The WORST episodes of The Bill

#1 - 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.

#2 - Sleeping With the Enemy

Season 15 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/25/1999

Gritty action with the boys and girls in blue; Burnside investigates a predatory gang of women with Lennox and Skase as bait.

#3 - 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.

#4 - Yesterday's Hero

Season 15 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/18/1999

Tension between DS Boulton and PC Garfield over Dave Quinnan's stabbing reaches boiling point on an obbo with PC Hollis. Garfield explodes when pushed too far, and he headbutts Boulton, nearly breaking his nose. It's up to Reg to step in and help Garfield come to terms with his feelings of helplessness over the incident. PC Dave Quinnan, still at St Hugh's, resolves to help Juke, a fellow patient who claims the police have done nothing to find the person who stabbed him, although he soon comes to realise that Juke's wounds are self-inflicted.

#5 - To Catch a Cobra

Season 15 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/25/1999

Burnside is on the trail of two Indian crime bosses but just how far is DS Boulton willing to help?

#6 - Piggy in the Middle

Season 15 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/1/1999

Luke catches two men trying to commit an arson attack in the dead of night.

#7 - Sex, Lies and Videotape

Season 15 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/6/1999

Ch. Supt. Brownlow has agreed for a fly-on-the-wall documentary crew to film in the station. D.S. Boulton and D.C. Carver soon become the subject of their attention, as they film a raid on a drug dealer that Boulton has been eyeing up for sometime.

#8 - Out and About

Season 15 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/8/1999

P.C. Quinnan is back from sick leave, but can he still cut it as a police officer?

#9 - On the Road

Season 15 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/15/1999

DCs Lennox and Rawton go to Salisbury to bring in a con-man for questioning, but he proves to be a slippery customer.

#10 - A Question of Trust (1)

Season 15 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/27/1999

Boulton pursues a suspect aggressively which leads to the suspects death.

#11 - Murder, What Murder?

Season 15 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/9/1999

DescriptionGarfield has got problems juggling a body with no head along with a clingy reporter who fancies him.

#12 - 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.

#13 - 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.

#14 - 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.

#15 - 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.

#16 - 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.

#17 - 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.

#18 - 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.

#19 - 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.

#20 - Strange Bedfellows

Season 14 - Episode 114 - Aired 12/11/1998

#21 - Dog Eat Dog

Season 14 - Episode 105 - Aired 11/13/1998

#22 - Indiscretion

Season 14 - Episode 106 - Aired 11/17/1998

#23 - The Rate for the Job

Season 14 - Episode 107 - Aired 11/20/1998

#24 - For Interest Only

Season 14 - Episode 108 - Aired 11/24/1998

Cheif Superintendent Brownlow attempts to solve a previoulsy unsolved jewellery robbery with the help of a criminal on his deathbed and DCI Meadows, although Conway doesn't prove much assistance.

#25 - The Fat Lady Sings

Season 14 - Episode 109 - Aired 11/27/1998

PC Quinnan and DC Kerry Holmes try to track down a mysterious opera singer connected with a shady criminal.