigate when a man is found mugged having been sprayed in the face with Mace. Hours later, a woman arrives at the station claiming to have been attacked by a mysterious assailant, whom she rebuffed with Mace. Daly has to work out which party is telling the truth, and to prove it decides to speak to one of the man's previous victims.

S13E3

Man Trap

Jan 9, 199722m

PC Dave Quinnan and WPC Norieka Datta go to the scene where a teenage boy has been found dead from a massive electric shock in the flat of one of his neighbours. Dave knows the boy as he has arrested him before for burglary they talk to the tenant he tells them that he came home to find his flat broken into and the boy dead. It looks like murder but who would want to kill him ? Dave discovers a secret about the tenant and WPC Page finds out that the victim's older brother may know more than he is letting on.

S13E4

Bad Debt

Jan 10, 199722m

George Talbot a loan shark reports his business records stolen DS Don Beech and WDC Suzy Croft go to talk to him he is glad that Don is handling the case as he tells Suzy that the two of them are old friends. SGT Ackland and WPC Page respond to an anonymous 999 call about an a woman being assaulted in her home but when they get to the address they talk to the woman who lives there Janet Ford and her daughter Lorna despite having a bruise on her face she tells them it must have been a prank and that she got the bruise from walking into a door both June and Polly believe that she was beaten and that it was her Lorna who made the call but with no complaint being filed they return to Sun Hill. After over hearing Suzy joking with the others about Don's shady friends, DCI Meadows warns Don about who he associates with and doing them favours. Lorna comes into the station to talk to June and Polly she tells them what really happened that a man hit herbecause her mum didn't have money he sai

S13E5

Professional Opinion

Jan 14, 199722m

PC Tony Stamp and WPC Debbie Keane go to the scene of an arguement outside a flat on on the Jasmine Allen estate between a man and woman, the man tells them that his wife is inside but the woman won't let him speak to her she tells them that his wife doesn't want to see him.

S13E6

Testament

Jan 16, 199722m

DS John Boulton and WDC Suzy Croft invetigate the sudden death of an apparently healthy middle-aged woman who lived alone, the F.M.E tells them that it looks like she suffocated in her sleep which he says is unual for someone her age not to wake themselves if they're having breathing difficulties going through her belongings Suzy finds a few things out of place in an otherwise spotlessly tidy flat as well as the fresh flowers Polly found in the rubbish bin outside that lead them to belive that someone else had been inside the flat recently. her boss tells John and Suzy that she was a quiet person and he doesn't know of anyone from work who'd been to her home. They find from entries in her diaries that lead them to an old friend of hers he tells them that they had met up again recently for the first time in almost thirty years and had been seeing each other for dinner once or twice a week and that he went arond to see her the day she died but there was already a man there he describes t

S13E7

A Policeman's Lot

Jan 17, 199722m

PC Garfeld objects when a guard from a private security firm catches a suspected burglar he, Debbie, Gary McCann and Nick Slater were chasing after they lose him and is only to happy to believe the suspect when he claims that the guard assaulted him he begins checking him out and finds he has a criminal record for assault and when the comes in with tools used in the break in that he claims he saw the boy throw over a wall when he was chasing him George accuses him of being violent in arresting the boy and manufacturing evidence. While on patrol PC Stamp and WPC Blake come across an elderly lady who has been knocked down and may have been robbed, as it in the area controlled by the security firm they go to their offices to see if any of them may have seen what happened but the bossis less than keen to help because of the hassle George is giving his guard. When he later does decide to help people are not only able to ruin the boy's alibi for the time of the burglary but clear up how the

S13E8

The Devil You Know

Jan 21, 199722m

George and Debbie attend a call about a disturbance outside a community hall where a birthday party is going on inside they put out the name of the suspect wanted for causing criminal damage Dave recognises it, he has arrested him for drug dealing and burglary he and Nick pick him up and take him back to Sun Hill he tells them he was there because of the birthday girl Amanda Ray he wanted her to go with him to another party but her boyfriend made her stay he admits the criminal damage he did it to get back at her. Later when Debbie and George find Amanda collapsed outside the hall from a suspected drug overdose her father blames the boyfriend for giving her the drugs and his father a teacher at canley comprehensive for not supervising the party very well. After Debbie arrests the boyfriend at the hospital for possession of cannabis he talks to George off the record and the truth comes out about who bought the drugs.

