The BEST episodes of The Bill season 9
Every episode of The Bill season 9, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Bill season 9!
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 Short Straw
Season 9 - Episode 36 - Aired 3/26/1993
When her car breaks down on the way to the station, DC Viv Martella misses an important CID briefing about an obbo on a suspected armed robbery, and is furious when she is taken off the case by DI Frank Burnside. As CID and SO19 wait outside the target, Martella and PC Tony Stamp follow up a simple case to arrest a suspected bag snatcher. As they wait outside the suspect's house, a van pulls up, obscuring their view. Having missed the briefing, Martella fails to recognise the van's occupants as the armed robbers, and when she approaches their van she is shot and killed. Stamp is wounded, but manages to give a description of the van which is spotted by a traffic police motorcycle. As the India 99 police helicopter and SO19 cars pursue Martella's killers across London, PC Loxton and WPC Ackland disobey Ch. Insp. Cato's orders and pursue the suspect vehicle in the Area Car. The vehicle hits a bulldozer and explodes, killing all inside.
#2 - Punch Drunk
Season 9 - Episode 57 - Aired 5/15/1993
Called to attend to a pub brawl, PC Tony Stamp and PC Dave Quinnan are stunned to find one man unconscious and the other Sun Hill's own DS Ted Roach. Roach is taken back to the station, and while DI Frank Burnside manages to pursuade the victim to drop the charges against him, nothing can be done when Roach headbutts Insp. Andrew Monroe during a heated argument. Ch. Supt. Brownlow calls in MS15 to investigate him, but Roach turns in his warrant card and walks out of the station.
#3 - Cry Baby
Season 9 - Episode 65 - Aired 6/3/1993
W.P.C. Page and Insp. Monroe attend what appears to be a cot death, but it transpires that the baby has a head injury. D.C.I. Meadows investigates.
#4 - Morning Has Broken
Season 9 - Episode 78 - Aired 7/3/1993
Monroe acts quickly after a tip-off about a robbery at a supermarket. Meanwhile CID try to foil a kidnapping and robbery plot, only to be impeded by lack of resources.
#5 - Swaps
Season 9 - Episode 79 - Aired 7/6/1993
P.C.s Loxton and Garfield swap jobs. Loxton has to deal with the new screen 'phones in the CAD room, while Garfield attends a fatal RTA.
#6 - A Matter of Life and Death
Season 9 - Episode 84 - Aired 7/17/1993
An elderly man is arresteed for beating his wife, but the couple have a bigger secret to hide. P.C. Quinnan is guilty of dangerous driving.
#7 - David and Goliath
Season 9 - Episode 92 - Aired 8/5/1993
A mother refuses to testify against her husband, accused of abusing their 14-year-old son. P.C. Jarvis intercedes on the boy's behalf.
#8 - Death of a Ladies' Man
Season 9 - Episode 149 - Aired 12/16/1993
A woman reports her husband missing. Greig and Croft establish that the man is a bigamist and an armed robber.
#9 - Recruiting Officer
Season 9 - Episode 52 - Aired 5/4/1993
Sgt. Maitland enlists P.C. McCann's help in reassuring a young black applicant whose wife has serious misgivings about the job. But McCann is discovering racism withing the force for himself.
#10 - Give 'em an Inch
Season 9 - Episode 53 - Aired 5/6/1993
Ch. Insp. Cato allows a demonstration to go ahead, despite being warned that it could be hijacked by racists. When things turn ugly, he is forced to reverse his previous orders.
#11 - The Fortress
Season 9 - Episode 32 - Aired 3/18/1993
The owner of an off-license makes a citizen's arrest of a young shoplifter, Maitland arrests the shopkeeper for use of unreasonable force.
#12 - On the Loose
Season 9 - Episode 42 - Aired 4/9/1993
Loxton and Garfield corner a savage pit bull terrier at an illegal dog fight. Boyden tracks down a pensioner who has turned to crime.
#13 - Family Values
Season 9 - Episode 83 - Aired 7/15/1993
P.C. Jarvis assists the investigation into a violent lorry hijack, where the driver suffered a fatal head injury.
#14 - Care in the Community
Season 9 - Episode 130 - Aired 11/2/1993
An old woman is found dead in an empty house and Quinnan and Garfield are called in to investigate. Jarvis arrests a violent youth for assault.
#15 - In Safe Hands
Season 9 - Episode 56 - Aired 5/13/1993
D.C. Lines and W.D.C. Morgan arrest two members of a shoplifting team.
#16 - Hearts and Minds
Season 9 - Episode 64 - Aired 6/1/1993
D.I. Burnside disagrees with Ch.Insp Conway's approach to a young offender.
#17 - Pride and Joy
Season 9 - Episode 60 - Aired 5/22/1993
When a young woman's car is stolen with a baby on board, CID fear an abduction and mount a search. P.C. Garfield tries to mediate with a private clamping firm.
#18 - Awaydays
Season 9 - Episode 59 - Aired 5/20/1993
An elderly ex-copper is in London to seatch for his estranged daughter and claims that he has been robbed in his hotel. D.C. Lines investigates.
#19 - Fall Out
Season 9 - Episode 58 - Aired 5/18/1993
With the departure of D.S. Roach, one of his informants wants out. Burnside and Monroe investigate threats against her.
#20 - By Hook or By Crook
Season 9 - Episode 54 - Aired 5/8/1993
D.S. Roach is disgusted when a judge halts the trial of a man accused of crippling a police officer, and decides to take matters into his own hands.
#21 - Sticks and Stones
Season 9 - Episode 50 - Aired 4/29/1993
When Lines hits the jackpot during a raid, it makes an already difficult court case for Greig even harder.
#22 - Double Enmity
Season 9 - Episode 39 - Aired 4/2/1993
Woods goes undercover as a contract killer to expose a woman who wants her husband killed.
#23 - In Broad Daylight
Season 9 - Episode 33 - Aired 3/19/1993
On the trail of two rapists, W.D.C. Morgan investigates an attempted abduction and put her life in danger.
#24 - You Don't Always Get What You Want
Season 9 - Episode 131 - Aired 11/4/1993
Quinnan and Ackland support a C.I.D. raid on the house of a burglary suspect. Croft and Greig persuade a young mother to help with their inquiries.
#25 - To Catch a Thief
Season 9 - Episode 101 - Aired 8/26/1993
D.C. Carver arrests a pickpocket.