The BEST episodes of The Bill season 7
Every episode of The Bill season 7, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Bill season 7!
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 - Cold Turkey (2)
Season 7 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/4/1991
Dashwood talks to one of his snouts to find out the name of the man. June talks to the man on the phone after George left a phone outside the flat. Conway negotiates for the man to be shot if all options fail. Brownlow gives the go ahead to shoot the man.
#2 - The Better Part Of Valour
Season 7 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/21/1991
Burnside and Reed go to an accident involving a security van. Ted thinks it is an inside job. Ted finds a job application for a man with form. Tosh talks to the guard. Martella talks to a witness who is worried about the wrong people finding out. She is supposed to be in Scotland.
#3 - Out Of Order
Season 7 - Episode 83 - Aired 10/15/1991
P.C. Young reaches out to W.P.C. Datta and, when she rejects his advances, he sexually assaults her. P.C. Hollis arrests a credit card fraudster, and ends up clearing up a number of recent burglaries.
#4 - Losing It
Season 7 - Episode 85 - Aired 10/22/1991
P.C. Young discovers a suicide, and is deeply affected. Later, he visits Datta in the section house and attacks her.
#5 - The Best You Can Buy
Season 7 - Episode 42 - Aired 5/23/1991
June's case goes to court. She gives evidence as does Tony who is questioned as to being prejudiced towards the defendant as is dave. The defendant also gives evidence. The rest of the relief arrive in time to hear a not guilty verdict. Tony is angier than June.
#6 - They Also Serve
Season 7 - Episode 72 - Aired 9/5/1991
The relief is reserve troops for a demonstration. It is very boring waiting on waste ground. At a meal break, Delia, Norika and June find a distressed probationer in the toilets. Tempers are getting strained. Young is starting to question why he is still on the job. On the way back to the station the van is attacked by youths with sticks and petrol bombs. All the windows are broken and someone's arm catches fire.
#7 - Without Consent
Season 7 - Episode 38 - Aired 5/9/1991
A prostitute comes into the station to report a rape. Loxton tells her it is classed as non-payment of goods. June has problems making people treat it as a rape.
#8 - Hitting The Mark
Season 7 - Episode 76 - Aired 9/19/1991
D.I. Burnside hunts for the hired killer to prevent him from making his next hit. This episode continues the storyline from the previous episode.
#9 - Benefit of the Doubt
Season 7 - Episode 64 - Aired 8/8/1991
A barrister is arrested for GBH on a prostitute. He uses his phone call to ring D.A.C. Hicks. Brownlow is concerned about wrongful arrest. Greig gives Mike some disturbing news about the witness who sticks to her story. After being informed the victim was HIV positive the man is let go because of circumstantial evidence.
#10 - Jobs For The Boys
Season 7 - Episode 37 - Aired 5/7/1991
Burnside investigates a break in at a cash and carry. Jim is suspicious of the security guard. Some meat as well as cash was taken. Hollis sees an old man trying to take a packet of meat out of a car. The custody Sgt. is having a bad day and doesn't like briefs who don't give trouble. Norika and Tony bring in a man for the burglary at a second-hand shop who turns out to have robbed the cash and carry.
#11 - Cry Havoc
Season 7 - Episode 33 - Aired 4/23/1991
Sgt. Peters is stabbed, and P.C. Stringer unwittingly finds the culprit.
#12 - Caught Napping
Season 7 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/16/1991
The Metropolitan Police Serious Crimes Squad sweep into Sun Hill and commandeer the station's briefing room, setting a few noses out of joint in the process. They are there to investigate the murder of a police informant, who at the time of his death was under the protection of Sun Hill CID. DI Burnside and DS Roach come to blows when Roach refuses to share the blame for withdrawing officers from the safe house, and accuses Burnside of corruption.
