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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    The Bill Season 5 Episode 0 - Getting it right
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    #1 - Getting it right

    S5:E0

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Bill Season 5 Episode 51 - Make My Day
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    #2 - Make My Day

    S5:E51

    Uniform are looking for someone who is letting off distress flares inside letterboxes. Melvin arrives on the scene of an attack. Householder wants something done. Hollis is back on the beat. As he is responding to Melvin's call to assist, he knocks into a rider of a moped who takes off. Fire Officer tells Cryer flares could be dangerous because of corrosion. Hollis is swinging bag around containing flare gun. Suspect has a thing about neighbourhood watch. An elderly betting shop owner(ex villain) tells Burnside about another elderly villain who has come out of retirement to out a contract on him. P.C. Turnham goes undercover.

    Director:Michael Ferguson
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Bill Season 5 Episode 52 - Provocation
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    #3 - Provocation

    S5:E52

    Mike Dashwood is investigating pilfering from a building site. Foreman is not cooperative. Roache gets him to interview a lad about a stolen moped. Father hits Mike and then follows him as he goes to met the foreman. Foreman tells Mike not to come onto the site again after handing over a list of names. Mike is beaten unconscious and list is missing. June is talking to Melvin about taking her Sergeant's exams. She tells two boys off for riding bikes on pavement. June and Melvin respond to call and find Mike.

    Director:Michael Ferguson
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Bill Season 5 Episode 53 - Overspend
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    #4 - Overspend

    S5:E53

    Taffy has come in for a shift before taking his holidays. He is worried he will miss his flight. He tries to saw a bed rail to remove a prisoner but ends up removing the bed head instead. Brownlow is trying to cut spending and tells Burnside that for the present they will have to use the buses. Carver misses his on the way to a supermarket to see about staff pilfering. He wrenches his ankle getting off the bus after a butcher smuggling meat out in his clothes. Penny is going by the PACE book

    Director:Terry Marcel
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Bill Season 5 Episode 54 - Between Friends
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    #5 - Between Friends

    S5:E54

    Dashwood and Roach investigate a break-in at an apartment on the Thames. The burglar is chased and caught by uniform. Claims chloroform was planted on him but later changes his story to finding it in the apartment. Brownlow is off to a meeting on a golf course, upset that his golf clubs are still missing from his car. Later offered a set of clubs at a discount by a shady member of the club. Complaints have been made about not flying the flag so Melville and Able are ordered to look for it. The flag pole is also missing.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Bill Season 5 Episode 55 - Traffic
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    #6 - Traffic

    S5:E55

    An artist is painting in the middle of the road while a lorry is blocking the road. The girl won't talk but doesn't appear deaf. Garfield is stopped because of a hit and run of a little girl. Later Claire notices children jumping on the roof of car that has been abandoned. Little girl dies. Grieg goes to see the owner of the car who is pregnant. Cryer is showing Turnham around the beat. When they go to arrest driver of car, Cryer is pushed down stairs and Turnham keeps hitting a suspect. Cryer is accused of being jealous.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Bill Season 5 Episode 56 - The Sacred Seal
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    #7 - The Sacred Seal

    S5:E56

    An armed robbery is in progress. Jim follows suspect, picking up starting pistol but loses him outside a church. A priest is found holding the money after suspect leaves during confession. Carver later arrests suspect after avoiding an iron bar. Suspect is convinced priest grassed him up so the church is vandalised. Taffy is moaning to Garfield about inefficiency of C.PS. (Crown Prosecuting Service) when they notice two men fighting over dogs in a car. The owner of the car has put his vicious rotteweilers in it to prevent it being repossessed. A young boy can control dogs. Repossession man turns out to be bogus and is caught respraying cars.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. The Bill Season 5 Episode 57 - Subsequent Visits
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    #8 - Subsequent Visits

    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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  9. The Bill Season 5 Episode 58 - User Friendly
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    #9 - User Friendly

    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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  10. The Bill Season 5 Episode 59 - Don't Like Mondays
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    #10 - Don't Like Mondays

    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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  11. The Bill Season 5 Episode 60 - Pickup
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    #11 - Pickup

    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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  12. The Bill Season 5 Episode 61 - Kidding
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    #12 - Kidding

    S5:E61

    Inspector Frazer is moaning about expenses. Viv is given domestic violence cases to follow up. She can't understand why beaten women stay. One would rather put up with it than suffer consequences of reporting him. Another is staying for the children. Yet another decides to lay a complaint after Viv's visit. Tony is walking the beat with Richard Turnham and are sent to a shopping centre about allegations of shoplifting. They pick up 3 juveniles.

