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The 10th series of The Bill, a British television drama, consisted of 156 episodes, broadcast between 4 January and 30 December 1994. On 3 October 2012, The Bill Series 10 Part 1 & 2 and The Bill Series 10 Part 3 & 4 DVD sets were released (in Australia).
The fifth series of The Bill, a British television drama, consisted of 104 episodes, broadcast between 3 January – 28 December 1989. The series was first released on DVD as part of the Collection 3 and Collection 4 DVD boxsets in Australia, made available on 8 August – 7 November 2007, respectively. The first four episodes of the series were later issued on DVD in the United Kingdom, under the title Volume 4, on 15 March 2010. The next thirteen episodes of series 5 were released on DVD in the UK, under the title Volume 5, on 11 July 2011, the next 48 episodes of Series five was released on DVD in the UK under the title Volume 6, on 15 October 2012 and the remaining episodes was released on DVD in the UK under the title Volume 7, on 2 September 2013. The series was later re-issued as two half-series boxsets in Australia, released on 7 March 2012. The above DVD artwork is taken from the most recent Australian release. It features images of DC Jim Carver and Sgt. Bob Cryer. The British volume artwork features a collage image featuring a variety of characters from across the season. The original Collection box-sets contained sole images of PC Pete Ramsey and PC June Ackland respectively.
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).
S17E01
A young Russian girl leads Smithy out of a nightclub, where he is promptly attacked by three men. An innocent bystander attempts to prevent the attack but is himself badly injured. Chandler assigns Alex to investigate the assault. They track down the Russian girl, Natasha Ivanova, through a language school, which seems to be recruiting students to work as prostitutes. Natasha is desperate as her visa is about to expire, and her sister has disappeared without trace. When her sister is found murdered, Smithy realises the men responsible for her death and his assault are linked to a colleague from his old army unit, and goes all-out to discover why someone would want to have him beaten up.
Mickey and Paul wait outside a cafe, whilst inside Debbie is conducting a rather clumsy undercover sting on a suspected drug dealer. Alex is furious when the suspect is released without charge following Debbie's poor handling of the case. Resentful of Vik's success in recruiting local informants, Debbie manages to coax some information from solicitor's clerk Jamie Ross, which eventually leads to a successful arrest when information from Ross blows apart a stabbing suspect's alibi. Pleased with her success, Debbie is determined to convince Ross to work as an informant for her. Meanwhile, Paul meets up with his brother Joe, who seems to be in some trouble with the Nottinghamshire Police.
Jack is determined to bring one of his nemeses, Andy Burton, to justice for a safety deposit box robbery he committed in the 80's, for which there was little evidence to prove his involvement. In order to gather evidence on Andy, who is serving twenty years in Shadwell for armed robbery, he sends Danny undercover into the prison. Danny soon befriends a convicted paedophile, Ricky Sefton, who provides him with information on Andy's dealings, and when the pair become acquainted, Danny finds himself in the middle of a delicate situation - breaking out of prison whilst holding a guard at gunpoint. However, unbeknown to him, Andy has already discovered he's a cop, and has already plotted his downfall.
When Duncan is accused of planting evidence in an armed robbery case, Jack is determined to prove his innocence, and to find evidence to charge the suspect's accomplice, Phil Brown. Unfortunately, Brown claims to have been an informant for former Sun Hill alumni Don Beech, which makes Chandler determined to drop the case at all costs. When an old friend of Jack reveals that George Stubbs had previously bribed Chandler's DS at Park Rise, Jack realises he has some ammunition against Chandler, and uses it to gain the leverage he requires on Brown. Meanwhile, Matt and Vicky help Roz recover her ASP when it is stolen during the pursuit of a robbery suspect.
Debbie's bulldozer approach gets her into trouble with Ackland over a sensitive case.
Ackland visits Cryer in hospital as he recovers from his shooting at the hands of Smith. Ackland is horrified to find that he doesn't know he has already been replaced at Sun Hill. His replacement is Craig Gilmore, who has transferred down from Manchester Police. Gilmore wastes no time in telling the relief that the rumours are true: he is gay. Meanwhile, Lennox investigates the harassment of a local publican by a gang of youths, but when Gilmore organises a 'beat sweep' of the local estates, they find the publican's daughter is involved with the gang and is feeding them information on the police raids. Her information leads the relief to an illegal drinking club. As the relief arrest the gang members, one of them accuses Harker of brutality.
