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The Best Episodes of The Bill Season 2

Every episode of The Bill Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Bill Season 2!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Bill Season 2 Episode 1 - Snouts and Red Herrings
    7.0/10(56 votes)

    #1 - Snouts and Red Herrings

    S2:E1

    Amidst renovation chaos at Sun Hill, a new P.C., Abe Lyttleton, arrives a day early. He is Sun Hill's first black police officer, and although he is friendly and popular, his arrival is not appreciated by bigoted cop P.C. Pete Muswell. D.C. Dashwood recognises a man who has brought in his papers for a car (licence, M.O.T. form and insurance). He is using a false name and address. During electrical repairs, the personal radios are out of action and as a result, a CID operation is blown.

    Director:Peter Cregeen
    Writer:Geoff McQueen

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  2. The Bill Season 2 Episode 2 - Suspects
    7.2/10(54 votes)

    #2 - Suspects

    S2:E2

    Martella arrests a woman who has been 'pregnant' for 13 months, concealing stolen cigarettes in the 'bulge'.

    Director:Michael Ferguson
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Bill Season 2 Episode 3 - Lost
    8.2/10(73 votes)

    #3 - Lost

    S2:E3

    DS Roach and DC Dashwood are on an obbo at a phone box to catch someone making hoax bomb threats to the Town Hall. Another case soon takes precedence, however, when a woman arrives at the station and reports her eight-year-old daughter Samantha missing. When Samantha's friend Theresa tells WPC Ackland that they were approached by a flasher, there is concern that the girl could have been abducted by a child sex offender. CID question suspects in the area while a full-scale search is underway. Ackland notices that Samantha likes boats, so the search is concentrated in the docks area, and a drunken boat owner gives a description of a woman he saw with the girl. With Roach and Dashwood halfway to Brighton to question a paedophile, a call comes in to PC Carver in the incident room from a shop assistant who recognised Samantha and the woman who bought her some colouring books. Finding the woman's identity from credit card slips, DI Galloway and WPC Ackland find Samantha safe and well in the

    Director:Christopher Hodson
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Bill Season 2 Episode 4 - Home Beat
    7.4/10(57 votes)

    #4 - Home Beat

    S2:E4

    Brownlow wants to start a Neighbourhood watch scheme with the support of Smith and Carver. After a rather heated meeting that got hijacked by interlopers, he discovers his petrol was nicked. The Ahmeds are having problems as racist language has been graffitied upon their house, soon after a protest erupts and their house is later firebombed. CID raid a modern day 'Fagin' who has been using a youth group as cover.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Bill Season 2 Episode 5 - Hostage
    7.9/10(53 votes)

    #5 - Hostage

    S2:E5

    Sgt. Cryer is taking half the relief out on Sun Hill's annual fishing trip. P.C. Smith and D.C. Dashwood go to serve a warrant on Russell Archer over a non-appearance in court on a poaching charge. Archer manages to escape from Dashwood and Smith, and is later seen menacing a milkman with a sawn-off shotgun. He later holds up a bookies and a greengrocer, until he is spotted by P.C. Carver and P.C. Frank. who give chase. Frank is shot and wounded during the chase, and Archer ends up taking an elderly woman hostage in a retirement village. With the fishing trip cancelled, D.S. Roach takes charge of the siege operation until D.I. Galloway and Ch. Supt. Brownlow arrives. Attempts to contact the increasingly unstable Archer fail, until he asks to speak to Sgt. Cryer whom he saw in the betting shop. Cryer enters the flat, and attempts to talk Archer into giving himself up. With W.P.C. Ackland posing as a Meals-on-Wheels driver, Galloway, Roach and PT17 officers storm the flat and shoot Arche

    Director:Michael Ferguson
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Bill Season 2 Episode 6 - This Little Pig
    7.2/10(52 votes)

    #6 - This Little Pig

    S2:E6

    P.C. Taffy Edwards corners a pig that was released from the City Farm and gets dropped in it by P.C. Muswell. Muswell has problems with income tax on wages from the miner's strike. P.C. Reg Hollis makes initial enquiries about the Chief Super's clerk's job. Both D.I. Galloway and P.C. Cryer have problems with an overtime clamp-down and get another lecture from Brownlow about it. Fur protestors are arrested outside a fur shop. Taffy, W.P.C. June Ackland and Muswell arrests a man on his wedding day for non-appearance in court.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Bill Season 2 Episode 7 - Ringer
    8.0/10(55 votes)

