The Bill

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5x1
Getting It Right
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D.I. Burnside leads a raid on a hotel room to catch a man suspected of armed abduction, but due to Ramsey's duff info, they raid the wrong room. The man in the room threatens to make an .. show full overview
5x2
A Reflection Of Glory
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P.C. Ramsey is back in uniform and goes with P.C. Haynes to see about a shoplifter who claims she is innocent. While they are out the back, the shop is held up by armed robbers who shoot .. show full overview
5x3
One To One
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W.P.C. Ackland and P.C. Stamp arrive at a brothel, where they find Jo Whitney, the daughter of a prominent local councillor, soaked in paraffin and threatening to set herself and the .. show full overview
5x4
The Mugging And The Gypsies
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W.P.C. Ackland and P.C. Smith attend a local gypsy campsite where residents are complaining. A social worker has a Place Of Safety Order on one of the gypsy children, Theresa Beecher, .. show full overview
5x5
The Chain Of Command
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Ch. Insp. Conway is late for a meeting with a Mr. Trevelyan from the Department of Trade and Industry, who wants police help in shutting down Radio Sun Hill, a pirate radio station. .. show full overview
5x6
Life And Death
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P.C. Stamp and W.P.C. Brind arrest a man who is so drunk he can barely stand. Back at the station, the man collapses after a drug overdose, but not before implying that he's killed a .. show full overview
5x7
Hothead
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W.P.C. Brind and P.C. Melvin are on foot patrol, but are seperated. Brind ends up dealing with a workplace dispute by herself, but the ringleader, Nobby Briggs, smashes her radio and .. show full overview
5x8
Steamers
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D.S. Roach goes to the hospital to talk to a young man who was slashed in the face with a knife - the fifth is a series of ""steamer"" attacks, where knife-wielding youths have held up .. show full overview
5x9
Duty Elsewhere
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P.C. Haynes volunteers for ""duty elsewhere"", undercover as a driver for Neville Tubbs, leader of a Yardie gang in South London. A man has just been murdered and mutilated, and Rita, a .. show full overview
5x10
Saturday Blues
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A young woman is taken to hospital in a coma after a drug overdose - she is D.I. Burnside's god-daughter, Tracey. Burnside orders Tracey's boyfriend, nightclub manager Terry Palmer, .. show full overview
5x11
N.F.A.
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W.P.C. Brind chases two bag snatchers, but they get away. She later spots one of them crossing the road and nicks him. The victim, Mrs Foster-Adams, is taken to the station to make a .. show full overview
5x12
The Price You Pay
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W.P.C. Martella visits a friend of hers, Alison Page, who has been badly beaten up. Alison is on the game, and her attacker was a client. D.S. Roach arrests the man, but he is a diplomat .. show full overview
5x13
The Key of the Door
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D.C. Dashwood investigates when a house which has recently been put on the market is burgled. He suspects that some prospective buyers are behind it, and gets a description of the couple .. show full overview
5x14
Cock-Up (1)
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P.C. Hollis is referee for a five-a-side football match between two schools organised by the Met. One of the players is Sgt. Cryer's son Danny, and Cryer breaks up a fight in the locker .. show full overview
5x15
Repercussions (2)
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Because of a screwup, Burnside has put back community relations 30 years. Conway yells at Burnside before burnside goes to see Brownlow. Conway then goes to see Cryer who tells him .. show full overview
5x16
A Death In The Family
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Taffy and June are talking to a lady when they are aware of shouts down the road. they find a man holding his dead baby. June takes it back into the baby's room to try to resuscitate .. show full overview
5x17
In The Frame
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Burnside is not only late for the weekly crime meeting with Brownlow, but is called out of it by an urgent phone call. Officers from Operation Backwoods ask Burnside to step outside. .. show full overview
5x18
A Good Result
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Roache brings in a man suspected of handling stolen car radios. Yorkie and Reg are going to the soccer. Reg with the result of the relief and Yorkie undercover in a group of football thugs.
