The BEST episodes directed by Robert Del Maestro
#1 - Episode 5
Mr Selfridge - Season 3 - Episode 5
Harry and Nancy's secret romance continues. There is a race for the post of deputy manager. Princess Marie is forced to reveal the truth about her situation.
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#2 - Episode 4
Mr Selfridge - Season 3 - Episode 4
Frank is horrified to realise that he might have been complicit in his own wife's attack. Violette has her eye on Victor. Henri and Agnes are struggling.
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Casualty - Season 28 - Episode 2
Nurse Rita is late for her first shift as she contends with an injured neighbour whose hoarding has got out of control, while Jamie bonds with a failed asylum seeker too scared to tell the authorities he's gay.
#4 - A Simple Sacrifice (2)
Waking the Dead - Season 1 - Episode 8
Boyd and the team continue their investigation of the Annie Kee case, and try to locate her son who was present during the murders.
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#5 - A Simple Sacrifice (1)
Waking the Dead - Season 1 - Episode 7
Boyd and the team decide to reopen the 25 year old case of Annie Keel, a woman who was tried and convicted of a double homicide solely based upon her own confession. Boyd doubts the validity of the conviction, and decides to dig deeper to possibly discover what really happened. Why did Annie confess? Did she really commit murder, or was she covering for someone else?
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#6 - Push It
The Bill - Season 15 - Episode 35
Jessica Orton is brought in for questioning, but is released without charge. When she returns home, PC Santini is waiting for her, desperate to know if she grassed him up. They fight, and Santini hits Jessica, knocking her down the stairs and killing her. Realising her house is being watched, he escapes out the back. Vicki Hagen finds a set of keys under Santini's bed which she brings to the station to return to him.
#7 - Integrity (2)
The Bill - Season 15 - Episode 57
The second of a two-parter as Smith's involvement with a dangerous racist puts Brownlow's covert operation in jeopardy - and Klein's career on the line.
#8 - Waiting For Frank
The Bill - Season 12 - Episode 103
DI Deakin poses as a nervous printer, waiting at the dog track to meet a mysterious man named ""Frank"" and a bent copper called ""Beech"". It all turns out to be an elaborate sting operation with Wimbledon police to catch a conman dealing in stolen credit cards.
#9 - The Fat Lady Sings
The Bill - Season 14 - Episode 109
PC Quinnan and DC Kerry Holmes try to track down a mysterious opera singer connected with a shady criminal.
#10 - Honeytrap
The Bill - Season 18 - Episode 67
Sam is convinced that Baxter is the Sun Hill serial killer, but DS Chiu is sceptical. Gina visits Debbie in the hospital to bring her Chandler's things, while back at the office, Jack and Mickey make up but Debbie is not about to forgive and forget.
#11 - Heaven's Calling
The Bill - Season 18 - Episode 68
The fourth victim of the serial killer is found on the banks of the Thames, just as Peter Baxter predicted. Despite Baxtor's confession and inside knowledge of the case, Sam begins to have serious doubts about his guilt.
#12 - Come Home To Roost
The Bill - Season 19 - Episode 33
The disappearance of a young girl prompts the relief to swallow their pride and call in retired sergeant Bob Cryer, who knows the family better than anyone — but his services are soon dispensed with when it becomes clear that his old-school methods aren't suited to Sun Hill's modern style of policing. Undeterred, the veteran plod teams up with his niece to finish the job, but it appears the suspect may be someone believed to be dead. Meanwhile, Osbourne ponders her future at the station following her brutal attack, and drug-addled Klein looks set to be found out when his colleagues raid the house where he is taking his first dose of crack, with the help of Boyden's daughter Amy.
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The Bill - Season 19 - Episode 34
With a five-year-old girl in hospital having accidentally ingested crack cocaine, the search is on to find her mother—and it's not long before Sgt Matt Boyden realises the missing woman is none other than his own tearaway daughter Amy. But the case takes on a different dimension for PC Gary Best when he discovers that colleague PC Nick Klein was also in the taxi that dropped the little girl off. Back at the station, a thief is at large and new boy PC Cameron Tait is in the frame, while Acting DI Sam Nixon faces facts when her trouble-making teenage daughter is brought in for being drunk and disorderly.
