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The Best Episodes of The Bill Season 7

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Bill Season 7 Episode 1 - Grief
    7.3/10(48 votes)

    #1 - Grief

    S7:E1

    Norika and George are on traffic duty. He failed to see the D.A.C. so didn't salute him. Brownlow's wife is giving grief about the roof of his summer cottage.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Bill Season 7 Episode 2 - The Chase
    8.1/10(39 votes)

    #2 - The Chase

    S7:E2

    A man complains about his car being trashed. Norika goes to a service station which is being held-up by men with a machete. Steve and Dave give chase. During the chase Steve collides with a car.

    Director:Stuart Urban
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Bill Season 7 Episode 3 - The Attack
    7.8/10(36 votes)

    #3 - The Attack

    S7:E3

    Cathy is on the beat and notices 2 men acting strangely. When she tries to arrest them, she is attacked. A black youth not involved tells George about it, who gives chase. Insp. Monroe takes an interest and wants it investigated as a sexual assualt. Burnside is watching a firm that could be done over by an ex-security guard. Tosh is worried about the security guard. When the raid does go down, Tosh can't get through to the security guard.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Bill Season 7 Episode 4 - Crown V. Cooper
    7.6/10(47 votes)

    #4 - Crown V. Cooper

    S7:E4

    Loxton is going to court with Garfield. One of the witnesses is giving them a hard time. Dashwood is also there griping about missing paperwork. Garfield is worried about his notes and Loxton is very confident the attacker will get charged. Loxton and the defendant tell 2 different versions of the attack. The defendant gets off and he is last seen heading into a pub with a child left crying in the car.

    Director:Michael Kerrigan
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Bill Season 7 Episode 5 - The Girl Can't Help It
    7.8/10(37 votes)

    #5 - The Girl Can't Help It

    S7:E5

    A girl is missing and Reg is moaning about his mealtime being curtailed. Dave finds an incriminating notebook that indicates the girl is on the game. When Dave goes to tell the family, he finds out the father already knows. Conway has an argument with Brownlow after he contacted a radio station about the missing girl. While Burnside is having lunch, he notices the girl lunching with a businessman.

    Director:John Strickland
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Bill Season 7 Episode 6 - Machines
    7.3/10(41 votes)

    #6 - Machines

    S7:E6

    Roach and Carver put pressure on a defendant who postpones his appearance in court due to illness. Lines is on the trail of photocopiers stolen from an American base.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Bill Season 7 Episode 7 - Loophole
    7.7/10(31 votes)

    #7 - Loophole

    S7:E7

    Brownlow gives Conway a hard time about sick figures. Young is not feeling well and June thinks it could be stress related. Loxton goes to investigate something suspicious in a scrapyard. CID helps uniform combat burglaries on an estate. Viv and Jim pay follow-up calls to the victims. Jim is told it is kids.

    Director:John Strickland
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Bill Season 7 Episode 8 - Bottle
    7.9/10(37 votes)

    #8 - Bottle

    S7:E8

    Sgt. Maitland thinks there is a problem with a local pub landlord of the Overton Arms as well as drinking on duty. The prisoner makes allegiations about being threatened with a shotgun. It is possible that Sgt. Maitland is blowing a CID operation. When Roach is assualted at the pub, Maitland gets the attacker. Brownlow is getting a bee in his bonnet about wearing hats.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Bill Season 7 Episode 9 - Samaritan
    8.0/10(38 votes)

    #9 - Samaritan

    S7:E9

    Stamp and Stringer come across a man and a woman struggling. Stamp grabs the woman who collapses. The man says he saw her wandering and went to help her and she attacked him with her nails. Initial reports from the hospital are that she was the victim of an attempted rape but the bruises were from an epileptic fit.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Bill Season 7 Episode 10 - Fear or Favour
    8.0/10(46 votes)

