The BEST episodes directed by Nicholas Laughland
#3 - The Lions of Nemea (2)
Lewis - Season 8 - Episode 4
After a difficult start, Lewis and Hathaway's partnership seems to have gained some semblance of normality. DS Maddox has become a part of the team. Her abilities will be put to the test when an investigation begins on the brutal murder of an American classics student Rose Anderson Her body is hauled from the canal with a stand wound to the neck and abdomen. Suspicious soon fall on astrophysics professor, Felix Garwood who had recently broken off an affair with Rose. However, Felix was married to Rose's supervisor, Philippa Garwood. Could the jealous wife have committed such a murder?
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The Bill - Season 5 - Episode 88
Taffy is up for APA and is wound up by Tony. Taffy goes to deal with an alarm at a warehouse. Turns out to be an actual break in instead of a fault with the alarm. He refuses to anyone about his problems. Roach and Carver nick a couple for possesion of drugs. The man gives Burnside the name of the man who gave them to him and Conway pulls the men off the job before they can blow aCustoms and Excise operation.
#5 - A Rare Bird
Midsomer Murders - Season 14 - Episode 8
Barnaby and Jones investigate whether competition between ornithology enthusiasts led to murder.
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#6 - Three Men and a Brittle Lady
Lovejoy - Season 5 - Episode 5
Charlotte's former lover arrives from New York and invites her to live with him in Paris, but she turns him down.A forger cons Charlie Gimbert into buying some fake porcelain, but Lovejoy catches up with him. In doing so, he discovers a good artist.
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#7 - The Sleeper Under the Hill
Midsomer Murders - Season 14 - Episode 5
The gruesome discovery of a farmer's eviscerated body in an ancient stone circle is made just days before the spring equinox.
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#8 - The Village That Rose from the Dead
Midsomer Murders - Season 19 - Episode 1
When a man is found murdered during the reopening of a ghost village, Barnaby and his new temporary DS, Jamie Winter, must unravel a sinister web of lies from both past and present in order to catch the killer.
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#9 - Harvest of Souls
Midsomer Murders - Season 18 - Episode 6
When the owner of an equestrian center is trampled by his own horse, Barnaby unravels a complex feud from the past.
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#10 - Once Upon a Time on the Westway
The Last Detective - Season 4 - Episode 1
Jimmy 'the Gem' Vincent is murdered within 24 hours of his release from prison. Do his unpublished memoirs reveal the identity of his killer?
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#11 - A Vintage Murder
Midsomer Murders - Season 17 - Episode 4
When people start collapsing at the launch tasting of Midsomer Vineyard's newest sparkling wine, Kate Wilding discovers that the glasses had been laced with slug pellets.
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#12 - The Kakiemon Tiger
Lovejoy - Season 5 - Episode 4
Lovejoy is threatened by a debt collector and hijacks a country house auction to pay his debts. In the process, he finds the lost 'Kakiemon Tiger', but he has to deal with competitors for it. Beth Taylor joins Lovejoy Antiques on a youth employment scheme, to learn the business.
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#13 - Cease upon the Midnight (2)
Silent Witness - Season 2 - Episode 4
Sam has to do a postmortem on the body of Stuart Evans, who was found dead the morning after his party. He was terminally ill with an AIDS related illness, but Sam finds a suspicious needle track in his foot and is convinced he has been murdered.
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#14 - Cease upon the Midnight (1)
Silent Witness - Season 2 - Episode 3
Sam has to do a postmortem on the body of Stuart Evans, who was found dead the morning after his party. He was terminally ill with an AIDS realted illness, but Sam finds a suspicious needle track in his foot and is convinced he has been murdered.
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#15 - Death and the Divas
Midsomer Murders - Season 15 - Episode 4
A film historian writing about a 1960s horror actress is killed in her home. It becomes the start of what appear to be a series of copycat murders based on the actress' films.
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#16 - The Christmas Haunting
Midsomer Murders - Season 16 - Episode 1
Barnaby and his new partner, Detective Sergeant Charlie Nelson (Gwilym Lee), investigate the fatal stabbing of a man with an antique sword during a ghost-hunting party at a 'haunted' manor house.
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#17 - The Darkness of Light
Wire in the Blood - Season 2 - Episode 2
When the bodies of recent murder victims are dug up with ancient remains in the grounds of a ruined Abbey, Tony and Carol uncover more local legend than fact. But will that lead them to the killer? When bodies are discovered at Norton Hotel during the digging of new foundations, Carol is sent in to oversee whether they were in any way suspicious, or a legacy of the hotel's previous incarnation as part of the local Abbey. But the discovery of the bodies coincides with the hotel being burned to the ground, and Carol realises that she's got a very current case on her hands. She calls Tony in when it becomes apparent that someone is killing people in a way that Norton hasn't seen since it burned witches back in the middle ages. Needless to say, Brandon isn't too chuffed to have nothing to brief the press with apart from Tony's theory that the same killer could somehow be reaching a long arm over five centuries of murder. Tony and Carol are forced to challenge all that they thought they knew, as it is a case rich in the inexplicable. This killer forces them to test not only their science and experience, but also their very beliefs.
