The Bill - Complete Series 17

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Part One: With the Section House closing, Hollis 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 Stamp. Hollis's intuition gives CID an important lead on a planned armed robbery, but his uniformed colleagues conspire against him to have Klein organise the Section House closing party instead of him. Upset that his colleagues no longer value his credibility, Hollis decides to skip the party and goes round to visit Doreen, only to find her lying on her living room floor with head injuries. Meadows is approached by a German lawyer, Eva Melchor, who has an interesting proposal from her client, a notorious armed robber named Paul Kerrigan. Kerrigan's sister Rene is dying, and provided he is allowed to see her one last time, he will not only turn himself in to Meadows, he will also identify members of the M25 gang, a vicious gang of armed robbers who have been terrorising London. True to his word, Kerrigan shops Kevin Lee, the gang's armourer, and a search reveals a cache of weapons in Lee's pet shop. With MIT and OCG eagerly awaiting Kerrigan's information, Meadows places Kerrigan in a safe house. When a series of car bombs outside the safehouse distract Carver and Worrell, Kerrigan escapes. Thinking Kerrigan has fled, Meadows is stunned when his nemesis turns up dead. Attention turns to Melchor, the only other person besides the police who knew where he was being held, but is she a suspect or the next victim?

On temporary assignment to the Serious Crime Group, DC Lennox is surprised to find Liz Rawton is Acting DI at SCG. The body of a young girl, later identified as Hayley Mills, is found in a concrete slab in a cement works. Rawton and Lennox question the new owner of the cement works, Digby Leake, and Rawton tells Lennox off for his aggressive approach to the case. Hayley's ex-boyfriend tells them of a modelling agency which doubled as an escort service where Hayley worked and that Hayley was pregnant, and the owner Leon Walsh is certainly suspiscious, especially when the police find a car of his containing Hayley's blood. Forensics reveals that Hayley died of an ectopic pregnancy, and was not murdered, Leake admits that he was the father and that his assistant Harry Rawlings dumped the body when Hayley died from the complications. Lennox forms a bond with Hayley's friend Karen, who confides to him that Rawlings and Leon are involved in smuggling heroin from Hong Kong, and the pair areA spate of graffiti taggings in Sun Hill sees the police showing zero tolerance to the perpetrators. Carver is sympathetic towards an alcoholic teacher at Canley Art College when his classroom and students' work are defaced. Boyden asks Hagen to move in with him, but she is reluctant, wanting her own space. To her outrage, Boyden moves her belongings to his house as a surprise. Boyden arranges for the council to paint a wall blank to set a trap for the graffitists, catching quite a few in the process. However, with all them pleading innocence for the art school incident, they are left looking elsewhere. While at a police function on the Thames with Supt. Chandler and DC Spears, DI Cullen spots a man climbing through the window of a riverside house. Cullen calls Sun Hill, but the rather inept team of Hollis and Taviner fails to capture the intruder. Embarrassed by the spectacle, Chandler assigns Spears to work on Sun Hill's burglery statistics, and she finds a link between a number of other break-ins. Chandler is furious when Cullen hires a criminal profiler, Roy Stenning, but his information gets CID close to a likely suspect. Rumours about the relationship between Spears and Chandler are rife thoughout the station, and Spears is not popular with her colleagues, who accuse her of sleeping her way to the top. When Reg Hollis is caught by Chandler for unauthorised use of the PNC, Des Taviner threatens to reveal a secret from their past at Hendon, but finds his own use of the PNC under scrutiny. Chandler and Spears meet for dinner, but Chandler is hesitant to move too fast. The intruder Part Two: Tyro Shaw threatens to blow Singh's cover in the car-ringing gang, but is convinced otherwise by Webb. Meanwhile, Singh seems to have impressed both Kevin North and his boss, Jennifer Salter, who seems quite taken with him. After a passionate encounter, Salter tells Singh the gang are moving on to Manchester, after North suspects something suspicious is going on. Singh realises he must gather the evidence he needs to convict the gang in North's office, but as he enters the office he is abducted by North and Salter. Webb discovers Shaw blew Singh's cover and is left needing to convince him to tell them where Singh has been taken. Klein and Taviner arrest two men fighting in the street. Glaze is surprised to see one of the men is his old school friend, Lol Redman. He is even more surprised when Redman is charged with racial assault against the other man, Devon Russell. Redman is bailed, and Glaze arranges to meet him in the pub later. As Glaze waits, Redman is arrested again outside Russell's house, and Russell claims to have a tape of Redman's verbal abuse. McAllister visits Russell's wife whilst he makes a statement, and she admits that she and Redman had an affair, admitting that her husband is a violent and paranoid man. Redman admits he was concerned for the safety of Russell's wife, not realising he is at risk himself. Hour-long episode, final appearance of PC Donna Harris, guest appearance of DS Danny Pearce, David Westhead guest stars