    #10 - Fear or Favour

    S7:E10

    Jasmine Allen Estate representatives are visiting the station. Tony and Delia walk the Estate and talk to one of the residents. They chase a drug dealer to a club and the men on the door won't let them through. June and Steve arrest the dealer after he leaves the club but June is attacked when the men from the club turn up. The man who assualted her was one of the representatives from the Estate on the council.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Bill Season 7 Episode 11 - Start To Finish
    8.1/10(36 votes)

    #11 - Start To Finish

    S7:E11

    Brownlow is having transport problems to get to a meeting. He helps at an accident. Tom Penny who now is security guard comes in to check an arrest Dave made of a supposedly pregnant woman. He talks to Tad about the amount of stealing at the business he is now at.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Bill Season 7 Episode 12 - Night and Day
    7.7/10(41 votes)

    #12 - Night and Day

    S7:E12

    Tony and Barry are stopped in the street by a man who says his flat has been burgled and the burglars are still on the premises. They surprise a flat owner who is in the bathroom. Tosh finds out the lady was lying about her whereabouts because she was with a married man. Delia visits an old man who wanted to report a prowler to an Inspector. He rings again and Delia chases a man to a car park on the Jasmine Allen. Delia and the old man are hit by a car.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Russell Lewis

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  13. The Bill Season 7 Episode 13 - Favours
    7.2/10(44 votes)

    #13 - Favours

    S7:E13

    Dashwood and Roach investigate a burglary at a scrapyard. Dashwood recognises the name of an ex-copper who knows Roach and Dashwood thinks Roach is prejudiced and too helpful. The ex-copper turned security guard's wife comes up with a possible suspect. Cathy investigates poison pen letters sent by the recipient's husband. Bob says the police can't do anything about them. the husband comes to the station and asks for protection.

    Director:Bob Blagden
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Bill Season 7 Episode 14 - In Chambers
    7.6/10(32 votes)

    #14 - In Chambers

    S7:E14

    Greig gets the evidence for an arson case from the property officer and goes to a conference in chambers and parks in the wrong space. The suspect is not responsible for his actions, according to pschriatics unfit to plead. Greig is not happy that the case he spent months on might be chucked out. Delia and Su are being given cheek by 2 black youths. Delia takes home leaving su to deal with an alleged shoplifting. Su wants to let the shoplifter off with a caution but, on taking home, finds a room full of goods stolen from supermarkets.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Bill Season 7 Episode 15 - Kids Don't Cry Anymore
    7.5/10(33 votes)

    #15 - Kids Don't Cry Anymore

    S7:E15

    June sees a boy being bullied at a playground. On investigation she finds a lunch box with packets in it as well as a notebook with a list of names and some drawings. The list is of drugs but the prices are kids prices and the packets hold grass clippings and flour - almost like the children are playing shop. She goes to the local school to see if she can get some names. Dashwood's transfer has been turned down. Burnside thinks Brownlow stopped it because Dashwood is dressed smarted than Brownlow. The retired head of the murder squad offers to help Dashwood. Roach's ex senior officer comes into CID asking for help with a case. He is now head of a security firm and wants to impress the partners and wants Roach's help because Ted is a good thief taker. Roach doesn't want to help because he still hasn't forgiven his boss for putting an innocent man in prison. He nicks a man at the pub with stolen watches.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Bill Season 7 Episode 16 - Too Many Chiefs
    7.8/10(37 votes)

    #16 - Too Many Chiefs

    S7:E16

    After dropping off a girl at a children's home, Dave and Cathy get called back in for a potential suicide. The girl Dave brought back in the morning seems to be the last person to see the dead girl alive. The man in charge of the home resigns. The dead girl had a boyfriend who, according to her diary, took her to Spain and Wales as well as other places. There was an unreported break-in. This and some photographs the disappearing girl had seem to be connected to the suicide.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Bill Season 7 Episode 17 - Every Mother's Son
    7.5/10(21 votes)

