The WORST episodes of The Bill

#1 - Borderline

Season 15 - Episode 38 - Aired 6/29/1999

New PC Cass Rickman loses a gun that Beech believes was used in a recent shooting.

#2 - Back to Basics

Season 15 - Episode 29 - Aired 5/6/1999

Jim Carver is due for tenure in 2 months, which means he will have to go back to uniform and transfer to a different station, but his old friend and trainer June comes up with an alternative compromise.

#3 - Makeover

Season 15 - Episode 30 - Aired 5/11/1999

It's Jim Carver's first day back in uniform, and he puts up with some good-natured ribbing from his new colleagues. Paired with P.C. Luke Ashton, they are called to the Canley Arms Hotel, where the landlord has been brutally attacked and robbed. When D.C. Rod Skase and Carver's replacement, D.C. Danny Glaze, arrive to investigate, Carver can't help putting his detective skills back to work - while following a lead on the case, he gets into trouble with Sgt. Boyden when he leaves Ashton dealing with a gang of teenage shoplifters on his own. Forensic evidence points to the Baker brothers, and Carver's persistence pays off when he finds out the location of the missing brother, Mark Baker.

#4 - Tinderbox

Season 15 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/18/1999

Senior officers at Sun Hill and Barton Street are dragged off to a team-building exercise.

#5 - Set-Up

Season 15 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/25/1999

A young gypsy girl is attacked in the street and Holmes suspects a racial motive.

#6 - Lone Ranger

Season 15 - Episode 33 - Aired 6/1/1999

PC 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. At parade, Sgt. Bob Cryer assigns the relief a door-knocking campaign to warn the elderly residents of the area about two bogus callers posing as social workers who are responsible for a string of robberies. Leaving PC Hagen to cover for him, Santini meets Jessica, but not before hearing the culprits have been following the local Meals-On-Wheels van. Jessica has met up with an old friend, Ferguson, who is a big-time drugs importer. She wants Eddie to pose as her husband when they next meet to seal the deal. When Eddie returns to duty, Cryer is furious. An old army Major has had all his medals stolen by the bogus callers, and Santini had neglected to warn him. A desperate Santini gets Hagen to investigate the Major, and finds his claim is a scam.

#7 - Old Flame

Season 15 - Episode 34 - Aired 6/8/1999

As he and PC Quinnan investigate a burglar alarm, PC Eddie Santini sees Jessica Orton meeting covertly with Ferguson. Making excuses, Santini borrows the panda car and races to the Ortons' club where he confronts Jessica. As she storms off, there is a huge explosion. Santini is shocked when one of the officers assigned by AMIP to investigate the explosion is his old nemesis, DS Rosie Fox. Fox is suspiscious of Santini's involvement, but her colleagues put it down to the animosity between them. As Santini returns to his flat, where his lover PC Vicky Hagen is waiting, he is kidnapped by Ferguson who assigns him the task of picking up a consignment of drugs from Amsterdam.

#8 - Push It

Season 15 - Episode 35 - Aired 6/15/1999

Jessica Orton is brought in for questioning, but is released without charge. When she returns home, PC Santini is waiting for her, desperate to know if she grassed him up. They fight, and Santini hits Jessica, knocking her down the stairs and killing her. Realising her house is being watched, he escapes out the back. Vicki Hagen finds a set of keys under Santini's bed which she brings to the station to return to him.

