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Overview

User Rating:
6.2/10   571 votes
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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 | 25 | unknown full episode list
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:
6 wins & 22 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(80 articles)
Sarah Manners joins 'The Bill'
 (From digitalspy. 23 October 2009, 3:23 AM, PDT)

Sloane, Tointon, David-Lloyd for 'The Bill'
 (From digitalspy. 21 October 2009, 4:02 PM, PDT)

User Comments:
Yes, THE BILL made me into a pathetic television junkie. more (37 total)

Cast

 (Series Cast Summary - 10 of 2990)
Graham Cole ... PC Tony Stamp / ... (563 episodes, 1984-2009)
Trudie Goodwin ... Sgt. June Ackland / ... (459 episodes, 1984-2007)

Jeff Stewart ... PC Reg Hollis / ... (450 episodes, 1984-2008)
Simon Rouse ... DCI Jack Meadows / ... (449 episodes, 1990-2009)

Mark Wingett ... D.C. Carver / ... (342 episodes, 1984-2007)
Alex Walkinshaw ... Sgt. Dale Smith / ... (297 episodes, 1992-2009)
Roberta Taylor ... Insp. Gina Gold / ... (279 episodes, 1990-2008)
Chris Simmons ... DC Mickey Webb / ... (263 episodes, 1998-2009)
Eric Richard ... Sgt. Cryer / ... (240 episodes, 1984-2004)
Andrew Lancel ... DI Neil Manson / ... (229 episodes, 1995-2009)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
25 min (1988-1998) | 50 min (1984-1988, 1998-)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono | Stereo
Certification:
Australia:M | Australia:PG | UK:12 (some episodes) | UK:15 (some episodes) | UK:PG (some episodes)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Emily Watson was interviewed for visiting parts a number of times. more
Quotes:
DI Burnside: Ask the real community what they want and they'll tell you loud and clear. Cuff 'em and stuff 'em. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "SOKO Leipzig: The Bill - Entführung in London (#12.1)" (2009) more
Soundtrack:
Overkill more

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8 out of 11 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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