S13E9

Once Bitten

Jan 23, 199722m

When an ex-girlfriend of Sgt.Boyden who left him several years earlier because of his refusal to quit the police is arrested and brought in Sun Hill Matt finds himself caught between his feelings for and DS Grieg's investigation into a drug smuggling ring run by her husband and her brother in law, but it soon becomes clear to him what he must do when not only does Grieg's investigation implicate her it also looks like she has lied to him about why she left her husband but also that she may be using him to find out how much the police know about her involvement and to help her avoid getting arrested.

S13E10

Turnaround

Jan 24, 199722m

A recently released paedophile is reported missing by his sister the only member of his family to stick by him when he was charged with abducting and raping a child she tells them it is down to his victim's father who has been harassing and threatening her and her brother since he got out of prison. DCI Meadows who ran the original case is reluctant to go after the father however DI Deakin persists and when DC Skase finds blood and other signs of a struggle in the man's garden shed but no body Meadows decides they have to talk the victim's father and that he shold be the one to do it he gets him to admit to following him and phoning him and his sister to tell them he should leave Sun Hill but he denies having seen him the day he disappeared or knowing what happened in his house.

S13E11

Over The Fence

Jan 28, 199722m

Sgt. Cryer and PC Loxton go to the scene of a disturbance between neighbours they manage to calm the situation down but when Steve recognises one of the neighbours from when he arrested him once a few years ago for burglary and then sees outside his house the box for an expensive computer which he suspects is stolen he and Bob find themselves drawn into another arguement between the two couples when they're both found to be in possession of computer equipment stolen during a ram raid robbery of a factory and each one claims to have bought it from the other.

S13E12

Grey Area

Jan 30, 199722m

Irene Stanton a sister at St Hughes comes into the station to see DCI Meadows he agrees to talk to her even though he is busy so heand WDC Rawton listen to her as she tells them that last night Dr. Jonathan Forsyth helped an elderly woman to die she explains that herself and nurse Diana Holt were on duty and the patient Mrs. Southwell asked them to contact Dr. Forsyth and that when he came he told her and Diana to wait outside he then drew the curtain around the bed and when he came out told them she had passed away but she was suspicious because she saw him inject her with something other than the morphine he signed out from the dispensery then slip the vial in his coat pocket so she is sure he committed euphanasia so she came to the police rather than go through the hospitals official channels for fear they would cover it up.

S13E13

One Big Happy Family

Jan 31, 199722m

P.C. Garfield's complaint that Ch. Supt. Brownlow and Ch. Insp. Conway are out touch with real police work brings an unexpected response: Conway goes on a ride along with P.C. Page and Brownlow goes for a walkabout in the station - much to the annoyance of Insp. Monroe, who feels he is being spied upon, and Sgt. Boyden who doesn't want him hanging around in custody. Brownlow is in CAD and reprimands Nick over the air for not using correct radio procedure. When Boyden is called away, Brownlow takes charge of the custody area where he clashes with D.S. Boulton over a prisoner's detention review time. P.C. Stamp and P.C. Slater do their best to avoid returning to the station while Brownlow is on the prowl, until they take what they think is an easy call about a fight at a kids' football match that ends with Nick being punched in the face by an irate father who he then arrests for assaulting him and the match referee. Page and Conway get on the trail of two men posing as TV engineers to ga

S13E14

The Eye Of The Beholder

Feb 4, 199722m

Datta is trying to secure a conviction in a domestic violence case, but the victim unwittingly leaves out important details when giving evidence.

S13E15

Say A Little Prayer

Feb 6, 199722m

Quinnan and Page try to find the culprit who threw a television set from the balcony of a block of flats and narrowly missed Slater.

