7.7/1043 votes#1 - By The Skin Of Our Teeth
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/1990
Hollis is gossiping in the locker room. Able is sent to a pub to deal with a man on valium. The man ends going to his mother-in-law's and trashes the place. Able sorts out a fight outside a pub and discovers the drunk he brought in had been robbed. Brownlow and Conway discuss starting wages before Brownlow goes to a board selecting candidates for a graduated entry scheme.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1033 votes
#2 - Officers And Gentlemen
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 1/4/1990
D.C. Jim Carver and Ch. Insp. Conway face an embarrassing situation when a thief confesses to a crime that Jim has already cleared up... and Jim's having problems with the ladies too. Turnham talks to a pavement artist before he is called to a music shop and a shoplifter. He was told by Sgt. Peters to help Norika and Susanne at a pub but Frazer gives him a lecture about Woman's Lib and tells him not to go. A dog handler helps calm the situation. The landlord is not happy about W.P.Cs dealing with drunken disturbances and neither is Brownlow.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1043 votes
#3 - Carry Your Bags Sir
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 1/9/1990
Charles tells Derek to organise a group of officers needed to escort a German police officer around London who is looking for stolen truck engines meanwhile Bob is not happy when Tony announces he is going to be on holiday when a case of his comes up at court a man complains after being burgled three times in a week.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1031 votes
#4 - I Thought You'd Gone
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 1/11/1990
Inspector Frazer and Taffy Edwards are about to discover there is life after Sun Hill.
Director: N/A
Writer: J. C. Wilsher
- 7.6/1043 votes
#5 - C.A.D.
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 1/16/1990
Hollis is organising a blood bank at the station and Peters is not happy because Viv is lying down. She is sent to assist at an armed robbery and hits a radio black spot so no one at the station knows her whereabouts. Ken finds one of the robbers who shows him where she is but he also hits the black spot. Carver and Ted have a problem with their car. Tony feels unwell after giving blood and finds out why Hollis won't donate. Previously he started rumours about why ranging from STD to bovine TB.
Director: Christopher Hodson
Writer: J. C. Wilsher
- 7.2/1041 votes
#6 - A Day Lost
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 1/18/1990
Garfield and Norika investigate a report of a man hanging round a school's gate. A boy is missing so they start a full scale search. Inspector Monroe thinks A relief has gone soft. Carver is told off by Greig about 2nd visits. He finds the boy in a garage. Greig picks up the man hanging around the school.
Director: Philip Casson
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1044 votes
#7 - A Clean Division
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 1/23/1990
D.I. Burnside is delighted to be called out of a boring meeting at Stafford Row police station, especially as he thinks it's D.C. Carver with a lead on an important drugs case. Burnside is horrified to find, however, that Carver has been arrested for drink-driving by an over-zealous Stafford Row officer named P.C. Horden. Since Carver's police career is on the line, Burnside and Horden's more sympathetic colleagues manage to delay Carver's breath test for a while, and Carver eventually passes the breath test and is released.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1033 votes
#8 - Roger And Out
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 1/25/1990
Roach thinks Tosh has something going on the side. Penny is going to report Tosh for 'breach of regulations' by allowing a lodger to stay. Everyone from Cryer to Hollis feel Penny has gone too far.
Director: David Giles
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1034 votes
#9 - Addresses
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 1/30/1990
Viv and Sgt. Cryer are on night patrol. They stop a lady wheeling a suitcase looking for an address. They are asked to assist Tony and Dave at a house where a man is dropping the contents of his flat off the roof. They then attend a burglar alarm. The lady reappears followed by 3 youths. They take her to another address.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1033 votes
#10 - Michael Runs The Family Now
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 2/1/1990
Burnside talks to his snout about the robbery of a video shop that was owned by the son of a dead villain who has taken over the family. An incident at a pub is thought of as being retribution of the robbery. Burnside's snout's wife is having an affair with the villain. A lady, who had been to self-defense classes run by Stamp, breaks a man's arm. Sgt. Cryer thinks she used excessive force but she tells Stamp she was being 'felt up'. Man has form for previous indecent assaults.
