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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!

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".

  • Call Waiting
    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

  • Second Sense
    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

  • Runners Up
    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

  • Keeping It In The Family
    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

  • Home Truths
    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

  • Outer
    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

  • Better Half
    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

  • No Assistance Required
    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

  • Judgement Call
    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

  • Old Dogs New Tricks
    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

  • Worst Fears
    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

  • One Night With You
    7.9/1033 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

  • Someone Else's Problem
    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

  • Bounds Of Decency
    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

  • Happy Birthday
    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

  • Stop The Music
    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

  • Cold Light Of Day
    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

  • Back In Business
    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

  • Separate Rooms
    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

  • Going Guilty
    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

  • Pieces Of Cake
    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

  • Somebody's Home
    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

  • Pointing The Finger
    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

  • Boy Meets Girl
    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

  • Confession
    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