5x19
Conscience
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Dashwood is moaning because Greig is playing his clarinet in the office. Roach is having a drink with a married woman and after she leaves, he recognises a man whose car has broken down .. show full overview
5x20
Sunday, Sunday
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Taffy and Viv are in a Sunday market when they are attacked by a group of white supremists. Viv is then teamed up with Haynes and investigates a broken window. A Black vicar talks to .. show full overview
5x21
Climate
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June has been seeing a married man. Bob is worried about having his tires slashed during the night. Sgt. Peters has his own troubles and doesn't want to listen to Bob's. Roache .. show full overview
5x22
Bad Company
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Dashwood and Carver investigate a fight at a bail hostel. A man bailed for receiving has been beaten up and jumps off the roof and runs away. He is later found in a moneylender's .. show full overview
5x23
Suspicious Minds
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Sun Hill C.I.D. and the Vice Squad raid six flats to catch a pornography ring. All the flats are clean except one, and it is suspected that the targets were tipped off. D.C. Dashwood saw .. show full overview
5x24
Intuition
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D.S. Roach is interviewing a suspect, Barron, about a cash and gold bullion robbery. There's not enough evidence to charge him, and Barron knows it. Roach is desperate to find the link, .. show full overview
5x25
Loss
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Ch. Insp. Conway wants to see P.C. Smith and W.P.C. Martella about a special assignment: going through the missing persons register and following up some of the cases. A cynical Sgt. .. show full overview
5x26
Procedure
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Cryer is filling up a car. Peters gives the relief a lecture about refilling area cars after using them. The fraud squad are visiting the station a day early. CID has Customs and .. show full overview
5x27
Luck Of The Draw
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Ted goes undercover to catch a gang running a lottery scam. If the workers don't join, they have an industrial accident. An old lady comes to the station to pay a non-existant P.C. some money.
5x28
No Strings
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Roxanne is helping Roach and Viv catch bag snatchers at a disco. They get barracaded in the ladies loo with the suspects. Lines investigates a break-in at a medium's who has lost both her crystal balls. She warns him to be careful on the stairs.
5x29
Fool's Gold
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Carver, Yorkie and Ramsey bring in a suspect with a shooter. Suspect is tied in with Post Office jobs and cuts a deal with Burnside. A D.I. from Serious Crime comes to talk to suspect. .. show full overview
5x30
The Visit
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Viv is visiting a remand prisoner in prison and ends up being held hostage. After being released she is told all his grievances are false. Melvin watches from a balcony in a shopping .. show full overview
5x31
One For The Ladies
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Tosh and Grieg investigate a death in a hotel. The manager treats them like scum. Man was a Polish travelling tie salesman and died of a massive heart attack. Reg pulls out 7 .. show full overview
5x32
No Shelter
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An Italian turns up at the front desk asking for directions to the Blackball tunnell. Viv comes across a burglar with a gun who knocks her down and takes off. He was trying to break .. show full overview
5x33
Out To Lunch
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Ramsey picks up Burnside, Carver and Lines just as they are leaving a resturant but before they get going, a lady (Mrs Mancini) comes along and says there are people in her car having .. show full overview
5x34
Free Wheel
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CID are keeping an eye on a man who is suspected of illegal shipment of arms to 3rd world countries. No one has been able to make a case against him in 8 years. A package gets .. show full overview
5x35
Only A Bit Of Thieving
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Roache talks to a lady about a burglary. Melvin goes back with him that night. Teenage burglars return and during a struggle one of them falls. His mate, who can't read, originally says Roache pushed him off but later retracts the statement.
5x36
Communications
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Conway visits the CAD room and others to try and encourage people to talk about their problems. June asks Conway what he thinks her chances are of becoming a Sgt. After being wound up .. show full overview
5x37
Silver Lining
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Haynes is about to escort school childrenacross the road when a rolls roycecoming speeding down it. Haynes drives it back to the station after finding it outside the dole office. There is a load of silver bullion in the boot.
5x38
Suffocation Job
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June calls on a lady who claims her husband wants to kill her but the threat is 4 years old. Her husband smothered the baby with a pillow. Melvin investigates a break-in of a building .. show full overview
5x39
Mickey Would Have Wanted It
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Burnside goes to the funeral of an old villian, father of man suspected of the robbery. A dog digs up the loot. Melvin is talking to a boy playing hookey when he spota an armed .. show full overview
5x40
Blood Ties
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Tony and Claire are waiting for the area car. While waiting, they have to ring around to find a missing prisoner. They are called to a disturbance where the son smashes the windscreen of his father's car.
