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The Best Episodes of The Bill Season 5

Every episode of The Bill Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Bill Season 5!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Bill Season 5 Episode 47 - FAT'AC
    8.8/10(48 votes)

    S5:E47

    Yorkie is on hand at the scene of a fatal accident. Everyone is being held up and Yorkie is stressing out. Petrol is leaking from crushed car which has dead occupants. Sgt. Penny, when he finally arrives, tells Yorkie off for not blocking off the road. When Yorkie goes to move a bus on, he discovers the bus driver is the husband of the driver of the crushed car. Yorkie is in shock and Viv is worried about him. Cryer seems to be the only one who understands. Yorkie is talking about giving up.

    Director:John Bruce
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Bill Season 5 Episode 59 - Don't Like Mondays
    8.8/10(39 votes)

    S5:E59

    PC Edwards and PC Smith are called to a disturbance at a local bank, where they are surprised to find Tosh Lines' wife and children causing a commotion as there is no money left in their account. Edwards makes a discrete call to Sgt. Peters, who suggests to Tosh that he head down to the bank and sort things out. As PC Ramsey and WPC Ackland also arrive, the bank is raided by an armed gang. Tosh Lines arrives and charges towards the bank, but as PC Ramsey runs to stop him, he is shot in the chest by one of the robbers. Ch. Insp. Conway negotiates with the gang as armed PT17 officers surround the building. Sgt. Cryer offers to drive the getaway car, but disconnects the ignition when he leaves it at the bank entrance. PC Smith and the other hostages are released, but PC Edwards is taken hostage. He manages to makes a run for it and the PT17 officers open fire on the car.

    Directors:Terry Marcel, Antonia Bird
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Bill Season 5 Episode 65 - Leaving
    8.4/10(29 votes)

    S5:E65

    Yorkie's last day. Ho goes to a suspected break-in at a video shop. Hollis thought he was going to Lombardy house instead. Yorkie has lost the area car but it turns out to be a prank. There is a scam concerning the video shop. Claire dresses very sexily for Yorkie's party.

    Director:Terry Marcel
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Bill Season 5 Episode 48 - Somewhere By Chance
    8.3/10(28 votes)

    S5:E48

    Ramsey and Taffy investigate stolen credit cards in shopping precinct. While there a soldier says he has a bomb. The precinct is cleared and the relief check for the bomb. Taffy catches one of a pair of looters and while looking for the other looter he finds a rocket launcher in the toilet. Roach and Dashwood find a stolen car 2½ years after it was stolen. Claire goes to investigate a breakin but finds it strange that everything has been cleaned and the lady who supposedly reported it not there. Claire discovers the lady never existed and the man she saw has form for indecent assault. She also finds out how close she was to becoming a serial killer's 3rd victim.

    Director:Terry Marcel
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Bill Season 5 Episode 85 - All Part of The Job
    8.2/10(27 votes)

    S5:E85

    Brind sorts out a bit of bother in a pub. A man, who turns out to be from Special Branch, chats her up afterwards. Conway is not happy Brind is being put in dangerous situations and Frazer is not happy Brind radios the station in the middle of situations. Special Branch is trying to catch a villain coming from Spain on diplomatic passport to visit his sick mother. An asian girl has gone missing with her boyfriend, taking drugs with her.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Bill Season 5 Episode 73 - It's Not Majorca
    8.1/10(31 votes)

    S5:E73

    Lay visitors are visiting the station. 30 prisoners are about to be transferred from Barton Street. Sgt. Peters processes a boy who has stolen insects from a pet shop. The lay visitors talk to Harry Thompson. Claire notices a foriegn policeman in Brownlow's car. The man attacked her and in the process of trying to help her, Peters knocks into the female lay visitor breaking her leg. Dashwood and Carver are talked to by Harry Thompson's brother who sprays the undercover van with graffiti with his mates as well as mugging a postman.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Bill Season 5 Episode 36 - Communications
    8.0/10(36 votes)

    S5:E36

    Conway visits the CAD room and others to try and encourage people to talk about their problems. June asks Conway what he thinks her chances are of becoming a Sgt. After being wound up by Sgt Penny, Taffy talks to Conway about getting a transfer out of Sunhill as his wife is not liking the city. Claire and Taffy visit the parents of a missing girl before they start on a door-to-door in the neighbourhood. Claire thinks she has found a witness until her son says she was in a home when the girl was last seen. While door knocking, a car alarm causes frayed tempers. When the owner refuses to turn off the alarm, the car is vandalised. Girl is later found in the market.

