7.2/1045 votes#1 - Grief
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1036 votes
#2 - The Chase
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 1/3/1991
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: N/A
- 7.7/1035 votes
#3 - The Attack
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 1/8/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1045 votes
#4 - Crown V. Cooper
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 1/10/1991
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: N/A
- 7.7/1035 votes
#5 - The Girl Can't Help It
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 1/15/1991
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: N/A
- 7.2/1038 votes
#6 - Machines
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 1/17/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1029 votes
#7 - Loophole
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 1/22/1991
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: N/A
- 7.7/1035 votes
#8 - Bottle
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 1/24/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1036 votes
#9 - Samaritan
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 1/29/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1044 votes
#10 - Fear or Favour
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 1/31/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1034 votes
#11 - Start To Finish
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 2/5/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1039 votes
#12 - Night and Day
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 2/7/1991
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: N/A
Writer: Russell Lewis
- 7.1/1044 votes
#13 - Favours
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 2/12/1991
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: N/A
- 7.4/1030 votes
#14 - In Chambers
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 2/14/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1032 votes
#15 - Kids Don't Cry Anymore
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 2/19/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1034 votes
#16 - Too Many Chiefs
Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 2/21/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1020 votes
#17 - Every Mother's Son
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 2/26/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1045 votes
#18 - Furthers
Season 7 Episode 18 - Aired 2/28/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1033 votes
#19 - Closing The Net
Season 7 Episode 19 - Aired 3/5/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1037 votes
#20 - The Public Interest
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 3/7/1991
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: N/A
- 7.6/1036 votes
#21 - Photo Finish
Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 3/12/1991
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: N/A
- 7.6/1031 votes
#22 - Just Desserts
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 3/14/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1044 votes
#23 - 832 Receiving
Season 7 Episode 23 - Aired 3/19/1991
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: N/A
Writer: Barbara Cox
- 7.1/1043 votes
#24 - The Better Part Of Valour
Season 7 Episode 24 - Aired 3/21/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1044 votes
#25 - Double Or Quits
Season 7 Episode 25 - Aired 3/26/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Bill Season 7
Every episode of The Bill Season 7 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Bill Season 7!
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 7 Ratings Summary
"Grief" is the best rated episode of "The Bill" season 7. It scored 7.2/10 based on 45 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/1/1991. This episode is rated 0.9 points higher than the second-best, "The Chase".