S13E16

Downfall

Feb 7, 199722m

Daly and Skase investigate after a man is found dead at the foot of the stairs in his apartment block.

S13E17

True To Life Player

Feb 11, 199722m

A football star's return to Sun Hill turns sour when he is accused of raping an underage fan. Boulton and Carver investigate

S13E18

Take Away

Feb 13, 199722m

Ackland investigates a complaint from a prisoner that he was given a pizza topped with cigarette ends.

S13E19

Your Call Too

Feb 14, 199722m

Croft and Skase disagree when they have to choose between investigating an assault charge and a cocaine deal.

S13E20

Breaking Up

Feb 18, 199722m

Rawton investigates a woman's claims that her ex-husband's mistress is trying to kill her.

S13E21

A Price To Pay

Feb 20, 199722m

Boulton tries to trap a roomful of crooks, but Greig gets his man.

S13E22

Just Looking

Feb 21, 199722m

Boyden deals with a man stopped for soliciting who claims he was searching for his missing daughter.

S13E23

A Tangled Web

Feb 27, 199722m

Deakin and Croft investigate when a man is found shot with his brother's wife, as two unhappy marriages reach crisis point.

S13E24

Rolling In It

Feb 28, 199722m

Slater and Quinnan find drugs in a Lamborghini, but the owner blames his unemployed brother-in-law.

S13E25

Added Bonus

Mar 4, 199722m

Greig tries to establish why a man has confessed to a burglary that he didn't commit.

S13E26

Holding On

Mar 6, 199722m

Cryer and Blake respond to a young man's claim that his stolen car had his four-month-old baby inside, but Blake suspects that the man's wife may know more about her son's disappearance than she is letting on. The plot thickens when Cryer interviews the man responsible for stealing the young man's car and he claims that he fed information about the man's extra marital relations to his wife.

S13E27

Crime Management

Mar 7, 199722m

DI Chris Deakin has a word to DS John Boulton about his team's informants. Boulton has done pretty well, but DC Tosh Lines hasn't recruited a snout for months. Under pressure, Lines tries to recruit Karen Walsh, the wife of the victim of a recent attack which he'd investigated, but she refuses to grass on her husband or his associates. Lines puts pressure on the Walshes' landlord Pat Beresford who he believes was responsible for the attack, and is delighted when Beresford contacts him offering information.

S13E28

Age Gaps

Mar 11, 199722m

Boulton and Rawton try to persuade a teenage girl to turn informant after her boyfriend is attacked by drug dealers.

S13E29

In The Dark

Mar 12, 199722m

A blind woman, Tracy Cooper, helps the police catch a dangerous sex killer. She doesn't realise, however, that the guilty party is her husband.

S13E30

Crying Wolf

Mar 13, 199722m

Monroe is called in to mediate when a former mental patient is accused of threatening behaviour by his elderly neighbours.

S13E31

Confidence

Mar 14, 199722m

Keane uses information supplied by a friend to help C.I.D. in an operation against a drug dealer.

S13E32

All For Love

Mar 18, 199722m

Greig and Lines investigate an assault on a man who has previously killed two people in a drink-driving accident, and suspect that a relative may have sought natural justice.

S13E33

Only The Lonely

Mar 20, 199722m

Deakin and Skase investigate a fire, and find that a mother's grief has had unexpected repercussions.

S13E34

Copier

Mar 21, 199722m

Rawton investigates the assault of a woman in her new flat and tries to link the attack to an unsolved case.

S13E35

Fashion Victims

Mar 25, 199722m

Slater and Garfield arrest a boy for selling stolen goods.

S13E36

Hook Line & Sinker

Mar 27, 199722m

Beech investigates a woman who uses her sexuality to con her business partner and clients.

S13E37

No Claims Bonus

Mar 28, 199722m

Croft is concerned when Boulton decides to use a former colleague, now down on his luck, as an informant.

S13E38

Joker

Mar 31, 199722m

Beech and Croft investigate the killing of a stand-up comic.

