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The Best Episodes of The Bill Season 9

Every episode of The Bill Season 9 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Bill Season 9!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Bill Season 9 Episode 36 - The Short Straw
    9.2/10(45 votes)

    S9:E36

    When her car breaks down on the way to the station, DC Viv Martella misses an important CID briefing about an obbo on a suspected armed robbery, and is furious when she is taken off the case by DI Frank Burnside. As CID and SO19 wait outside the target, Martella and PC Tony Stamp follow up a simple case to arrest a suspected bag snatcher. As they wait outside the suspect's house, a van pulls up, obscuring their view. Having missed the briefing, Martella fails to recognise the van's occupants as the armed robbers, and when she approaches their van she is shot and killed. Stamp is wounded, but manages to give a description of the van which is spotted by a traffic police motorcycle. As the India 99 police helicopter and SO19 cars pursue Martella's killers across London, PC Loxton and WPC Ackland disobey Ch. Insp. Cato's orders and pursue the suspect vehicle in the Area Car. The vehicle hits a bulldozer and explodes, killing all inside.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Russell Lewis

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  2. The Bill Season 9 Episode 57 - Punch Drunk
    8.9/10(34 votes)

    S9:E57

    Called to attend to a pub brawl, PC Tony Stamp and PC Dave Quinnan are stunned to find one man unconscious and the other Sun Hill's own DS Ted Roach. Roach is taken back to the station, and while DI Frank Burnside manages to pursuade the victim to drop the charges against him, nothing can be done when Roach headbutts Insp. Andrew Monroe during a heated argument. Ch. Supt. Brownlow calls in MS15 to investigate him, but Roach turns in his warrant card and walks out of the station.

    Director:Michael Simpson
    Writer:Edward Canfor-Dumas

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  3. The Bill Season 9 Episode 115 - A Day In The Life Of
    8.6/10(29 votes)

    S9:E115

    A woman parks her car with P.C. Loxton's permission, but it gets clamped. Loxton is unable to prevent a young man from committing suicide and blames Ch. Insp. Conway's parking initiative.

    Director:Moira Armstrong
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Bill Season 9 Episode 25 - Out Of The Mouths
    8.4/10(25 votes)

    S9:E25

    Hollis takes the Bumblebee message into a local school, asking for help in the fight against burglary. One of the boys asks him to help end a domestic nightmare.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Bill Season 9 Episode 110 - Game Of Two Halves
    8.4/10(29 votes)

    S9:E110

    W.D.C. Croft is in uniform for the day, to Ch. Insp. Cato's delight.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Bill Season 9 Episode 138 - Cutting Edge
    8.4/10(20 votes)

    S9:E138

    Polly and Gary are called to the Parkmead Estate about a burglary at a flat which results in the wife assaulted and taken to St Hughes. The husband came home and discovered the burglar still there. When Polly talks to the husband at the hospital, he is very upset. He tells Polly and Gary what happened when he saw the burglar and says he chopped off 3 of the burglar's fingers when they were in the kitchen. the fingers were put into a jar of gherkins. Alan Woods tries to get the jar put into the canteen fridge but one of the canteen workers threatens to close down the canteen if it goes into the fridge. So he puts them into the fridge in the conference room. Tosh and Jim interview a patient who has lost 3 fingers who claims his fingers were caught in a lorry door.

    Director:Michael Simpson
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Bill Season 9 Episode 155 - Nothing Ventured
    8.4/10(24 votes)

    S9:E155

    George is chasing a suspect but loses him. Steve searches the area and spots him. When caught he has just dropped some LSD tabs. The suspect tries to do a deal with the D.I. about getting bail to attend his brother's wedding. Regional Crime Squad:Drugs are in the station and organising a raid on the factory. Meadows gets upset because of a missing witness and Meadows wants the D.I. to go and talk to the witness. The D.I. wants to be in on the drug raid. Haines talks to the very scared witness. Haines is head hunted back to the drug squad. Meadows is not happy when told by Brownlow.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Edward Canfor-Dumas

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  8. The Bill Season 9 Episode 90 - Unreliable Witness
    8.3/10(29 votes)

    S9:E90

    A timid music teacher is intimidated by a violent ex-pupil. Ch. Insp. Cato is furious when P.C. Garfield lets a thief get away.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Bill Season 9 Episode 92 - David & Goliath
    8.3/10(29 votes)

    S9:E92

    A mother refuses to testify against her husband, accused of abusing their 14-year-old son. P.C. Jarvis intercedes on the boy's behalf.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Bill Season 9 Episode 79 - Swaps
    8.2/10(27 votes)

    S9:E79

    P.C. Loxton and Garfield swap jobs. Loxton has to deal with the new screen phones in the CAD room, while Garfield attends a fatal RTA.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Bill Season 9 Episode 154 - Cause For Concern
    8.2/10(29 votes)