Mickey poses as a 'rent-boy' in Eddington Park, a well-known gay beat in Sun Hill, as he and Duncan investigate a series of brutal attacks on gay men in the area. A car alarm alerts Mickey and Duncan to the car of a local MLA parked in the bushes. When questioned, the MLA claims he was car-jacked and certainly was not 'cruising' in the park. He threatens legal action against the station, and Chandler moves quickly to prevent further damage to Sun Hill's reputation. A helpful security guard offers the police an observation post in a nearby office building, but Mickey becomes suspicious of the guard's attitude.
With the Section House closing, Reg is not only looking for a new place to live, but is also applying for a transfer to SO14, the Royal Protection Unit. As he closes on a sale to buy a flat owned by an elderly friend, Doreen Tyler, she changes her mind at the last minute, so he moves in with Tony. Reg's intuition gives CID an important lead on a planned armed robbery, but his uniformed colleagues conspire against him to have Nick organise the Section House closing party instead of him. Upset that his colleagues no longer value his credibility, Reg decides to skip the party and goes round to visit Doreen, only to find her lying on her living room floor with head injuries.
Tony and Nick try to find an alibi for Reg, who is the prime suspect in a murder investigation, while CID try to trace the victim's long lost daughter.
The 10th series of The Bill, a British television drama, consisted of 156 episodes, broadcast between 4 January and 30 December 1994. On 3 October 2012, The Bill Series 10 Part 1 & 2 and The Bill Series 10 Part 3 & 4 DVD sets were released (in Australia).
[Intro: Clip from Lady In The Water]
I tried to tell them about you, I don't know if I did the right thing. I don't know how they're gonna react.
[Verse 1:]
Keep the money coming, keep it so filthy
Keep your brain greedy, that's how this world built me
Picture Genghis Khan, picture Megatron
Now picture BP, picture Exxon
Picture presidents, dead ones, alive ones
Black ones, white ones, devils in their eyes ones
Picture priests, picture the preacher, picture the prophet
Picture popes, picture police with padded pockets
Picture parents in a picture-perfect town with a pinch of pedophilia that tends to sneak around
Think of politicians, they making a killing
And then they wanna turn around and call me a villain?
Picture devils and demons with disguises
Smiling with eyes tatted on their closed eyelids
Picture handshakes that most never notice
The picture's always been there, it's simply how you focus
[Verse 2:]
This ain't trap music, this ain't frat music
It's moshpit shit, get your skull cracked to it
This ain't devil music, it's just the study of
It ain't the murder weapon but it's the bloody glove
This is the thesis to show you who the beast is
The propaganda professors would never teach this
Picture people that will profit off religion
Now picture physicians who profit off certain prescriptions
Picture principals parent-teacher conference
ADHD and all that other nonsense
Psychologists will talk us out of all wisdom
While vaccine shots give children autism
Our community leaders mislead us
With laws that'll take away our 9mm's
Picture men who'll say that they speak for Jesus
I'll believe that shit when Hell freezes
[Verse 3:]
Lifers in the booth, snipers on the roof
Picture military personnel that like to shoot
Picture heroism, fill out your application
Picture terrorism, picture assassination
Picture pistols that pop instantly
Picture silencers that muffle the sound of gunshots efficiently
They say a picture's worth a thousand words
Now picture a thousand pictures of a mushroom cloud about to burst
Picture cloudy skies on the day that Howie died
Picture metal detectors inside Canarsie High
Picture a newborn baby with the gas mask
Picture a New York skyscraper avalanche
A cameraman is kidnapped by the Taliban
Decapitated they sent his head into Pakistan
Picture the gruesome Twit videos and pics
Picture triple-six, picture the villain that live within
[Outro: Clip from Lady In The Water]
A boy in the Midwest of this land will grow up in a home where your book will be on the shelf and spoken of often. He will grow up