S13E39

Typecast

Apr 1, 199722m

Boyden and Page try to find who is responsible for a series of graffiti attacks.

S13E40

A Hard Rain

Apr 3, 199722m

Boulton and Croft have to deal with rival drug dealers when a customer suffers tragic consequences.

S13E41

Rings On Her Fingers

Apr 4, 199722m

Jarvis and Rawton investigate the ram raiding of a shop.

S13E42

Strang Meeting

Apr 8, 199722m

Conway coordinates the search for an escaped sex offender and a missing teenager who was last seen in his company.

S13E43

A Bitter Pill

Apr 10, 199722m

Rawton and Skase investigate an attempted suicide by an ill woman, and suspect her son and daughter of assisting her.

S13E44

Dial M For Marmalade

Apr 11, 199722m

Meadows investigates a murder by strangulation and suspects the homeless schizophrenic man whom the victim had befriended.

S13E45

Sisters

Apr 15, 199722m

Daly and Croft investigate the suspicious death of one of three sisters.

S13E46

Flesh & Blood

Apr 17, 199722m

Beech investigates the sudden death of a baby on the night that his parents celebrated their anniversary.

S13E47

Parklife

Apr 18, 199722m

Loxton and W.P.C. Keane deal with the burglary of a pharmacy and a violent stabbing.

S13E48

Two's Company

Apr 22, 199722m

Greig and Croft investigate a burglary and discover that the married householder had been in contact with a girl through a "lonely hearts" column.

S13E49

Inside Edge

Apr 25, 199722m

Meadows and Rawton investigate the assault of a prison officer.

S13E50

You & Me Versus The World

Apr 29, 199722m

Boulton and Lines investigate a vicious hammer attack.

S13E51

Pay Back

May 1, 199722m

Beech and Carver investigate a vicious attack, but have to piece the evidence together when neither the suspect nor victim can remember what happened.

S13E52

A Place of Your Own

May 2, 199722m

Garfield and Page search for a missing teenager and come across a man who exploits children in care.

S13E53

Don't Want To Hear The Bad News

May 6, 199722m

Daly and Skase investigate a burglary and uncover a deep rift between the suspect's girlfriend and her mother.

S13E54

It's Good To Talk

May 8, 199722m

Monroe coordinates a search for the victims of a kidnapping.

S13E55

Split Second

May 9, 199722m

Page ends up in a hostage situation following a failed armed robbery.

S13E56

Old Fools

May 13, 199722m

Greig and Croft enlist the help of two pensioners to trap a team of burglars.

S13E57

Auld Lang Syne

May 15, 199722m

A man found nursing a broken ankle in a private garden claims he was taking a short cut over a fence. Rawton does not believe him, but can she prove otherwise?

S13E58

Warnings

May 16, 199722m

Boyden and Datta respond to an apparent sighting of a missing woman by her daughter.

S13E59

Calling Time

May 20, 199722m

Boulton and Rawton investigate when a pub landlord is run over after giving Boulton information.

S13E60

Black & Blue

May 22, 199722m

Jarvis and Keane arrest a nanny for stealing from her employers.

S13E61

A Bunch Of Fives

May 23, 199722m

DS Don Beech is found brutally beaten in an alley adjacent to a Chinese restuarant. Whilst his colleagues wish to extract retribution, Brownlow attempts to use more amenable methods, leading to a race for both CID and Uniform to find his attackers. But was Beech on police business at the time?

S13E62

Short Sharp Shock

May 27, 199722m

Boulton and Skase investigate a mugging, but the victim's father takes the law into his own hands

S13E63

Get You Back

May 29, 199722m

Quinnan and Keane deal with a teenage girl with a broken nose who claims that her ex-boyfriend assaulted her.

S13E64

Powers Of Persuasion

May 30, 199722m

Rawton and Boulton have to decide whether to find the driver of a car involved in a hit-and-run incident, or to prosecute the witness.

S13E65

A Rock & A Hard Place

Jun 3, 199722m

Deakin and Carver come under pressure from Conway to find a vicious robber who has been preying on elderly victims.

