7.7/1035 votes#1 - Call Waiting
Season 12 Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/1996
Skase and Croft investigate a series of hoax phone calls that are tearing a family apart.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1033 votes
#2 - Second Sense
Season 12 Episode 2 - Aired 1/4/1996
Loxton and Slater deal with a woman drink-driver.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1033 votes
#3 - Runners Up
Season 12 Episode 3 - Aired 1/5/1996
Meadows offers a bottle of scotch as a reward for catching an elusive burglar.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1026 votes
#4 - Keeping It In The Family
Season 12 Episode 4 - Aired 1/9/1996
Lines and Skase try to avert an ice-cream war in Sun Hill after a vendor is assaulted.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1029 votes
#5 - Home Truths
Season 12 Episode 5 - Aired 1/11/1996
Ackland and Jarvis follow up a vicious assault.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1034 votes
#6 - Outer
Season 12 Episode 6 - Aired 1/12/1996
Boulton is determined to arrest a local drug dealer, at any cost.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1032 votes
#7 - Better Half
Season 12 Episode 7 - Aired 1/16/1996
Beech and Croft investigate the murder of a hairdresser who had been fighting for a share of her dead fiancé's estate.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1032 votes
#8 - No Assistance Required
Season 12 Episode 8 - Aired 1/18/1996
Datta is called to a burglary and is subjected to the unwanted affections of a civic-minded admirer. Monroe is suspicious when Loxton tries to settle an old score.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1027 votes
#9 - Judgement Call
Season 12 Episode 9 - Aired 1/19/1996
Uniform and CID are on the lookout for escaped prisoner Jim Brodie, so both Brodie's wife and his drug dealer are under observation. PC Nick Slater and WPC Cathy Marshall pursue two burglers down to the riverfront, where one of them gives Slater a severe beating. Marshall sees a person on the barges and gives chase. By the time their backup arrives, delayed by PC Reg Hollis' dodgy belly, Marshall has disappeared. When her dead body is fished out of the river, the two crooks she and Slater had been pursuing are questioned over her possible murder. Searching the barge that Marshall was last seen, CID find evidence that someone has been sleeping rough on board - and it looks like it's their escaped prisoner, Brodie. The river police intercept Brodie fleeing to Amsterdam on his friend's boat, but there is not enough evidence to charge him for Cathy Marshall's murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1031 votes
#10 - Old Dogs New Tricks
Season 12 Episode 10 - Aired 1/23/1996
As Sun Hill gets to grips with its new computer system, Boyden discovers that it pays to stay one step ahead of the opposition.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1017 votes
#11 - Worst Fears
Season 12 Episode 11 - Aired 1/25/1996
While Deakin investigates the kidnapping of a five-year-old boy, Conway gets some unsettling news.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1032 votes
#12 - One Night With You
Season 12 Episode 12 - Aired 1/26/1996
Five-year-old Tommy Laker is still missing, and Deakin discovers an evil and sinister ring which may hold the clue.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1029 votes
#13 - Someone Else's Problem
Season 12 Episode 13 - Aired 1/30/1996
Datta and Quinnan look into the mysterious death of a jogger, while Ackland and Jarvis try to reconcile a couple of warring lovers.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1031 votes
#14 - Bounds Of Decency
Season 12 Episode 14 - Aired 2/1/1996
Slater and Garfield struggle to keep the peace when two women fall out over the same man.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1039 votes
#15 - Happy Birthday
Season 12 Episode 15 - Aired 2/2/1996
Meadows and Croft investigate the murder of an elderly woman, and question two young children living on the floor below who may have heard what happened.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1031 votes
#16 - Stop The Music
Season 12 Episode 16 - Aired 2/6/1996
Croft and a badly-hungover Beech investigate when a body is found in a car with a large amount of crack cocaine.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1042 votes
#17 - Cold Light Of Day
Season 12 Episode 17 - Aired 2/8/1996
A reconstruction brings forward an unexpected witness to an assault on a 15-year-old boy.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1031 votes
#18 - Back In Business
Season 12 Episode 18 - Aired 2/9/1996
Acting Superintendent Conway is stirred into action by a face from the past.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1031 votes
#19 - Separate Rooms
Season 12 Episode 19 - Aired 2/13/1996
Lines investigates an allegation of underage sex.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1039 votes
#20 - Going Guilty
Season 12 Episode 20 - Aired 2/15/1996
Cryer and Slater follow up on a murder but a legal loophole may allow the perpetrator to get away with it.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1030 votes
#21 - Pieces Of Cake
Season 12 Episode 21 - Aired 2/16/1996
Beech is caught in the crossfire when uniform and C.I.D. fall out over a directive from Brownlow.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1028 votes
#22 - Somebody's Home
Season 12 Episode 22 - Aired 2/20/1996
Quinnan and Keane have to help someone with a conviction for assaulting a police officer.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1031 votes
#23 - Pointing The Finger
Season 12 Episode 23 - Aired 2/22/1996
Carver and Skase investigate an assault on an Asian schoolboy.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1032 votes
#24 - Boy Meets Girl
Season 12 Episode 24 - Aired 2/23/1996
Croft investigates a series of vicious sexual assaults.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1043 votes
#25 - Confession
Season 12 Episode 25 - Aired 2/27/1996
A man comes in to Sun Hill and confesses to murdering a woman who disappeared five years ago. D.C.I. Meadows, who headed the original investigation, and D.C. Carver talk to him and, when they are convinced he is lying, throw him out. The man soon returns, and this time he tells Carver something that wasn't in the news stories making the police take his confession more seriously.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Bill Season 12
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The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats...
Genres:CrimeDrama
Network:ITV1
Season 12 Ratings Summary
"Call Waiting" is the best rated episode of "The Bill" season 12. It scored 7.7/10 based on 35 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/2/1996. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Second Sense".