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 - A Gathering Storm
Season 16 - Episode 78 - Aired 11/21/2000
PC Smith is suspected of having racist or personal motives when he fails to respond to an urgent assistance call from PC McCann, who is badly beaten by a gang of neo-Nazi skinheads.
#2 - In Safe Hands
Season 16 - Episode 67 - Aired 10/13/2000
PC Sam Harker finds out that a 14-year-old boy has been sleeping with his foster mother. It's a dilemma, but Harker makes the painful decision to inform the Child Protection Team and the Social Services. DS Beech tries to get Boulton and Stanton on his side, while they try to find Lynette, their witness against Howard Fallon.
#3 - Find the Lady
Season 16 - Episode 68 - Aired 10/17/2000
DS Stanton and DS Boulton locate Lynette, their key witness against Howard Fallon, who orders Beech to stop her from testifying. Beech reaches out to Boulton to persuade him to give up Lynette, with tragic consequences.
#4 - Fifty-Fifty
Season 16 - Episode 69 - Aired 10/20/2000
The death of a colleague deeply affects Don Beech, prompting him to take the biggest gamble of his life.
#5 - The River
Season 16 - Episode 70 - Aired 10/24/2000
The corrupt DS Don Beech turns himself in to CIB to bargain with Det Supt Hodges, despite DS Stanton's pleas.
#6 - All Fall Down (1)
Season 16 - Episode 71 - Aired 10/27/2000
CIB sweep into Sun Hill and suspend the entire CID with immediate effect. As the disgraced detectives are interviewed to establish their connection to Don Beech, DCI Meadows hurriedly calls in some favours at Scotland Yard.
#7 - On the Hook (1)
Season 16 - Episode 73 - Aired 11/3/2000
The new CID team arrives at Sun Hill, along with the new Superintendent, Tom Chandler. DCI Meadows is facing a disciplinary hearing, but is ordered to lead a racial harassment investigation which has a personal aspect for him.
#8 - On the Hook (2)
Season 16 - Episode 74 - Aired 11/7/2000
Under pressure from the new superintendent to solve the Freeley murder case, DCI Meadows questions the prime suspects, and takes some risky shortcuts to keep his relationship with Helen Freeley secret.
#9 - A Girl's Best Friend
Season 16 - Episode 75 - Aired 11/10/2000
PCs Klein and Quinnan finds the body of a man who has died of a heart attack in a car. Quinnan tries to deliver the man's effects to his wife, which includes a gift for the man's mistress.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - In the Firing Line
Season 16 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/6/2000
PC Smith is working undercover as a bodyguard for a South African drug importer named Tony Rourke. Rourke offers Smith a contract to kidnap and torture a senior police officer to find the location of a police informer they need kept quiet.
#13 - Sorted
Season 16 - Episode 79 - Aired 11/24/2000
PC Klein spends all night DJing at a local nightclub, and lies to Sgt Cryer when he skips work the next day. Klein's career is on the line when Cryer finds out what really happened, and two witnesses in an extortion case accuse Klein of using drugs at the club the night before.
#14 - Team Colours
Season 16 - Episode 80 - Aired 12/1/2000
A post-match fight is being arranged between two rival gangs of football fans, and Sun Hill is the venue.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - Angel
Season 16 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/2000
Things turn nasty for Burnside when he tries to catch a male rapist turned murderer.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - Thug on the Tyne, Part 1
Season 16 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/11/2000
Northumbria Police arrest one 'Frank Bentley' with a boot full of drugs and a handgun, after a high speed car chase through Newcastle. 'Bentley' and his 'lawyer' Liz McAuley are actually DCI Frank Burnside and DS Liz Rawton on an undercover assignment to investigate corrupt CID officers in Newcastle.
#25 - Thug on the Tyne, Part 2
Season 16 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/13/2000
Burnside and Rawton's cover is nearly blown due to Rawton's family connections in Newcastle.