S13E66

The Wrath Of God

Jun 5, 199722m

Skase and Carver have to deal with a preacher who specialises in dodgy miracles.

S13E67

Knight Errant

Jun 6, 199722m

Loxton struggles to cope with a young female suspect who makes no secret of her attraction to him.

S13E68

Punch Bag

Jun 10, 199722m

Skase and Croft investigate the circumstances leading to a mother ending up unconscious at the foot of a stairway.

S13E69

Best Eaten Cold

Jun 12, 199722m

Greig and Rawton investigate a journalist's claims that he acted in self-defence to stop an intruder.

S13E70

Lucky Day

Jun 13, 199722m

DC Tosh Lines is going stir-crazy as DCI Jack Meadows has them transcribing interviews for the CPS. Asking Meadows if he can follow up a snout's information, Tosh heads for the Beckwith Arms pub, where he spots a dodgy motor. Approaching the owner, Pete Gapper, Tosh tries to ascertain if the car is stolen, and Gapper offers to sell him another car. Returning to the station, Tosh finds a furious D.I. Noble from the Stolen Vehicles Squad, who accuses him of compromising their operation. To make the best of the situation, and since Tosh believes this will be the suspect's last sale, he goes undercover to ensnare Gapper. As the police move in, Gapper pulls out a handgun, but the timely arrival of an SO19 team soon sees him arrested. Back at the station, Tosh is resentful that his younger colleagues get all the breaks and resources, but Meadows tells him that his experience earns him more respect than he thinks.

S13E71

For Richer For Poorer

Jun 17, 199722m

Quinnan and Garfield look into the disappearance of a man reported missing by his mother, although his wife has her doubts.

S13E72

No More Milk

Jun 19, 199722m

Rawton and Page have to deal with a 14-year-old tearaway and half a million pounds in counterfeit money.

S13E73

An Englishman's Home

Jun 20, 199722m

Garfield and Blake are called to help enforce a demolition order on a home extension, when an ongoing dispute between neighbours erupts into violence.

S13E74

Loyal To The Last

Jun 24, 199722m

Blake arrests a woman for assault and Beech tries to persuade her to help convict her husband for forgery.

S13E75

Rent

Jun 26, 199722m

Boyden and Keane investigate the hit-and-run of a young busker.

S13E76

Last Respects

Jun 27, 199722m

Meadows hopes that a family funeral will lure a couple of jewel thieves into the open.

S13E77

Too Much To Lose

Jul 1, 199722m

Stamp tries to persuade an unhappy convict not to ruin his chances of release.

S13E78

Do Unto Others

Jul 3, 199722m

Loxton and Keane try to sift the truth from three conflicting stories when a severe case of bullying results in a fifteen-year-old boy being stabbed.

S13E79

Mid Life Crisis

Jul 4, 199722m

Daly and Skase discover that a jeweller is fencing stolen goods.

S13E80

Performing

Jul 8, 199722m

Boyden and Page come to the aid of a former porn actress who is worried that her younger sister faces a similar fate.

S13E81

Playing With Fire

Jul 10, 199722m

Meadows and Lines suspect that the owner of a beauty salon set it on fire herself to claim on the insurance policy.

S13E82

No Guarantees

Jul 11, 199722m

Rawton tries to stop a loan shark who is terrorising his female customers, but finds it hard to get the victims to talk

S13E83

Gentleman Jim

Jul 15, 199722m

WPC Jamilla Blake rejoins the Met, and to the envy of the relief, is placed on attachment to CID. DC Jim Carver, behind on his paperwork, is far from pleased when Blake drags him around Sun Hill following up leads on a trivial car theft case. Their investigations, however, lead them to a gang of armed robbers.

S13E84

Rift

Jul 17, 199722m

Slater and Ackland attend to what appears to be a teenage catfight over an older man.

S13E85

Stand By Your Man

Jul 18, 199722m

Daly tries to find out who is forcing a convict to smuggle drugs into a prison.

