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"The Bill" (1984)TV series 1984-????

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Overview

Creator:
Geoff McQueen
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Seasons:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 more
Release Date:
16 October 1984 (UK) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama more
Plot:
Episodes follow uniform officers and detectives from an inner London police station as they enforce law and order on a day to day basis. full summary
Awards:
4 wins & 18 nominations more
User Comments:
Yes, THE BILL made me into a pathetic television junkie. more

Cast

 (Series Cast Summary - 12 of 2495)
Graham Cole ... PC Tony Stamp / ... (448 episodes, 1984-2008)
Jeff Stewart ... PC Reg Hollis / ... (385 episodes, 1984-2008)
Trudie Goodwin ... Sgt. June Ackland / ... (381 episodes, 1984-2007)
Simon Rouse ... DCI Jack Meadows / ... (347 episodes, 1990-2008)

Mark Wingett ... D.C. Carver / ... (284 episodes, 1984-2007)
Roberta Taylor ... Insp. Gina Gold / ... (257 episodes, 1990-2008)
Alex Walkinshaw ... Sgt. Dale Smith / ... (229 episodes, 1993-2008)
Chris Simmons ... DC Mickey Webb / ... (208 episodes, 1998-2008)
Natalie Roles ... DS Debbie McAllister / ... (190 episodes, 1993-2004)
Lisa Maxwell ... DS Samantha Nixon / ... (187 episodes, 2001-2008)
Eric Richard ... Sgt. Cryer / ... (186 episodes, 1984-2004)
Scott Maslen ... DS Phil Hunter / ... (184 episodes, 2002-2007)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
25 min (1988-1998) | 50 min (1984-1988, 1998-)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Colour:
Colour
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono | Stereo
Certification:
Australia:M | Australia:PG | UK:12 (some episodes) | UK:15 (some episodes) | UK:PG (some episodes)
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Trivia:
Emily Watson was interviewed for visiting parts a number of times. more
Quotes:
PC Steven 'Steve' Loxton: [on the way to a roadblock to catch a thief who hit Boulton and escaped arrest] He's a dangerous man, Pol. So when we're checkin' these cars I want you to stay nice and close to me!
PC Polly Page: [Gary and George laugh] I thought that's what you meant!
PC Steven 'Steve' Loxton: You may laugh but he's knocked the crap out of CID's finest!
PC George Garfield: Yeah well that's not very hard!
PC Gary McCann: From the description he sounds like a dwarf!
PC Steven 'Steve' Loxton: Well he's a vicious dwarf! He kneed DS Boulton in the orchastra stalls!
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Movie Connections:
Version of "Wache, Die" (1994) more
Soundtrack:
Overkill more

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5 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
Yes, THE BILL made me into a pathetic television junkie., 7 September 2000
Author: gmr-4 from Lowell, Mich. U.S.A.

THE BILL is very hard to come by in the States, and even when it was running on CBC-Windsor, it was impossible to see it this far from the border. No cable CBC around here (do not have it anyway). I got hooked around seven years ago; it was aired one episode per day starting with 1988 episodes, which I viewed from Detroit. Eventually the station ran them all again in sequence.

At very first I avoided it. I never, for example, watched HILL STREET BLUES, which I thought THE BILL would be like. Wrong! Straightaway I was hopelessly hooked, even arranging my day so I could be home in late afternoon.

Keeping in mind that I have not seen an episode newer than perhaps 1995, I thought (think) THE BILL was an excellent programme, calling it my "soap opera." Some friends thought my being so devoted to a "cop show" was out of character, and perhaps yes, but it was the exotic setting . . . yet more: The stories' construction, occasionally running three tales in a mere half-hour, the dialogue, the character development and interactions, all for the most part top notch. I picked up a lot of obnoxious British lower-class slang, too. One also notes how most of the outdoor scenes are uncharacteristically sunny and warm, but surely that cannot be London?

The cheek: I once wrote offering to do a part for nothing if I could depict an obnoxious North American who gets punched out by D.I. Burnside. (P.C. Loxton would be unacceptable.)I was never favoured with a reply.

I have seen negative comment in this forum and else-where that THE BILL is turning into a real "soap," but cannot comment. All I can say to my mates over here is that British "prime time" drama as represented by THE BILL is as good as anything done in the States -- but without the bigger-than-life, distracting, razmatazz. To coin the proverbial phrase, Good Show.

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