    #17 - Every Mother's Son

    S7:E17

    June, Tony, Dave and Reg are doing an obbo. Dave and Reg are lost while the doctor is attacked. The doctor was called to a hoax emergency call. The lady who was supposed to have made the call is being harassed since her son was arrested for murder. Reg comes up with a Trojan Horse idea to protect the doctor. The mother of the murderer commits suicide. Barry and Steve are called to a burglary at a chemists. One of the suspects collapses. Steve is getting cocky about his arrest.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Bill Season 7 Episode 18 - Furthers
    8.2/10(47 votes)

    #18 - Furthers

    S7:E18

    A man is murdered by a shotgun after talking to Dashwood. A man who has escaped from prison turns up in Dashwood's flat after he has put the safety chain on the door. A gunshot has been reported at Dashwood's because the escapee's girlfriend was shot. He turns the gun on himself after making Dashwood look like a prat.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Bill Season 7 Episode 19 - Closing The Net
    7.9/10(34 votes)

    #19 - Closing The Net

    S7:E19

    A young girl is approached by a man in a playground. Burnside thinks that they can't do anything until a crime is committed. tosh is noticing the suspect getting bolder. Ron has also noticed a pattern. A girl goes missing from a playground. A shop keeper is pushing the armed robbery button when he is being spat at by children.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Bill Season 7 Episode 20 - The Public Interest
    7.8/10(38 votes)

    #20 - The Public Interest

    S7:E20

    A man comes in to talk to someone in authority because an ex-employee is having sex with a 15 year old. CPS has thrown out June's assault case. She is thinking of taking a private prosecution and ends her shift feeling very cynical.

    Director:Sarah Pia Anderson
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Bill Season 7 Episode 21 - Photo Finish
    7.7/10(37 votes)

    #21 - Photo Finish

    S7:E21

    Datta is watching a pub when a youth is seen leaving with drugs. While reading a playboy in the boy's room, Garfield finds over £200 hidden in the magazine and an acqinance of the boy is seen going into the pub and then arrested of possible possession. Garfield thinks the boy, whose room they are using for the obbo, is a dealer. Sue gets a hot tip for a double but Steve never placed the bet. Her first horse won and the second horse had a photo before being confirmed as coming second by a nose.

    Director:Bob Blagden
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Bill Season 7 Episode 22 - Just Desserts
    7.9/10(32 votes)

    #22 - Just Desserts

    S7:E22

    burnside and Lines go for a lunchtime drink. Tony and George go to a building site where a self-employed tiler fell off the top floor. An eye witness says he was pushed. The victim had killed a woman about 5 years before in a drink driving accident.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Bill Season 7 Episode 23 - 832 Receiving
    7.9/10(46 votes)

    #23 - 832 Receiving

    S7:E23

    June and Delia catch a girl who has stolen a purse. June suspects the mother of fraud. Delia goes back out and watches 3 youths interfere with a car before she is told to investigate reports of screaming coming from a flat. The lady's baby has died. Delia is badly affected by the death.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Barbara Cox

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  24. The Bill Season 7 Episode 24 - The Better Part Of Valour
    7.2/10(44 votes)

    #24 - The Better Part Of Valour

    S7:E24

    Burnside and Reed go to an accident involving a security van. Ted thinks it is an inside job. Ted finds a job application for a man with form. Tosh talks to the guard. Martella talks to a witness who is worried about the wrong people finding out. She is supposed to be in Scotland.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Bill Season 7 Episode 25 - Double Or Quits
    7.8/10(46 votes)

    #25 - Double Or Quits

    S7:E25

    Delia and Viv talk about a perpetual villain before they go to court. Viv's witness is having second thoughts. D.C.I. Reed gets a phone call about Viv reading previous charges in court. Jim and Ted watch 3 men enter a house. A girl is hastily let out who turns out to be a friend of Ted. Jim watches 3 youths enter the house . Jim gets punched in the nose.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 7 Ratings Summary

"Grief" is the best rated episode of "The Bill" season 7. It scored 7.3/10 based on 48 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/1/1991. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "The Chase".