The WORST episodes of The Bill

#1 - 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.

#2 - 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?

#3 - 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.

#4 - A Question of Trust (1)

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

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

#5 - 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.

#6 - 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.

#7 - 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.

#8 - 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.

#9 - 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.

#10 - 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.

#11 - 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.

#12 - 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.

#13 - 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.

#14 - 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.

#15 - 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.

#16 - 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.

#17 - 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.

#18 - 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.

#19 - Lucky Jim

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

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

#20 - Christmas Star

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

#21 - Team Play

Season 14 - Episode 111 - Aired 12/4/1998

Proctor and Lennox compete to take on the case of an abducted baby, but Lennox seems doomed to fail as he has to pass his safety training course.

#22 - Heat and Light

Season 14 - Episode 112 - Aired 12/8/1998

Holmes and Boulton investigate the latest in a long line of arson attacks.

#23 - Ticking Clocks

Season 14 - Episode 113 - Aired 12/10/1998

Holmes, Hagen and Ashton become embroiled in a baby abduction from his hospital bed. The baby taken by the woman who was supposed to be caring for him - the nurse.

#24 - Strange Bedfellows

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

#25 - Live and Ticking

Season 14 - Episode 115 - Aired 12/15/1998

Explosive stuff from Sun Hill as a bomb in the park is a bomb too many. But where are the other eight, and will they go off?