Part Two: Under pressure from Chandler and the NCS to release Phil Brown, Meadows convinces Moira Scott to admit to George Stubbs's involvement in the armed robbery, as well as drug dealing. Meanwhile, Spears goes undercover as a cocaine buyer, and with some help from NCS and SO19, they catch Stubbs and his supplier red-handed with the drugs. During his interview, Stubbs makes an allegation of corruption against Chandler. Meadows realises that his allegations could be the final nail in Chandler's coffin, and goes all out to substantiate Stubbs' claim. First appearances of Insp Christine Frazer, PC Malcolm Haynes and SRO Marion Layland, PC Jim Carver is promoted to DC, first credited appearance of PC Tony Stamp First appearance of DCI Kim Reid, final appearance of DCI Gordon Wray, Robert Wisdom and Morgan Deare guest star

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Final regular appearance of Bob Cryer as Sgt, departure of Dale Smith as PC, Ray Lonnen guest stars

Part One: When Lennox is accused of planting evidence in an armed robbery case, Meadows 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 Meadows' reveals that George Stubbs had previously bribed Chandler's DS at Park Rise, Meadows realises he has some ammunition against Chandler, and uses it to gain the leverage he requires on Brown. Meanwhile, Boyden and Hagen help Clarke recover her ASP when it is stolen during the pursuit of a robbery suspect. On temporary assignment to the Serious Crime Group, Lennox is surprised to find Liz Rawton is now an Acting DI at SCG. The body of a young girl, later identified as Hayley Spence, is found in a concrete slab in a cement works. Rawton and Lennox question the new owner of the cement works, Digby Leake, and Rawton tells Lennox off for his aggressive approach to the case. Hayley's ex-boyfriend tells them of a modelling agency, which doubled as an escort service, where Hayley worked. He also reveals that Hayley was pregnant, and the owner of the agency, Leon Walsh, may be the father. When Lennox finds a car containing Hayley's blood, forensics drop a major bombshell that blows the inquiry wide open. Webb and Riley wait outside a cafe, whilst inside McAllister is conducting a rather clumsy undercover sting on a suspected drug dealer. Cullen is furious when the suspect is released without charge following McAllister's poor handling of the case. Resentful of Singh's success in recruiting local informants, McAllister 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, McAllister is determined to convince Ross to work as an informant for her. Meanwhile, Riley meets up with his brother Joe, who seems to be in some trouble with the Nottinghamshire Police. New title sequence and theme introduced, final appearance of Nurse Jenny Quinnan, Paul Popplewell guest starsTaviner and Hollis attend when a gang of masked girls armed with baseball bats raid gifts at a wedding. The gang's violence intensifies and the bride's sister, Debbie Pike, is found badly beaten after an altercation with a mother and her baby on the high street. Chandler sends Spears to visit the local schools, ostensibly to encourage students to join the Met's Volunteer Cadet Corps, but secretly to obtain information on the gang and its members. As rumours about her and Chandler fly around the station, Spears pushes an eager schoolboy informant too far. First appearance of Sgt. Joseph Corrie, final regular appearance of Sgt. Tom Penny, Stephen Churchett guest stars Whilst on a week's secondment to Scotland Yard's Art and Antiques Squad, Lennox is tasked with investigating a young woman, Tessa Gannon, who tried to sell a forged painting to a gallery. Lennox soon finds a receipt from a gallery owned by an art dealer named Ivor Gregory, who has form for deception. Lennox befriends an artist named Richard Townes, who charges into Gregory's gallery as Lennox peruses the paintings. In the hope of getting a closer look at one of the paintings, Lennox arranges for his wife Shona to buy one of them. He gets it verified, and is disappointed when it is an original. When the painting is returned for re-framing, Lennox realises Gregory has swapped it for a fake. Part Two - Angel Rooms: Hayward and Klein arrange to get their stories straight over the missing bag of heroin. Stacy insists her pimp forced her to deal drugs and have sex with "Red". Clarke ends up sleeping with "Phil the Pill", and is surprised when he turns up at Sun Hill the next day and announces himself as DC Phil Raven from the Drugs Squad. Raven arrests Benji Pullinger for intent to supply, but inevitably the missing bag is mentioned in the interview. Station gossip starts to point towards Klein, and Hayward confesses to Gilmore what really happened. Whilst out at a nightclub with his new girlfriend, Fiona, Hayward sees Raven selling drugs, and discovers that he and Fiona are former acquaintances.

