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In the UK, ''The Bill'' has, so far, been released in a volume per season, with seasons 1 to 3 also released in a collected edition. The series 4 DVD release is now being released in volumes, volume 1 was released on [[June 30]] [[2008]], with volume two due to be released in March 2009.
In the UK, ''The Bill'' has, so far, been released in a volume per season, with seasons 1 to 3 also released in a collected edition. The series 4 DVD release is now being released in volumes, volume 1 was released on [[June 30]] [[2008]], and volume two is due to be released in March 2009.


* '''Series 1''' (Episodes 1-12) was released on [[6 June]] [[2005]]
* '''Series 1''' (Episodes 1-12) was released on [[6 June]] [[2005]]

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This article is about the British TV series. For the Polish punk rock band, see The Bill (band).
The Bill
File:The Bill titles.jpg
The Bill Logo (January 2007 - Present)
GenrePolice procedural/Drama (Prev. Soap)
Created byGeoff McQueen
StarringDaniel Flynn
Simon Rouse
Lisa Maxwell
Andrew Lancel
Claire Goose
Doug Rao
Christopher Fox
Alex Walkinshaw
Kaye Darling
Sam Callis
Chris Simmons
Bruce Byron
Sally Rogers
Cat Simmons
Amita Dhiri
Patrick Robinson
Gary Lucy
Lucy Speed
Graham Cole
John Bowler
Ben Richards
Louisa Lytton
Ali Bastian
Micah Balfour
Rhea Bailey
Dominic Power
Abhin Galeya
Clare Foster
Jason Barnett
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series25 (as of 2009)
No. of episodes2289 (as of 31 December 2008) (list of episodes)
Production
Running time
  • 22-24 minutes
    (commercial ½ hour w/1 break)
  • 42-46 minutes
    (commercial hour w/3 breaks)
Production companiesTalkback Thames
(a FremantleMedia company)
Original release
NetworkITV
ReleaseAugust 16, 1983 (Pilot) –
Present
Related

The Bill is a long-running British television police procedural, named after a slang term for the police. It was first broadcast on 16 October, 1984 and transmitted on ITV, at 20:00 on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Older episodes are broadcast regularly on the Watch channel and on Alibi.

History

Main article: History of The Bill

Following the pilot on 16 August 1983 the first episode of The Bill was transmitted on 16 October 1984. Starting with one episode per week, featuring hour long separate storylines for the first three seasons, The Bill went on to be three half hour episodes per week between 1988 and 1998 because of a drop in ratings before going to two 60 minute episodes per week. From 1998 The Bill became more serialised, especially from 2002 when Paul Marquess took over as Executive Producer. Under Johnathan Young who took over as executive producer in 2005 the more sensational storylines have been dropped with more focus on crime and policing.

Title Sequences

Main article: The Bill title sequences

Cast

Main article: List of The Bill characters

Senior Officers

Police Sergeants

Detective Sergeants

Police Constables

Detective Constables

Police Staff

Upcoming character changes

Setting

The Bill is set in and around Sun Hill police station in the fictional London borough of Canley in East London. Other police stations within the Canley Borough Operational Command Unit (BOCU), mentioned but (usually) unseen, are Barton Street, which is the location of Borough Headquarters, Stafford Row and Spicer Street. Canley is approximately contiguous with the real London Borough of Tower Hamlets, but filming takes place all over London, mainly in South London and particularly the London Borough of Merton, where the Sun Hill set is located (on Deer Park Road, SW19). The main locations used when the show is filmed on an estate are the Cambridge Estate, in Kingston, south west London and the High Path Estate, in South Wimbledon, south west London (approx 10 minutes walk from the main set). Other main estates used are Durand Close, in Carshalton, Phipps Bridge Mitcham and the Roundshaw estate opposite Mellows Park in Wallington, London. Sometimes scenes are filmed in East London and notably the London Docklands standing in for Canley. Other scenes are filmed in Greenwich.

The Bill is unusual among police shows for taking a serial format and not focusing on any particular area of police work. The show covers the work and lives of patrol and response officers on one relief in the uniform division, and the work of the CID. In its current serial format, some stories are resolved in an episode or two, whereas others can stretch over months.