#9 - Kiss Off

Season 15 - Episode 36 - Aired 6/22/1999

Vicki Hagen finds Eddie Santini's tickets to Amsterdam, and questions him about them, but he is evasive. DCI Pallister takes DS Fox off the Jessica Orton case after her accusations against Santini, but she decides to do some investigation of her own. Santini, meanwhile, acquires a gun and some Class-A drugs to plant in Ferguson's boss's house when DS Timpney and the Area Drugs Squad raid it. Fox stumbles upon the house and is captured by Ferguson. His boss Mr Sherman is displeased that Santini allowed a police officer to find them. When Area Drugs arrive at Sun Hill for the raid, CID realise that both Santini and Fox are in trouble. Sure enough, Ferguson's radio scanner warns him of the forthcoming raid and he locks Santini in the same room as Fox. The two argue, but are pulled apart when Santini attacks Fox. She manages to escape, and Sherman's men are intercepted by SO19. Back at Sun Hill, Fox realises the keys in Hagen's possession are Jessica Orton's - and she arrests Santini for murder.

#10 - Foreign Body

Season 15 - Episode 37 - Aired 6/24/1999

An armed robber dies after his car crashes during a chase with the police, and the body of an English woman is found in the boot. When it appears she has been murdered, D.C.I. Meadows and D.C. Skase head to France to interview the suspect's sister.

#11 - A Question of Trust (2)

Season 15 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/29/1999

Boulton awaits to hear back from the jury investigating his conduct regarding a criminals death whilst he was pursuing him.

#12 - Pillow Talk

Season 15 - Episode 40 - Aired 7/6/1999

Quinnan thinks guarding a prisoner in hospital will be easy, until an armed intruder walks in.

#13 - Heavy Plant Crossing

Season 15 - Episode 41 - Aired 7/8/1999

Garfield proposes to his girlfriend, whilst Boyden and Beech come to loggerheads whilst chasing gangs.

#14 - Big Fish

Season 15 - Episode 43 - Aired 7/15/1999

Despite what people say, they still catch the odd villain at Sun Hill as Deakin nets an international drug dealer.

#15 - Taxed

Season 15 - Episode 44 - Aired 7/20/1999

PC Ashton is faced with contemptuousness from Smithy after losing his nerve in a confrontation with a knife-wielding suspect.

#16 - Wedded Bliss

Season 15 - Episode 46 - Aired 7/27/1999

PC Smith and PC Rickman deal with a disturbance at a registry office that leads to Proctor and Holmes discovering an immigration scam.

#17 - Lucky Jim

Season 15 - Episode 47 - Aired 7/29/1999

Carver, depressed at the prospect of a life in uniform, develops a drink problem.

#18 - Screwdriver

Season 15 - Episode 48 - Aired 8/3/1999

Tom Proctor finds himself compromised when during a rape investigation he becomes enchanted by the shady female cop brought in to head the case.

#19 - Inside Out

Season 15 - Episode 49 - Aired 8/5/1999

Beech and Glaze go into a prison in the wake of a riot to investigate allegations of brutality by the warders.

#20 - Badlands

Season 15 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/2/1999

DS John Boulton is determined to catch a pair of brutal thieves, and he is certain that local crook Mick Glover is one of them. Ignoring protests from Uniform, who already have Glover under surveillance, Boulton leads a disasterous raid on Glover's flat, which puts PCs Quinnan and Garfield's informant Janie in grave danger. When Quinnan and Garfield find Janie's flat on the Jasmine Allen estate vandalised, Quinnan pursues the suspects, but finds himself seperated from Garfield, who can only watch in horror as his friend is beaten and stabbed by a gang of youths.

#21 - Time Gentlemen Please

Season 14 - Episode 118 - Aired 12/21/1998

#22 - Puzzled

Season 14 - Episode 119 - Aired 12/22/1998

#23 - Christmas Star

Season 14 - Episode 120 - Aired 12/24/1998

#24 - S.A.D.

Season 14 - Episode 121 - Aired 12/31/1998

Fun and games at Sun Hill in this Christmas special. P.C. Ashton and P.C. Harker bring an unwelcome visitor to Sun Hill, while Sgt. Boyden is put off mince pies for life.

#25 - Chasing Shadows

Season 15 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/14/1999

During an operation investigating a Cafe illegally operating as a Casino, an officer is kidnapped, prompting DCI Meadows and the team to search through the night.