5x41
You'll Be Back
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Tony is talking to s shopkeeper about graffiti when he notices a scruffle between a stallholder and some youths. The stallholder is a friend of Cryer. Frazer overhears Cryer and Lines .. show full overview
5x42
Fort Apache - Sun Hill
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Industrial dispute by prison officers put pressure on the holding cells. Roache is not happy that a murder suspect is mixing with other prisoners. The prisoners in one of the cells are .. show full overview
5x43
Waste
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A homeless lady's body is found on a building site. Haynes investigates. She died of chorine gas. The site is run by a man convicted of fly tipping a few months ago. He has let a mate .. show full overview
5x44
The Strong Survive
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Jim is waiting in a car for the chemist to open and hungry. Meanwhile Mike is being fed breakfast and cups of tea. A man takes a club and breaks all the glass in the front door and .. show full overview
5x45
Loving Care
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Carver investigates a burglary and finds an unconsious girl at the bottom of the garden with the stolen property. Jim accuses home owner of lying about exactly what was taken. Girl is .. show full overview
5x46
Back On The Streets
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Tosh and Carver are in a car waiting for a suspect who gets away after pinching a mailman's bike. Suspect's wife has been rumoured as doing modeling work. Suspect hangs off the balcony .. show full overview
5x47
FAT'AC
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Yorkie is on hand at the scene of a fatal accident. Everyone is being held up and Yorkie is stressing out. Petrol is leaking from crushed car which has dead occupants. Sgt. Penny, .. show full overview
5x48
Somewhere By Chance
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Ramsey and Taffy investigate stolen credit cards in shopping precinct. While there a soldier says he has a bomb. The precinct is cleared and the relief check for the bomb. Taffy .. show full overview
5x49
A Quiet Life
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Jim is at the hospital talking to the wife of the victim of a robbery who had a heart attack. It is the latest in a string of robberies. Tony finds a man clearing the skip he hired of .. show full overview
5x50
Tom Tiddler's Ground
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Viv and June are on park patrol. A lady runs into a shed and locks herself in. A man is looking for his dog that went missing a year ago. Jim and Dashwood are watching a man's .. show full overview
5x51
Make My Day
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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 .. show full overview
5x52
Provocation
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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 .. show full overview
5x53
Overspend
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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 .. show full overview
5x54
Between Friends
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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 .. show full overview
5x55
Traffic
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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 .. show full overview
5x56
The Sacred Seal
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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 .. show full overview
5x57
Subsequent Visits
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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 .. show full overview
5x58
User Friendly
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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 .. show full overview
5x59
Don't Like Mondays
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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 .. show full overview
5x60
Pickup
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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 .. show full overview
5x61
Kidding
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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 .. show full overview
5x62
Black Spot
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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 .. show full overview
5x63
Taken For A Ride
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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. .. show full overview
5x64
Time Out
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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 .. show full overview
5x65
Leaving
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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. .. show full overview
5x66
Street Games And Board Games
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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 .. show full overview
5x67
Pressure
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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 .. show full overview
5x68
A Little Knowledge
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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 .. show full overview
5x69
Pathways
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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 .. show full overview
5x70
Seen To Be Done
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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 .. show full overview
5x71
Tulip
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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 .. show full overview
5x72
Nothing But The Truth
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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 .. show full overview
5x73
It's Not Majorca
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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 .. show full overview
5x74
Mending Fences
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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. .. show full overview
5x75
Exit Lines
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Garfield is on the beat when he notices an old lady catching her breath. He drops in to see her later and Cryer is worried he is skivvying. Norika comes in a day early to see Cryer .. show full overview
5x76
That Old Malarkey
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Stamp calls on a lady who complains her neighbour is making noises. She has security bars on her door and loses the key. Tony calls the fire brigade to cut the bars and then she starts a fire. She is on medication.
5x77
Greig Versus Taylor
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Greig interviews a suspect in an armed robbery. Most of the evidence is circumstantial but the suspect decides to confess.
5x78
Tottering
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Turnham wants a name from Cathy but annoys her by whistling and then asks Reg who he thinks the suspect is. Cathy is rude to Roach later but he makes her feel better after talking to .. show full overview
5x79
I Counted Them All Out
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Burnside, the rest of CID and some uniform assist Flying Squad thwart a hold-up on a security van at a supermarket. Carver is not happy that a shot was fired resulting in a villian later dying of injuries. There is a bag missing from the van.
5x80
Zig Zag
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Mike and Tosh are looking for a private detective. His girlfriend is not saying anything about his whereabouts. A client is also looking for him as is the driver of a car.
