The BEST episodes of The Bill season 16
Every episode of The Bill season 16, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Bill season 16!
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 - Lullaby (3)
Season 16 - Episode 55 - Aired 9/1/2000
PC Smith and Tim Tze are abducted by a money-laundering gang.
#2 - Touch and Go
Season 16 - Episode 65 - Aired 10/4/2000
Beech is alarmed when his mobile number is amongst the possessions of Rachel Booker, a dancer at one of Howard Fallon's clubs, when she is attacked.
#3 - Supping with the Devil
Season 16 - Episode 64 - Aired 10/3/2000
DS Don Beech is bribed by 'businessman' Howard Fallon to find who hijacked one of his lorries. DS Geoff Daly is suspicious when Beech tries to get involved with the investigation.
#4 - New Friends
Season 16 - Episode 63 - Aired 9/29/2000
Former DS Ted Roach, now working as a private investigator, helps Sun Hill CID nail local villain Mickey Owen.
#5 - Old Enemies
Season 16 - Episode 62 - Aired 9/26/2000
PC Carver stops a driver who appears a little the worse for wear – former DS Ted Roach. He opens up and says he is after a villain from his past, and rekindles his relationship with a former informant.
#6 - First Impressions (2)
Season 16 - Episode 61 - Aired 9/22/2000
PCs Hayward and Clarke try to redeem themselves after a disastrous first day, and decide to exact revenge on the wind-up merchants on the relief.
#7 - First Impressions (1)
Season 16 - Episode 60 - Aired 9/19/2000
Probationary PCs Ben Hayward and Roz Clarke arrive for their first day at Sun Hill, and are subjected to a series of wind-ups by the relief.
#8 - Some Like It Hot
Season 16 - Episode 59 - Aired 9/15/2000
DC Lennox is stung by comments about his physical fitness and determines to beat Ch. Supt. Brownlow at squash, as soon as he has arrested a villain from his past. PC Page reaches out to PC Quinnan after her stalking experience, but he rebuffs her.
#9 - Gentle Touch (3)
Season 16 - Episode 58 - Aired 9/12/2000
PC Page learns what it's like to be a victim of crime as the crazed stalker targets her, making nuisance calls and breaking into her flat. DC Lennox and DC Glaze focus their investigation on Emma Roberts's boss, and discover he had an intriguing visitor in prison.
#10 - Gentle Touch (2)
Season 16 - Episode 57 - Aired 9/8/2000
As her friendship with stalking victim Emma Roberts develops, PC Polly Page is determined to find the stalker and starts to believe that he might be closer than she thought.
#11 - Gentle Touch (1)
Season 16 - Episode 56 - Aired 9/5/2000
A terrified young woman fears that she has become the victim of a stalker. But as PC Polly Page investigates the case she finds that she too is being drawn into a nightmare world of unseen terror.
#12 - Fake Fur
Season 16 - Episode 66 - Aired 10/6/2000
Another dancer at Howard Fallon's club reveals a money laundering operation to DS Stanton and DS Boulton.
#13 - Lullaby (2)
Season 16 - Episode 54 - Aired 8/29/2000
PC Smith gets closer to Tim Tze as the search for his parents continues. DI Deakin discovers that the family's restaurant has been put up for sale and uncovers details of an extramarital affair.
#14 - Lullaby (1)
Season 16 - Episode 53 - Aired 8/25/2000
PC Smith takes a young Chinese boy under his wing, after the disappearance of his parents.
#15 - Doppelganger
Season 16 - Episode 52 - Aired 8/22/2000
Sgt. Boyden goes undercover at an illegal poker game to catch a man impersonating him to confiscate the winnings.
#16 - Time to Kill
Season 16 - Episode 51 - Aired 8/15/2000
Sgt. Ackland adopts a new "virtual" identity to trap a sinister cyberstalker who is dating and attacking women.
#17 - No Man's Land
Season 16 - Episode 50 - Aired 8/8/2000
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.
#18 - No-one's That Honest
Season 16 - Episode 49 - Aired 8/1/2000
Ch. Insp. Conway is astounded when an elderly man (and former police officer) turns up at the station with a suitcase containing half a million pounds, which he claims he found on the street. As P.C. Rickman counts the money, Conway decides to do some digging, as surely no-one could be that honest.
#19 - Say It With Flowers
Season 16 - Episode 48 - Aired 7/25/2000
DCs Glaze and Holmes investigate the apparent suicide of a local councillor and uncover a plot to pervert the course of justice by ensuring that massage parlours with links to the local freemasons' lodge are not raided.
#20 - Bad Habits
Season 16 - Episode 47 - Aired 7/18/2000
PC Smith carries out the wrongful arrest of a drugs rehabilitation worker for possession of illegal substances, and is forced to confront his racial prejudice.
#21 - Caught Short
Season 16 - Episode 46 - Aired 7/11/2000
DC Lennox has to decide where his loyaltes lie when he sees his wife visit a suspect's home.
#22 - Behind Enemy Lines
Season 16 - Episode 77 - Aired 11/17/2000
DC Spears and PC Smith are taken hostage when an armed bank raid goes terribly wrong.
#23 - The Trial of Eddie Santini
Season 16 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/21/2000
Santini goes on trial at the Old Bailey accused of the murder of Jessica Orton, but tries to talk to CIB and implicate Quinnan and Rawton. A prison guard tells Santini that Sherman's drugs charges are being dropped in favour of conspiracy to murder Santini and Fox, who turns up dead in her hotel room after an apparent suicide. With Ferguson executed and Timpney taken on side by Sherman's heavies, Santini's trial starts falling apart. Hagen is discredited by her Sun Hill colleagues when she lies under oath and breaks down in the witness box after being caught out. With Santini found not guilty, he is warned by his recently released cellmate that he is in grave danger from Sherman's heavies.
#24 - Kiss Off Part 2
Season 16 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/18/2000
Santini is determined to find out if Jess Orton has grassed on him, and when he breaks into her home to challenge her, he causes her to fatally fall down the stairs. Fox is ordered off the case by DCI Pallister and warned that if her actions directly resulted in her death, then she could be facing criminal charges. Vicky plugs DS Timpney for information, suspicious that Santini may not be telling the whole truth. Desperate to conceal his involvement with the Ortons, Santini and Fox find themselves captured by Sherman and Ferguson, and facing possible execution. Fox believes she has a confession for Orton's murder and is attacked by Santini, but after their rescue, it's Santini's girlfriend Hagen who nails him for the murder.
#25 - Bad For Your Health (2)
Season 16 - Episode 84 - Aired 12/19/2000
Klein is missing from morning parade, and is later found injured in a crashed van belonging to the McBride cigarette smuggling gang. DS McAllister is determined to prove that Klein is corrupt and involved with the gang.