The BEST episodes of The Bill season 15
Every episode of The Bill season 15, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Bill season 15!
The Bill follows the officers of Sun Hill, a Metropolitan Police station located in the fictional Borough of Canley in London's East End. Created in 1983 by Geoff McQueen as a one-off drama called "Woodentop", The Bill was spun off as a full series, and ran for over 26 years and 2,425 episodes. Covering both uniformed officers and CID detectives, the series is renowned for its accurate and authentic portrayal of policing in London.
#1 - Weekends Are For Wimps
Season 15 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/30/1999
Conway gives up his weekend to cover for Brownlow and Meadows, when a wanted man surfaces however he is faced with a moral dilemma.
#2 - Kiss Chase
Season 15 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/13/1999
PC Ashton is accused of getting a teenage girl pregnant and to make matters worse she is also the key witness in a domestic violence case.
#3 - Love and War (2)
Season 15 - Episode 65 - Aired 10/14/1999
Crime fighting takes a back seat as Quinnan and Garfield clash.
#4 - Wedded Bliss
Season 15 - Episode 46 - Aired 7/27/1999
PC Smith and PC Rickman deal with a disturbance at a registry office that leads to Proctor and Holmes discovering an immigration scam.
#5 - Love and War (1)
Season 15 - Episode 64 - Aired 10/12/1999
Garfield is anxious to know where he stands with Jenny; Quinnan is behaving strangely, and seems to have something to hide.
#6 - Look Again
Season 15 - Episode 63 - Aired 10/7/1999
Poor old Reg Hollis faces tragedy when he uncovers a protection racket on a housing estate.
#7 - Treading Water
Season 15 - Episode 62 - Aired 10/5/1999
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...
#8 - Trade-Off
Season 15 - Episode 61 - Aired 9/30/1999
Beech pulls rank when Glaze arrests one of his informants, and they agree on a deal which Glaze lives to regret.
#9 - The Three Sergeants
Season 15 - Episode 60 - Aired 9/28/1999
Sgt. Matt Boyden is not looking forward to another night shift in Custody, but a noisy prisoner demanding food turns out to be the least of his worries. Sgt. June Ackland and PC Dale Smith bring in a drunk and disorderly vagrant who they nickname 'Olly'. Chaos sets in as a drink-driver, some cat-fighting prostitutes, an immigration officer with two deportees and two lay visitors conducting a surprise inspection arrive. As the F.M.E. takes a blood test from the drink driver, Boyden has Olly placed in a cell to rest. When the lay visitors inspect his cell, he is dead. Faced with a death in custody, Ch. Supt. Brownlow calls in CIB, and the three Sergeants on duty, Boyden, Ackland and Cryer argue amongst themselves over who was responsible. Ackland manages to find Olly's real identity, and his widow threatens to sue the Met, but June talks her out of it and discovers that his wife blames herself for his death.
#10 - Millennium
Season 15 - Episode 59 - Aired 9/23/1999
It only comes around every 1,000 years, but life must go on for the Sun Hill team as it grapples with millennial madness; DS Claire Stanton has a tough first day in CID.
#11 - Cold Calling
Season 15 - Episode 58 - Aired 9/21/1999
Rawton and Meadows clash when a violent ex-con returns to Sun Hill.
#12 - Integrity (2)
Season 15 - Episode 57 - Aired 9/19/1999
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.
#13 - Integrity (1)
Season 15 - Episode 56 - Aired 9/16/1999
Sun Hill efforts to protect the organisers of a community festival are in vain when the convoy is attacked. New PC Nick Klein is friends with the organiser, Anil Indrani, but the brother of Klein's girlfriend Pam is arrested by PC Dale Smith as he rushes to fight off the attackers. Paired with Smithy the next day, Klein manages to defuse a tense situation when Smith confronts a group of black youths at the market. That night, Indrani's club is raided by officers from Barton Street, led by DS Vickers. Klein is certain that Vickers team has planted drugs on the Billy the DJ, and begins to suspect they were also responsible for the attack on Indrani. PC Smith is in trouble: the youths at the market were undercover police officers conducting an 'integrity test' and Smithy's attitude to racial matters leaves a lot to be desired. As Klein lights up a joint at Pam's house, DS Vickers raids the place and threatens to arrest him for possession unless he helps him destroy Indrani.
#14 - Lola
Season 15 - Episode 55 - Aired 9/1/1999
DI Deakin leads CID and Uniform on a series of disasterous raids to catch alleged DSS fraudsters, while PC Polly Page is given the boring task of serving a court order. As she does so, she hears scratching at the wall from the house next door, which they believe is a trapped dog. With the help of the RSPCA, they force entry and discover a young Spanish woman named Lola imprisoned in a hidden cellar. The owner of the house, Ricky Lee, insists that Lola is a fugitive from a Dutch prison who stowed away in his van and took refuge in his house. When Lola disappears from the hospital, Page and DC Kerry Holmes pay Ricky Lee another visit. Page is suspicious and asks to see the cellar again, but Lee attacks them. Once subdued, they find Lola in the cellar once again, and it looks as if Lee was planning to kill her.
#15 - Sunhill Boulevard
Season 15 - Episode 54 - Aired 8/31/1999
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.
#16 - Rock Bottom
Season 15 - Episode 53 - Aired 8/24/1999
Harker and Daly lock horns over the integrity of a reformed drug dealer.
#17 - The Only Way Is Up
Season 15 - Episode 52 - Aired 8/17/1999
Meadows has a crisis on his hands when he fails to hear a cry for help.
#18 - Ring-a-Ring O'Roses
Season 15 - Episode 51 - Aired 8/12/1999
A punter could be trying to infect the prostitutes of Sun Hill with the HIV virus; Ackland and Rawton investigate.
#19 - Critical Mass
Season 15 - Episode 50 - Aired 8/10/1999
Insp. Monroe is skeptical but cautious when a young woman, Emma Crawford, rings Sun Hill and says she thinks her boyfriend may have hidden a bomb in the station.
#20 - Inside Out
Season 15 - Episode 49 - Aired 8/5/1999
Beech and Glaze go into a prison in the wake of a riot to investigate allegations of brutality by the warders.
#21 - Screwdriver
Season 15 - Episode 48 - Aired 8/3/1999
Tom Proctor finds himself compromised when during a rape investigation he becomes enchanted by the shady female cop brought in to head the case.
#22 - Lucky Jim
Season 15 - Episode 47 - Aired 7/29/1999
Carver, depressed at the prospect of a life in uniform, develops a drink problem.
#23 - All Change
Season 15 - Episode 87 - Aired 12/31/1999
It's New Year's Eve 2000, all police leave has been cancelled and even CID officers are back in uniform for the night.
#24 - Homework
Season 15 - Episode 76 - Aired 11/30/1999
Sgt. June Ackland is planning a romantic evening alone with her new boyfriend, Steve Bryant, when her neighbour arrives from across the street with a shotgun she found under the floorboards of her lodger's room. CID arrive and want to set up an obbo - with June's flat as the perfect location.
#25 - Blowing It All Away
Season 15 - Episode 86 - Aired 12/30/1999
PC Rickman becomes increasingly friendly with a drug user and soon comes under suspicion of using drugs herself.