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The Bill - Season 19 - Episode 53
DC Ken Drummond's cover as a security guard has been blown, and he's been taken hostage by the Foster family. Archie Foster wants Drummond to help them raid the Metropolitan Police warehouse to steal millions of pounds worth of luxury sports cars - and as an incentive, he threatens Ken's family - both of Ken's families. Drummond's absence at the station goes unnoticed at first: Acting DI Samantha Nixon's family troubles come to a head, and after a confrontation with her daughter, Nixon decides to resign from the police to prove her love for her daughter, and uniform are kept busy by a series of bomb hoaxes organised by Foster. With the raid underway, Foster's plans begin to unravel - Drummond has to knock a fellow security guard unconscious, as well as put off a curious DS Debbie McAllister and DC Juliet Becker who turn up looking for him. As Foster and his gang make their escape, internal rivalries and a counter-raid by a rival gang see the body count rise ever higher, and DC Drummond
#15 - Kidnap and Ransom
The Bill - Season 20 - Episode 3
Bradford promises to release Kane's kids in exchange for Kane as a hostage, but when Gold refuses, Okaro overrides her decision. Bradford then insists Kane choose between his children. Forcing Kane to handcuff himself, Bradford relives the events of the past year, including the death of Kane's wife Tanya. The station is evacuated, and the TSG arrive to provide support. Bradford's stories become increasingly unbelievable, as she tells Kane that she was abducted by a serial killer as a child. Nixon and Sharpe trawl through Bradford's history and discover that she has been lying. When Bradford moves Kane out of range of the TSG probe, Okaro authorises TSG to force entry into the boiler room.
#16 - Dawn Morning Light
The Bill - Season 20 - Episode 4
TSG storm the boiler room and Supt. Adam Okaro arrests a screaming Cathy Bradford for murder. Despite his colleagues' warnings, DC Brandon Kane insists on returning to work at CID, but when he finds himself conned by an elderly woman for an insurance scam, he realises his mind isn't on the job any more. Kane goes to see Supt. Okaro and hands in his resignation, saying he wants to spend time with his kids. PC Gary Best is seconded to CID, and is temporarily partnered with DC Terry Perkins who barely tolerates his new sidekick. The pair investigate the mugging of a city trader by two homeless ex-servicemen. Terry is disgusted by the world the traders inhabit and is frustrated when he learns that the mugging was a revenge attack. When Gary goes out on his own initiative and almost blows the case, Terry takes matters into his own hands and threatens to reveal the trader's cocaine use. PC Jim Carver's wife Marie turns up, begging him not to proceed with the trial against her. When he refuse
#17 - Intervention
The Bill - Season 26 - Episode 22
When an abandoned car is discovers with traces of blood nearby, the team are called in to investigate. The car is discovered as belonging to businessman Ajay Kapur, but his family say that he flew to India before the car was found. When they investigate further the police discover that Mr Kapur did not go to India and that somebody was following him. Mrs Kapur then finally admits that her husband has been kidnapped. The team try to get him back without anyone being hurt.
#18 - Tough Love
Holby City - Season 11 - Episode 16
Ric's initiative for zero tolerance of patients who refuse to help themselves or abuse hospital staff makes it clear to Connie he has no intention of quitting as director of surgery. Joseph continues to be distracted by fears that Jac is pregnant, Maddy suffers after her night out with Tom, and Maria makes use of Sam's car but is upset by the realisation he has no plans to return from America.
#19 - Trust
Holby City - Season 11 - Episode 17
Annalese suspects Michael is being unfaithful and rummages through his belongings, hunting for evidence. Ric refuses to treat an obese man as part of his zero tolerance policy, but promises Connie he does not intend to stay long as director of surgery. Daisha's friends throw her a surprise birthday party, and Joseph continues to struggle with his guilt over his night with Jac.