    Director:Alan Wareing
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Bill Season 5 Episode 42 - Fort Apache - Sun Hill
    8.0/10(29 votes)

    S5:E42

    Industrial dispute by prison officers put pressure on the holding cells. Roache is not happy that a murder suspect is mixing with other prisoners. The prisoners in one of the cells are caught smoking grass smuggled in a cup of coffee. A prisoner in another cell alledges rape. Roache's suspect punches him and tries to make his escape after tying Roache up. Melvin lets in a Chief Super from the Yard so he can check the books and the collator's office, upseting Reg in the process. Turns out to be bogus and there to spring Roache's suspect. Ramsey and yorkie are watching two suspects who change their car. Yorkie doesn't think they can handle it on their own but Ramsey thinks he is still in the CID and can. Egg smuggling of Peregine Falcons is what is going on.

    Director:Antonia Bird
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Bill Season 5 Episode 62 - Black Spot
    8.0/10(26 votes)

    S5:E62

    Tosh visits a family with some clothes and meets a man who is teaching his son bad attitudes regarding the police. He puts Tosh's back up and he is determined to nick him, although everyone warns him about the villian. Roach gets bitten trying to overpower thieves who have broken into one-armed bandits.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Bill Season 5 Episode 70 - Seen To Be Done
    8.0/10(25 votes)

    S5:E70

    Penny is kicking the drunks out of the cells. One of the drunks is very relucant to go. He is later found dead by a cleaner. Hollis is getting in the way as Federation rep because he is concerned about the men who were on duty. He is right to be.

    Director:James Cellan Jones
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Bill Season 5 Episode 100 - Speaking Freely
    8.0/10(24 votes)

    S5:E100

    Frazer brings in a suspected shoplifter. Frazer is having her apprasial interview later. A woman comes in to inform Frazer that there might be problems at a talk given by a pro abortionist.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Bill Season 5 Episode 18 - A Good Result
    7.9/10(38 votes)

    S5:E18

    Roache brings in a man suspected of handling stolen car radios. Yorkie and Reg are going to the soccer. Reg with the result of the relief and Yorkie undercover in a group of football thugs.

    Director:Jeremy Summers
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Bill Season 5 Episode 28 - No Strings
    7.9/10(31 votes)

    S5:E28

    Roxanne is helping Roach and Viv catch bag snatchers at a disco. They get barracaded in the ladies loo with the suspects. Lines investigates a break-in at a medium's who has lost both her crystal balls. She warns him to be careful on the stairs.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Bill Season 5 Episode 33 - Out To Lunch
    7.9/10(32 votes)

    S5:E33

    Ramsey picks up Burnside, Carver and Lines just as they are leaving a resturant but before they get going, a lady (Mrs Mancini) comes along and says there are people in her car having sex. It is her husband. The other lady wants Carver to get her clothes out of the car. As the CID officers walk away talking about the other woman, they hear a scream and find her on the pavement. As Tosh and Carver go up the stairs, they are pushed back down by a group of Italians who have a punch up. They carry on the fight at the hospital where Mancini ends up being attacked. The officers pull a practical joke on Claire and leave her in a mortuary drawer.

    Director:Brian Parker
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Bill Season 5 Episode 44 - The Strong Survive
    7.9/10(27 votes)

    S5:E44

    Jim is waiting in a car for the chemist to open and hungry. Meanwhile Mike is being fed breakfast and cups of tea. A man takes a club and breaks all the glass in the front door and then tries to run over Jim. False plates are on the van. Pressure is being placed on chemist to fill in blank prescription forms. Claire and Haynes are asked to investigate an all night party which is an Irish wake that gets out of hand.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Bill Season 5 Episode 57 - Subsequent Visits
    7.9/10(27 votes)

    S5:E57

    Stamp brings in a biker and leaves Brind to bring up the motorbike. CID doesn't want to know. Tosh is getting ready for his holidays. Garfield and Stamp are competing for number of arrests - problem is Stamp nicks real villians and Garfield nicks daft ones. After chasing a suspect and getting diverted to an accident, suspect gets into Tosh's car. Greig advises Tosh to buy a car for his holiday. Previous driver of car looks like Tosh and might be connected to a robbery.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Bill Season 5 Episode 58 - User Friendly
    7.9/10(33 votes)

    S5:E58

    A plane has come down in a park. Pilot and passengers (1 injured) all took off. Dogs track injured man to a warehouse. The plane had taken off from Belgium. A wooden crate is found containing very sort oafter American computer. June is driving a prisoner and Ken back to London. They are being followed by a car. The prisoner keeps trying to wind Ken up. Prisoner is a terrorist and linked to a bomb in Dusseldorf.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Bill Season 5 Episode 60 - Pickup
    7.9/10(24 votes)

    S5:E60

    Haynes and Martella follow a car which is being driven erratically. Viv is worried about Haynes because he is a friend of Ramsey. Frazer briefs uniform about how to pick up prostitutes who are suspected of rolling their punters but they are cover so a snout can talk to robbery squad.

