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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - On The Take
Season 7 - Episode 98 - Aired 12/5/1991
D.S. Roach, along with the Robbery Squad, are staking out a security van, but the robbers never show up. Roach and D.I. Burnside believe that the robbers were tipped off. Meanwhile, Det. Supt. Meadows and AMIP are at Sun Hill dealing with an ongoing murder enquiry. One of Meadows' team comes under suspicion for corruption. A team from MS15 is brought in to investigate.
#6 - Losing It
Season 7 - Episode 85 - Aired 10/24/1991
P.C. Young discovers a suicide, and is deeply affected. Later, he visits Datta in the section house and attacks her.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#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 - With Intent
Season 7 - Episode 49 - Aired 6/18/1991
Lines and Carver are going to court about a burglary case. CPS are reducing the charges against 2 of the defendants. Carver discovers documents are missing that are needed in court and is not impressed during the afternoon training session with CPS. Munroe organises a training session about treatment of prisoners in cells ans a further session with the CPS.
#11 - Something Personal
Season 7 - Episode 47 - Aired 6/11/1991
Dashwood and Carver are driving along when they notice a man trying to break into a house. His girlfriend has overdosed. Dashwood spots a snout who tells him she took methamphenine. Mike is very relucant to hand it over to the drugs squad. Stamp chases a burglar and pulls his trousers off trying to stop him climbing over a wall. Datta and French spot the man jogging into a charity shop. The man denies knowing his trousers when interviewed in custody.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - Rules Of Engagement
Season 7 - Episode 34 - Aired 4/25/1991
Viv goes to a club. A bouncer is suspicious and when she goes outside to call in Burnside, he hits her over the back of the head. Her assailant is possibly involved with stolen property. Viv is worried her boyfriend is involved.
#15 - Cry Havoc
Season 7 - Episode 33 - Aired 4/23/1991
Sgt. Peters is stabbed, and P.C. Stringer unwittingly finds the culprit.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
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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.
#19 - The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Season 7 - Episode 100 - Aired 12/12/1991
D.C.I. Reid tries to overcome the continuing clash of personalities with D.I. Burnside, but finds support from the Assistant Commissioner. D.S. Roach has problems when a juvenile prisoner lies about his age, then has an epileptic fit in his cell. D.C. Carver finds himself in a conflict of loyalties: Reid wants him to finish a report, but Roach pushes him to interview his prisoner before Burnside drags him around after a suspected armed robber named Carson.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - Observation
Season 7 - Episode 40 - Aired 5/16/1991
Reid takes over a joint surveillance operation. Burnside and Martella are asked to leave the flat they are observing from by the drunken tenet who then beats his wife. When he comes into the street after her, Burnside arrests him.
#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 - The Whole Truth
Season 7 - Episode 95 - Aired 11/26/1991
W.P.C. Datta is in court to testify in a drink-driving trial, but the case is complicated by a mouthwash that the defendant claims to have taken. P.C. Stringer catches a car thief in a multi-storey car park but is set upon by his accomplices.
#25 - Discretion
Season 7 - Episode 93 - Aired 11/19/1991
On his first day as Home Beat Officer, P.C. Smollett investigates the mugging of an old lady and discovers a rather unusual high-rise supermarket. Meanwhile, P.C. Stringer deals with a boy found unconscious by the canal. W.P.C. Donna Harris arrives at the station. First appearance of W.P.C. Donna Harris (Louise Harrison).