Episode guide
The Bill: Season 20
84 episodes · premiered Jan 7, 2004
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- Episode 1: The Bill Season 20 Episode 1 Jan 7, 2004 Having discovered the CCTV tape of PC Cathy Bradford with his wife on the night she died, and the body of Cathy's fiance, Max Wyatt, the Murder Investigation Team are called in. DC Brandon…
- Episode 2: The Bill Season 20 Episode 2 Jan 8, 2004 Leo Price agrees to help Sgt. Dale Smith and CID with some information when his little brother is attacked and left injured. When the information leads to several arrests on the estate…
- Episode 3: The Bill Season 20 Episode 3 Jan 14, 2004 Sgt. June Ackland has discovered PC Cathy Bradford has barricaded herself and DC Brandon Kane's kids in the station's boiler room. When Cathy promises to release the kids in exchange for…
- Episode 4: The Bill Season 20 Episode 4 Jan 15, 2004 TSG storm the boiler room and Supt. Adam Okaro arrests a screaming Cathy Bradford for murder. Despite his colleagues' warnings, DC Brandon Kane insists on returning to work at CID, but…
- Episode 5: The Bill Season 20 Episode 5 Jan 21, 2004 Marie Carver is in court on charges of domestic violence against her husband, PC Jim Carver. Despite testimony from PC Gabriel Kent, who witnessed one of Marie's attacks on Jim, Marie and…
- Episode 6: The Bill Season 20 Episode 6 Jan 22, 2004 Supt Okaro faces a difficult time with the fraud investigations into his wife's bank accounts and her relationship with the Reverend Andho. How will Okaro deal with the subsequent and…
- Episode 7: The Bill Season 20 Episode 7 Jan 29, 2004 Sergeant Sheelagh Murphy is shaken by the previous night's sighting of Des Taviner. Confused about why Des should come back to Sun Hill, Sheelagh becomes frantic when she believes her baby…
- Episode 8: The Bill Season 20 Episode 188 Feb 5, 2004 Sergeant Sheelagh Murphy is rushed to hospital with her baby's life hanging in the balance. With news of the baby's tragic death, Sheelagh struggles with the loss especially when her house…
- Episode 9: The Bill Season 20 Episode 9 Feb 11, 2004 When DS Debbie McAllister has trouble with her babysitter, she is forced to bring Andrew into the station. While McAllister is indisposed, DC Eva Sharpe is assigned to what looks like a…
- Episode 10: The Bill Season 20 Episode 10 Feb 12, 2004 Sgt. Sheelagh Murphy reports to Insp. Gina Gold and DCI Jack Meadows that she was visited by Des Taviner the night before. Having learned of baby Niamh's death, Taviner finds PC Reg Hollis…
- Episode 11: The Bill Season 20 Episode 11 Feb 18, 2004 · 1h 9m A covert operation is planned to trap Des at Niamh's funeral despite Sergeant June Ackland's promise to Sergeant Sheelagh Murphy that this will not happen. Sheelagh is upset when she…
- Episode 12: The Bill Season 20 Episode 12 Feb 19, 2004 The hunt is still on for Des Taviner who holds Sergeant Sheelagh Murphy and PC Cameron Tait hostage. Sheelagh has left her mobile on and connected to DCI Jack Meadows to give them a lead…
- Episode 13: Episode 193 Feb 25, 2004 Sergeant June Ackland confronts PC Gabriel Kent over the shocking discovery that he is her son. With her world in turmoil, she is horrified to hear him confirm that he is her son. But…
- Episode 14: The Bill Season 20 Episode 14 Feb 26, 2004 PC Gabriel Kent fears exposure and confronts Sergeant June Ackland who tells him that she will keep his identity secret if he gets her the address of her son. The difficulty of her…
- Episode 15: The Bill Season 20 Episode 15 Mar 3, 2004 Sgt. June Ackland threatens to expose PC Gabriel Kent's true identity, but Kent insists he loves her and his job. Ackland agrees to a compromise, she will keep quiet about Kent's assumed…
- Episode 16: The Bill Season 20 Episode 16 Mar 4, 2004 DCI Jack Meadow's former lover and ex-prostitute Rachel Heath (Lysette Anthony) is due in court to stand trial for assault. With the news that she's pregnant with his child, she tells Jack…
- Episode 17: The Bill Season 20 Episode 17 Mar 10, 2004 PC Andrea Dunbar arrives in the force and her keenness seems to good to be true, but little do the relief know that they have an undercover reporter among them. When Eva discovers that…