    #7 - Ringer

    S2:E7

    There is a serious road crash involving a Porsche, a motorcycle, a coach, a lorry and a Cortina resulting in six deaths. The Porsche had been tampered with prior to the accident and turns out to have been made of three different cars. Brownlow sets up a temporary morgue at a local school; W.P.C. Martella and P.C. Muswell have the job of informing relatives of the deaths. After following the trail from the Porsche, D.I. Galloway raids a scrapyard only to find D.S. Burnside from the robbery squad undercover as a buyer, about to break the ring, but having forgotten to tell Galloway.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Bill Season 2 Episode 8 - Public and Confidential
    7.1/10(52 votes)

    #8 - Public and Confidential

    S2:E8

    A man is throwing tiles off a roof and P.C. Lyttleton, who is suffering from vertigo, is sent up to arrest him. A Polish sailor turns up at the station seeking political asylum. D.S. Roach and D.C. Dashwood catch a man who has been ripping people off posing as a gas board official. Ch. Supt. Brownlow talks to P.C. Edwards about taking a position in the coroner's office. Sgt. Cryer is shocked when Mrs. Penny accuses her husband of beating her up.

    Director:Christopher Hodson
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Bill Season 2 Episode 9 - Loan Shark
    6.7/10(46 votes)

    #9 - Loan Shark

    S2:E9

    A young mother caught shoplifting at a supermarket confesses to Sgt Cryer that she is in debt to local loan shark 'Aunty' Peg Miller. PC Edwards checks cases of fly tipping (unauthorised dumping of rubble) in the area and discovers some disaffected Welsh miners may be responsible. A Mrs Taylor makes a complaint about a noisy neighbour, but when WPC Ackland investigates, she finds the neighbour dead.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Bill Season 2 Episode 10 - With Friends Like That...?
    7.1/10(38 votes)

    #10 - With Friends Like That...?

    S2:E10

    Sgt. Cryer brings in an assault victim who is reluctant to report a rape. Jane has problems interviewing the rape victim (Debbie) because of her friend's (Sandra) constant interference. Sandra then tells Muswell that Debbie got what she deserved from Sandra's boyfriend Roach investigates a burglary with the householder claiming more jewelry was taken than was recovered. The burglars are denying they took the extra stuff

    Director:Christopher Hodson
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Bill Season 2 Episode 11 - Whose Side Are You On?
    6.4/10(57 votes)

    #11 - Whose Side Are You On?

    S2:E11

    D.C. Mike Dashwood has organised a five-a-side indoor football match against a local youth group. Ch. Supt. Brownlow sees it as great publicity, and ropes in D.I. Roy Galloway for photo opportunities, despite his objections. D.S. Ted Roach investigate the murder of an old derelict, known only as 'King Henry'. P.C. Jim Carver injures his ankle chasing some bag-snatchers, and while Sgt. Cryer takes his place on the beat, Dashwood thinks Cryer is too old to take Carver's place on the team. P.C. Abe Lyttleton suggests W.P.C. Viv Martella, as she is good at netball. Dashwood convinces her to join the team, gaining brownie points from Mr Brownlow for selecting a W.P.C. for the squad. P.C. Pete Muswell arrests an unlicensed trader at the market selling fake designer watches. He chats up a traffic warden, and arranges to meet her for a date, but she stands him up. Muswell turns up at the match, and Cryer has a word with him about his prejudice against Lyttleton. After a shaky start, the Sun Hi

    Director:Peter Cregeen
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Bill Season 2 Episode 12 - The Chief Super's Party
    7.1/10(52 votes)

    #12 - The Chief Super's Party

    S2:E12

    P.C. Muswell and P.C. Lyttleton are on the lookout for a lorry full of stolen woolen coats. Ch. Supt. Brownlow is throwing a farewell party for his retiring clerk. D.I. Roy Galloway questions D.S. Burnside when he gatecrashes the party, and Burnside admits that he fancies June Ackland. D.C. Mike Dashwood realises the scotch being poured at the bar has been stolen, and Galloway asks Ackland to keep the remaining bottles aside as evidence. Despite warnings from the D.I. and the Chief Super, D.S. Ted Roach drives home extremely drunk and crashes his car into a fence. Knowing he'll be sacked if he's found out, Roach sleeps on a friend's boat overnight while he sobers up, but spots the coat thieves on the docks when he awakens, and the men are arrested when they are found stuck in a freezer. Roach also sweet-talks the man whose garden he crashed into by offering to get him into the Special Constabulary. P.C. Reg Hollis grasses on Roach to Brownlow, in the hope of getting the clerk's job. De

    Director:Peter Cregeen
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Snouts and Red Herrings" is the best rated episode of "The Bill" season 2. It scored 7/10 based on 56 votes. Directed by Peter Cregeen and written by Geoff McQueen, it aired on 11/11/1985. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Suspects".