    S9:E154

    Steve and Dave are talking when a speeding driver goes past. The driver tells Dave that the hospital had just rang and her husband was critical. Suzy calls on the driver because she returned home to find it burgled. Dave and Steve are sent to check out the address of the lady at the hospital(that Danny overhears) and surprises 2 blokes. While Tony is driving the burglars' van, one of them get into the van and tells Tony to get a move on. Tony and Norika are called to check a domestic disturbance. Norika is concerned about the asian wife. The husband is very dominating. The domestic starts again. On entering the house Norika and Tony find the husband stabbed and his wife in shock with a knife in her hand. Norika didn't notice the knife at first. The wife claims it was an accident. While Danny is at the hospital checking on the victim, he overhears a lady asking about her husband who is supposed to be injured at the hospital. Woods talks to friends of the couple and their d

    Director:Christopher Hodson
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Bill Season 9 Episode 4 - New Tune Old Fiddle
    8.1/10(25 votes)

    S9:E4

    Conway learns of a new chief inspector being posted to Sun Hill as Community Liaison Officer and he feels that he's been overlooked and applies for it himself without telling Brownlow.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Bill Season 9 Episode 13 - Shake Rattle N Roll
    8.1/10(26 votes)

    S9:E13

    PC Mike Jarvis has an unusual first day having to watch Charles loses his temper with Monroe over pub landlord and Known villain Terry McGill.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Bill Season 9 Episode 53 - Give Em An Inch
    8.1/10(30 votes)

    S9:E53

    Cato allows a demonstration to go ahead despite being warned that it could be hijacked by racists. When things turn ugly, he is forced to reverse his previous orders.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Bill Season 9 Episode 54 - By Hook Or By Crook
    8.1/10(30 votes)

    S9:E54

    Roach is disgusted when a judge halts the trial of a man accused of crippling a police officer and decides to take matters into his own hands.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Bill Season 9 Episode 78 - Morning Has Broken
    8.1/10(25 votes)

    S9:E78

    Monroe acts quickly after a tip-off about a robbery at a supermarket. Meanwhile CID try to foil a kidnapping and robbery plot, only to be impeded by lack of resources.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Bill Season 9 Episode 142 - Questionable Judgement
    8.1/10(21 votes)

    S9:E142

    A homeless man is found murdered and a teenage girl has gone missing.

    Director:Paul Unwin
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Bill Season 9 Episode 153 - Paid In Full
    8.1/10(22 votes)

    S9:E153

    Ram raiders attempt to break into an Asain electrical store. Sgt. Boyden and George stop ithile Dave gives chase to another of the raiders. One of the neighbouring store owners brings in a bottle of stotch for Sgt. Boyden and the store owners give him a CD player. Monroe is not happy that Boyden was given something. Woods is sent to check on stolen money at B.P.C. Software. The suspect is an ex offender. When interviewed, the suspect claims she was set up because the security officer tried to assault her like he had with another employee.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Bill Season 9 Episode 9 - On The Cards
    8.0/10(24 votes)

    S9:E9

    Martella is taken off a two-week old murder hunt to work on a case involving obscene phone calls but soon stumbles on to evidence that leads her Dave Frank and Jim to the killer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Bill Season 9 Episode 58 - Fall Out
    8.0/10(32 votes)

    S9:E58

    With the departure of Roach one of his informants wants out Burnside and Monroe investigate threats against her.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Bill Season 9 Episode 82 - A Duty Of Care
    8.0/10(32 votes)

    S9:E82

    Sgt. Cryer and P.C. Garfield attend a warehouse where a seventeen-year-old boy has fallen from a forklift truck to his death. Cryer is convinced it was no accident.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Bill Season 9 Episode 109 - Compliments Of The Service
    8.0/10(27 votes)

    S9:E109

    A public relations exercise by Ch. Supt. Brownlow is threatened by a drugs raid on the Jasmine Allen estate.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Bill Season 9 Episode 117 - Play the Game
    8.0/10(24 votes)

    S9:E117

    Chief Inspector Cato's bullish tactics put noses out of joint, after a pub brawl turns into a murder enquiry.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Bill Season 9 Episode 124 - No Comment
    8.0/10(22 votes)

    S9:E124

    An old man has been murdered in his flat. D.C.I. Meadows has two suspects in custody, but both claim the right to silence.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Chris Lang

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  25. The Bill Season 9 Episode 130 - Care In The Community
    8.0/10(30 votes)

    S9:E130

    An old woman is found dead in an empty house and Quinnan and Garfield are called in to investigate. Jarvis arrests a violent youth for assault.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 9 Ratings Summary

"The Short Straw" is the best rated episode of The Bill season 9. It scored 9.2/10 from 45 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Russell Lewis, it aired on March 26, 1993. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Punch Drunk".