The Bill series 13
| The Bill | |
|---|---|
| Season 13 | |
| No. of episodes | 152 |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV |
| Original release | 2 January – 30 December 1997 |
| Series chronology | |
The thirteenth series of The Bill, a British television drama, consisted of 152 episodes, broadcast between 2 January and 30 December 1997. On 3 April 2013, The Bill Series 13 Part 1 & 2 and The Bill Series 13 Part 3 & 4 DVD sets were released (in Australia).
Cast changes
Arrivals
- DC Tom Proctor
- PC Luke Ashton
- PC Sam Harker
Departures
- PC Nick Slater
- PC Steve Loxton
Episodes
| # | Title | Episode notes | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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| 1 | "The Old Pals' Act" | Neil Reidman guest stars. | Chris Lovett | Edwin Pearce | 2 January 1997 |
| 2 | "All's Fair" | David Sibley guest stars. | Ian White | Rosamund Orde-Powlett | 3 January 1997 |
| 3 | "Man Trap" | Martin Freeman and Jill Halfpenny guest star. | Peter Lydon | Nick Crittenden | 9 January 1997 |
| 4 | "Bad Debt" | Michelle Butterly and Derek Martin guest star. | Jo Shoop | Clive Dawson | 10 January 1997 |
| 5 | "Professional Opinion" | Gordon Salkilld guest stars. | Peter Lydon | Nigel Baldwin | 14 January 1997 |
| 6 | "Testament" | TBA | Chris Lovett | Peter J. Hammond | 16 January 1997 |
| 7 | "A Policeman's Lot" | Vicky Entwistle, Kenneth MacDonald and Bruce Byron guest star. | Ian White | Clive Dawson | 17 January 1997 |
| 8 | "The Devil You Know" | René Zagger guest stars. | Tom Cotter | Andrew Rattenbury | 21 January 1997 |
| 9 | "Once Bitten" | Rebecca Lacey and Dean Harris guest stars. | Mandy Honeyman | David G. McDonagh | 23 January 1997 |
| 10 | "Turnaround" | Tony Guilfoyle guest stars. | Chris Lovett | Graham Mitchell | 24 January 1997 |
| 11 | "Over the Fence" | June Page guest stars. | Simon Meyers | Renny Krupinski | 28 January 1997 |
| 12 | "Grey Area" | Fiona Victory and Adjoa Andoh guest star. | Jane Prowse | Nicholas McInerny | 30 January 1997 |
| 13 | "One Big Happy Family" | TBA | John Bruce | Steve Handley | 31 January 1997 |
| 14 | "The Eye of the Beholder" | Doña Croll, Jonathan Newth and Graham Cull guest star. | Chris Lovett | Margaret Phelan | 4 February 1997 |
| 15 | "Say a Little Prayer" | TBA | Jo Shoop | James Mavor | 6 February 1997 |
| 16 | "Downfall" | Helen Blatch guest stars. | Brian Parker | Peter J. Hammond | 7 February 1997 |
| 17 | "True to Life Player" | Dannielle Brent guest stars. | Simon Meyers | Tunde Babalola | 11 February 1997 |
| 18 | "Take Away" | TBA | Adrian J. Fearnley | Richard Stoneman | 13 February 1997 |
| 19 | "Your Call Too" | Chris Gascoyne guest stars. | Nick Laughland | David Hoskins | 14 February 1997 |
| 20 | "Breaking Up" | Denise Welch guest stars. | Jan Sargent | Elizabeth-Anne Wheal | 18 February 1997 |
| 21 | "A Price to Pay" | Miranda Pleasence guest stars. | Edward Blum | Carolyn Sally Jones | 20 February 1997 |
| 22 | "Just Looking" | Paul Bown and Cheryl Hall guest star. | Tom Cotter | Chris Ould | 21 February 1997 |
| 23 | "A Tangled Web" | TBA | Jeremy Silberston | Tony Lindsay | 27 February 1997 |
| 24 | "Rolling In It" | Jane Hazlegrove guest stars. | Nick Laughland | Jimmy Gardner | 28 February 1997 |
| 25 | "Added Bonus" | Kim Taylforth guest stars. | Nigel Douglas | Julian Spilsbury | 4 March 1997 |