The series started as a one-off drama for ITV entitled Woodentop; this pilot show starred Mark Wingett as PC Jim Carver and Trudie Goodwin as WPC June Ackland on Carver's first day on the beat at Sun Hill police station. It was originally devised by Geoff McQueen, and it impressed ITV so much that they decided to make a series out of it. Wingett left the cast in early 2005, while Goodwin's last episode was broadcast on 8 March, 2007.

Trivia

  • The doors of Custody used to be made of plywood, with the resounding "bang" also being added in the dubbing suite. In May 2007, they were changed to metal doors, which lock fully.[3]
  • The fictional telephone number of the station located on the notice board at the front desk is 020 7511 1642. The police station's address is: Sun Hill Police Station, 2 Sun Hill Road, Canley, London, E1 4KM[4]
  • In the 2005 live episode, since the action was filmed live at the Sun Hill set, crowds of people watching the filming can be seen across the road from the station entrance. Also, in the scene where the car flips over, a boom mike operator can be seen running across the screen,[citation needed] apparently unaware that he is being filmed.
  • The first words in Woodentop were "Okay Carver, let's do it" spoken by Jim Carver (Mark Wingett) as he got out of bed. They were also the final words spoken by the character when he left the series in 2005.
  • The CAD room (Computer Aided Dispatch) was the centre of all radio communications for Sun Hill police, until 2006. In 2007 the Met revamped their communications (with radios changing from analogue to digital). Now there is an external[citation needed] control centre adjoining Sun Hill station called IBO or Integrated Borough Operations which provides all the local knowledge to the officers on the beat.
  • In 1998, Kevin Lloyd, who played DC Alfred "Tosh" Lines, died of alcohol abuse, and, in January 2008, Jeff Stewart, who played PC Reg Hollis, attempted suicide in his dressing room on the set, both after being told that their contracts would not be renewed.
  • When filming on location, The Bill does not have permission to use sirens. These are added in the dubbing suite.[3]
  • The Bill is recorded at Bosun House, situated in South Wimbledon, London
  • In November 2006, thieves stole editing machines and master tapes from the shows studios in Merton, South West London. Posing as a worker and wearing a high-visibility jacket, one of the thieves followed a real worker into the studios and took the equipment, walked out with it and was driven off in a getaway van.[5] Two episodes (468 and 469) were dropped from the schedules in late December 2006, and it is rumoured that the stolen tapes contained scenes from these episodes. The scenes were re-filmed, with the episodes being re-edited to fit continuity with present story lines and were transmitted Wednesday 9 May (Episode 468, renamed Blood Money) and Thursday 10 May (Episode 469, renamed To Honour and Obey).
  • Vic Gallucci, an extra in the show who played DC Tom Baker, is in The Guinness Book Of Records for the most walk on parts. He made more than one thousand appearances over 13 years as DC Tom Baker, and can be seen in the background of many episodes. [6]
  • The dialogue heard over the police radios is later dubbed in, meaning the actors have to imagine hearing their counterpart before responding with their lines[citation needed].

Character deaths

  • PC Billy Rowan was the first officer to die in his first episode (Cop Killer Part 1, 05/07/07).
  • 2006 was the first year since 2001 that has not involved the death of a police officer in the series, although the death of PC Honey Harman was filmed in 2006 but not aired until 2007.