S13E86

Replica

Jul 22, 199722m

Loxton and McCann confiscate a gun.

S13E87

Mr Friday Night

Jul 24, 199722m

Boyden and Page grill a witness after the disappearance of a good-time girl.

S13E88

Hitting The Nerve

Jul 25, 199722m

Greig and Carver react when one prosecution witness disappears and another ends up in a coma two days before the trial.

S13E89

Thicker Than Mud

Jul 29, 199722m

Deakin and Beech investigate an arson attack on a small, respectable clothes shop.

S13E90

Alternative Therapies

Jul 31, 199722m

Skase and Boulton investigate the theft of illegally imported body parts of endangered animals from a Chinese pharmacy.

S13E91

Foxed

Aug 1, 199722m

Daly and Carver investigate the burglary of an antiques shop and are struck by the strange behaviour of the sales assistant.

S13E92

These Foolish Things

Aug 5, 199722m

D.C.I Meadows leads an investigation into the snatching of a child from his pram and uncovers a case of extortion.

S13E93

Neighbours

Aug 7, 199722m

P.C. Garfield and W.P.C. Keane try to settle a neighbourhood feud.

S13E94

Glass House

Aug 8, 199722m

D.S. Boulton and D.C. Lines try to persuade a woman to help catch her husband, who is involved in a drug deal.

S13E95

This Old Man

Aug 12, 199722m

Garfield is affected by the death of an old man.

S13E96

Tommy The Hero

Aug 14, 199722m

W.D.C. Rawton has to choose between solving a minor domestic dispute and finding two violent robbers.

S13E97

Driven To It

Aug 15, 199722m

When a local cabbie offers his services to help ensnare a drug pusher, Daly jumps at the idea.

S13E98

A Man Out Walking His Dog

Aug 19, 199722m

Boyden is unsure as to the cause of death when a man's body is found in a car, poisoned by alcohol and exhaust fumes. Is it really a straightforward suicide?

S13E99

Hunt

Aug 21, 199722m

Sgt. Boyden and D.S. Beech try to find a couple before a vicious drug-dealer gets to them.

S13E100

Has Anyone Here Seen Bigmouth?

Aug 22, 199722m

D.S. Daly and D.I. Deakin try to find an informant who has disappeared following a failed police operation.

S13E101

This Land Is Ours

Aug 26, 199722m

Sgt. Cryer and Ch. Supt. Brownlow police a demonstration at a development site after peaceful protesters are threatened with violence.

S13E102

Paying The Piper

Aug 28, 199722m

D.S. Boulton's investigation is hampered by an informant who is putting family loyalty first.

S13E103

On The Hurry Up

Aug 29, 199722m

When a flying bottle causes Slater to crash a panda, Monroe bans all pandas from responding to priority calls, a move that leads to frustration amongst the relief. Slater is suspicious as to why Loxton won't assist him in the investigation into a series of hoax calls linked to his crash.

S13E104

Not In The Script

Sep 2, 199722m

When Slater is recommended by Rawton for undercover work, he is overjoyed. His colleagues however ridicule him, and their interference almost costs them a trial operation. Will he bottle it?

S13E105

Flower Power

Sep 4, 199722m

P.C. Hollis discovers a hoard of illegally imported wildflower bulbs and helps in the subsequent Customs and Excise operation.

S13E106

A Breach Of Trust: Part I

Sep 5, 199722m

Daly's worst fears are realised when a nurse reports that she has received malicious phone calls from a mentally-disturbed ex-prisoner.

S13E107

A Breach Of Trust: Part II

Sep 9, 199722m

Daly and Blake are forced to release their prime suspect, and the race is on to prove his guilt before he strikes again.

S13E108

Fool

Sep 11, 199722m

P.C. Quinnan and Sgt. Boyden want to use a would-be stand-up comedian as an informant, but he is as hopeless off-stage as he is on.

S13E109

Armed & Dangerous

Sep 12, 199722m

P.C. McCann is convinced that a gun remains unaccounted for when a gang of armed robbers is captured.

