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16 October 1984 (UK)
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Episodes follow uniform officers and detectives from an inner London police station as they enforce law and order on a day to day basis. full summary
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6 wins
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22 nominations
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DS Icon: DC Tosh Lines aka Kevin Lloyd
(From digitalspy. 19 November 2009, 10:00 PM, PST)
Edward Woodward obituary
(From The Guardian - TV News. 16 November 2009, 11:02 AM, PST)
(From digitalspy. 19 November 2009, 10:00 PM, PST)
Edward Woodward obituary
(From The Guardian - TV News. 16 November 2009, 11:02 AM, PST)
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Yes, THE BILL made me into a pathetic television junkie.
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(Series Cast Summary - 9 of 3028) | Graham Cole | ... | PC Tony Stamp / ... (575 episodes, 1984-2009) |
| Trudie Goodwin | ... | Sgt. June Ackland / ... (469 episodes, 1984-2007) |
| Simon Rouse | ... | DCI Jack Meadows / ... (458 episodes, 1990-2009) |
 | Jeff Stewart | ... | PC Reg Hollis / ... (458 episodes, 1984-2008) |
 | Mark Wingett | ... | D.C. Carver / ... (352 episodes, 1984-2007) |
| Alex Walkinshaw | ... | Sgt. Dale Smith / ... (298 episodes, 1992-2009) |
| Roberta Taylor | ... | Insp. Gina Gold / ... (281 episodes, 1990-2008) |
| Chris Simmons | ... | DC Mickey Webb / ... (267 episodes, 1998-2009) |
| Eric Richard | ... | Sgt. Cryer / ... (242 episodes, 1984-2004) |
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25 min (1988-1998) | 50 min (1984-1988, 1998-)
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The closing title sequence during the 1980s and 90s was famous for showing just two pairs of feet, belonging to a male and a female police officer, walking away from the camera along a cobbled street. This sequence was parodied in Hot Fuzz (2007) when Nicholas Angel and Danny Butterman were pounding the beat.
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CSE Eddie Olosunje:
Got something for you. Sticky bun... and a chocolate éclair.
DC Jo Masters: Eddie you're an absolute star I haven't eaten all day.
CSE Eddie Olosunje: Really? Me neither.
DC Jo Masters: Mmm, thank you! Mm mm, thanks!
CSE Eddie Olosunje: There's a little Turkish place round the corner... Fancy a bite? My shout.
DC Jo Masters: I've gotta get through this work Eddie.
CSE Eddie Olosunje: Oh yeah. Another time maybe?
DC Jo Masters: Sure, whenever.
CSE Eddie Olosunje: Saturday night?
DC Jo Masters: Eddie, are you asking me out on a date?
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DC Jo Masters: Eddie you're an absolute star I haven't eaten all day.
CSE Eddie Olosunje: Really? Me neither.
DC Jo Masters: Mmm, thank you! Mm mm, thanks!
CSE Eddie Olosunje: There's a little Turkish place round the corner... Fancy a bite? My shout.
DC Jo Masters: I've gotta get through this work Eddie.
CSE Eddie Olosunje: Oh yeah. Another time maybe?
DC Jo Masters: Sure, whenever.
CSE Eddie Olosunje: Saturday night?
DC Jo Masters: Eddie, are you asking me out on a date?
[...]
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Edited into The Bill @ 21 (2004) (TV)
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Overkill
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THE BILL is very hard to come by in the States, and even when it was running on CBC-Windsor, it was impossible to see it this far from the border. No cable CBC around here (do not have it anyway). I got hooked around seven years ago; it was aired one episode per day starting with 1988 episodes, which I viewed from Detroit. Eventually the station ran them all again in sequence.
At very first I avoided it. I never, for example, watched HILL STREET BLUES, which I thought THE BILL would be like. Wrong! Straightaway I was hopelessly hooked, even arranging my day so I could be home in late afternoon.
Keeping in mind that I have not seen an episode newer than perhaps 1995, I thought (think) THE BILL was an excellent programme, calling it my "soap opera." Some friends thought my being so devoted to a "cop show" was out of character, and perhaps yes, but it was the exotic setting . . . yet more: The stories' construction, occasionally running three tales in a mere half-hour, the dialogue, the character development and interactions, all for the most part top notch. I picked up a lot of obnoxious British lower-class slang, too. One also notes how most of the outdoor scenes are uncharacteristically sunny and warm, but surely that cannot be London?
The cheek: I once wrote offering to do a part for nothing if I could depict an obnoxious North American who gets punched out by D.I. Burnside. (P.C. Loxton would be unacceptable.)I was never favoured with a reply.
I have seen negative comment in this forum and else-where that THE BILL is turning into a real "soap," but cannot comment. All I can say to my mates over here is that British "prime time" drama as represented by THE BILL is as good as anything done in the States -- but without the bigger-than-life, distracting, razmatazz. To coin the proverbial phrase, Good Show.