Reappearing actors

  • Several members of the regular cast have appeared in The Bill in the past as other characters:
    • John Bowler (PC Roger Valentine)
      • "Professional Ethics" (30 April 1996) as Mr. Parker.[7]
      • "episode #058" (31 October 2002) as John Woodland.[8]
    • Bruce Byron (DC Terry Perkins)
      • "Grey Matter" (4 October 1994) as Mr. Smee.
      • "A Policeman's Lot" (17 January 1997) as Paul Archer.
      • "Without a Prayer" (19 March 1998) as John Shaw.
      • "The Squad" (18 May 2000) as Detective Inspector Lomax.
    • Sam Callis (Sgt Callum Stone)
      • Karl Radford in the episodes
        • 9 September 2004
        • 23 September 2004
        • 17 November 2004
        • 18 November 2004
        • 23 November 2004
        • 23 December 2004
        • 29 December 2004
    • Kaye Darling (PC Diane Noble)
      • "Over the Edge" (20 April 2000) as Police Constable Beckett;
    • Daniel Flynn (Supt John Heaton)
      • "The Assassins" (20 December 1988) as Strathvane.
    • Micah Balfour (PC Ben Gayle)
      • Asher Campbell in the episodes [9]
        • episode #371 (14 December 2005)
        • episode #388 (8 February 2006)
        • episode #389 (9 February 2006)
        • episode #392 (23 February 2006)
        • episode #393 (1 March 2006)
    • Andrew Lancel (DI Neil Manson)
      • "Heat" (7 September 1995) as Paul Thomson
      • "Payback" (1 May 1997) as Davie Eaden
    • Louisa Lytton (PC Beth Green)
      • "Only the Lonely" (20 March 1997) as Natalie Shepherd.[10]
    • Lisa Maxwell (DI Samantha Nixon)
      • "Long Shadows" (2 March 2001) as Denise Stubbs.[11]
    • Sally Rogers (DC Jo Masters)
      • "Lessons to be Learned" (16 June 1994) as Alison Redwool.[12]
    • Chris Simmons (DC Mickey Webb)
      • "The Personal Touch" (18 December 1998) as Martin Truman.[13]
      • "Lola" (1 September 1999) as Ricky Lee.[14]
    • Roberta Taylor (Insp Gina Gold)
      • "Market Forces" (6 December 1990) as Angie Purser.[15]
      • "Getting Through" (4 August 1992) as Liz Turner.[16]
      • "Care In The Community" (2 November 1993) as Mrs. Reid.[17]
    • Alex Walkinshaw (Sgt Dale Smith)
      • "Fair Play" (21 January 1992) as Steven Murray.[18]
      • "Deadly Weapon" (17 August 1993) as Lee Tarrant.[19]
      • "Flora And Fauna" (9 March 1995) as Andy Franklin.[20]
    • Lucy Speed (DC Stevie Moss)
      • "Push" (19 September 1993) as Vicky Belham [21]
      • "Out Of Control" (27 August 1996) as Hayley Robinson. [22]
      • "episode #381" (12 January 2006) as Leanne Brown [23]
    • Christopher Fox (DS Max Carter)
      • "Code of Silence"(23 August 2007) as Keith Harkness. [24]
    • Dominic Power (PC Leon Taylor)
      • "Potential for Conflict" (9 December 1997) as PC Pete Warner. [25]
      • "Time Gentlemen Please" (21 December 1998) as Carl White. [26]
      • "Team Colours" (1 December 2000) as Frank Elliot. [27]
      • "Love, Lies and Limos" (5 December 2007) as Peirs Halsten. [28]


Notable guests

  • Singer and actress Martine McCutcheon appeared in an episode of The Bill entitled "Skeletons", on 2 July 1991 as a paper girl, and again on 16 July 1992 as Amanda Jones, in an episode entitled "A Scandalous Act".
  • Spice Girl Emma Bunton appeared in an episode of The Bill entitled "Missionary Work", on 23 February 1993, as a troubled teenager named Janice.
  • Actress Keira Knightley appeared in an episode of The Bill entitled "Swan Song", on 13 April 1995, as a ten-year old tearaway named Sheena Rose.
  • Russell Brand appeared on The Bill in 1994 when he was 18.
  • Jesse Birdsall, the actor who played Gillian Taylforth's (Sgt Nikki Wright) character's husband in 'Footballer's Wives' once appeared as a criminal who blackmailed DS Phil Hunter.
  • Sarah Tansey, who played the recurring role of missing seven year old Amy Tennant's stepmother Ruth Barker, is married to Hywel Simons, who played Sergeant Craig Gilmore until 2003.
  • In a storyline where Gina Gold had a romantic fling with councillor Peter Harris, who turned out to be married, Roberta Taylor played opposite her real-life husband Peter Guinness.
  • In an episode on 15 February 2007, the actor playing a criminal involved in a car dealership scam was called Bob Cryer.
  • Letitia Dean played suspected arsonist Amanda Ronson in "Playing with Fire" in 1997.
  • Footballer Emmanuel Petit played himself in the 1998 Christmas episode
  • Linda Lusardi played Don Beech's girlfriend Maggie Lyons in four 2000 episodes, and return for two more in 2004.
  • Craig Charles played Martin Bailey in the 1995 episode "Honey Pot".
  • Ron Moody has appeared several times, including once as husband to Mollie Sugden, where the two of them were elderly con artists.
  • Sylvester McCoy has made several appearances, both comic and dramatic.
  • Tom Hollander appeared in a 1995 episode, 'Getaway' as 'O'Leary'.
  • Lorraine Kelly appeared as herself in 2003 when PC Cathy Bradford made an appearance on This Morning to be interviewed about PC Polly Page's conviction for murder.
  • Jack O'Connell appeared in four episodes during 2005, as Ross Trescot

DVD releases

Australia (Region 4)

The Bill is currently being released in Australia in a 12 disc wallet format, the first 6 series have been released.

