The Bill series 17
| The Bill | |
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| Season 17 | |
| No. of episodes | 92 |
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| Original network | ITV |
| Original release | 5 January – 21 December 2001 |
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Series 17 of British television drama The Bill consisted of 92 episodes, broadcast between 5 January and 21 December 2001. As well as 85 regular episodes, the series also included a series of seven special episodes featuring former Detective Sergeant Don Beech, and the newly promoted Detective Inspector Claire Stanton, one of which was filmed in Australia, which concludes the Beech storyline, which began in Series 16. Although the idea of making the series into a serial drama did not fully take effect until April 2002, many of the stories in the latter half of the year were multi-part stories, some containing up to six episodes, such as the "Night Games" saga. The two-part episode "Lifelines" is the last two-parter to feature in the series until the return of episode titles in 2007. On 14 August 2013, The Bill Series 17 Part 1 & 2 and The Bill Series 17 Part 3 & 4 DVD sets were released (in Australia).
Cast changes
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Episodes
| # | Title | Episode notes | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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| 1 | "Appropriate Action" | Matt Healy and Sakuntala Ramanee guests star. | Ed Fraiman | Paul Finch | 5 January 2001 |
| 2 | "Criminal Practice" | Clodagh Rodgers guest stars. | Peter Cregeen | J. C. Wilsher | 9 January 2001 |
| 3 | "Upon Information Received" | TBA | Peter Cregeen | Simon Sharkey | 12 January 2001 |
| 4 | "No Victim" | Zienia Merton and Andrew Bicknell guest star. | Graeme Harper | Andy Armitage | 16 January 2001 |
| 5 | "Common Language" | Harry Towb guest stars. | Tania Diez | Nigel Baldwin | 19 January 2001 |
| 6 | "PC Smith" | Harry Towb, Nick Patrick, Neil Daglish and Brenda Kempner guest star. | Tania Diez | Chris McWaters | 23 January 2001 |
| 7 | "Family Honour" | Michele Austin and Michelle Martin guest star. | Jo Shoop | Kathrine Smith | 26 January 2001 |
| 8 | "Words of Wisdom" | Michele Austin guest stars. | Jo Shoop | Marc Pye | 30 January 2001 |
| 9 | "Out of the Frying Pan" | Sidney Kean guest stars. | Baz Taylor | Simon Sharkey | 2 February 2001 |
| 10 | "Mexican Stand-Off" | TBA | Baz Taylor | Simon Sharkey | 6 February 2001 |
| 11 | "Cruise Control" | John Duttine guest stars. | Jo Johnson | Chris Fewtrell | 9 February 2001 |
| 12 | "Real Crime" | TBA | Graeme Harper | Phillip Gladwin | 13 February 2001 |
| 13 | "Home and Away" | TBA | Ken Hannam | Mark Holloway | 16 February 2001 |
| 14 | "Going Under" | New theme introduced | Ken Hannam | Richard Stoneman | 20 February 2001 |
| 15 | "Faultline" | Departure of PC Dave Quinnan | John Davies | Alison Fisher | 23 February 2001 |
| 16–17 | "Long Shadows" | Lisa Maxwell and Michael Elphick guest star. | Gwennan Sage | Maxwell Young | 2–6 March 2001 |
| 18 | "Higher Power" | Sara Stockbridge and Ian Burfield guest star. | John Davies | Marcus Brent | 9 March 2001 |
| 19 | "Touched By Evil" | Tom Chadbon, Stafford Gordon, Ryan Early and Sakuntala Ramanee guest star. | Ken Grieve | Ron Rose | 16 March 2001 |
| 20–21 | "The Leopard" | Harry Towb, John Cater and Ray Lonnen guest star. | John Dower | Stephen Plaice | 20–23 March 2001 |
| 22–23 | "Tolerance" | Ray Lonnen and Juliet Cadzow guest star. | Alan Macmillan | Phil Ford | 27–30 March 2001 |
| 24 | "Promised Land" | Ray Lonnen and Tony Selby guest star. | Chris Lovett | Chris Ould | 3 April 2001 |
| 25 | "Return of the Hunter" | Liza Walker guest stars. | Ed Fraiman | Stephen Plaice | 6 April 2001 |
| 26 | "Tour of Duty" | First Appearance of Sgt Craig Gilmore | Albert Barber | Stuart Blackburn | 10 April 2001 |
| 27 | "Lies of Silence" | Guest appearance by DI Liz Rawton. | Ron Bain | Derek Lister | 13 April 2001 |
| 28 | "Over the Hill" | Aidan J. David guest stars. | Michael Owen Morris | Henrietta Hardy | 17 April 2001 |
| 29 | "Head Over Heels" | TBA | Albert Barber | Ed Jones | 20 April 2001 |
| 30 | "Hitting Home" | Final appearance of Sgt. Bob Cryer departure of Dale Smith as PC, Ray Lonnen guest stars | Ed Fraiman | Jim Davies | 24 April 2001 |
| 31 | "Value Judgement" | Ray Trickett and Dee Sadler guest star. | Michael Owen Morris | Julian Spilsbury | 27 April 2001 |
| 32 | "Collateral Damage" | Jenny McCracken guest stars. | Ken Grieve | J.C. Wilsher | 1 May 2001 |