5x81
A Matter of Trust
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Burnside and Carver are doing a joint observation with Robbery Squad on a security van. Info seems to be incorrect as to time of holdup. Conway is on warpath. Burnside's snout is not .. show full overview
5x82
Tourist Trap
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Dashwood and Ackland are on a tour in a graveyard. Garfield and Carver are in the hotel waiting to catch a thief. Greig is in the linen cupboard. Stamp is there also and is approached .. show full overview
5x83
The One That Got Away
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Brownlow is driving when he notices a driving erratically. He gives chase and catches the driver but can't reveal his location. The driver who was driving a stolen car, then nicks .. show full overview
5x84
Found Offending
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Stamp is near an underpass when he spots a girl begging. He brings her in to the station where it turns out that she was abused by her father. Lady outside a cafe is worried about .. show full overview
5x85
All Part of The Job
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Brind sorts out a bit of bother in a pub. A man, who turns out to be from Special Branch, chats her up afterwards. Conway is not happy Brind is being put in dangerous situations and .. show full overview
5x86
In the Cold
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Taffy and Tony go to a rail yard where a female body has been found. Burnside thinks the watchman fits the picture. It turns out she died of exposure.
5x87
Just a Little Run Around
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Inspector Frazer is on a training exercise learning how to use long shields. They learn how to use shields against bricks, bats, bombs and violent thugs. During an exercise using .. show full overview
5x88
A Fair Appraisal
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Taffy is up for APA and is wound up by Tony. Taffy goes to deal with an alarm at a warehouse. Turns out to be an actual break in instead of a fault with the alarm. He refuses to .. show full overview
5x89
Visitors
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Sunhill has an open day and a sliver cup is nicked. Lines is having money problems. Reg is concerned about stress on the job. June and Tosh investigate a man who is running a 'disorderly house'.
5x90
Private Wars
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Burnside is driving past an electricity substation when he sees someone climbing over the wall. While investigating he is beaten by security guards. Frazer is looking for blue movies .. show full overview
5x91
Feasting With Panthers
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A special constable gaves a ticket to a motorist. Penny warns a car owner to move his car and tells the special constable to destroy the ticket for the car. Penny loses it after .. show full overview
5x92
By The Book
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Norika talks to a driver who parks illegally. She then deals with an upset drug addict at a chemist. The girl is later found badly beaten and her prescription missing. Dashwood is .. show full overview
5x93
Beer And Bicycles
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Conway talks to the relief about image. ""Efficient service with a smile"". Martella is asked to do surgery that afternoon. Booze has been found in the locker room. Conway is on the .. show full overview
5x94
Grace Of God
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A amn at a caryard has complaints about kids damaging cars and nicking car radios. The kids harass a man who has moved back into his old family home. The man snapped after the kids .. show full overview
5x95
Just Another Day
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A group of children are harassing a shop keeper but the real complaint is against a sax player. Melvin thinks there is a connection between the busker and someone called 'The Pied .. show full overview
5x96
Gone Fishing
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Carver goes to the hospital to see how a victim of a hit-and-run accident is. Roach thinks it is attempted murder and although she says her husband didn't do it she is lying.
5x97
Early Bird
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Taffy and Claire find an old lady on the street with a bird cage and a suitcase. She has run away from a home and later dies in the canteen. Tosh and Jim stop and search a cat burglar .. show full overview
5x98
Just For The Crack
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Jim has brought a new suit. 27 motorbikes including a police bike have been nicked. Garfield and Viv notice 2 youths stealing a bike. When they raid the garage all they find is the .. show full overview
5x99
Woman In Brown
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June and Melvin call at a school where a baby has been taken. June thinks she knows who took the baby. Viv and Able are called to a basement flat where the old lady has been conned by .. show full overview
5x100
Speaking Freely
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Frazer brings in a suspected shoplifter. Frazer is having her apprasial interview later. A woman comes in to inform Frazer that there might be problems at a talk given by a pro abortionist.
5x101
The Return Of The Prodigal Son
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Greig has been made Acting D. I. and Ted takes it up with Conway when he gets back. Ted is bringing in a prisoner who has been on the run for 12 months. His mum and sister are coming .. show full overview
5x102
Chinese Whispers
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Norika can't get her car started. A man helps who turns out to be the bogus repairman. Norika and Dave are on the beat together when they are told of a blind man who has been mugged by .. show full overview
5x103
Powers Of Exclusion
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The van brings in a Reverend with a sheath knife after a fight. Burnside has been after the Reverend for a long time. Reg recognises the law clerk send to represent the Reverend. He .. show full overview
5x104
Saturday Night Fever
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DC Carver is at the hospital checking on a stabbing of a drug dealer. WPC Martella has some info about the deceased which prompts DS Burnside to bring in a couple of suspects. Sgt. .. show full overview

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