The BEST episodes written by Garry Lyons
#1 - A Fair Appraisal
The Bill - Season 5 - Episode 88
Taffy is up for APA and is wound up by Tony. Taffy goes to deal with an alarm at a warehouse. Turns out to be an actual break in instead of a fault with the alarm. He refuses to anyone about his problems. Roach and Carver nick a couple for possesion of drugs. The man gives Burnside the name of the man who gave them to him and Conway pulls the men off the job before they can blow aCustoms and Excise operation.
#2 - What the Butler Saw
Heartbeat - Season 7 - Episode 11
A man has been shot on the moors. A man named Ruxby was in the vicinity when the incident occurred, so he becomes a suspect. It turns out that he was only shooting rabbits at the time. One of Maggie's patients gets a new butler, but Eileen becomes suspicious when a few items go missing. Other thefts have occurred including a stolen pool table that is sold on to Claude. Gina is also thrilled to learn that she is now the licensee of the pub, but she feels Steve is trying to take over. Greengrass arranges to take bets on a pool game.It turns out that the butler had been going under a number of false identities and had been responsible for the shooting and burglaries. Nick tells Claude the pool table is stolen and its taken away. Claude has to find a replacement, and he does, but its a snooker table he later realises the balls are too big for the pockets! Maggie is surprised when her husband turns up in Ashfordly.
#3 - Miss Cackle's Birthday Surprise
The Worst Witch - Season 1 - Episode 7
Mildred is warned that if she doesn't behave, she may not be allowed to go on the half term trip. Mildred does her very best to behave. No one believes she can manage it. On the last day before the trip, Mildred feels that she can do it. It's also Miss Cackle's birthday. Just before they enter the hall for the celebrations, Enid drags Mildred into a cupboard and Ethel locks the door. Mildred is upset, as she now believes that she won't be going on the trip after all. They see a window from which they might be able to escape, but it's too high. They find an old broomstick and decide to fly out. The window ends up leading straight to the hall where the birthday celebrations are taking place!
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#4 - Monkey Business
The Worst Witch - Season 1 - Episode 6
It's the start of the summer term, and it begins with Mildred having a dream that she is being put on trial for being the worst witch. A new girl, Enid Nightshade, joins the academy, and Mildred is asked to show her around. However, this leaves little time for Mildred to spend with Maud. Enid ends up getting Mildred into all sorts of trouble. Then Mildred discovers a monkey coming from Enid's room. It turns out that the monkey is really a bit of a pussycat....
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The Bill - Season 4 - Episode 26
P.C. Edwards and W.P.C. Ackland are on their lunch break, and they warn a man for flying a model helicopter too close to the road. They then investigate a terrible smell coming from a nearby property, and discover a shed full of the carcasses of battery hens. The smell is making Edwards sick, and he wants to get out and report it to the RSPCA. As he and Ackland are leaving, they are taken hostage by the deranged shed-owner armed with a shotgun. Sgt. Peters goes to look for them after dealing with the model helicopter crashing into a house. Peters, along with P.C. Stamp and P.C. Melvin dive for cover as the man starts firing his gun, but he is overpowered and arrested.
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The Bill - Season 5 - Episode 100
Frazer brings in a suspected shoplifter. Frazer is having her apprasial interview later. A woman comes in to inform Frazer that there might be problems at a talk given by a pro abortionist.
#7 - A Bolt From The Blue
The Worst Witch - Season 1 - Episode 13
It's the end of the year for the student witches, and Mildred's incantations still don't seem to work as well as intended. To cure a case of hay fever brought on by one of Mildred's errors (""Exfoliatus!"" ""A CHOO!"") the other teachers give Miss Cackle what they assume to be a remedy potion, but which is in fact a mislabeled experiment of Miss Hardbroom's. The other teachers make no mention of the mishap, even when Miss Cackle's behaviour takes a turn for the malicious. It is Mildred and company, however, who realize that it is not Miss Cackle, but her evil twin back to cause more trouble. Mildred saves the day, for which she earns a raise in her final grade from C-- to A+.
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The Worst Witch - Season 3 - Episode 10
The academy is all desolate and deserted. The only person who seems to be about is Miss Drill, and she's trying to set up a volleyball court in the courtyard. She looks up and sees everyone else returning on broomsticks. The three teachers land, but no one even bothers to say hello to her. She shakes it off and talks to Mildred and her friends, and asks about their trip to Miss Blackcat's something or other. They all talk about how amazing it was, with the potions and the spells and the broomstick displays and then they say she should have come. She says she would have liked to, but that she had things to do at the academy. Miss Cackle shows up just then and says hello and how do you do and things like that. Miss Drill mentions her volleyball tournament and Miss Cackles makes that ""Oh, yeah..."" face one makes when they've forgotten something and says, ""I need to talk to you about that."" Then she tells everybody that Miss Blackcat is coming to do a presentation on Friday, and that she's
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The Bill - Season 6 - Episode 32
Brownlow is not happy about the office arrangements at Barton Street. Burnside brings in a drug dealer who gets tripped up by Hollis. Penny finds him beaten in the cells and Barton Street doesn't want it to go higher than sergeants. The constable in custody lent the cell keys to another sgt. and the custody sgt. wants to keep it 'in house'.