The BEST episodes directed by Chris Lovett
#1 - Letting Go
The Bill - Season 8 - Episode 71
Reg is playing with a train set before going out. He is looking for a place to live as he is moving out of the section house but ends up moving to a different corridor instead. Greig and Tosh investigates a stabbing in a station car park. The case is being dropped but Greig goes to see the widow and finds a new lead. June and Reg act as back up to bailiffs trying to evict a family. The case is turned over to Tosh.
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The Bill - Season 8 - Episode 73
Monroe talks to Conway about a problem with a car chase. Tony and Dave were chasing joy riders with Ron in the back. Norika and George help catch the children who were joy riding. CID think they might be part of a gang knocking off car stereos. The fathers have a fight in custody after their children were interviewed.
#3 - Overdue
The Bill - Season 8 - Episode 84
Burnside talks to a snout in a bus queue about a delivery. Woods and Carver observe the delivery and CID raid the premises. The cartons contain bricks and motor parts instead of the stolen goods expected. Burnside goes to a promotions board and is passed over.
#4 - Inside Straight
The Bill - Season 16 - Episode 14
DI Deakin and DS Beech take part in an high stakes poker match.
#7 - Room Service
The Bill - Season 16 - Episode 42
DS Stanton and DS Boulton night together at a hotel is ruined when Sun Hill officers arrive to investigate an assault and robbery. When DS Beech finds out about her and Boulton's affair, Stanton ends the relationship.
#8 - No Man's Land
The Bill - Season 16 - Episode 50
Sgt. Cryer is angry at DC Webb's couldn't-care-less attitude towards a body found on a roundabout, so sets about identifying the man himself.
#9 - Promised Land
The Bill - Season 17 - Episode 24
PC Nick Klein becomes involved when Kosovan refugees housed at a council estate are being harassed and attacked. Later, at a family gathering, Nick's cousin Jerry arrives and is praised by the family for his success. DC Webb investigates a robbery at a clothing factory, and his investigations lead him to Norman Klein, Nick's uncle. The link between the latest robbery and a previous one is revealed to be Jerry Klein who assessed security at both places. When Jerry is found badly beaten, Nick decides he must tell the police about his cousin's possible involvement, which results in DI Cullen catching the gang on their third job.
#10 - The Dark Side
The Bill - Season 17 - Episode 51
Hayward breaks down during a talk with primary school pupils, when he is forced to talk about the death of his sister. Gilmore is not happy, but the teacher thinks Hayward's sensitivity will help the students get the message, and may also help them trust Hayward enough to report a bully. An old friend of his sister's asks him out, although when he meets her at a gallery opening, Hayward thinks her friends are dealing drugs. Klein and Hayward find the bully, "Red", who has been using two fierce dogs to steal money and mobile phones from school children. They trace the dogs to the flat of drug-addicted prostitute Stacy Dodds, and a search of her flat uncovers a large stash of heroin.
#11 - Angel Rooms
The Bill - Season 17 - Episode 52
Hayward and Klein arrange to get their stories straight over the missing bag of heroin. Stacy insists her pimp forced her to deal drugs and have sex with "Red". Clarke ends up sleeping with "Phil the Pill", and is surprised when he turns up at Sun Hill the next day and announces himself as DC Phil Raven from the Drugs Squad. Raven arrests Benji Pullinger for intent to supply, but inevitably the missing bag is mentioned in the interview. Station gossip starts to point towards Klein, and Hayward confesses to Gilmore what really happened. While out at a nightclub with his new girlfriend, Fiona, Hayward sees Raven selling drugs, and discovers that he and Fiona are former acquaintances.
#12 - Paint it Black
The Bill - Season 17 - Episode 53
With Klein's help, Hayward tries to set up a sting to catch Raven in the act, by offering to sell him the missing bag of heroin. They decide to meet in a car park, and Hayward, carrying a bag full of baking soda, is surprised when the tables are turned on him and Raven arrests him for possession. Klein's doubts about an unstable Hayward seem to be justified when his friend puts his life in the hands of Raven, and the undercover cop begins to show his unconventional methods. Meanwhile, back at the station, suspicions begin to grow about Hayward's innocence, and the relief are flabbergasted when they discover that Hayward has been arrested for possession with intent to supply.
#13 - Proof of Guilt
Tales of the Unexpected - Season 3 - Episode 3
Hard-bitten police inspector Walters has a murder on his hands that he can't crack. The prime suspect is George Stamford, who was alone in a locked room with the dead man when he was shot - but Stamford is admitting nothing, and there is no evidence against him...
