The Bill

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7x1
Grief
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01, 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.
7x2
The Chase
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03, 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.
7x3
The Attack
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08, 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. .. show full overview
7x4
Crown V. Cooper
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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 .. show full overview
7x5
The Girl Can't Help It
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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, .. show full overview
7x6
Machines
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17, 1991
Roach and Carver are in court where they find their defendant has not appeared because he is waiting for a kidney machine. Roach talks to an ex-copper who uses the same kind of .. show full overview
7x7
Loophole
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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 .. show full overview
7x8
Bottle
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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. .. show full overview
7x9
Samaritan
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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 .. show full overview
7x10
Fear or Favour
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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 .. show full overview
7x11
Start To Finish
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05, 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 .. show full overview
7x12
Night and Day
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07, 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 .. show full overview
7x13
Favours
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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 .. show full overview
7x14
In Chambers
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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, .. show full overview
7x15
Kids Don't Cry Anymore
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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 .. show full overview
7x16
Too Many Chiefs
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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 .. show full overview
7x17
Every Mother's Son
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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 .. show full overview
7x18
Furthers
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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 .. show full overview
7x19
Closing The Net
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05, 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 .. show full overview
7x20
The Public Interest
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07, 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.
7x21
Photo Finish
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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 .. show full overview
7x22
Just Desserts
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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 .. show full overview
7x23
832 Receiving
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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 .. show full overview
7x24
The Better Part Of Valour
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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 .. show full overview
7x25
Double Or Quits
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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 .. show full overview
7x26
We Could Be Heroes
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28, 1991
Tony and Dave rush an injured woman to hospital when the ambulance is delayed after an accident. They go to see the driver of the other car. He is a sales rep who hopes to be banned .. show full overview
7x27
Cold Turkey (1)
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02, 1991
Tony and Dave go to a sudden death. Monroe arrives and thinks it is a suspicious death. The man was a locum working at the doctors. Dave and Tony are called to a flat where arguments .. show full overview
7x28
Cold Turkey (2)
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04, 1991
Dashwood talks to one of his snouts to find out the name of the man. June talks to the man on the phone after George left a phone outside the flat. Conway negotiates for the man to be .. show full overview
7x29
Now We're Motoring
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09, 1991
Reg helps a man tow away a car. The owner comes to complain about the towing. Reg comes across another towing. Lines talks to a man about welding his car to make the MOT. He is .. show full overview
7x30
Dead Man's Boots
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11, 1991
Sgt. Cryer tries to stop an elderly woman from being victimised on an estate. Ch. Supt. Brownlow offers the post of duty sergeant to Sgt. Peters, who declines the job, but Cryer accepts it.
7x31
Caught Napping
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16, 1991
The Metropolitan Police Serious Crimes Squad sweep into Sun Hill and commandeer the station's briefing room, setting a few noses out of joint in the process. They are there to .. show full overview
7x32
Hammer To Fall
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18, 1991
In an attempt to end the rift between D.I. Burnside and D.S. Roach, D.C.I. Reid partners them on a drugs operation.
7x33
Cry Havoc
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23, 1991
Sgt. Peters is stabbed, and P.C. Stringer unwittingly finds the culprit.
7x34
Rules Of Engagement
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25, 1991
Viv goes to a club. A bouncer is suspicious and when she goes outside to call in Burnside, he hits her over the back of the head. Her assailant is possibly involved with stolen property. Viv is worried her boyfriend is involved.
7x35
Delivery On Time
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30, 1991
Barry and Cathy are walking the beat when they are called to a burglary. Cathy and Barry are doing follow up calls when they are told the van is back. Jim is hungover and goes with .. show full overview
7x36
Black Monday
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02, 1991
Tosh's car gets towed. He catches a bus and see a man who is supposed to have died 5 years ago. Burnside thinks it is a windup. After being spotted by Norika, he goes into the river .. show full overview
7x37
Jobs For The Boys
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07, 1991
Burnside investigates a break in at a cash and carry. Jim is suspicious of the security guard. Some meat as well as cash was taken. Hollis sees an old man trying to take a packet of .. show full overview
7x38
Without Consent
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09, 1991
A prostitute comes into the station to report a rape. Loxton tells her it is classed as non-payment of goods. June has problems making people treat it as a rape.
7x39
Saints and Martyrs
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14, 1991
June investigates a break in and thief of a pension book. June is told CPS won't be taking up her assault case so she brings a private summons. Brownlow, surprisingly, defends June at .. show full overview
7x40
Observation
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16, 1991
Reid takes over a joint surveillance operation. Burnside and Martella are asked to leave the flat they are observing from by the drunken tenet who then beats his wife. When he comes into the street after her, Burnside arrests him.
