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The first series of The Bill, a British television drama, consisted of eleven episodes, broadcast between 16 October 1984 and 22 January 1985. Artichoke Hill – Sun Hill Police Station Set and Location Filming
No. in series Title Directed by Written by Original air date 292: 1 "Grief" Graham Theakston: Arthur McKenzie: 1 January 1991 () 293: 2 "The Chase" Stuart Urban: Carol Harrison: 3 January 1991 () 294: 3 "The Attack" John Black: Philip Palmer: 8 January 1991 () 295: 4 "Crown V. Cooper" Michael Kerrigan: Jane Hollowood
The Bill was originally conceived in 1983 by Geoff McQueen, then a new television writer, as a one-off drama.McQueen had originally titled the production Old Bill. [2] It was picked up by Michael Chapman for ITV franchise holder Thames Television, who retitled it Woodentop as part of Thames's Storyboard series of one-off dramas and broadcast on ITV under the title Woodentop on 16 August 1983. [2]
The fifteenth series of The Bill, a British television drama, consisted of 87 episodes, broadcast between 7 January and 31 December 1999.The series saw a notable change, as female officers were no longer introduced by the W acronym in ranking, with the last mention of this when Liz Rawton was introduced as a WDC in Follow Through.
"Woodentop" is an episode of the Thames Television series Storyboard, which comprises a series of one-off plays on different themes. The episode was originally broadcast on 16 August 1983. Woodentop became the first ever episode in the long-running British police television series The Bill.
Includes the last ever episodes, Respect: Part 1 and Respect: Part 2, plus the behind-the-scenes documentary, Farewell: The Bill. DVD is in Region 0. Series 1 – 4: 1-84 17 1984–1988 1 February 2012 [33] Also includes the pilot episode of the series, Woodentop. DVD Box set is in Region 0. Series 5: Part 1: 1-52 8 1989 7 March 2012 [34]
On 30 April 2014, The Bill Series 26 Part 1 & 2 DVD set was released in Australia. Having been halved to one episode a week and axed from Scottish network STV the previous summer, the show's average viewership had dropped from 7 million prior to the revamp to 3, and as a result, the long-running police drama was axed on 26 March 2010.
[1] Cyril Nri played Superintendent Adam Okaro from 2002 to 2006, initially replacing the deceased Tom Chandler as Superintendent before accepting a promotion to Borough Commander in 2006. He was the highest ranking black officer in the series' history. Christopher Ellison appeared intermittently between 1984 and 2000 as Frank Burnside. A ...