Director: N/A
Writer: Kieran Prendiville
- 7.1/1034 votes
#11 - Against The Odds
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 2/6/1990
Dashwood is walking through an old subway and is approached by a snout with info about a potential gang war on the plot. Burnside is off with a bad back and Greig is acting D.I. again. He takes Viv off earlies. Greig is not happy about the snout and makes Dashwood write everything down. Conway is pleased Burnside is off sick. He is in the custody suite checking on times prisoners have been held. Conway is also not happy about the info of the gang war.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1033 votes
#12 - Blood Sucker
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 2/8/1990
Susanne and Ken investigate a domestic. The wife says she fell down stairs initially. Neighbour keeps interrupting. The wife owes money. The husband is suspected of slashing tyres. The wife's child benefit book was taken by the money lender. Munro talks to Cathy about regular updates of clear-up figures. Dave voices his opinion of battered women. The calculators he has been selling are wonky. Not only does he have to refund the buyers but the money he got initially he has to put into Brownlow's charity box. Brownlow asks about the money lender and states he would like to nick him as he is the money man behind a lot of crime. Ken and Susanne find the husband in the money lender's shop, having been hit by the putter Roach warned the money lender would be considered an offensive weapon.
Director: Christopher Hodson
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1019 votes
#13 - Workers In Uniform
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 2/13/1990
Able and Susanne moan about ruined weekend, so do Turnham and Hollis. A street festival that had been thought to have been cancelled is going ahead and the relief have to work. Hollis meets with Brownlow about the relief working at the street festival. Dave uses the area car to deliver some files to another station and causes some damage which he covers up. Turnham is blamed for the damage.
Director: N/A
Writer: J. C. Wilsher
- 6.2/1033 votes
#14 - Something To Hide
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 2/15/1990
Melvin is chasing a suspect and pulls his tracksuit top. The suspect had caused a disturbance after being caught fishing for something in a pond - a wrapped up gun shape but when the wrapping is removed it turns out to be a diamond necklace instead. Turnham talks to Norika on the way to a break-in although there are no signs of forced entry and the only thing missing is a ring. Tosh investigates and ties together both jewelry thefts. Turnham and Norika get involved in a fight in a pub.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1033 votes
#15 - The Old Men's Run
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 2/20/1990
Cryer and Conway are training for the Divisional ¼ marathon. Cryer notices a man in a wheelchair being mugged by some youths and he pulls a muscle when he gives chase. Cryer is under pressure. Because Penny is sick, Cathy is acting sergeant and out on the beat. Quinnan and Stamp go to an accident. Two rival gangs are involved. Roach tries to take a witness statement from 2 Asians. Carver is interviewing one of the occupants of the car. Able tries to talk to an Asian neighbour of the injured man who dies in hospital.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1029 votes
#16 - Legacies
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 2/22/1990
Tony and Viv are investigating a break-in. Tosh talks to the old lady after the SOCO has been. Tosh thinks it is part of a string by a burglar who has just got bail. The old lady's solictor is a partner of the suspect's solictor. The suspect's house has a fire set by the only straight member of the family. Brownlow and Burnside argue over clear-up figures. Burnside thinks Stafford Row have fiddled with their figures. Melvin brings in a man who claims to have lost his memory so he plays him some Roy Orbison tapes to help him regain his memory.
Director: Christopher Hodson
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1016 votes
#17 - Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 2/27/1990
Burnside brings in a van of party goers involved with drugs. On the way up to tell Burnside he has to meet a snout, Tosh heard him trying Greig's clarinet. Tosh's snout is in hospital. His daughter has problems accepting what her father does and he dies of a stroke. Burnside also talks to a man who has lost 30 leather coats. Viv is going undercover in his factory. She is offered a dope cigarette and after the operation recuits the dealer as a snout. The boss's son is very interested in her. Roach and June interview a girl who had 'Class A' drugs in her pocession. Her father turns out to be a commander but she won't say who she is. Brownlow, who has known the family for a long time, is still going to charge the girl even if it means her father's career is ruined.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1030 votes
#18 - Something Special
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 3/1/1990
Reg and Turnham chuck out the drunks. Sgt. Peters later discovers the cell keys missing and thinks one of the drunks may have them. Carver and Greig give Dashwood a hard time about buying a country cottage. A detective supt. comes and asks for 1 of Burnside's men for an operation that is going to last 6 months. Grieg thinks it is in Northern Ireland. Roach helps Norika bring in a street walker with a baby.