7x41
The Greater Good
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21, 1991
Tosh and Jim are watching a wrecking yard. A car is seen driven into the yard stolen from a man who runs a youth centre. Tosh thinks it is an insurance fraud involving cars disappearing and claimed as stolen.
7x42
The Best You Can Buy
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23, 1991
June's case goes to court. She gives evidence as does Tony who is questioned as to being prejudiced towards the defendant as is dave. The defendant also gives evidence. The rest of .. show full overview
7x43
Addict
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25, 1991
Quinnan arrests 2 men in the underground because 1 has a knife. Sgt. Peters' wife gives him a ride to work. Brownlow, Conway and Reid have a meeting with publicans.
7x44
Black Mark
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30, 1991
Dashwood talks to one of his snouts, who has been charged with stealing, on the way to court. The prisoner makes a complaint against him. Brownlow thinks it is serious enough to bring .. show full overview
7x45
The Right Thing To Do
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04, 1991
Lines and Carver go to a club where they find drugs in the band's jackets. The manager thinks it is very funny that a paper is interviewing the band 5 minutes before they are raided. .. show full overview
7x46
The Harder They Fall
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06, 1991
Loxton is attacked after a break-in at a night club and helped by a cabbie who is a special constable. Loxton blacks out and can't remember the incident. One of his attackers later .. show full overview
7x47
Something Personal
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11, 1991
Dashwood and Carver are driving along when they notice a man trying to break into a house. His girlfriend has overdosed. Dashwood spots a snout who tells him she took methamphenine. .. show full overview
7x48
Hijack
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13, 1991
Burnside talks to the driver of a lorry who was hi-jacked. Martella raids the house of the snout who complained about Dashwood. Burnside wants Dashwood to use him again as his snout. .. show full overview
7x49
With Intent
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18, 1991
Lines and Carver are going to court about a burglary case. CPS are reducing the charges against 2 of the defendants. Carver discovers documents are missing that are needed in court and .. show full overview
7x50
Initiative
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20, 1991
George and Phil are talking to a lady about fireworks through her letterbox when they see a purse snatching. CID are working on a murder that might have occured during a street .. show full overview
7x51
Careless Whispers
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25, 1991
Burnside arrests a man on suspicion of robbery with violence. Tosh and Carver get given wrong addresses. Burnside's suspect is identified in an id parade but she tells Jim his snout .. show full overview
7x52
Minimum Force
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27, 1991
Tony and George go to a burglary. The home owner caught the burglar and beat him up. The wife comes back and says the burglar was a work mate collecting some pills for her. Viv and .. show full overview
7x53
Skeletons
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02, 1991
WPC June Ackland finds a man stabbed in his car, and DC Lines' investigation into the incident are impeded by the victim's unhelpful wife. PC Reg Hollis and PC Tony Stamp discover a .. show full overview
7x54
Targets
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04, 1991
The D.A.C talks about street robberies and taking the streets. D.C.I. Reid talks about her pilot project on street robberies. Tony is at a traffic depot by a cemetery and talks to a .. show full overview
7x55
The Negotiator
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09, 1991
Reg chases a man with a shotgun into a shop. Reg tries talking the gunman, who held up the building society. into letting the assistant go. June and George check at the man's house and .. show full overview
7x56
Reputations
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11, 1991
Carver talks to his snout about a security job and gets a name for a burglary instead. Tosh had made a bet with Burnside about the burglar staying straight. A bag is found in the man's .. show full overview
7x57
The Juggler and the Fortune Teller
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16, 1991
A court case is adjourned. Burnside and the defense council have an argument in the corridor. Viv goes back to the station to warn witnesses. The rape victim is upset. While Viv is .. show full overview
7x58
Joey
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18, 1991
June is watching a p.e. class at a school before talking to them about theft and robbery. Loxton chases a boy who has stolen a lady's chain. The boy appears too frightened to tell his name.
7x59
Your Shout
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23, 1991
Cathy is spoken to by Brownlow about a promotion board. There is a possible child abduction and the mother is complaining they weren't fast enough. Cathy is feeling guilty about not .. show full overview
7x60
Ladykiller
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25, 1991
Martella drives to a car fire to find a lady was trapped in the car. A man who tried to get the lady out of the car saw a man watching as he arrived.