| 26 | "Holding On" | Robyn Moore guest stars. | Brian Parker | Kevin Scouler | 6 March 1997 |
| 27 | "Crime Management" | Jamie Foreman guest stars. | Catherine Morshead | J. C. Wilsher | 7 March 1997 |
| 28 | "Age Gaps" | TBA | Jan Sargent | Julian Perkins | 11 March 1997 |
| 29 | "In the Dark" | Hour-long episode, Charles Dale guest stars. | Robin Sheppard | Tom Needham | 12 March 1997 |
| 30 | "Crying Wolf" | George Rossi guest stars. | Catherine Morshead | Edwin Pearce | 13 March 1997 |
| 31 | "Confidence" | Elaine Lordan guest stars. | Gill Wilkinson | Philip Kingston | 14 March 1997 |
| 32 | "All For Love" | Bruce Alexander and Jo Kendall guest star. | Gill Wilkinson | Tony Mulholland | 18 March 1997 |
| 33 | "Only the Lonely" | Louisa Lytton, Angela Bruce and Andrew Powell guest star. | Martin Hutchings | Clive Dawson | 20 March 1997 |
| 34 | "Copier" | Peter Cleall and Amanda Abbington guest star. | Harry Bradbeer | Simon Tyrrell | 21 March 1997 |
| 35 | "Fashion Victims" | Marlene Sidaway guest stars. | Jeremy Silberston | Gwyneth Hughes | 25 March 1997 |
| 36 | "Hook, Line and Sinker" | Vicki Pepperdine and Zig Byfield guest star. | Justin Hardy | Ben Cooper | 27 March 1997 |
| 37 | "No Claims Bonus" | TBA | Justin Hardy | Nicholas McInerny | 28 March 1997 |
| 38 | "Joker" | Alan Ford, Desmond McNamara and Kate Eaton guest star. | Martin Hutchings | Katharine Way | 31 March 1997 |
| 39 | "Typecast" | Shirin Taylor and Ian Thompson guest star. | Mandy Honeyman | Isabelle Grey | 1 April 1997 |
| 40 | "A Hard Rain" | Ariyon Bakare guest star. | John Bruce | Stephen McAteer | 3 April 1997 |
| 41 | "Rings On Her Fingers" | TBA | Chris Lovett | Simon Moss | 4 April 1997 |
| 42 | "Strange Meeting" | Ron Donachie and Chrissie Cotterill guest star. | Jo Shoop | Len Collin | 8 April 1997 |
| 43 | "A Bitter Pill" | Patsy Kensit guest stars. | Sarah Harding | Barry Simner | 10 April 1997 |
| 44 | "Dial 'M' For Marmalade" | Charles Kay guest stars. | Sarah Harding | Edward Canford-Dumas | 11 April 1997 |
| 45 | "Sisters" | David Quilter guest stars. | Gwennan Sage | Chris Lang | 15 April 1997 |
| 46 | "Flesh and Blood" | Tracey Wilkinson and Lloyd McGuire guest star. | Nigel Douglas | Anne Downey | 17 April 1997 |
| 47 | "Parklife" | Jemma Redgrave, Roger Bart and Jaye Griffiths guest star. | Nigel Douglas | Stephen Plaice | 18 April 1997 |
| 48 | "Two's Company" | Roger Bart guest star. | Jo Shoop | Nigel Baldwin | 22 April 1997 |
| 49 | "Inside Edge" | David Ashford guest stars. | John Bruce | Elizabeth-Anne Wheal | 25 April 1997 |
| 50 | "You and Me Versus the World" | Heather Peace guest stars. | Ged Maguire | Rod Beacham | 29 April 1997 |
| 51 | "Pay Back" | Emily Deschanel and Roger Bart guest stars. | Jonathan Hacker | Patrick Melanaphy | 1 May 1997 |
| 52 | "A Place of Your Own" | Barry Ewart guest stars. | Michael Cocker | Kevin Scouler | 2 May 1997 |
| 53 | "Don't Want to Hear the Bad News" | John Joyce guest stars. | Jonathan Hacker | Paul Mousley | 6 May 1997 |
| 54 | "It's Good to Talk" | Rachel Izen and Adrian Scarborough guest star. | Gwennan Sage | Julian Spilsbury | 8 May 1997 |
| 55 | "Split Second" | Kelly George guest stars. | Ged Maguire | Candy Denman | 9 May 1997 |
| 56 | "Old Fools" | TBA | Brian Parker | Ben Cooper | 13 May 1997 |
| 57 | "Auld Lang Syne" | Howell Evans guest stars. | Michael Cocker | Terry Hodgkinson | 15 May 1997 |