- Episode 18: The Bill Season 20 Episode 18 Mar 11, 2004 PC Nick Klein and PC Yvonne Hemingway attend a disturbance at a funeral home and discover an unusual case: the body and casket of the mother of the Coombes brothers has disappeared…
- Episode 19: The Bill Season 20 Episode 19 Mar 17, 2004 Paramedics fail to revive Des Taviner, and MIT's DI Madden who has arrived to question Des about the Sun Hill bombing finds himself investigating the suspect's murder instead. Sgt…
- Episode 20: The Bill Season 20 Episode 20 Mar 18, 2004
- Episode 21: Smoking Demons Mar 24, 2004 As PC Nick Klein recovers from his forced heroin overdose at the hands of Dennis Weaver's henchmen, Sgt. Dale Smith and PC Kerry Young try to prove Nick's innocence beyond doubt as his…
- Episode 22: The Bill Season 20 Episode 22 Mar 25, 2004 With PC Nick Klein in a police safe house, an enraged Dennis Weaver throttles DS Phil Hunter, demanding Klein's location. Having woken up with Sgt Dale Smith, PC Kerry Young realises she…
- Episode 23: The Bill Season 20 Episode 23 Mar 31, 2004 DS Debbie McAllister is determined to investigate links between her boss, DI Neil Manson, and a possibly corrupt magistrate when a drug dealer makes accusations during interview. PC…
- Episode 24: The Bill Season 20 Episode 24 Apr 1, 2004 DS Debbie McAllister is determined to investigate links between her boss, DI Neil Manson, and a possibly corrupt magistrate when a drug dealer makes accusations during interview. PC…
- Episode 25: The Bill Season 20 Episode 25 Apr 7, 2004 PC Nick Klein is back in the safe house, but when DS Phil Hunter gives the address to Dennis Weaver, a hitman is contracted to kill Klein. Meeting with the hitman to retrieve the gun and a…
- Episode 26: The Bill Season 20 Episode 6 Apr 8, 2004 PC Nick Klein is back in the safe house, but when DS Phil Hunter gives the address to Dennis Weaver, a hitman is contracted to kill Klein. Meeting with the hitman to retrieve the gun and a…
- Episode 27: The Bill Season 20 Episode 27 Apr 14, 2004 A major road traffic accident in Sun Hill sees a seriously injured man, Adrian Collins, rushed to St Hugh's Hospital. When Uniform discover a handgun and balaclava in Collins' car, and…
- Episode 28: Episode 28 Apr 15, 2004
- Episode 29: The Bill Season 20 Episode 28 Apr 15, 2004 PC Kerry Young is found injured but alive in the rubble after the explosion behind the bank, but the bank manager was killed in the explosion. As DS Samantha Nixon investigates the…
- Episode 30: The Bill Season 20 Episode 30 Apr 28, 2004 DC Terry Perkins is undercover in prison, where he investigates convicted paedophile Charles Mawdsley who is believed to be running a paedophile ring with the help of one of the prison…
- Episode 32: Episode 211 Apr 29, 2004 DS Sam Nixon and DS Debbie McAllister investigate when the stolen digger turns up at a transport site. DI Neil Manson's suspicions are proven correct, but nobody else knows that Manson's…
- Episode 33: The Bill Season 20 Episode 33 May 6, 2004 After failing to capture Trevor Little and his gang after their aborted diamond raid, DI Neil Manson begins to have his doubts about his Australian colleague, DI Peter Cavanaugh, and…
- Episode 34: The Bill Season 20 Episode 34 May 13, 2004 DI Neil Manson's suspicions about DI Peter Cavanaugh continue during an obbo on the diamond heist suspects. When the suspects get away from them, Cavanaugh doesn't seem particularly…
- Episode 35: The Bill Season 20 Episode 35 May 19, 2004 Don Beech has the only evidence that could incriminate corrupt DI Peter Cavanaugh. DCI Jack Meadows is reluctant to have to rely on the slippery Beech, but Supt Adam Okaro insists he is…
- Episode 36: The Bill Season 20 Episode 36 May 20, 2004 DCs Rob Thatcher and Ken Drummond are on an obbo watching a witness in a fraud case, when Ken's son Alex turns up on the doorstep in a state of shock. While on a night out with his mates…
- Episode 37: The Bill Season 20 Episode 37 May 27, 2004 PC Gabriel Kent and PC Kerry Young attend a call to what initially appears to be the case of a ""bunny-boiler"", Sharon Wallace, stalking her ex-boyfriend, Chris Loftus. Kent, however…
- Episode 38: The Bill Season 20 Episode 38 Jun 2, 2004 DS Phil Hunter is desperate to find his daughter Madison, who has been abducted by Dennis Weaver. DCI Jack Meadows orders him not to get involved in the investigation, and assigns DS…