7x61
The Corporal of Horse
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30, 1991
Cathy is acting Sgt. with C relief. She watches one of the relief drive away in an unmarked police car without wearing his tunic after Smollett pointed it out. She tries to sort out a .. show full overview
7x62
Cause and Effect
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01, 1991
Delia and Tony discuss the merits of follow up calls. They get a call out to research labs. Loxton finds a security guard on the floor.
7x63
Getting Involved
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06, 1991
Stamp talks to a man about paint stripper on his car - 2nd time in a month. Ron knows him. Reg and June are later called to an industrial estate where a man is damaging the car. The .. show full overview
7x64
Benefit of the Doubt
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08, 1991
A barrister is arrested for GBH on a prostitute. He uses his phone call to ring D.A.C. Hicks. Brownlow is concerned about wrongful arrest. Greig gives Mike some disturbing news .. show full overview
7x65
Crack-Up
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13, 1991
Reg is in a pawn brokers when a man wearing a hat, scarf, and glasses leaves carrying a bike helmet leaving behind a bag with a gun in it. The shopkeeper calls CID as he thought he was .. show full overview
7x66
The Last Laugh
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15, 1991
Quinnan and Garfield respond to an armed robbery. Turns out to be a wind-up. There was a struggle and the informant got injured. CID thinks he is very bent. Monroe thinks the .. show full overview
7x67
Access
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20, 1991
CID investigate a burglary of an O.A.P. who has an asthma attack. Stamp talks to a lady who turned away a man supposedly from the Gas Board. Stringer and Loxton finish dealing with a .. show full overview
7x68
Six of One
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22, 1991
P.C. Stringer chases a girl, on foot, who has stolen goods from a jewellers but P.C. Stamp arrests her because she was in a car. Stamp gets bullied, as does Inspector Monroe, by the .. show full overview
7x69
Married To The Job
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27, 1991
Stamp and Ackland go to a domestic. they also deal with a burglary of a pub. Tony's girlfriend has broken it off after talking to other police wives. Sunhill is getting ready for visitors from area.
7x70
Domestic
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29, 1991
Reid goes to see the CPS about a case. She is late for a meeting with Meadows from the Murder Squad. A rape victim says the allegation was false after CPS gave the go ahead for the .. show full overview
7x71
Stress Rules
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03, 1991
Brownlow comes back from a conference and wants to startan anti-stress program. A boy is stabbed and Young and Marshall investigate. Young finds the suspected stabber who says he had .. show full overview
7x72
They Also Serve
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05, 1991
The relief is reserve troops for a demonstration. It is very boring waiting on waste ground. At a meal break, Delia, Norika and June find a distressed probationer in the toilets. .. show full overview
7x73
Inside Job
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10, 1991
A shop assistant is attacked and robbed of the week's takings by thieves on a motorcycle.
7x74
Bones of Contention
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12, 1991
Sgt. Cryer investigates when anonymous letters expose P.C. Stringer's affair, in police time, with a prisoner's wife. W.P.C. Datta and P.C. Stamp lie in wait for a blackmailer. Ch. Insp. Conway is frustrated at a lack of promotion.
7x75
Wide Off The Mark
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17, 1991
A professional hired killer is active in Sun Hill. A dubious informant provides a tip-off that divides D.I. Burnside and D.S. Greig.
7x76
Hitting The Mark
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19, 1991
D.I. Burnside hunts for the hired killer to prevent him from making his next hit. This episode continues the storyline from the previous episode.
7x77
Bending the Rules
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24, 1991
A yob arrested for shoplifting turns out to be a respected police officer. D.I. Burnside unravels the story of the change in his behaviour.
7x78
Skint
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26, 1991
It's P.C. Garfield's birthday, but a party only adds to his money troubles.
7x79
Friday and Counting
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01, 1991
D.I. Burnside is put in charge of a potential murder case but with no clues as to the victim or the attacker.
7x80
Lest We Forget
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03, 1991
Ch. Supt. Brownlow is questioned by South Yorkshire Police about his involvement in a murder enquiry seventeen years before that led to a wrongful conviction.
7x81
Nutters
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08, 1991
AMIP investigates the murder of a teenager at a night club.
7x82
Downtime
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10, 1991
A suspected violent break-in begins to suggest more clues about the house's occupants than anything else – especially as they are missing. One of the women was murdered by her lesbian lover when she ended their affair.
7x83
Out Of Order
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15, 1991
P.C. Young reaches out to W.P.C. Datta and, when she rejects his advances, he sexually assaults her. P.C. Hollis arrests a credit card fraudster, and ends up clearing up a number of recent burglaries.
7x84
Empire Building
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17, 1991
Duty Sgt. Cryer sets up a major operation to arrest defaulters on fine payments. Sgt. Peters accuses him of empire building.