| 58 | "Warnings" | Elisabeth Bennett guest star. | Brian Parker | Peter J. Hammond | 16 May 1997 |
| 59 | "Calling Time" | TBA | John Bruce | Edwin Pearce | 20 May 1997 |
| 60 | "Black and Blue" | Fay Ripley guest stars. | Mike Vardy | Matthew Leys | 22 May 1997 |
| 61 | "A Bunch of Fives" | TBA | Chris Lovett | Tom Needham | 23 May 1997 |
| 62 | "Short, Sharp, Shock" | Su Elliott, Ray Trickett and Stephanie Fayerman guest star. | Tania Diez | Mark Illis | 27 May 1997 |
| 63 | "Get You Back" | TBA | Dominic Lees | Simon Tyrrell | 29 May 1997 |
| 64 | "Powers of Persuasion" | TBA | Tania Diez | Graham Mitchell | 30 May 1997 |
| 65 | "A Rock and a Hard Place" | Barbara Marten and Catherine Tate guest star. | Mike Vardy | Matthew Wingett | 3 June 1997 |
| 66 | "The Wrath of God" | Brian Bovell guest stars. | Audrey Cooke | Terry Hodgkinson | 5 June 1997 |
| 67 | "Knight Errant" | TBA | Dominic Lees | Anna Wheatley | 6 June 1997 |
| 68 | "Punch Bag" | TBA | Mike Vardy | Steve Handley | 10 June 1997 |
| 69 | "Best Eaten Cold" | TBA | Peter Lydon | Alan Pollock | 12 June 1997 |
| 70 | "Lucky Day" | TBA | Peter Lydon | Scott Cherry | 13 June 1997 |
| 71 | "For Richer, For Poorer" | Annie Hulley guest stars | Albert Barber | Nigel Baldwin | 17 June 1997 |
| 72 | "No More Milk" | TBA | John Bruce | Terry Hodgkinson | 19 June 1997 |
| 73 | "An Englishman's Home" | Susan Jameson and Sebastian Abineri guest star. | Simon Massey | Barry Simner | 20 June 1997 |
| 74 | "Loyal to the Last" | TBA | John Bruce | Chris McWatters | 24 June 1997 |
| 75 | "Rent" | James McAvoy guest stars. | Albert Barber | Stephen McAteer | 26 June 1997 |
| 76 | "Last Respects" | TBA | Harry Bradbeer | Stephen Plaice | 27 June 1997 |
| 77 | "Too Much to Lose" | TBA | Harry Bradbeer | Candy Denman | 1 July 1997 |
| 78 | "Do Unto Others" | Julie Hesmondhalgh and Eric Mason guest star. | Ross Devenish | Tony Lindsay | 3 July 1997 |
| 79 | "Mid-Life Crisis" | John Cater, Leslee Udwin and Gerry Cowper guest star. | Ross Devenish | Gregory Evans | 4 July 1997 |
| 80 | "Performing" | Rosie Marcel, Kelly Marcel and Melvyn Bedford guest star. | Chris Lovett | John Brennan | 8 July 1997 |
| 81 | "Playing With Fire" | Letitia Dean and Kate Eaton guest star. | Jane Prowse | David G. McDonagh | 10 July 1997 |
| 82 | "No Guarantees" | Christopher Colquhoun guest stars. | Pete Travis | Katharine Way | 11 July 1997 |
| 83 | "Gentleman Jim" | Martin Gower guest stars. | Mike Vardy | Scott Cherry | 15 July 1997 |
| 84 | "Rift" | TBA | Pete Travis | Michael Jenner | 17 July 1997 |
| 85 | "Stand By Your Man" | Mark Straker guest stars. | Derek Lister | Isabelle Grey | 18 July 1997 |
| 86 | "Replica" | TBA | Michael Cocker | Rod Lewis | 22 July 1997 |
| 87 | "Mr Friday Night" | Amanda Holden guest stars. | Mike Vardy | Len Collin | 23 July 1997 |
| 88 | "Hitting the Nerve" | Barbara Ewing guest stars. | Brian Farnham | Renny Krupinski | 25 July 1997 |
| 89 | "Thicker Than Mud" | Elizabeth Bennett guest stars. | Ian White | Maxwell Young | 29 July 1997 |
| 90 | "Alternative Therapies" | Daniel Casey guest stars. | Jane Prowse | Clive Dawson | 31 July 1997 |
| 91 | "Foxed" | First appearance of DC Tom Proctor, Jonathan Coy guest stars. | Nigel Bristow | Tony McHolland | 1 August 1997 |
| 92 | "These Foolish Things" | Sheree Murphy guest stars. | Peter Lydon | Mark Johnson | 5 August 1997 |