- Episode 39: The Bill Season 20 Episode 39 Jun 3, 2004 DS Samantha Nixon drags a wounded DS Phil Hunter out of the line of fire of an enraged Dennis Weaver, and the two escape into an abandoned Tube tunnel. PC Yvonne Hemmingway is frustrated…
- Episode 40: The Bill Season 20 Episode 40 Jun 9, 2004 PC Kerry Young is in turmoil after her rape at the hands of the evil PC Gabriel Kent. Naturally, Kent denies the charge, and he insinuates that Kerry has ""cried wolf"" before, when she…
- Episode 41: The Bill Season 20 Episode 41 Jun 10, 2004 A skeptical DI Neil Manson reluctantly agrees to DS Samantha Nixon's requests to hire a profiler to help catch Sun Hill's serial rapist. Nixon and profiler Dr Hugh Wallis review the cases…
- Episode 42: The Bill Season 20 Episode 42 Jun 17, 2004 PC Cameron Tait dives into the Thames to rescue the two children from the sinking car. He manages to get the girl out, but the boy is missing and the girl later dies in hospital. Cameron…
- Episode 43: The Bill Season 20 Episode 43 Jun 24, 2004 DC Rob Thatcher is keeping a close eye on the Radfords despite the warnings of his colleagues. He eagerly arrests David Radford for selling bootleg DVDs on the Coal Lane Estate, but when…
- Episode 45: The Bill Season 20 Episode 45 Jul 7, 2004 PC Yvonne Hemingway puppywalks probationer PC Steve Hunter on his first day at Sun Hill. Eager to impress, Steve lets slip some gossip about Phil's impotency, which soon is all over the…
- Episode 46: Episode 226 Season 20 Episode 46 Jul 8, 2004
- Episode 48: Episode 227 Jul 14, 2004 DS Samantha Nixon and Dr Hugh Wallis are concentrating on the Royal Navy link to the serial rapist, and interview a Scottish prostitute whose rape over ten years previously matches the…
- Episode 49: The Bill Season 20 Episode 49 Jul 21, 2004 The net is closing in on Alan Kennedy, the main suspect for the serial rapes. Kennedy is not at home when the police raid his flat, and several other leads - an allotment he keeps, and his…
- Episode 50: The Bill Season 20 Episode 50 Jul 22, 2004 With insufficient forensic evidence to charge him, DI Neil Manson and DS Samantha Nixon have 24 hours to extract a confession from serial rape suspect Alan Kennedy. CPS laywer Jonathan…
- Episode 51: The Bill Season 20 Episode 51 Jul 28, 2004 DI Neil Manson orders PCs Tony Stamp and Lance Powell to stay out of the wreckage of the pub where the bomb has gone off while he summons help. When Stamp realises Supt. Okaro is still…
- Episode 53: The Bill Season 20 Episode 232 Jul 29, 2004 PC Lance Powell tries to work out who sent him the text message about the bomb, and realises only three people had his new number: his family, his boyfriend... and Conor Murphy. Powell…
- Episode 54: The Bill Season 20 Episode 54 Aug 5, 2004 PC Sheelagh Murphy turns to her Catholic faith for guidance after her son Conor's announcement that he is gay, but the Church is not very helpful to her. She then asks PC Lance Powell for…
- Episode 55: Episode 235 Aug 11, 2004
- Episode 56: 236: Hope Aug 12, 2004
- Episode 57: The Bill Season 20 Episode 57 Aug 18, 2004
- Episode 58: The Bill Season 20 Episode 58 Aug 19, 2004
- Episode 59: The Bill Season 20 Episode 59 Aug 26, 2004 PC Kerry Young and Sgt Dale Smith are minutes away from a bullet in the head from Wayne Radford's goons, when a raid on Hedley's Club, lead by Sgt June Ackland and DCs Rob Thatcher and Ken…
- Episode 60: The Bill Season 20 Episode 60 Sep 1, 2004 PC Kerry Young and Sgt Dale Smith are minutes away from a bullet in the head from Wayne Radford's goons, when a raid on Hedley's Club, lead by Sgt June Ackland and DCs Rob Thatcher and Ken…
- Episode 61: The Bill Season 20 Episode 61 Sep 2, 2004
- Episode 63: Episode 242 Sep 8, 2004 Wayne Radford has been found dead in his prison cell. It appears to be suicide, but Radford also has a number of bruises and cigarette burns on his body. Insp. Gina Gold hears from…
- Episode 64: Episode 243 Sep 9, 2004 Malcolm Willard has been shot dead from long range, and once again DC Terry Perkins and his brother Ben are in the frame. Perkins is shocked when he turns up at CID to hear that Willard is…