    Director:Terry Marcel
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Bill Season 5 Episode 64 - Time Out
    7.9/10(26 votes)

    S5:E64

    Burnside argues with a D.I. from robbery squad about using Greig and Lines on surveillance. They are sharing the house with a nosy lady. When the suspect is grabbed, the radio is not working. Greig suspects the suspect's wife knows who grabbed her husband. Ted is upset about the promotion board and wants to know if his cards are marked in regards to promotion. Claire is looking at greeting cards when she hears a shot. Money is taken from a security van and the guard is shot. Split groceries help solve the crime.

    Director:Terry Marcel
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Bill Season 5 Episode 67 - Pressure
    7.9/10(24 votes)

    S5:E67

    Taffy and Stamp are on a shout when they come across an accident. They have to carry on. Taffy's wife thinks Cryer is stopping his transfer going through. A nasty atmosphere is developing at the scene of the accident. Haynes tells a witness how he feels about being black on the job. He is picked up by 2 coppers from another station. Frazer talks to Haynes about being sergeant material.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Bill Season 5 Episode 75 - Exit Lines
    7.9/10(30 votes)

    S5:E75

    Garfield is on the beat when he notices an old lady catching her breath. He drops in to see her later and Cryer is worried he is skivvying. Norika comes in a day early to see Cryer and puts Dashwood in his place. Carver and Tosh talk to a man who brought a homing pigeon that went back to its old home.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Brian Finch

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  22. The Bill Season 5 Episode 97 - Early Bird
    7.9/10(31 votes)

    S5:E97

    Taffy and Claire find an old lady on the street with a bird cage and a suitcase. She has run away from a home and later dies in the canteen. Tosh and Jim stop and search a cat burglar who uses his socks to avoid leaving fingerprints. Dashwood and Viv try to catch, unsuccessfully, 2 pickpockets until Sgt. Peters gives them a hint.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Bill Season 5 Episode 99 - Woman In Brown
    7.9/10(20 votes)

    S5:E99

    June and Melvin call at a school where a baby has been taken. June thinks she knows who took the baby. Viv and Able are called to a basement flat where the old lady has been conned by the 'maggot man'. He is a bogus water board worker who shows people maggots supposedly behind pipes. Tosh tries out a new car and then tells Jim about a car scam that is going on.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Bill Season 5 Episode 104 - Saturday Night Fever
    7.9/10(23 votes)

    S5:E104

    DC Carver is at the hospital checking on a stabbing of a drug dealer. WPC Martella has some info about the deceased which prompts DS Burnside to bring in a couple of suspects. Sgt. Peters is having a busy time in Custody. PC Garfield and WPC Brind bring in a girl who has knocked her mother out. Brind has to search her, and is hit by the girl who later tries to hang herself in her cell. It turns out she had stabbed her boyfriend, who turns out to be Carver's victim.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Bill Season 5 Episode 2 - A Reflection Of Glory
    7.8/10(33 votes)

    S5:E2

    P.C. Ramsey is back in uniform and goes with P.C. Haynes to see about a shoplifter who claims she is innocent. While they are out the back, the shop is held up by armed robbers who shoot at Ramsey. D.I. Burnside thinks it is tied in with other robberies and sends D.C. Carver to have a word with his evasive snout, Leroy. D.C. Dashwood has a new suit much to the amusement of his collegues. It gets damaged while he is chasing one of the suspects in the robbery. Haynes later tails the other suspects, causing them to crash into a milk float. W.P.C. Ackland and P.C. Melvin are approached by a man who says his friend might be about to kill himself in the toilet of a gay club, and the friend is arrested for possessing an offensive weapon. While being charged, he punches Sgt. Peters who drops the knife. The other man goes for it, but is stopped by Ackland.

    Director:Christopher Hodson
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"FAT'AC" is the best rated episode of "The Bill" season 5. It scored 8.8/10 based on 48 votes. Directed by John Bruce and written by Unknown, it aired on 6/13/1989. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Don't Like Mondays".