The BEST episodes written by Steve Trafford
#1 - Bantling Boy
Midsomer Murders - Season 8 - Episode 4
A four-member syndicate owns a racehorse that two of them are desperate to sell and two of them are determined to keep. When one of them is murdered, Barnaby is on the case.
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The Bill - Season 6 - Episode 2
D.C. Jim Carver and Ch. Insp. Conway face an embarrassing situation when a thief confesses to a crime that Jim has already cleared up... and Jim's having problems with the ladies too. Turnham talks to a pavement artist before he is called to a music shop and a shoplifter. He was told by Sgt. Peters to help Norika and Susanne at a pub but Frazer gives him a lecture about Woman's Lib and tells him not to go. A dog handler helps calm the situation. The landlord is not happy about W.P.Cs dealing with drunken disturbances and neither is Brownlow.
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#3 - A Rare Bird
Midsomer Murders - Season 14 - Episode 8
Barnaby and Jones investigate whether competition between ornithology enthusiasts led to murder.
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#4 - King's Crystal
Midsomer Murders - Season 10 - Episode 3
When King's family enterprise shatters into pieces and its accountant winds up stabbed, Barnaby digs into rivalries of business and blood-while Jones explores secret Masonic rites.
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The Bill - Season 6 - Episode 12
Susanne and Ken investigate a domestic. The wife says she fell down stairs initially. Neighbour keeps interrupting. The wife owes money. The husband is suspected of slashing tyres. The wife's child benefit book was taken by the money lender. Munro talks to Cathy about regular updates of clear-up figures. Dave voices his opinion of battered women. The calculators he has been selling are wonky. Not only does he have to refund the buyers but the money he got initially he has to put into Brownlow's charity box. Brownlow asks about the money lender and states he would like to nick him as he is the money man behind a lot of crime. Ken and Susanne find the husband in the money lender's shop, having been hit by the putter Roach warned the money lender would be considered an offensive weapon.
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#6 - Written in the Stars
Midsomer Murders - Season 15 - Episode 3
During a total eclipse of the sun, an astronomer is bludgeoned to death by a meteor and an astrologer claims to have predicted each subsequent murder.
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The Bill - Season 8 - Episode 64
D.I. Burnside and D.C. Lines are returning a chief suspect to prison when they are ambushed by a gang of masked men, who spring him.
#8 - Well Out of Order
The Bill - Season 8 - Episode 94
Meadows and Burnside want to go in force to the Tankeray estate to root out the criminal element, but Brownlow is committed to a softer approach. P.C. Smollett proves more effective than C.I.D. at catching a dangerous mugger.
#9 - Bad Blood
Heartbeat - Season 4 - Episode 12
Kate arranges with James to do only 2 surgeries a week in Whitby as originally planned and James would help out in Aidensfield when necessary. A feud amongst a local family turns nasty and the police soon learn there's a lot more raw emotion and conflict behind the trouble as they find out more about the families recent past. Billy an of friend of Gina's turns up, who has just been released from prison. He buys Gina a stolen record player from Claude - of which Blaketon is of course suspicious! Nick and Kate are looking forward to the birth of their new baby, Nick even buys a set of toy soldiers! Kate is craving banana and marmite sandwiches or is it chips and ice cream!!
#10 - Beggars and Choosers
The Bill - Season 6 - Episode 26
June and Tony walk through an underpass where the homeless sleep. There is a riot there later. The Surveyor's branch is visiting the station with their tape measures. Brownlow gives a speech about policing in the '90s.
#11 - Ladykiller
The Bill - Season 7 - Episode 60
Martella drives to a car fire to find a lady was trapped in the car. A man who tried to get the lady out of the car saw a man watching as he arrived.
#12 - Just For The Crack
The Bill - Season 5 - Episode 98
Jim has brought a new suit. 27 motorbikes including a police bike have been nicked. Garfield and Viv notice 2 youths stealing a bike. When they raid the garage all they find is the license plate of the police bike. Able is assigned to deliver a notification of death. A case that Melvin spent 2 weeks on is going to be dropped before going to court. The man involved is going to complain about Melvin who nicks him for assaulting a police officer.
#13 - Intrigue
The Bill - Season 20 - Episode 15
Nixon grudgingly works with Manson to locate dangerous escaped convict Eric Taylor, who has already eluded police twice. When Taylor is spotted, Carver pursues him into a swimming pool complex, and the two end up in the water. Kent watches as the two struggle, and is going to let Carver drown - until the cavalry arrive. Posing as a housebuyer, "June Carver", an emotional Ackland visits her long-lost son and meets her granddaughter, but she is too afraid to tell him her real identity. When his former lover, Rachel Heath, arrives at the station on the eve of her trial for assault, Meadows discovers that Manson's father-in-law, a Deputy Assistant Commissioner with the Met, has been using rent boys.
#14 - Twisting the Truth
The Bill - Season 20 - Episode 41
Young is in turmoil after her rape at the hands of the evil Kent. Naturally, he denies the charge, and he insinuates that Young has "cried wolf" before, when she accused Smithy of rape. Confiding in her fiancé, Tait, Young is shocked when Tait doesn't believe her story. He insists she makes the allegation official if they are to stay together, but Young is reluctant to do so after the incident with Smithy. Nixon must decide whether to defend Hunter when questions arise over the death of Dennis Weaver. As the only witness, Nixon can clear Hunter's name if she confirms Weaver was killed in self-defence. Back in CID, Carver and McAllister investigate a young man who is going nuts on steroids.
#15 - Episode 933 (Tue 26th Feb 1985)
Emmerdale - Season 14 - Episode 15
Can Henry straighten out the farm's finances? First he must take Jack on.
#16 - Episode 934 (Thu 28th Feb 1985)
Emmerdale - Season 14 - Episode 16
Tom comes out of Armley Jail. It seems he has no plans to leave Beckindale.
#17 - Episode 935 (Tue 5th March 1985)
Emmerdale - Season 14 - Episode 17
Tom visits Emmerdale Farm. Why is he so keen to see Pat?