#13 - Cold Turkey (1)
Season 7 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/2/1991
Tony and Dave go to a sudden death. Monroe arrives and thinks it is a suspicious death. The man was a locum working at the doctors. Dave and Tony are called to a flat where arguments were heard. A man is holding a child hostage. June takes a mother to a chemist. While in the chemist a customer becomes abusive when his prescription is not filled. Greig thinks he might have killed once already. Reg talks to a doctor about a break-in at her surgery where prescription pads were missing. Conway is there to negotiate.
#14 - Photo Finish
Season 7 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/12/1991
Datta is watching a pub when a youth is seen leaving with drugs. While reading a playboy in the boy's room, Garfield finds over £200 hidden in the magazine and an acqinance of the boy is seen going into the pub and then arrested of possible possession. Garfield thinks the boy, whose room they are using for the obbo, is a dealer. Sue gets a hot tip for a double but Steve never placed the bet. Her first horse won and the second horse had a photo before being confirmed as coming second by a nose.
#15 - Furthers
Season 7 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/28/1991
A man is murdered by a shotgun after talking to Dashwood. A man who has escaped from prison turns up in Dashwood's flat after he has put the safety chain on the door. A gunshot has been reported at Dashwood's because the escapee's girlfriend was shot. He turns the gun on himself after making Dashwood look like a prat.
#16 - Samaritan
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/29/1991
Stamp and Stringer come across a man and a woman struggling. Stamp grabs the woman who collapses. The man says he saw her wandering and went to help her and she attacked him with her nails. Initial reports from the hospital are that she was the victim of an attempted rape but the bruises were from an epileptic fit.
#17 - Bones of Contention
Season 7 - Episode 74 - Aired 9/12/1991
Sgt. Cryer investigates when anonymous letters expose P.C. Stringer's affair, in police time, with a prisoner's wife. W.P.C. Datta and P.C. Stamp lie in wait for a blackmailer. Ch. Insp. Conway is frustrated at a lack of promotion.
#18 - Bending the Rules
Season 7 - Episode 77 - Aired 9/24/1991
A yob arrested for shoplifting turns out to be a respected police officer. D.I. Burnside unravels the story of the change in his behaviour.
#19 - Lest We Forget
Season 7 - Episode 80 - Aired 10/3/1991
Ch. Supt. Brownlow is questioned by South Yorkshire Police about his involvement in a murder enquiry seventeen years before that led to a wrongful conviction.
#20 - Shots
Season 7 - Episode 87 - Aired 10/29/1991
Sgt. Cryer and Ch. Insp. Conway attend a briefing about the new Armed Response Vehicles. Meanwhile, P.C. Loxton takes the basic firearms training course, but shoots the wrong person in a training scenario.
#21 - Turning Back The Clock
Season 7 - Episode 92 - Aired 11/14/1991
DI Frank Burnside is determined to clear up a three-year-old case of robbery and murder when an old acquaintance is released from prison. DCs Jim Carver and Tosh Lines begin to have their doubts when they learn their tailing operation is "unofficial".
#22 - The Harder They Fall
Season 7 - Episode 46 - Aired 6/6/1991
Loxton is attacked after a break-in at a night club and helped by a cabbie who is a special constable. Loxton blacks out and can't remember the incident. One of his attackers later dies. Most of his collegues think Steve is lying about the memory loss. Meadows is back leading the murder squad.
#23 - A Woman Scorned
Season 7 - Episode 102 - Aired 12/19/1991
June and Ron call on a lady about her husband's dog who has dug up a skeleton in the garden. There is a new D. Supt. of the Murder Squad replacing Meadows. Reid talks to Burnside about paperwork.
#24 - Skint
Season 7 - Episode 78 - Aired 9/26/1991
It's P.C. Garfield's birthday, but a party only adds to his money troubles.
#25 - Your Shout
Season 7 - Episode 59 - Aired 7/23/1991
Cathy is spoken to by Brownlow about a promotion board. There is a possible child abduction and the mother is complaining they weren't fast enough. Cathy is feeling guilty about not noticing the call at shift change. Reters talks Monroe out of making an appearance at a pub where C relief is having a knees-up and trying to throw kegs over the wall.