The BEST episodes written by David Hoskins
#1 - Photo Finish
The Bill - Season 7 - Episode 21
Datta is watching a pub when a youth is seen leaving with drugs. While reading a playboy in the boy's room, Garfield finds over £200 hidden in the magazine and an acqinance of the boy is seen going into the pub and then arrested of possible possession. Garfield thinks the boy, whose room they are using for the obbo, is a dealer. Sue gets a hot tip for a double but Steve never placed the bet. Her first horse won and the second horse had a photo before being confirmed as coming second by a nose.
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#2 - Last Year's Model
Midsomer Murders - Season 9 - Episode 8
Barnaby begins to think the damning evidence he helped provide to convict a murderess wasn't exactly as watertight as it first looked.
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#3 - Hidden Depths
Midsomer Murders - Season 8 - Episode 6
Troubled solicitor Nick Turner falls from the roof of his home. Is this suicide disguised as murder?
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#4 - Tainted Fruit
Midsomer Murders - Season 4 - Episode 6
When the body of a local beauty is discovered by the pool at her manor house, Barnaby and Troy uncover a seedy world of adultery and deceit within the affluent rural community.
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#5 - Destroying Angel
Midsomer Murders - Season 4 - Episode 2
When a hotel owner dies, the manager misses the reading of the will that names him part-owner.
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#6 - The Animal Within
Midsomer Murders - Season 10 - Episode 2
When Faith Alexander arrives in Midsomer Deverell to meet her long-lost uncle Rex Masters, she is surprised to find he has disappeared and told everyone she was killed in a plane crash. Then Rex's body is found in the weir and his friends produce wills, each claiming to inherit his fortune.
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#7 - Ghosts of Christmas Past
Midsomer Murders - Season 7 - Episode 7
Nine years after Ferdy Villers killed himself, his family reunites for Christmas, unaware that someone is out for revenge.
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The Bill - Season 16 - Episode 48
DCs Glaze and Holmes investigate the apparent suicide of a local councillor and uncover a plot to pervert the course of justice by ensuring that massage parlours with links to the local freemasons' lodge are not raided.
#9 - The Great and the Good
Midsomer Murders - Season 12 - Episode 7
A troubled schoolteacher, subject to sleepwalking and quasi-paranoia, feels that an intruder has been in her house, and doubters find dead bodies to confirm her fears.
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#10 - A Talent for Life
Midsomer Murders - Season 6 - Episode 1
Something fishy is going on concerning the clubbing deaths of two local residents.
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#11 - The Oblong Murders
Midsomer Murders - Season 14 - Episode 4
Barnaby sends Jones undercover into a New Age cult to investigate the disappearance of a young woman who entered an introduction course and then never left the movement.
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The Bill - Season 8 - Episode 93
What's a smart girl like Sharon doing with a villain like Daniel Batt? D.I. Burnside thinks it's all to do with female hormones, but W.D.C. Martella isn't so sure.
#13 - On the Record, Off the Record
The Bill - Season 8 - Episode 77
CID investigates a break-in at a warehouse which resulted in the theft of personal CD players. Steve spots the van used in the robbery. After talking to a worker with form, fingers start pointing at the security guard. Jim gets spoken to by Meadows about complaints. He gets into further trouble after arresting a man on information received.
#14 - Slinging Mud
The Bill - Season 15 - Episode 10
Meadows goes to court and finds himself on trial.
#15 - The Greater Good
The Bill - Season 7 - Episode 41
Tosh and Jim are watching a wrecking yard. A car is seen driven into the yard stolen from a man who runs a youth centre. Tosh thinks it is an insurance fraud involving cars disappearing and claimed as stolen.
#16 - Video Nasty
The Bill - Season 11 - Episode 112
Sun Hill C.I.D. embark on a frantic search for a booby-trapped television set after a bomb destroys a local electrical shop.
#17 - Treading Water
The Bill - Season 15 - Episode 62
PCs Jim Carver and Cass Rickman wander through a CID obbo, allowing suspect Micky Harris to go free. Trying to make amends, Carver tries to contact a former snout from his CID days, Steve Raines. As they make enquiries, Carver's old friend, nightclub manager Alan Brooks notices Carver's dissatisfaction with uniform work and offers him a job as security manager at his club. Carver finds Raines, now a junkie, who gives Rickman a duff lead on a building society robbery. Carver convinces Raines's estranged wife Alice to give him a second chance, and eventually Raines agrees to testify against Harris. With the nightclub job all but his, Carver reluctantly prepares to hand in his notice, but when the job just as quickly falls through, he turns to a hip flask of vodka in his locker to console himself...