    Director:Michael Ferguson
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Bill Season 5 Episode 62 - Black Spot
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    #13 - Black Spot

    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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  14. The Bill Season 5 Episode 63 - Taken For A Ride
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    #14 - Taken For A Ride

    S5:E63

    Roach is meeting the Inspectors Promotion Board who made up their mind before the interview that he wouldn't be promoted. Carver is moaning to Burnside about going out in the evening. They are doing an obbo ona lorry with P.C.s Able and Turnham inside. Dashwood loses the lorry and the radiolink doesn't seem to be working. Burnside goes up in the police helicopter. Able is begining to be affected by the fumes when they find themselves back where they started from. The driver was listening to the police communications all the time.

    Director:Terry Marcel
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Bill Season 5 Episode 64 - Time Out
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    #15 - Time Out

    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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  16. The Bill Season 5 Episode 65 - Leaving
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    #16 - Leaving

    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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  17. The Bill Season 5 Episode 66 - Street Games And Board Games
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    #17 - Street Games And Board Games

    S5:E66

    June and Tony walk through a black community. Roach had raided a house selling intoxicating liquor. June and Tony are called to a disturbance at a house iwth white occupants. The father of the baby was nicked by Roach the night before. They are almost in a riot situation. The baby's mother is Roach's snout. Brownlow is at a role play for senior officers. It is about riots on the streets of London.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:J. C. Wilsher

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  18. The Bill Season 5 Episode 67 - Pressure
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    #18 - Pressure

    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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  19. The Bill Season 5 Episode 68 - A Little Knowledge
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    #19 - A Little Knowledge

    S5:E68

    Lines sits in on a poker game at a mini cab office. Illegal gambling is suspected. They raid the wrong place. Cathy moans to Taffy about putting the cards back. she is set up by Carver and Lines. She later gets her own back. Garfield is decoy for muggings on pizza delivery boys.

    Director:James Cellan Jones
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Bill Season 5 Episode 69 - Pathways
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    #20 - Pathways

    S5:E69

    While attending a traffic accident, Alex is approached about vandalism on an allotment but it is about couples coming in having sex in the sheds. Turns out to a prostitute known to Alex. Garden and allotment of missing teacher have been destroyed because she left her husband.

    Director:Michael Ferguson
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Bill Season 5 Episode 70 - Seen To Be Done
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    #21 - Seen To Be Done

    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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  22. The Bill Season 5 Episode 71 - Tulip
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    #22 - Tulip

    S5:E71

    Roach and Dashwood arrest a man at an after match function. The suspect tries to help a girl and gets stabbed. Roach gets very little cooperation at another police station and has a run-in with the Inspector. The girl (Tulip) is a prostitute and they talk to her pimp to help look for her. They find her at the hospital when they go to pick up the suspect who turns out to have caused Tulip to miscarry.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Bill Season 5 Episode 72 - Nothing But The Truth
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    #23 - Nothing But The Truth

    S5:E72

    Burnside is having problems with the C.P.S.(Crown Prosecuting Service). He asks Brind to check a warrant on a man asked after by the C.P.S. Carver is having a hard time in CID. He is told not towear his emotions on his sleeve. he is thinking about going back to uniform.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Bill Season 5 Episode 73 - It's Not Majorca
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    #24 - It's Not Majorca

    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
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  25. The Bill Season 5 Episode 74 - Mending Fences
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    #25 - Mending Fences

    S5:E74

    After being raked over the coals by Brownlow for the accident in the custody suite. Sgt. Peters mows Mrs Gunn's lawn before taking her to the vicar's fete. Taffy talks to Thompson Jnr. and the rest of his gang. The gang later vandalises the school. Tony and Reg give chase into a car scrapyard where a car falls onto Thompson Jnr.

    Director:Unknown
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Worst Episodes Summary

"Getting it right" is the worst rated episode of "The Bill". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/3/1989. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Make My Day".