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The Bill - Season 5 - Episode 93
Conway talks to the relief about image. ""Efficient service with a smile"". Martella is asked to do surgery that afternoon. Booze has been found in the locker room. Conway is on the war path. Edwards goes for counseling. Taffy thinks it will be a one-off but the counselor thinks different. The counselor thinks he made headway until Taffy makes a comment about wasting time. Taffy sends his wife to Wales to look for a house for them. Able on a bike catches a lady getting out of a car used in a wages snatch. Stamp is not happy he has to transport the dog handler around.
#19 - Gone Fishing
The Bill - Season 5 - Episode 96
Carver goes to the hospital to see how a victim of a hit-and-run accident is. Roach thinks it is attempted murder and although she says her husband didn't do it she is lying.
#20 - Nothing Ventured
The Bill - Season 9 - Episode 155
George is chasing a suspect but loses him. Steve searches the area and spots him. When caught he has just dropped some LSD tabs. The suspect tries to do a deal with the D.I. about getting bail to attend his brother's wedding. Regional Crime Squad:Drugs are in the station and organising a raid on the factory. Meadows gets upset because of a missing witness and Meadows wants the D.I. to go and talk to the witness. The D.I. wants to be in on the drug raid. Haines talks to the very scared witness. Haines is head hunted back to the drug squad. Meadows is not happy when told by Brownlow.
#21 - Darkness Before Dawn
The Bill - Season 10 - Episode 3
Sgt Boyden and Polly are on patrol and discuss Reg's plans for a parachute jump. Polly takes a visit to a tower block where a domestic has been reported. There doesn't appear to be anyone in although the tv is still on. A body is noticed under the balcony and on checking they discover she jumped with her baby. Inspector Monroe comes down and talks to the man who reported the disturbance. Meadows and Carver also come down. Boyden finds a man sitting by the side of the road, who turns out to be the baby's father. When interviewed he has problems answering the questions. He came down from Scotland to try to be a family.
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The Bill - Season 6 - Episode 30
Burnside is talking to a snout about a delivery going through couriers. Tosh temporarily breaks the chain. The contents of the bag are guns not drugs as Burnside thought.
#23 - Blue Eyed Boy
The Bill - Season 6 - Episode 28
Burnside moans about the result of a court case. Melvin comes in late and forgot he was due in court the day before. Melvin's honesty is being questioned after a burglary. He is not behaving as usual. He is going on holiday to Hong Kong with a barrister.
#24 - Close To Home
The Bill - Season 6 - Episode 52
Ackland is called to a hospital where a doctor is concerned about child abuse. Another child could have done it. Cryer is having problems with his son.
#25 - Effective Persuaders
The Bill - Season 6 - Episode 88
DC's Carver and Martella, DS Grieg, WPC Ackland, PC Quinnan and DI Burnside go on an interview technique training course. During role-play, Frank has to act as a knicker thief, while Jim takes his domestic problems out on Dave Quinnan - violently. [Source: jimsgirl]
#26 - One of Those Days
The Bill - Season 6 - Episode 85
Loxton and Ackland argue about height requirements. They are called to an RTA where a pregnant woman was involved in a hit-and run at a crossing. She later loses her baby. The driver comes in to report the accident after he has sobered up. Brownlow is back from a conference and wants to interview all the female officers in the station.
#27 - Instant Response
The Bill - Season 10 - Episode 106
A couple of kids in a stolen Jaguar are causing all sorts of trouble and accidents throughout Sun Hill. PC Tony Stamp and PC Reg Hollis pursue in the Area Car, but all police efforts to stop the car fail. The kids seem to always be one step ahead of the police, until Stamp realises they must have a police radio or scanner. Changing frequencies, they force the Jag into an abandoned bottling plant, where the driver, Rob Orme, has vowed to 'teach the police a lesson' after his father has been sentenced to twelve years in prison. Climbing to the roof of the building, Rob taunts Stamp and Ch. Insp. Derek Conway as they try to talk him down, but accidentally slips and falls to his death.
#28 - Dancers
The Bill - Season 12 - Episode 45
Ch. Supt. Brownlow organises a tea dance for the Met Police Pensioners & Widows society. PCs Jarvis and Quinnan spend the afternoon dancing with admiring elderly ladies, WPC Polly Page is harrassed by a wheelchair-bound admirer, and PC Reg Hollis does a magic show. Brownlow is dreading the arrival of Geoffrey Allerton, an ex-copper who goes out of his way to complain about everything. When the minivan misses Allerton, Brownlow asks PC Tony Stamp to pick him up on the way to the bakery to pick up some cakes. When Stamp steps out of the bakery, he is horrified to find Brownlow's car has been stolen whilst Allerton was buying some tobacco. Packing Allerton and the cakes onto a bus, a desperate Stamp tries to retrieve Brownlow's car after it is impounded. When Allerton arrives at the dance at last, he causes a fuss when he recognises an armed blagger from a fifteen year old case at the wedding next door.
#29 - Badlands
The Bill - Season 15 - Episode 13
DS John Boulton is determined to catch a pair of brutal thieves, and he is certain that local crook Mick Glover is one of them. Ignoring protests from Uniform, who already have Glover under surveillance, Boulton leads a disasterous raid on Glover's flat, which puts PCs Quinnan and Garfield's informant Janie in grave danger. When Quinnan and Garfield find Janie's flat on the Jasmine Allen estate vandalised, Quinnan pursues the suspects, but finds himself seperated from Garfield, who can only watch in horror as his friend is beaten and stabbed by a gang of youths.