UK (Region 2)

In the UK, The Bill has, so far, been released in a volume per season, with seasons 1 to 3 also released in a collected edition. The series 4 DVD release is now being released in volumes, volume 1 was released on June 30 2008, and volume two is due to be released in March 2009.

U.S. (Region 1)

The Bill was also released in the US with the first series, but at the moment no further series are planned for release.

  • Series 1 (Episodes 1-12) was released on June 5 2007.

Theme music

Main article: The Bill title sequences

The Bill's theme tune was written by Andy Pask and Charlie Morgan who wrote "Overkill". Rick Wakeman has been offered the chance to write the theme tune either for this series or for "Lytton's Diary" (1985). He chose the latter, believing that it had the best potential of the two to be a long running series, although it only ran for two series.

There are several versions of The Bill's theme. The first, used between 1984 and 1987, featured a guitar riff, with synthesiser, bass and drum accompaniment, with "middle-eight" sections performed on synthesisers. The second, used between 1988 and 1998, is a remix of the first. It is better known than the original and instead of the guitar riff has a more bouncy saxophone riff. Both versions were written in the irregular time of 7/8 with the exception of the "middle-eight" sections which were written in 4/4. The current arrangement is by Lawrence Oakley.

Despite new opening titles and a new version of the previous theme tune being introduced in very early 2007, the previous music can still be heard on certain episodes of the show a year or so on. Sometimes the opening and closing titles feature the modernised version and the break bumpers the old version, or vica versa.

Controversies and reception

  • The police uniforms used in the series are genuine and are locked away for security reasons every night with no complete uniform being locked in any one cupboard. [36]
  • Real police officers took such a dim view of previews they were shown from the first series of The Bill that they refused to attend the launch party. The Police Federation later attacked the programme for implying that racial prejudice existed within the Force.[37]
  • In the early days of The Bill a local resident registered her protest at what she deemed to be a stereotypical portrayal of council estates as hotbeds of crime. She held up filming by stationing herself in the background with an ironing board, iron and basket full of laundry.[38]

Overseas broadcast

The Bill has been broadcast in over 55 different countries

  • It is very popular in Australia, where it is shown on ABC1.
    • Currently two new episodes are shown on Saturdays from 20:30 and repeated on the digital-only channel ABC2 on Tuesday. Until late 2007 new episodes were shown on ABC1 two episodes were shown per week, one at 20.30 on Tuesday and the other at the same time on Saturday, when the episodes were half an hour one was shown on Tuesday and two on Saturday.
    • Older repeats sometimes shown on ABC1 at 14:00 Monday-Thursday, usually when parliament is not in session. While initially years behind the new episodes, these repeats recently caught up to about a month behind. Currently it is off the ABC afternoon schedule, replaced by repeats of Australian drama SeaChange. [39]
    • Episodes can be seen online within Australia through the ABC iView IPTV service.[40]
    • Additionally, older episodes can be seen on UK.TV. As of January 2008, episodes from the 1990s can be seen on weekdays, whilst episodes from 2005 can be seen on weekends.
  • In New Zealand, first run episodes (currently from 2005) screen on UKTV twice a week on Sunday and Tuesday evenings. Older episodes are broadcast on the same network on weekday afternoons.
  • In Sweden the show was retitled "Sunhillspolisstation" (Sun Hill Police Station) by broadcaster TV4. Now it is broadcast on Kanal 9 using The Bill, daily at approx. 15:00 with a repeat the following morning approx 04:00.
  • It screens in Ireland on RTÉ One, which is currently showing episodes from 2004. However, RTÉ does not show it in its proper hour long duration, but instead splits one hour long episode into two half hour shows five days a week thus only showing two and a half episodes each week. Fans of the show and TV critics in Ireland have nicknamed it as the "Old Bill", as viewers in Ireland can watch the same episodes as the UK, on UTV.
  • In Belgium the series is broadcast on één.
  • In Denmark the series broadcast on TV2 Charlie. 2 episodes are being broadcast every afternoon (from the earlier series).

