The BEST episodes of The Bill season 15

#1 - No Love Lost

Season 15 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/2/1999

Boyden picks up an attractive young girl at a nightclub but quickly realises that she was not as old as he thought.

#2 - The Wrong Horse

Season 15 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/28/1999

Garfield and Hagen are assigned to protect a horse jockey due to give evidence against a corrupt bookmaker.

#3 - 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.

#4 - 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.

#5 - 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.

#6 - 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.

#7 - 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.

#8 - Good Relations

Season 15 - Episode 42 - Aired 7/13/1999

Things always seem to turn sour as Reg's caravan becomes the target of a young arsonist on its triumphant return to the streets of Sun Hill.

#9 - Push It

Season 15 - Episode 35 - Aired 6/15/1999

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.

#10 - Makeover

Season 15 - Episode 30 - Aired 5/11/1999

It's Jim Carver's first day back in uniform, and he puts up with some good-natured ribbing from his new colleagues. Paired with P.C. Luke Ashton, they are called to the Canley Arms Hotel, where the landlord has been brutally attacked and robbed. When D.C. Rod Skase and Carver's replacement, D.C. Danny Glaze, arrive to investigate, Carver can't help putting his detective skills back to work - while following a lead on the case, he gets into trouble with Sgt. Boyden when he leaves Ashton dealing with a gang of teenage shoplifters on his own. Forensic evidence points to the Baker brothers, and Carver's persistence pays off when he finds out the location of the missing brother, Mark Baker.

#11 - True Lies

Season 15 - Episode 28 - Aired 5/4/1999

PC Harker is informed from a woman about a robbery taking place the next night, however Boyden questions this information.

#12 - Look Away Now

Season 15 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/22/1999

PC Harker comes into loggerheads with CID on how to deal with a problem family.

#13 - Pressure Point

Season 15 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/20/1999

DC Proctor attempts to make a name for himself in CID whilst Lennox learns about forensic science.

#14 - 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.

#15 - On Air

Season 15 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/23/1999

Conway gets beginner's nerves on his first radio talk show, but has to find his feet fast when a caller starts confessing to a crime.

#16 - Eyes Everywhere

Season 15 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/4/1999

With PC Quinnan in a critical condition in St Hugh's Hospital, the police descend on the Jasmine Allen estate, determined to catch those responsible. PC Garfield manages to identify most of the gang, and a young boy, Kevin White, bought in for questioning names them as the 'Sun Hill Massive'. Garfield and DS Boulton come to blows when Boulton denies any responsiblity for the attack on Quinnan. Acting on a tip-off, the police raid Mick Glover's flat again, finding he is responsible for the burgleries, and that his son Ben and Kevin White were the ones who stabbed Quinnan.

#17 - Under Duress

Season 15 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/23/1999

Boulton and Rawton clash when a house fire reveals a sordid secret.

#18 - Age of Chivalry

Season 15 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/11/1999

D.C.I. Burnside and D.C. Rawton pursue a serial rapist and his accomplice.

#19 - Long Term Investment

Season 15 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/1999

#20 - Follow Through

Season 15 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/1999

Kerry Holmes goes undercover in a women's prison after a serious assault takes place there.

#21 - Cracked Up

Season 15 - Episode 45 - Aired 7/22/1999

With Dale Smith on his case and his colleagues thinking he has lost his bottle, is this the end of the line for Luke Ashton?

#22 - Confessions of a Zookeeper

Season 15 - Episode 39 - Aired 7/1/1999

Conway organises a charity 'lock-up' in the Sun Hill cells.

#23 - 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.

#24 - Walking on Water

Season 15 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/26/1999

An informant turns up dead on his boat but questions are asked about this apparent suicide as well as Don Beech's loyalty.

#25 - Slinging Mud

Season 15 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/18/1999

Meadows goes to court and finds himself on trial.