S13E110

Animals

Sep 16, 199722m

Ackland and Blake investigate the dangerous world of dog fighting full of vicious dogs and hard men.

S13E111

Look Into My Eyes

Sep 18, 199722m

D.I. Deakin and W.P.C. Blake follow up allegations of attempted rape against a stage hypnotist.

S13E112

Performance Anxiety

Sep 19, 199722m

Sun Hill's performance comes under scrutiny, and officers from C.I.D. and uniform compete against each other in a bid to solve the most crimes.

S13E113

Different Strokes

Sep 23, 199722m

P.C. Slater goes undercover in an attempt to draw out a thief.

S13E114

Sparks

Sep 25, 199722m

Beech loses his cool with an antsy DS from stafford row, while Skase falls for the charm of his female DC.

S13E115

The Lion's Den

Sep 26, 199722m

Slater goes undercover as a Bouncer at a club run by the notorious Guy Walsh. As Slater gains his trust, will he be exposed?

S13E116

The Needs Of The Many

Sep 30, 199722m

P.C. Slater is surprised when, in uniform, he bumps into the target of his undercover investigation.

S13E117

Cross Purposes

Oct 2, 199722m

S13E118

Free To Speak?

Oct 3, 199722m

Its Nick Slater's final day at Sun Hill, and takes Keane out for a farewell dinner. Loxton, Quinnan and Skase do their best to extinguish any intimate moments.

S13E119

Dishonour Among Thieves

Oct 7, 199722m

Sgt. Boyden deals with a complaint from a notorious burglar who has had his own house broken into.

S13E120

Coup De Grace

Oct 9, 199722m

D.S. Boulton finds himself trying to save a marriage when the husband is given another three-year sentence.

S13E121

Night Of The Long Knives

Oct 10, 199722m

The relief is furious at working in endless shifts, especially when Keane, Loxton and Jarvis have called in sick. Its Garfield's duty as Fed Rep to sort things out, when an evening turns from bad to worse.

S13E122

Straying

Oct 14, 199722m

W.P.C. Page and P.C. Stamp look into the disappearance of a man and his dog. D.S. Beech and D.C. Carver act on info received about an alleged robbery.

S13E123

A Bad Lot

Oct 16, 199722m

P.C. Garfield deals with a twelve-year-old boy who is running amok on a housing estate

S13E124

Crimes Of A Lesser Passion

Oct 17, 1997

Sgt. Ackland and P.C. Jarvis deal with a stabbing.

S13E125

Force

Oct 21, 199722m

Insp. Monroe responds to suggestions that he is out of touch with front-line policing and goes on the beat with P.C. Jarvis.

S13E126

Walkabout

Oct 23, 199722m

W.P.C. Page assists a missing person's enquiry by impersonating the young woman in question.

S13E127

Shades Of Grey: Part I

Oct 24, 199722m

D.I. Deakin and D.S. Boulton lead the search for two children who are snatched from school and presumed to be on their way back to Pakistan with their estranged father.

S13E128

Shades Of Grey: Part II

Oct 28, 199722m

D.I. Deakin and D.S. Boulton are on the trail of the kidnapper, but the children's father has decided to pay the ransom money.

S13E129

Women At Work

Oct 30, 199722m

D.C. Carver and W.P.C. Blake investigate the hit-and-run of a woman employed by a jealous lover to test her man's fidelity.

S13E130

Solid Evidence

Oct 31, 199722m

Insp. Monroe leads the search for a little girl who has disappeared after school, and whose mother is a prostitute and father a pimp.

S13E131

Going Down

Nov 4, 199722m

W.D.C. Croft feels let down by the parents of a young drug addict who had promised to keep him clean.

S13E132

Accomplice

Nov 6, 199722m

When a girl is abducted, it bears the hallmarks of a serial killer Carver helped put away years ago. Did he work alone?

S13E133

Last Fare

Nov 7, 199722m

D.S. Beech and W.D.C. Rawton investigate the assault and robbery of a minicab driver.