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The Bill - Season 7 - Episode 43
Quinnan arrests 2 men in the underground because 1 has a knife. Sgt. Peters' wife gives him a ride to work. Brownlow, Conway and Reid have a meeting with publicans.
#15 - The Mourning After
The Bill - Season 10 - Episode 9
Tony and Reg are called to a stabbing in canley fields. Sgt. Cryer and June arrive to help. the victim is DOA at the hospital. The doctor thinks he was attacked 3 hours previously. D.S. Morgan goes to see the victim's mother and discovers she is blind. When the mother checks the body, she discovers it is not her son. Alan talks to a shopkeeper who saw a group of men chasing another one. tosh talks to the party thrower and finds a leather jacket similar ro the one on the body. The wallet inside belongs to the owner of an incorrectly parked mini who never came home the night before.
#16 - Sunhill Boulevard
The Bill - Season 15 - Episode 54
PC Cass Rickman calls in sick after over-indulging at a barbecue for the relief the previous night. PC Harker and PC Stamp are called to the Sun Hill Lido swimming pool, where a young girl's body has been found in the water. Harker goes undercover at the pool.
#17 - Walking on Water
The Bill - Season 15 - Episode 4
An informant turns up dead on his boat but questions are asked about this apparent suicide as well as Don Beech's loyalty.
#18 - Robbo
The Bill - Season 6 - Episode 64
Lines and Carver catch some lads changing number plates on a car. An ex-special who gave the tip off caused one of the villains to break his nose. It turns out he has been collecting his dead wife's social. He gives them some more info about a possible burglary but it turns out to be a man visiting his married girlfriend.
#19 - Family Ties
The Bill - Season 6 - Episode 80
Burnside is in court giving evidence. Because of flooding at the prison, the prisoners are brought back to Sunhill. Burnside's prisoner is in emotional shock and is taken to a mental health unit. He gives Barry and George the slip after a visit to the toilet. Ackland investigates thefts of drugs at a health clinic. June tries to find out why the thief stole the drugs. They were for the thief's son.
#20 - A Bunch of Fives
The Bill - Season 13 - Episode 61
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?
#21 - The Same Stripe (1)
The Bill - Season 13 - Episode 141
When a good deed misfires badly, Ackland finds herself on the wrong end of an investigation.
#22 - The Same Stripe (2)
The Bill - Season 13 - Episode 142
Ackland's trusted informer disappears without trace.
#25 - Sale or Return (1)
The Bill - Season 14 - Episode 46
Boulton and Carver head for the river, chasing a particularly slippery customer.
#26 - Sale or Return (2)
The Bill - Season 14 - Episode 47
Boulton and Carver continue thier investigation into illegal immigration and find their case complicated by an attractive woman.
#27 - Cast No Shadow
The Bill - Season 14 - Episode 99
DS Boulton and DC Carver travel up to Manchester on the trail of a suspect. Getting into trouble with a local gang, they find themselves rescued by none other than Frank Burnside, who left Sun Hill in mysterious circumstances five years ago.
#28 - Betrayal
The Bill - Season 14 - Episode 100
Stand by for a shock - Burnside is back in Sun Hill - in handcuffs! Lock up the petty cash!
#29 - Foreign Body
The Bill - Season 15 - Episode 37
An armed robber dies after his car crashes during a chase with the police, and the body of an English woman is found in the boot. When it appears she has been murdered, D.C.I. Meadows and D.C. Skase head to France to interview the suspect's sister.
#30 - Lock In
The Bill - Season 15 - Episode 79
Jim Carver hits rock bottom when Burnside is forced to arrest his old friend for murder.
#31 - Haunted
The Bill - Season 15 - Episode 84
DS Stanton, DC Lennox and DC Proctor are on an obbo at a spooky old building called the Old Pumping Station, which is supposed to be haunted. The trio tell each other ghost stories: back in his uniform days, Proctor was assigned to watch the house of a serial murderer. Investigating a noise, he meets a young woman called Cathy, who turns out to have been on of the killer's victims. A skeptical Stanton reveals how a psychic's assistance with a case she worked on turned out to be a hoax. Lennox, when he was in the Glasgow police, meets a dying crime boss who promises revenge from beyond the grave.
#32 - The Night Before
The Bill - Season 16 - Episode 85
Reg Hollis organises the Sun Hill Christmas party, but Debbie McAllister ruins his plans forcing him to find another venue. A fight breaks out, and Dave Quinnan and Polly Page end up in bed together.