First appearance of Insp. Andrew Monroe, final appearances of PC Francis 'Taffy' Edwards and Insp. Christine FrazerPart Two: When Doreen Tyler dies of her injuries, Hollis is named as the prime suspect for her murder, leading to a suspension from duty and breakdown of his hopes to transfer to SO14. While CID try to trace the victim's long lost daughter, with little to no information, Stamp and Klein try to find an alibi for Hollis. They interview a witness outside of Doreen's house, who claims that he saw Hollis hanging around the property more than hour before he stated that he arrived. With the evidence mounting, Stamp and Klein's only hope of clearing Hollis' name lies with a tom. Meanwhile, a scam involving Tyler's 'long-lost daughter' comes to light, which the Sun Hill team hope will clear Hollis. minute special, guest appearances of ex-DS Don Beech and now DI Claire Stanton, John Noble and Jason Clarke guest star Part Three: Beech takes Stanton hostage in his car, but on the way to a secret location, is pulled over by two uniform PCs for his erratic driving. Posing as 'Matthew Boyden' from Sun Hill, Beech once again makes good his escape and takes Stanton to an underground bunker where Frankie urges him to kill her. When he refuses, Frankie decides she'll have to do it herself, or risk being taken in and imprisoned. Beech disapproves of Frankie's methods when she uses forms of torture to gather information from Stanton. Frankie realises that Beech may no longer be on her side, so she goes over the side and offers to help Stanton in any way she can. Are you a fan of British TV shows? Look no further than Britbox Australia! This streaming service offers the largest range of all your favorite British dramas, comedies, documentaries, and quiz shows all in one place. Whether you're in the mood for crime dramas like Line of Duty or Prime Suspect, classic series like Doctor Who and Fawlty Towers, or new releases like Crime and Hotel Portofino, Britbox has something for everyone. Part One - The Dark Side: Hayward breaks down during a talk with primary school pupils, when he gives a powerful speech about the death of his sister to teach them the dangers of drugs. Gilmore is not happy, but the teacher thinks Hayward's sensitivity will help the students get the message, and may also help them trust Hayward enough to report a bully. An old friend of his sister's asks him out, although when he meets her at a gallery opening, Hayward thinks her friends are dealing drugs. Klein and Hayward find the bully, "Red", who has been using two fierce dogs to steal money and mobile phones from school children. They trace the dogs to the flat of drug-addicted prostitute Stacy Dodds, and a search of her flat uncovers a large stash of heroin. CID are drafted in when Red accuses Stacey of sexual abuse.