Director: David Giles
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1043 votes
#19 - Enemies
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 3/6/1990
A group of asian youths cause a diversion which one raids the till when Peters tries to stop them. His father is important in the community. The boy wanted to show off to his mates. A Supt. from Area (community liason officer) visits Sunhill to try to nip any racial problems in the bud. Norika brings in a man who has hit his daughter. Norika has nearly calmed the girl down but the Supt. gets her back up again. After further talking by Norika it ends happily. June is having problems getting crime victims answering a survey about stress.
Director: Alan Wareing
Writer: Philip Martin
- 7.1/1034 votes
#20 - Safe Place
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 3/8/1990
Roach is not getting far after a bank robbery. It appears to be an exact copy of a robbery that occurred eight years before. The same employee was involved in both robberies and has signed himself into a psychiatric hospital. Viv goes undercover. He appears to be a natural born victim.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1043 votes
#21 - Burnside Knew My Father
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 3/13/1990
Papa Reeves, an old friend from D.I. Burnside's uniform days, plans to end the life of his terminally-ill wife. Burnside takes time out from interviewing a suspected armed robber to convince Reeves that if he does so, not only will he be charged with her murder, but Burnside could also be charged as an accessory. With the robber's solicitor demanding his immediate release, Burnside has an ace up his sleeve: a surveillance photo of the man committing the crime. Meanwhile, W.P.C. Ackland deals with a domestic dispute between a mother and son when the boy is found locked out of the flat wearing only his underpants.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1044 votes
#22 - Watching
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 3/15/1990
Garfield and Quinnan go to a school that reports an intruder. The intruder has been patrolling the school. Quinnan seems out to wind Garfield up. Stamp and Viv investigate some dumped rubble (fly tipping). There was a souvenir hanging from the driver's window. Cryer goes to a Senior Citizens Centre to talk to them about unsolved crime.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1037 votes
#23 - University Challenge
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 3/20/1990
A lady approaches Tony and tells him there are men in masks in the supermarket. He goes in to see and radios in about a robbery. He chases them through the supermarket and notices the make of the getaway car. Burnside and Carver chases them in a car. They corner them but one of the robbers comes back to help the one held by Burnside and after giving Burnside a beating they get away.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1041 votes
#24 - Growing Pains
Season 6 Episode 24 - Aired 3/22/1990
PC George Garfield gets a collar, and spends hours interogatting him - without the use of a tape machine! - only to discover he is a juvenile and should not have been interviewed without an appropriate adult. DC's Dashwood and Carver accompany DS Ted Roach to a factory where things have been going missing. They search for the thief in the warehouse, believing him to be from an air conditioning company. In the course of the search, Jim is attacked and left semi-concious beneath a pile of crates. It takes Dashwood a while to find him - Jim insists he is ""alright"", but later collapses in the factory foyer. He's taken - unconcious - to hospital where he's diagnosed with mild concussion and has to stay in over night - which is fine with him as his nurse is very pretty and friendly!! The case turns out to be one of industrial espionage, and Ted turns it over to the appropriate authorities. [Source: jimsgirl]
Director: Philip Casson
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1035 votes
#25 - One Of The Boys
Season 6 Episode 25 - Aired 3/27/1990
Viv is typing a report while Tosh and Carver are reading the paper. She seems to be considered office girl. Tosh asks her to pick up a prostitute for an alibi check who takes off when she sees Viv. Viv gives chase and tears her skirt. A car driver who gives her a lift thinks she is being a tease and makes her walk back to the station. After a lot of aggravation Viv brings the prostitute back to the station only to find CID doesn't need the alibi after all.
Director: Alan Wareing
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Bill Season 6
Every episode of The Bill Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Bill Season 6!
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 6 Ratings Summary
"By The Skin Of Our Teeth" is the best rated episode of "The Bill" season 6. It scored 7.7/10 based on 43 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/2/1990. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Officers And Gentlemen".