| 93 | "Neighbours" | TBA | Nigel Bristow | Mark Holloway | 7 August 1997 |
| 94 | "Glass House" | Margot Leicester guest stars. | Peter Lydon | Kevin Scouler | 8 August 1997 |
| 95 | "This Old Man" | TBA | Dominic Lees | Colin Wyatt | 12 August 1997 |
| 96 | "Tommy the Hero" | James Ottaway, Frank Jarvis and Carl Rigg guest star. | Mike Cocker | Chris Ould | 14 August 1997 |
| 97 | "Driven To It" | TBA | Jo Shoop | Patrick Melaphany | 15 August 1997 |
| 98 | "A Man Out Walking His Dog" | Roger Walker, Christine Kavanagh and Roy Evans guest star. | Jonathan Hacker | Terry Hodgkinson | 19 August 1997 |
| 99 | "Hunt" | Patrick Murray guest stars. | Jonathan Hacker | Mark Illis | 21 August 1997 |
| 100 | "Has Anyone Here Seen Bigmouth?" | Anita Dobson and Del Henney guest star. | Jo Shoop | Ray Brooking | 22 August 1997 |
| 101 | "This Land Is Ours" | Philip McGough, Allan Surtees and Sean Baker guest star. | Brian Farnham | Hugh Ellis | 26 August 1997 |
| 102 | "Paying the Piper" | David McKail guest stars. | Brian Farnham | Sheila Duncan | 28 August 1997 |
| 103 | "On the Hurry Up" | TBA | Mike Cocker | Richard Stoneman | 29 August 1997 |
| 104 | "Not in the Script" | TBA | Ian White | Robert Jones | 2 September 1997 |
| 105 | "Flower Power" | Martyn Whitby guest stars. | Nicholas Laughland | Elizabeth Anne-Wheal | 4 September 1997 |
| 106 | "A Breach of Trust, Part One" | Jacqueline Defferary guest stars. | Nicholas Laughland | Maxwell Young | 5 September 1997 |
| 107 | "A Breach of Trust, Part Two" | Anna Manahan guest stars. | Nicholas Laughland | Maxwell Young | 9 September 1997 |
| 108 | "Fool" | TBA | Simon Meyers | Spenser Frearson | 11 September 1997 |
| 109 | "Armed and Dangerous" | TBA | Simon Massey | Tunde Babalola | 12 September 1997 |
| 110 | "Animals" | Ged Simmons guest stars. | Dominic Lees | Steve Handley | 16 September 1997 |
| 111 | "Look Into My Eyes" | TBA | Chris Lovett | Tom Needham | 18 September 1997 |
| 112 | "Performance Anxiety" | Desmond Askew, Philip Bloomfield and Jenny McCracken guest star. | Christopher Hodson | J.C. Wilsher | 19 September 1997 |
| 113 | "Different Strokes" | Karl Collins guest stars. | Nicholas Laughland | Isabelle Grey | 23 September 1997 |
| 114 | "Sparks" | David Quilter and Brian Capron guest star. | Brian Farnham | Peter J Hammond | 25 September 1997 |
| 115 | "The Lion's Den" | Sally Ann Matthews and Paul Angelis guest star. | Simon Meyers | Barry Simner | 26 September 1997 |
| 116 | "The Needs of the Many" | TBA | Chris Lovett | Clive Dawson | 30 September 1997 |
| 117 | "Cross Purposes" | Tony Selby, Jon Croft and Sheila Dunn guest star. | Ged Maguire | Edwin Pearce | 2 October 1997 |
| 118 | "Free to Speak?" | Final appearance of PC Nick Slater | Christopher Hodson | Richard Stoneman | 3 October 1997 |
| 119 | "Dishonour Among Thieves" | June Page guest stars. | Ged Maguire | Terry Hodgkinson | 7 October 1997 |
| 120 | "Coup de Grace" | Di Botcher and Jean Trend guest star. | Tim Holloway | Nicholas McInerny | 9 October 1997 |
| 121 | "Night of the Long Knives" | Jason Salkey guest stars. | Brian Parker | Scott Cherry | 10 October 1997 |
| 122 | "Straying" | Peter Gunn and John Normington guest star. | James Cellan Jones | Rod Beacham | 14 October 1997 |
| 123 | "A Bad Lot" | Peter Lovstrom and Will Barton guest star. | Ian White | Chris Lang | 16 October 1997 |