- Episode 65: The Bill Season 20 Episode 65 Sep 16, 2004 DC Suzie Sim arrives to join CSU, and she excels on her first day when she and trainee DC Gary Best investigate the racial harrassment and sexual assault of an asylum seeker. The…
- Episode 66: The Bill Season 20 Episode 66 Sep 22, 2004 DC Suzie Sim arrives to join CSU, and she excels on her first day when she and trainee DC Gary Best investigate the racial harrassment and sexual assault of an asylum seeker. The…
- Episode 68: Episode 247 Sep 23, 2004 DCI Jack Meadows arrives in a sleepy village for the funeral of old friend and colleague Ted Roach, who has been killed in a hit-and-run on a lonely country road. Also attending the…
- Episode 70: The Bill Season 20 Episode 69 Oct 6, 2004 Insp. Gina Gold warns PC Kerry Young that her job is on the line if she continues to consort with David Radford. PC Gabriel Kent and PC Andrea Dunbar find an 11-year-old blind girl who has…
- Episode 71: The Bill Season 20 Episode 71 Oct 13, 2004
- Episode 72: The Bill Season 20 Episode 72 Oct 14, 2004 PC Kerry Young is missing and fears for her safety grow after David Radford's public vow to kill her. Many officers are desperate to find her- but for the wrong reasons. PC Gabriel Kent…
- Episode 73: The Bill Season 20 Episode 73 Oct 20, 2004 After being gunned down by PC Gabriel Kent, PC Kerry Young is left fighting for her life in the arms of Sgt Dale Smith. Moments after declaring their love for each other Smithy cradles…
- Episode 75: The Bill Season 20 Episode 254 Oct 21, 2004 After being gunned down by PC Gabriel Kent, PC Kerry Young is left fighting for her life in the arms of Sgt Dale Smith. Moments after declaring their love for each other Smithy cradles…
- Episode 76: The Bill Season 20 Episode 76 Oct 28, 2004
- Episode 77: The Bill Season 20 Episode 77 Nov 3, 2004
- Episode 79: The Bill Season 20 Episode 79 Nov 10, 2004
- Episode 80: The Bill Season 20 Episode 80 Nov 11, 2004
- Episode 81: Episode 81 Nov 11, 2004
- Episode 82: The Bill Season 20 Episode 82 Nov 18, 2004
- Episode 83: The Bill Season 20 Episode 83 Nov 24, 2004
- Episode 84: The Bill Season 20 Episode 84 Dec 1, 2004
- Episode 86: The Bill Season 20 Episode 86 Dec 9, 2004 A new PC Leela Kapoor is transferred to Sun Hill but she finds it hard to get on with her partner PC Sheelagh Murphy because she was involved in the suspension of one of Sheelagh's old…
- Episode 87: The Bill Season 20 Episode 85 Dec 8, 2004 Yvonne has to deal with her niece when she is found unconscious having taken ecstasy pills left lying around her flat. Jim returns to work telling his colleagues that the trip has been…
- Episode 88: The Bill Season 20 Episode 88 Dec 15, 2004 Sgt Mark Rollins surprises his boyfriend PC Lance Powell with a shock marriage proposal. PC Amber Johannsen kisses a barmaid at the Christmas do and PC Andrea Dunbar kisses Smithy…
- Episode 89: The Bill Season 20 Episode 89 Dec 16, 2004 Shirley finally accepts PC Yvonne Hemmingway's apology but Shirley takes a turn for the worse and Yvonne has to face up to the uncomfortable fact that she could be responsible for…
- Episode 90: The Bill Season 20 Episode 90 Dec 21, 2004 Irene Radford is back in town Sun Hill officers are called to an incident at her house when a dead dog is found floating in her swimming pool which could possibly be something to do with…
- Episode 91: The Bill Season 20 Episode 91 Dec 22, 2004 Inspector Gina Gold is taken prisoner at gun point by Irene Radford. The two women talk and realize they have more in common than both of them had realized but Irene orders the death of…
- Episode 92: The Bill Season 20 Episode 92 Dec 23, 2004 DS Ramani de Costa is left to cope with the new Vulnerable Persons Unit which is low on staff while most of the other officers are dealing with a robbery so DCI Jack Meadows assigns DC…
- Episode 93: The Bill Season 20 Episode 93 Dec 29, 2004 Inspector Gina Gold is taken prisoner at gun point by Irene Radford. The two women talk and realize they have more in common than both of them had realized but Irene orders the death of…
- Episode 94: The Bill Season 20 Episode 94 Dec 30, 2004 DS Ramani de Costa is left to cope with the new Vulnerable Persons Unit which is low on staff while most of the other officers are dealing with a robbery so DCI Jack Meadows assigns DC…