#33 - The Morning After
The Bill - Season 16 - Episode 86
PCs Quinnan and Page are acting suspiciously, and try to rekindle their affair without their colleagues noticing.
#34 - Loaded
The Bill - Season 18 - Episode 1
PCs Des Taviner and Reg Hollis head off to Southend, telling Sgt Gilmore that the Area Car has mechanical problems, so that Reg can propose to his girlfriend, Helen. Meanwhile Special Constable Terry Knowles and PC Nick Klein have arrested petty thief Derek Daly. As they head back for the station Knowles spots an attractive blonde in a car and persuades Klein to pull her over when she jumps a red light. Confident that he can get her phone number (like his hero Taviner would), Knowles approaches the blonde with a smile. Flirting outrageously he tries to get a date but with little success. When he threatens to do a vehicle check, the girl smiles sweetly, produces a steel-comb and thrusts it into his neck.
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#35 - Not To Praise Him
The Bill - Season 18 - Episode 2
Sergeant Craig Gilmore addresses the congregation at Knowles' funeral and mentions the dead man's habit of chatting up girls which causes a bit of a stir. After the service Superintendent Tom Chandler tries to comfort Knowles' mother but is dragged away by her daughter Tina who blames the police for her brother's death. Meanwhile at Sun Hill DS Vik Singh and DCI Jack Meadows are liaising with Jay Ramsay who is planning to direct a reconstruction of the murder for a TV programme. Meadows is angry when the Director comments about Knowles flirting with the murderer before his death. Outside the chapel PC Nick Klein is helping a young woman with a pushchair and is shocked when she introduces herself as Dani Knowles, Knowles' widow. When she asks about Knowles' death, Klein tells her not to believe the press reports. As the drink flows at the wake the tensions rise between arch enemies Taviner and Gilmore resulting in a full-blown punch up.
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The Bill - Season 18 - Episode 40
When cocky new DS Phil Hunter reports for duty he wastes no time bringing in arrests. He flirts with wives of suspects and doesn't play by any of the rules. He's clocked up as a difficult one to handle but if he's toting up the convictions who's to complain? Even if his probing turns up an unwelcome visitor for Nick and Cass.
#37 - No Loyalty
The Bill - Season 18 - Episode 41
Cleared of allegations of child sex abuse, Tony decides he cannot forgive Jim for believing the accusations thrown by Lee Dwyer.
#38 - Found
The Bill - Season 19 - Episode 18
DC Eva Sharpe is relieved when her daughter is found alive, although what ordeal she has been through remains unknown. The paedophile investigation into the charity ""Global Families"" continues, as the officers try to identify a dead child. PC Cathy Bradford is jealous when DC Brandon Kane starts dating a doctor. DC Drummond's son sees him meeting his mistress, and DS Phil Hunter continues to play off villain Ron Gregory and DCI Jack Meadows against each other.
#39 - The Nouveau Riche
The Bill - Season 19 - Episode 19
Acting DI Sam Nixon is convinced that Ron Gregory is behind the paedophile ring - but can she prove it? While DCI Jack Meadows is certain DS Phil Hunter is still working for Ron and is reporting him to the police authorities. Phil pleads, ""I'm the only one that can get a result, because I know Gregory better than anyone. Give me 24 hours and I'll have Gregory sitting in one of them cells"". But will he convince Jack to give him more time? The police now know that the murdered girl 'Angel', real name Rachel, had been brought over from Africa to sponsor parents Mr. & Mrs. Eddison. The couple now face severe questioning at the station. Were they aware abuse was taking place with their sponsor child, and could they have been the perpetrators? When Rachel's sponsor parent, Mr Eddison suddenly makes a confession, the police suspect he's been 'influenced' by someone to change his story. Did he really kill Rachel or is he just acting on someone else's orders to save his own life?When PCs Des Ta
#40 - Episode 933 (Tue 26th Feb 1985)
Emmerdale - Season 14 - Episode 15
Can Henry straighten out the farm's finances? First he must take Jack on.
#41 - Episode 934 (Thu 28th Feb 1985)
Emmerdale - Season 14 - Episode 16
Tom comes out of Armley Jail. It seems he has no plans to leave Beckindale.
#42 - Episode 935 (Tue 5th March 1985)
Emmerdale - Season 14 - Episode 17
Tom visits Emmerdale Farm. Why is he so keen to see Pat?