| 124 | "Crimes of a Lesser Passion" | TBA | James Cellan Jones | Tunde Babalola | 17 October 1997 |
| 125 | "Force" | Bill Moody and David Quilter guest star. | Michael Ferguson | Carolyn Sally Jones | 21 October 1997 |
| 126 | "Walkabout" | Thomas Craig and Sidney Kean guest star. | Brian Parker | Peter J. Hammond | 23 October 1997 |
| 127 | "Shades of Grey, Part One" | Ace Bhatti guest stars. | Danny Hiller | Manjit Singh | 24 October 1997 |
| 128 | "Shades of Grey, Part Two" | Ace Bhatti guest stars. | Danny Hiller | Manjit Singh | 28 October 1997 |
| 129 | "Women at Work" | TBA | John Bruce | Patrick Melaphany | 30 October 1997 |
| 130 | "Solid Evidence" | TBA | Tania Diez | Candy Denman | 31 October 1997 |
| 131 | "Going Down" | Colin Baker guest stars. | Jo Shoop | Spenser Frearson | 4 November 1997 |
| 132 | "Accomplice" | Hour-long episode, Nicholas Murchie guest stars. | Derek Lister | Tony Mulholland | 6 November 1997 |
| 133 | "Last Fare" | Alan Cooke, Sally Faulkner and Biddy Hodson guest star. | Jo Shoop | Richard McBrien | 7 November 1997 |
| 134 | "Stolen Thunder" | Mark Wing-Davey guest stars. | John Bruce | Stephen Plaice | 11 November 1997 |
| 135 | "P.C., Part One" | TBA | Ian White | Richard Stoneman | 13 November 1997 |
| 136 | "No Trace, Part Two" | Final appearance of PC Steve Loxton, Pauline Melville guest stars | Tania Diez | Richard Stoneman | 14 November 1997 |
| 137 | "A New Way to Pay Off Old Debts" | Sakuntala Ramanee and Freddie Earlle guest star. | Albert Barber | Len Collin | 18 November 1997 |
| 138 | "After All These Years" | Veronica Roberts and Roy Heather guest star. | Tim Holloway | Lisa Evans | 20 November 1997 |
| 139 | "Sands of Time" | Paul Jerricho guest stars. | Albert Barber | Anthony Valentine | 21 November 1997 |
| 140 | "Identity Crisis" | John Axon and Collette Brown guest star. | James Hawes | Mark Clompus | 25 November 1997 |
| 141 | "The Same Stripe, Part One" | Colin Wyatt, James Marcus and JoAnne Good guest star. | Chris Lovett | Elizabeth Anne-Wheal | 28 November 1997 |
| 142 | "The Same Stripe, Part Two" | Colin Wyatt and JoAnne Good guest star. | Chris Lovett | Elizabeth Anne-Wheal | 2 December 1997 |
| 143 | "Hot Plastic" | TBA | Harry Bradbeer | Gregory Evans | 4 December 1997 |
| 144 | "Gaybashing" | Hannah Waterman guest stars. | Michael Ferguson | Simon Tyrell | 5 December 1997 |
| 145 | "Potential For Conflict" | First appearance of PC Luke Ashton, Geoffrey McGivern and David Telfer guest star | Catherine Morshead | Neil Clarke | 9 December 1997 |
| 146 | "Heartbreak Hotel" | TBA | Ged Maguire | Alan Pollock | 11 December 1997 |
| 147 | "Humpty Dumpty, Part One" | TBA | Ian White | Tom Needham | 12 December 1997 |
| 148 | "Humpty Dumpty, Part Two" | Rik Mayall guest stars. | Ian White | Tom Needham | 16 December 1997 |
| 149 | "Humpty Dumpty, Part Three" | Rik Mayall guest stars. | Ian White | Tom Needham. | 18 December 1997 |
| 150 | "Out" | TBA | Harry Bradbeer | Tony Mulholland | 19 December 1997 |
| 151 | "Twanky" | Hour-long episode, Rachel Weaver guest stars | Mike Cocker | Mark Holloway | 22 December 1997 |
| 152 | "Things That Go Bump in the Night" | First appearance of PC Sam Harker, Timothy Bateson guest stars | Gill Wilkinson | Terry Hodgkinson | 30 December 1997 |
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