Long-running police drama series featuring officers and detectives from the fictional Sun Hill suburb in East London.Long-running police drama series featuring officers and detectives from the fictional Sun Hill suburb in East London.Long-running police drama series featuring officers and detectives from the fictional Sun Hill suburb in East London.
- Won 2 BAFTA Awards
- 7 wins & 26 nominations total
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- TriviaIn November 2006, thieves stole editing machines and master tapes from the shows studios in Merton, South West London. Posing as a worker and wearing a high-visibility jacket, one of the thieves followed a real worker into the studios and took the equipment, walked out with it and was driven off in a getaway van. Two episodes (468 and 469) were dropped from the schedules in late December 2006, and it is rumored that the stolen tapes contained scenes from these episodes. These scenes were re-filmed and the episodes aired in May 2007, titled as Blood Money (2007) (episode 468) and To Honour and Obey (2007) (episode 469).
- Quotes
DC Mike Dashwood: Anything else?
DI Burnside: Yeah, a garage full of bricks.
DC Mike Dashwood: What kind of bricks?
DI Burnside: The kind the third little pig used to build his house out of. Brick, bricks.
- Crazy creditsThere were actually three versions of the credits featuring the plodding feet. There was a blue-tint version used in the original episodes in the 1980s, a 1990s fuzzy, overcast version and mid-1990s fine weather version.
- ConnectionsEdited into Total Cops (2003)
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Wots all this then?
Oh dear, oh dear. The Bill used to be a straight down the line police procedural drama. Lately it's turned into a soap. Dave Quinnan getting married in "the first ever Bill wedding?" - do me a favour. It was good to see Loxton and Garfield again but that episode was the worst ever. When they went back to the one hour format in 1999 the first few stories were sharp but now they've begun to lose the plot. I know it has to be paced when it's a one hour show but recent episodes have struggled to fill the hour - nowhere near as tight as it used to be. The upside is that Frank Burnside is making more regular appearances. For me the best years were 1987-92. Move along, now - nothing more to see here.
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- beni hill
- Jan 19, 2000
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