7x85
Losing It
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24, 1991
P.C. Young discovers a suicide, and is deeply affected. Later, he visits Datta in the section house and attacks her.
7x87
Shots
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29, 1991
Sgt. Cryer and Ch. Insp. Conway attend a briefing about the new Armed Response Vehicles. Meanwhile, P.C. Loxton takes the basic firearms training course, but shoots the wrong person in a training scenario.
7x88
The Square Peg
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31, 1991
P.C. Young goes missing on his beat. Insp. Monroe orders a search. P.C.s Quinnan and Loxton find Young's body in his car. He has committed suicide by feeding exhaust fumes into the vehicle.
7x89
A Question of Confidence
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05, 1991
D.I. Burnside investigates a series of attacks on prostitutes. A prison escapee is suspected.
7x90
Balls In The Air
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07, 1991
On his first day at Sun Hill, Sgt. Matthew Boyden's past life catches up with him. Boyden shows that he knows all the angles, and Insp. Monroe is not impressed with the his casual approach. First appearance of Sgt. Matt Boyden (Tony O'Callaghan).
7x91
The Taste
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12, 1991
Smollett discovers he still has the taste for action.
7x92
Turning Back The Clock
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14, 1991
DI Frank Burnside is determined to clear up a three-year-old case of robbery and murder when an old acquaintance is released from prison. DCs Jim Carver and Tosh Lines begin to have .. show full overview
7x93
Discretion
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19, 1991
On his first day as Home Beat Officer, P.C. Smollett investigates the mugging of an old lady and discovers a rather unusual high-rise supermarket. Meanwhile, P.C. Stringer deals with a .. show full overview
7x94
Chapter and Verse
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21, 1991
D.I. Burnside wants to question a man about a missing girl, but he is "drunk and incapable" in the custody suite and Sgt. Maitland is determined to uphold P.A.C.E.
7x86
Innocence
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22, 1991
Following his interview about a wrongful conviction and allegations of corruption against a former colleague, Ch. Supt. Brownlow meets up with him. Two boys are reported missing, and are .. show full overview
7x95
The Whole Truth
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26, 1991
W.P.C. Datta is in court to testify in a drink-driving trial, but the case is complicated by a mouthwash that the defendant claims to have taken. P.C. Stringer catches a car thief in a multi-storey car park but is set upon by his accomplices.
7x96
Profit and Loss
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28, 1991
Sun Hill C.I.D. investigate a suspicious death. The woman was an illegal Turkish immigrant coerced into prostitution to pay her boss's debts, and committed suicide.
7x97
Thicker Than Water
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03, 1991
P.C.s Loxton and Stringer are called to a domestic disturbance. The man found beating his wife turns out to be a P.C. from Stafford Row. First episode written by Matthew Wingett, .. show full overview
7x98
On The Take
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05, 1991
D.S. Roach, along with the Robbery Squad, are staking out a security van, but the robbers never show up. Roach and D.I. Burnside believe that the robbers were tipped off. Meanwhile, Det. .. show full overview
7x99
Caring
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10, 1991
W.P.C. Ackland and P.C. Smollett deal with a possible case of wife battering. The alleged victim, the mother of a schizophrenic son, is unco-operative.
7x100
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
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12, 1991
D.C.I. Reid tries to overcome the continuing clash of personalities with D.I. Burnside, but finds support from the Assistant Commissioner. D.S. Roach has problems when a juvenile .. show full overview
7x101
Imposters
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17, 1991
Sgt. Maitland and Insp. Monroe investigate a pornography racket. W.P.C. Marshall and P.C. Stamp look for a beggar who seduced a mentally-retarded girl.
7x102
A Woman Scorned
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19, 1991
June and Ron call on a lady about her husband's dog who has dug up a skeleton in the garden. There is a new D. Supt. of the Murder Squad replacing Meadows. Reid talks to Burnside about paperwork.
7x103
Vital Statistics
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24, 1991
A Relief is stung into action on discovering that their arrest rate is inferior to that of B Relief. This was a one-hour Christmas special.
7x104
Decent People
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26, 1991
P.C. Quinnan works undercover on a building site to investigate the theft of kitchen units, but finds himself in a compromising situation when he is immediately recognised by one of his old workmates from when he was an electrician.
7x105
Breakout
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31, 1991
It's New Year's Eve. A learner driver backs into a prison van, allowing a dangerous prisoner to escape from custody. It's believed he may go after a witness, so WPC Ackland stays with .. show full overview

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