Novels

A series of six novelisations of The Bill were published between 1985 and 1992, by Thames/Methuan Publishing (under the Mandarin imprint). Each book was written by John Burke, and adapted from television scripts by Geoff McQueen, Barry Appleton, Ginnie Hole, Christopher Russell, Lionel Goldstein, Al Hunter, Nicholas McInnery, JC Wilsher, Jonathan Rich and Robin Muckherjee.

The format of the books differed from the original scripts in minor details: the episodes are presented in a more serialised style, with the narrative events of separate episodes moving into and out of each other, not unlike the format used on the television series itself at present. An example of this in Book 1 is the events of the episode "The Drugs Raid", where the first part of that episode is shown to take place midway through the book, while the last part takes place several chapters later (ostensibly after DI Galloway has received new evidence several weeks later). As such, what were separate episodes on television are woven into a single narrative in the books, with completely new linking material between events in one episode and events in another.

Also, an early taboo of the series itself (whose format firmly established that we never went home with the officers to see their private lives) was broken by, for example, showing DI Galloway at home with his wife and his daughter during the first two books.

When the novels began to adapt the half-hour episodes (Book Three onwards) there is a noticeable jump in continuity, as the sudden influx of a larger cast of characters meant that not every "first episode" of each character could be adapted, so several characters can be seen suddenly appearing half way through with little or no introduction as to who they are or where they came from.

All the novelisations were published in paperback editions. The first two books were also published in rarer to find hardcover editions. The stories from Series Three of the tv series never received a novelisation because of various unavoidable production problems with that series.

  • The Bill 1 (published 1985) - Adapted select episodes of Series One (1984). Cover photo of PC Jim Carver chasing a suspect.
  • The Bill 2 (published 1987) - Adapted select episodes of Series Two (1985). Cover photo of Sergeant Bob Cryer in civilian clothing.
  • The Bill 3 (published 1989) - Adapted select episodes of Series Four (1988). Cover photo of Sergeant Bob Cryer and Inspector Christine Fraser in Sun Hill station carpark.
  • The Bill 4 (published 1990) - Adapted select episodes of Series Five (1989). Cover photo of DC "Tosh" Lines and DC Mike Dashwood.
  • The Bill 5 (published 1991) - Adapted select episodes of Series Five (1989). Cover photo of DS Ted Roach.
  • The Bill 6 (published 1992) - Adapted select episodes of Series Six (1990). Cover photo of Inspector Andrew Munroe and DI Frank Burnside.

Spin-offs

The Bill has spawned three spin-off productions.

The first of these was known as Burnside. It lasted a single series of six episodes, the first of which debuted on 7 July 2000. The series focused on the newly promoted DCI Burnside as a member of the National Crime Squad. It was created and produced by Richard Handford. The DVD release in Australia will feature all of the episodes in a 3 disc set. It is scheduled to be released 8 October 2008.

The second spin-off debuted in 2001, and also lasted only six episodes, although was more of a break away from the regular Bill (it was shown in the Bill timeslot) than a complete spin-off. Beech is Back focused on dodgy ex-DS Don Beech, still on the run from Claire Stanton who wants him brought to justice for the murder of her boyfriend DS John Boulton. None of the episodes were given a title, with each being part of a single six part serial. At the end Beech is brought to justice and sent to prison, although he would return in The Bill three years later.

In 2003, ITV debuted the third spin-off of the show, entitled MIT: Murder Investigation Team. The first episode investigated the drive-by shooting of Sgt. Matthew Boyden, who had been at Sun Hill for eleven years. The first series consisted of ten one-hour episodes. The second series was filmed in 2004, but not shown until mid 2005, and consisted of four ninety-minute episodes. It featured Eva Sharpe (Diane Parish) from The Bill, who had transferred to MIT. (Before it was broadcast, it was also rumoured to feature Chris Simmons as Mickey Webb, who had recently departed from The Bill, but these rumours turned out to be false). The series was created by Paul Marquess. The second series was produced by Johnathan Young.

A German version of The Bill, utilising original Bill scripts was produced for RTL Television from 1994 to 2006. It was called Die Wache. [2] [3]

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