| 33–34 | "A Week of Nights" | First appearance of PC Des Taviner, Mark Monero guest stars | Michael Ferguson | Len Collin | 4–8 May 2001 |
| 35 | "Wednesday" | TBA | Susan Tully | Jim Gutherie | 11 May 2001 |
| 36 | "Billy the Kid" | TBA | Ged Maguire | Nigel Baldwin | 15 May 2001 |
| 37 | "Still Crazy" | Return of PC Dave Quinnan | Susan Tully | Richard Stoneman | 18 May 2001 |
| 38–39 | "Complicity" | Russell Tovey guest stars. | Bruce McDonald | Nicholas McInerny & Tanika Gupta | 25 May-1 June 2001 |
| 40 | "Suffer the Little Children" | Alex Norton and Rosie Cavaliero guest star. | Ron Bain | Paul Powell | 8 June 2001 |
| 41–42 | "Happy and Glorious" | Tessa Peake-Jones and John Bleasdale guest star. | Rob Bailey | Mark Holloway | 15 June 2001 |
| 43–44 | "Gun Crazy" | Peter Halliday and Martyn Whitby guest star. | Richard Holthouse | Gregory Evans | 19–22 June 2001 |
| 45 | "The Jury's Out" | Barry Jackson, T. P. McKenna, Malcolm Rogers and Andrew Powell guest stars. | Graham Moore | Arthur Ellis | 26 June 2001 |
| 46 | "Lick of Paint" | Mary Tamm, Ashley Walters and Paul Antony-Barber guest star. | Ged Maguire | Geoff Lindsay | 29 June 2001 |
| 47 | "Temptation" | Daniel Mays guest stars. | Graeme Harper | Ed Jones | 3 July 2001 |
| 48 | "Envy" | Tommy Boyle guest stars. | Graeme Harper | Neil Clarke | 6 July 2001 |
| 49 | "Greed" | Cindy O'Callaghan guest stars. | Ken Grieve | Neil Clarke | 10 July 2001 |
| 50 | "Redemption" | Patrick Cremin guest stars. | Ken Grieve | Stuart Blackburn & Debbie Jones | 13 July 2001 |
| 51–53 | "The Dark Side" | Neil Fitzmaurice, June Page and Timothy 'Runty' Hollands guest star. | John Howard Davies & Chris Lovett | Rod Lewis, Stephen Plaice & Manjit Singh | 17–24 July 2001 |
| 54 | "Eye of the Lens" | Dean Lennox Kelly and Roderick Smith guest star. | Chris Lovett | Phillip Gladwin | 31 July 2001 |
| 55 | "Another Country" | John Woodvine and Morris Perry guest star. | John Howard Davies | Chris Ould | 3 August 2001 |
| 56–59 | "Britanniamania" | Karl Howman guest stars | Brian Parker & Frank W. Smith | Len Collin, Steve Hawes & Scott Cherry | 7–17 August 2001 |
| 60 | "Beech on the Run" | 90-minute special, return of Don Beech and Claire Stanton | Ian White | Steve Griffiths | 19 August 2001 |
| 61–66 | "Beech is Back" | Final appearance of Claire Stanton, departure of Don Beech | Derek Lister & Justin Hardy | Tony McHale | 21 August 2001 - 7 September 2001 |
| 67–69 | "Trust, Part II" | Part 1 was set to air on September 11th, 2001 however was delayed for 3 days by the ITV Network Centre. EPG listings still stated this was to be transmitted on 9/11. | Mike Adams & Michael Morris | Stephen Plaice & Marcus Brent | 14–21 September 2001 |
| 70 | "Crush" | TBA | Herbert Wise | Phil Ford | 25 September 2001 |
| 71 | "Liquid City" | Hilda Braid guest stars. | Herbert Wise | Phillip Gladwin | 28 September 2001 |
| 72–74 | "Debt of Love" | Jaime Murray, Nick Brimble and Archie Panjabi guest star. | Penelope Shales & Michael Owen Morris | Julie White & Hugh Ellis | 2–9 October 2001 |
| 75 | "Blood and Money" | Robert Blythe, Andrew McCulloch and Desmond McNamara guest star. | JJ Keith | Chris Ould | 12 October 2001 |
| 76 | "Hidden Agendas" | Gerard Murphy and Gordon Warnecke guest star. | JJ Keith | Julian Spilsbury | 16 October 2001 |
| 77–78 | "Lifelines" | Final appearances of PC Vicky Hagen and Ch. Supt. Guy Mannion, Clare Clifford and Margot Leicester guest star. | Roberto Bangura | Stephen Plaice & Neil Clarke | 19–26 October 2001 |
| 79 | "White Cliffs of Dover" | TBA | John Bruce | Steve Handley | 2 November 2001 |
| 80 | "The Value of Nothing" | Jonathan Aris guest stars. | Albert Barber | Ed Jones | 9 November 2001 |
| 81 | "Money Man" | 90-minute special, Michael J. Jackson and David Schofield guest star | Graham Moore | Steve Handley | 16 November 2001 |
| 82 | "Beyond the Call" | TBA | Albert Barber | J.C. Wilsher | 20 November 2001 |
| 83–88 | "Night Games" | Final appearances of DI Liz Rawton and PC Roz Clarke, Tristan Gemmill, Ralf Little, Bruno Tonioli, Brian Croucher, Mark Straker, Michael McKell and Eric Mason guest star. | Laurence Moody, Declan O'Dwyer & John Davies | Elizabeth Anne-Wheal, Gregory Evans, Richard Stoneman & Henrietta Hardy | 23 November- 11 December 2001 |
| 89 | "For Better, For Worse" | Richard Kane guest stars. | Michael Owen Morris | Steve Hawes | 14 December 2001 |
| 90–92 | "Special Constable" | First appearance of Special Constable Terry Knowles, Robin Lermitte and Christopher Adamson guest star. | Ken Hannam & John Bruce | Stuart Blackburn & Len Collin | 18–21 December 2001 |
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