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The Best Episodes of The Bill Season 12

Every episode of The Bill Season 12 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Bill Season 12!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Bill Season 12 Episode 1 - Call Waiting
    7.7/10(24 votes)

    #1 - Call Waiting

    S12:E1

    Skase and Croft investigate a series of hoax phone calls that are tearing a family apart.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Bill Season 12 Episode 2 - Second Sense
    7.6/10(21 votes)

    #2 - Second Sense

    S12:E2

    Loxton and Slater deal with a woman drink-driver.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Bill Season 12 Episode 3 - Runners Up
    8.0/10(21 votes)

    #3 - Runners Up

    S12:E3

    Meadows offers a bottle of scotch as a reward for catching an elusive burglar.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Bill Season 12 Episode 4 - Keeping It In The Family
    7.2/10(18 votes)

    #4 - Keeping It In The Family

    S12:E4

    Lines and Skase try to avert an ice-cream war in Sun Hill after a vendor is assaulted.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Bill Season 12 Episode 5 - Home Truths
    7.4/10(19 votes)

    #5 - Home Truths

    S12:E5

    Ackland and Jarvis follow up a vicious assault.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Bill Season 12 Episode 6 - Outer
    7.7/10(22 votes)

    #6 - Outer

    S12:E6

    Boulton is determined to arrest a local drug dealer, at any cost.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Bill Season 12 Episode 7 - Better Half
    7.1/10(20 votes)

    #7 - Better Half

    S12:E7

    Beech and Croft investigate the murder of a hairdresser who had been fighting for a share of her dead fiancé's estate.

    Director:Catherine Morshead
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Bill Season 12 Episode 8 - No Assistance Required
    7.8/10(20 votes)

    #8 - No Assistance Required

    S12:E8

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Bill Season 12 Episode 9 - Judgement Call
    7.9/10(18 votes)

    #9 - Judgement Call

    S12:E9

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Bill Season 12 Episode 10 - Old Dogs New Tricks
    7.7/10(19 votes)

    #10 - Old Dogs New Tricks

    S12:E10

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Bill Season 12 Episode 11 - Worst Fears
    8.0/10(18 votes)

    #11 - Worst Fears

    S12:E11

    While Deakin investigates the kidnapping of a five-year-old boy, Conway gets some unsettling news.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Bill Season 12 Episode 12 - One Night With You
    7.9/10(21 votes)

    #12 - One Night With You

    S12:E12

    Five-year-old Tommy Laker is still missing, and Deakin discovers an evil and sinister ring which may hold the clue.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Bill Season 12 Episode 13 - Someone Else's Problem
    7.2/10(17 votes)

    #13 - Someone Else's Problem

    S12:E13

    Datta and Quinnan look into the mysterious death of a jogger, while Ackland and Jarvis try to reconcile a couple of warring lovers.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Bill Season 12 Episode 14 - Bounds Of Decency
    7.3/10(19 votes)

    #14 - Bounds Of Decency

    S12:E14

    Slater and Garfield struggle to keep the peace when two women fall out over the same man.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Bill Season 12 Episode 15 - Happy Birthday
    7.2/10(25 votes)

    #15 - Happy Birthday

    S12:E15

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Bill Season 12 Episode 16 - Stop The Music
    7.6/10(19 votes)

    #16 - Stop The Music

    S12:E16

    Croft and a badly-hungover Beech investigate when a body is found in a car with a large amount of crack cocaine.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Bill Season 12 Episode 17 - Cold Light Of Day
    7.8/10(29 votes)

    #17 - Cold Light Of Day

    S12:E17

    A reconstruction brings forward an unexpected witness to an assault on a 15-year-old boy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Bill Season 12 Episode 18 - Back In Business
    7.7/10(19 votes)

    #18 - Back In Business

    S12:E18

    Acting Superintendent Conway is stirred into action by a face from the past.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Bill Season 12 Episode 19 - Separate Rooms
    6.8/10(19 votes)

    #19 - Separate Rooms

    S12:E19

    Lines investigates an allegation of underage sex.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Bill Season 12 Episode 20 - Going Guilty
    7.3/10(25 votes)

    #20 - Going Guilty

    S12:E20

    Cryer and Slater follow up on a murder but a legal loophole may allow the perpetrator to get away with it.

    Director:James Hawes
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Bill Season 12 Episode 21 - Pieces Of Cake
    7.7/10(18 votes)

    #21 - Pieces Of Cake

    S12:E21

    Beech is caught in the crossfire when uniform and C.I.D. fall out over a directive from Brownlow.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Bill Season 12 Episode 22 - Somebody's Home
    7.7/10(16 votes)

    #22 - Somebody's Home

    S12:E22

    Quinnan and Keane have to help someone with a conviction for assaulting a police officer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Bill Season 12 Episode 23 - Pointing The Finger
    7.4/10(19 votes)

    #23 - Pointing The Finger

    S12:E23

    Carver and Skase investigate an assault on an Asian schoolboy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Bill Season 12 Episode 24 - Boy Meets Girl
    7.9/10(21 votes)

    #24 - Boy Meets Girl

    S12:E24

    Croft investigates a series of vicious sexual assaults.

    Director:James Hawes
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Bill Season 12 Episode 25 - Confession
    8.2/10(29 votes)

    #25 - Confession

    S12:E25

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 12 Ratings Summary

"Call Waiting" is the best rated episode of "The Bill" season 12. It scored 7.7/10 based on 24 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/2/1996. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Second Sense".