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This DVD set contains 10 discs. The Bill: Volume 1: 13 1988 30 June 2008 [7] Includes episodes 1-13 of series four. This DVD set contains 2 discs. The Bill: Volume 2: 13 1988 2 March 2009 [8] Includes episodes 14-26 of series four. This DVD set contains 2 discs. The Bill: Volume 3: 13 1988 11 May 2009 [9] Includes episodes 27-39 of series four.
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 spinoff Beech is Back , following a special 90-minute episode in Australia.
This is a list of episodes of The Bill, which ran from 16 August 1983 to 31 August 2010. 26 series were made. Series overview ... 17: 92: 5 January 2001 ()
The Bill was originally conceived in 1983 by Geoff McQueen, then a new television writer, as a one-off drama.McQueen had originally titled the production Old Bill. [2] It was picked up by Michael Chapman for ITV franchise holder Thames Television, who retitled it Woodentop as part of Thames's Storyboard series of one-off dramas and broadcast on ITV under the title Woodentop on 16 August 1983. [2]
The series was released on DVD for the first time on 6 June 2012, in Australia. It features the above artwork, which features images of Sgt. Alec Peters and WDC Viv Martella. A number of cast and crew commentaries for Series 7 episodes have been recorded, available exclusively for subscribers of The Bill Podcast Patreon Channel. [1]
The series was first released on DVD on 4 December 2006 in Australia, incorrectly packaged as Seasons 4 & 5, when in fact the set only contained the entire series four. The series was later issued in four separate volumes in the United Kingdom, available on 30 June 2008, 2 March 2009, 11 May 2009 and 15 March 2010.
On 5 June 2013, The Bill Series 16 Part 1 & 2 and The Bill Series 16 Part 3 & 4 DVD sets were released (in Australia). On screen, it was revealed in the spring that DS Claire Stanton, introduced in the previous season, was working as a mole in CID for the Complaints Investigation Bureau to bring down DS Don Beech.
On 30 April 2014, The Bill Series 26 Part 1 & 2 DVD set was released in Australia. Having been halved to one episode a week and axed from Scottish network STV the previous summer, the show's average viewership had dropped from 7 million prior to the revamp to 3, and as a result, the long-running police drama was axed on 26 March 2010.