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 - Kiss Off Part 1
Season 16 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/2/2000
Eddie Santini tries to convince his lover, Jess Orton, to set him up with some drug dealers – he wants out of Sun Hill, and DS Timpney, his friend in Area Drugs, has promised him a place in the squad if Santini can get him evidence on them. However, before he has the chance, the Ortons' club is firebombed, and Santini is shocked when one of the officers assigned by AMIP to investigate the explosion is his old nemesis, DS Rosie Fox. Fox is convinced that Santini is linked to the events in question, but her AMIP DCI, Richard Pallister, believes otherwise. When Santini manages to locate Jess Orton, he persuades her to make a false confession to bombing the club in order to gain the trust of the suspected drug dealers.
#2 - Scoop
Season 16 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/1/2000
Ch. Insp. Conway encounters the "Sun Hill Angels" at a function, an escort service which DS Boulton believes is also dealing in drugs. Their investigation and sting operation against the Angels goes wrong when Conway's 'escort' turns out to be an undercover reporter, conducting her own sting on a senior police officer.
#3 - 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.
#4 - Bad For Your Health (1)
Season 16 - Episode 83 - Aired 12/15/2000
A series of brutal beatings reveals a turf war between two rival gangs of cigarette smugglers, and PC Klein is abducted by the McBride gang when he tries to buy a mixing desk.
#5 - Friends
Season 16 - Episode 82 - Aired 12/12/2000
A raid on a brothel uncovers several illegal immigrants from Croatia forced to work as prostitutes.
#6 - Two Way Burn
Season 16 - Episode 81 - Aired 12/5/2000
Two young girls are trapped in a house fire, and end up in hospital in a critical condition. When the fire brigade turns up evidence of arson, DCI Meadows is assigned to lead the investigation, with DCs Webb and Spears.
#7 - Carnival
Season 16 - Episode 76 - Aired 11/14/2000
DC Glaze and PC McCann end up at loggerheads over each other's attitudes to policing when they work together to investigate a drugs case. A heated conversation and a brush with death for Glaze during the London Carnival inspire both officers to change their ways.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - White Lies
Season 16 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/23/2000
A Barton Street PC is stabbed when he pursues two robbery suspects into Sun Hill. A black youth, identified as Mark Okin, is found bashed and unconscious at about the same time. PC Jim Carver is assigned to the Okin family in his new role as Family Liaison Officer, but further investigation by CID makes Mark a suspect in PC Brennan's stabbing. Carver is horrified when DS Daly wants him to use his position of trust with the Okin family to collect evidence against Mark.
#12 - Warm Bodies (1)
Season 16 - Episode 30 - Aired 5/2/2000
A man is found beaten up behind a club belonging to Vince Carter. Was he beaten up for selling drugs on the club which Vince tries to keep clean? A young woman is hit by a car which doesn't stop, but a blind witness claims it was a 4x4 that hit her deliberately. DS Boulton doubts him until they find the 4x4 burnt out. The young woman is the daughter of Carter's accountant. Is there a link? DS Stanton makes a TV appeal for witnesses to the beating. Shortly after the young man is attacked in the hospital. Claire rushes over but someone in a 4x4 tries to run her off the road and rolls her car.
#13 - Wheels
Season 16 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/27/2000
Sgt. Boyden, DC Proctor and PC Hagen hit the streets of Sun Hill in the station's new "Crime Car", an unmarked rapid-response vehicle introduced as one of the Chief Super's initiatives. Borough Commander Mannion springs a surprise visit on Sun Hill, which unfortunately coincides with an electrical fault in CAD, a wrongful arrest by Proctor, and the impoundment and eventual destruction of the Crime Car.
#14 - Over the Edge
Season 16 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/20/2000
Ch. Supt. Brownlow and Ch. Supt. Mannion are on the panel for a Metropolitan Police hearing against a PC who is charged with disobeying a direct order which resulted in the serious injury of another officer. Mannion is easily convinced of the constable's guilt, but Brownlow isn't so sure.
#15 - Take It or Leave It
Season 16 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/18/2000
DC Holmes investigates a suspected money-launderer named Terry Jowit, who is wanted by police in Scotland. Holmes discovers a cheque in Jowit's mail from an antiques dealer, which leads her to suspect that he buys expensive antiques with 'dirty money' as a means of laundering it. What Holmes doesn't count on is antique dealer Judy Ryan having a tape of DS Beech accepting a bribe, and Beech will do anything to keep it a secret.
#16 - Protect and Survive
Season 16 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/13/2000
New DC Mickey Webb rankles Sgt. Ackland with his attitude towards the case of violent prison escapee Craig Ronson. As the injuries pile up in an already short-staffed uniform relief, Ronson is finally captured on the Jasmine Allen estate, and Webb realises he's been playing them from the start.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.