S13E134

Stolen Thunder

Nov 11, 199722m

D.I. Deakin and D.C. Proctor are furious that an inexperienced young barrister has been assigned to prosecute one of their court cases.

S13E135

P.C.

Nov 13, 199722m

Loxton carries out an illegal stop-and-search of a black man, unaware that he is an off-duty police officer. This episode is sometimes referred to, misleadingly, as "P.C., Part One" as it is the first part of a two-part story, with "No Trace" as the second part.

S13E136

No Trace

Nov 14, 199722m

Despite resigning, Loxton helps Quinnan settle the score with a slimey lawyer.

S13E137

A New Way To Pay Off Old Debts

Nov 18, 199722m

Sgt. Boyden and W.P.C. Blake investigate the death of an alcoholic found burned to death.

S13E138

After All These Years

Nov 20, 199722m

Sgt. Ackland and P.C. Quinnan investigate a car crash involving an elderly driver.

S13E139

Sands Of Time

Nov 21, 199722m

As the threat of tenure looms over DC Jim Carver, he is desperate to prove himself to Meadows by capturing a jewel thief who absconded years ago. Carver meets DC Lines' informant, who sends him on the trail, but Lines is skeptical. Will the cocky young DC or the veteran copper be proved right?

S13E140

Identity Crisis

Nov 25, 199722m

D.S. Boulton pressurises a young couple in the hope of getting a result.

S13E141

The Same Stripe: Part I

Nov 28, 199722m

When a good deed misfires badly, Ackland finds herself on the wrong end of an investigation.

S13E142

The Same Stripe: Part II

Dec 2, 199722m

Ackland's trusted informer disappears without trace.

S13E143

Hot Plastic

Dec 4, 199722m

D.I. Deakin tries to salvage an operation after an unsuccessful raid in which Sgt. Cryer is scalded, D.C. Skase is injured, and the target escaped.

S13E144

Gaybashing

Dec 5, 199722m

Boyden And Quinnan investigate when a man is found unconscious in an outhouse, a notorious spot for homosexuals.

S13E145

Potential For Conflict

Dec 9, 199722m

P.C. Tony Stamp arrives at Hendon Police College to check on the progress of new recruit P.C. Luke Ashton, who will soon be posted to Sun Hill provided he can pass the course. Ashton's confidence takes a dive when he is subjected to bullying by fellow recruit Pete Warner, and with it, his scores for the course. On a night out at the pub, Ashton saves Warner from a bashing by drunken youths, but it's still touch and go. It comes down to his final test, and his new-found confidence sees him through. Meanwhile, back at Sun Hill, the officers compete over the cushy task of ""puppywalking"" the new recruit, but P.C. Reg Hollis has a plan...

S13E146

Heartbreak Hotel

Dec 11, 199722m

D.I. Deakin and W.D.C. Rawton investigate the assault of a man who has been charming middle-aged women out of their savings.

S13E147

Humpty Dumpty: Part I

Dec 12, 199722m

Ashton is puppy walked by Stamp, yet his day goes from bad to worse when a boy falls from a roof. Was it murder or suicide?

S13E148

Humpty Dumpty: Part II

Dec 16, 199722m

As it becomes increasingly likely that Jimmy was murdered, and whoever killed him killed Bannerman, Cryer and Ashton attempt to solve the riddle before its too late.

S13E149

Humpty Dumpty: Part III

Dec 18, 199722m

With Patrick Massie still in custody, will Cryer prove his guilt before he worms his way out?

S13E150

Out

Dec 19, 199722m

D.S. Daly puts the pressure on an ex-con who would risk another jail sentence rather than inform on a friend.

S13E151

Twanky

Dec 22, 199722m

PC Polly Page attempts to direct the Sun Hill team in a pantomime performance of ""Aladdin"", but has to put up with Brownlow and Conway sniping at each other through the script, and a deranged man attempting to kill DI Deakin.

S13E152

Things That Go Bump In The Night

Dec 30, 199722m

Boyden and Page find a notorious safecracker, blown up and semi conscious state, in a dilapidated building.