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#1 - One Big Happy Family
Season 13 Episode 13
Aired 1/31/1997
P.C. Garfield's complaint that Ch. Supt. Brownlow and Ch. Insp. Conway are out touch with real police work brings an unexpected response: Conway goes on a ride along with P.C. Page and Brownlow goes for a walkabout in the station - much to the annoyance of Insp. Monroe, who feels he is being spied upon, and Sgt. Boyden who doesn't want him hanging around in custody. Brownlow is in CAD and reprimands Nick over the air for not using correct radio procedure. When Boyden is called away, Brownlow takes charge of the custody area where he clashes with D.S. Boulton over a prisoner's detention review time. P.C. Stamp and P.C. Slater do their best to avoid returning to the station while Brownlow is on the prowl, until they take what they think is an easy call about a fight at a kids' football match that ends with Nick being punched in the face by an irate father who he then arrests for assaulting him and the match referee. Page and Conway get on the trail of two men posing as TV engineers to ga
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#2 - Just Looking
Season 13 Episode 22
Aired 2/21/1997
Boyden deals with a man stopped for soliciting who claims he was searching for his missing daughter.
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#3 - Copier
Season 13 Episode 34
Aired 3/21/1997
Rawton investigates the assault of a woman in her new flat and tries to link the attack to an unsolved case.
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#4 - A Hard Rain
Season 13 Episode 40
Aired 4/3/1997
Boulton and Croft have to deal with rival drug dealers when a customer suffers tragic consequences.
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#5 - Dial M For Marmalade
Season 13 Episode 44
Aired 4/11/1997
Meadows investigates a murder by strangulation and suspects the homeless schizophrenic man whom the victim had befriended.
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#6 - Flesh & Blood
Season 13 Episode 46
Aired 4/17/1997
Beech investigates the sudden death of a baby on the night that his parents celebrated their anniversary.
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#7 - You & Me Versus The World
Season 13 Episode 50
Aired 4/29/1997
Boulton and Lines investigate a vicious hammer attack.
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#8 - No Claims Bonus
Season 13 Episode 37
Aired 3/28/1997
Croft is concerned when Boulton decides to use a former colleague, now down on his luck, as an informant.
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#9 - Sisters
Season 13 Episode 45
Aired 4/15/1997
Daly and Croft investigate the suspicious death of one of three sisters.
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Writer: Chris Lang
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#10 - A Price To Pay
Season 13 Episode 21
Aired 2/20/1997
Boulton tries to trap a roomful of crooks, but Greig gets his man.
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#11 - Rolling In It
Season 13 Episode 24
Aired 2/28/1997
Slater and Quinnan find drugs in a Lamborghini, but the owner blames his unemployed brother-in-law.
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#12 - Confidence
Season 13 Episode 31
Aired 3/14/1997
Keane uses information supplied by a friend to help C.I.D. in an operation against a drug dealer.
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#13 - Strang Meeting
Season 13 Episode 42
Aired 4/8/1997
Conway coordinates the search for an escaped sex offender and a missing teenager who was last seen in his company.
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#14 - Two's Company
Season 13 Episode 48
Aired 4/22/1997
Greig and Croft investigate a burglary and discover that the married householder had been in contact with a girl through a "lonely hearts" column.
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#15 - Age Gaps
Season 13 Episode 28
Aired 3/11/1997
Boulton and Rawton try to persuade a teenage girl to turn informant after her boyfriend is attacked by drug dealers.
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#16 - The Old Pals' Act
Season 13 Episode 1
Aired 1/2/1997
Conway leads a raid on an after-hours pub, but during the raid, both Hollis and Keane are injured. Meanwhile, McCann and Slater stop a young boy trying to make an exit through the fire escape and find him in possession of cannabis and a substantial amount of money. Brownlow is called in when the boy is discovered to be the son of the local district judge.
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#17 - Crime Management
Season 13 Episode 27
Aired 3/7/1997
DI Chris Deakin has a word to DS John Boulton about his team's informants. Boulton has done pretty well, but DC Tosh Lines hasn't recruited a snout for months. Under pressure, Lines tries to recruit Karen Walsh, the wife of the victim of a recent attack which he'd investigated, but she refuses to grass on her husband or his associates. Lines puts pressure on the Walshes' landlord Pat Beresford who he believes was responsible for the attack, and is delighted when Beresford contacts him offering information.
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Writer: J. C. Wilsher
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#18 - In The Dark
Season 13 Episode 29
Aired 3/12/1997
A blind woman, Tracy Cooper, helps the police catch a dangerous sex killer. She doesn't realise, however, that the guilty party is her husband.
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#19 - Hook Line & Sinker
Season 13 Episode 36
Aired 3/27/1997
Beech investigates a woman who uses her sexuality to con her business partner and clients.
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#20 - Typecast
Season 13 Episode 39
Aired 4/1/1997
Boyden and Page try to find who is responsible for a series of graffiti attacks.
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#21 - All's Fair
Season 13 Episode 2
Aired 1/3/1997
McCann and Keane investigate when a man is found mugged having been sprayed in the face with Mace. Hours later, a woman arrives at the station claiming to have been attacked by a mysterious assailant, whom she rebuffed with Mace. Daly has to work out which party is telling the truth, and to prove it decides to speak to one of the man's previous victims.
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#22 - True To Life Player
Season 13 Episode 17
Aired 2/11/1997
A football star's return to Sun Hill turns sour when he is accused of raping an underage fan. Boulton and Carver investigate
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#23 - A Tangled Web
Season 13 Episode 23
Aired 2/27/1997
Deakin and Croft investigate when a man is found shot with his brother's wife, as two unhappy marriages reach crisis point.
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#24 - Holding On
Season 13 Episode 26
Aired 3/6/1997
Cryer and Blake respond to a young man's claim that his stolen car had his four-month-old baby inside, but Blake suspects that the man's wife may know more about her son's disappearance than she is letting on. The plot thickens when Cryer interviews the man responsible for stealing the young man's car and he claims that he fed information about the man's extra marital relations to his wife.
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#25 - All For Love
Season 13 Episode 32
Aired 3/18/1997
Greig and Lines investigate an assault on a man who has previously killed two people in a drink-driving accident, and suspect that a relative may have sought natural justice.
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Season 13 Ratings Summary
"One Big Happy Family" is the best rated episode of "The Bill" season 13. It scored 8.2/10 based on 35 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/31/1997. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Just Looking".