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Episode 104

High Places

December 29, 1992

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The Bill - S8 - E104

An ex-criminal who used to be part of a circus high-wire act is found dead, apparently from a fall, but the pathologist says he died elsewhere.

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The Bill: Season 8 - 52 Episode s

8x54 - Snakes & Ladders
July 7, 1992
It's P.C. Garfield's first day back after the attack. The relief place bets on the likelihood of Garfield punching Sgt. Boyden, but Garfield eventually takes his revenge.
8x55 - Street Cleaning
July 9, 1992
Sgt. Cryer gets the relief to put the Garfield-Boyden conflict behind them and get back to work, to sort out the takeover of genuine beggars' pitches by violent professional thieves.
8x56 - Hands Up
July 14, 1992
Conway decides he needs to get back on the beat, and arrests a drunk for criminal damage.
8x57 - A Scandalous Act
July 16, 1992
P.C. Garfield brings in a teenaged girl arrested at a drugs party, and she accuses him of sexually assaulting her.
8x58 - Raiders
July 21, 1992
A ram-raid ends in tragedy when a boy is killed. But what was his part in the affair?
8x59 - Talk Out
July 23, 1992
A middle-aged couple arrive at the front desk and report their neighbour missing, but W.P.C. Ackland isn't sure that they are telling the whole truth.
8x60 - True Confessions
July 28, 1992
D.S. Roach is put under pressure when a suspect retracts a confession and accuses the police of oppression.
8x61 - Private Enterprise
July 30, 1992
D.C.I. Meadows tackles CID about passing intelligence to the collator; but D.S. Roach is reluctant to share information relating to his current operation.
8x62 - Getting Through
August 4, 1992
The night shift is saddled with a feud between two men who come to the front desk with allegations of GBH against each other.
8x63 - Last Night Of Freedom
August 6, 1992
Someone is stabbed on a stag night, but the likely suspect can't remember a thing about it.
8x64 - Cutting Loose
August 11, 1992
Burnside and Lines are returning a chief suspect to prison when they are ambushed by a gang of masked men, who spring him.
8x65 - Soft Targer
August 13, 1992
P.C. Smollett discovers that a local villain is driving people out of their flats and reletting them to squatters. At Sun Hill, a civilian typist is discovered to be having an affair with a known villain.
8x66 - I've Never Been To Harrogate
August 18, 1992
D.S. Greig and D.C. Woods investigate the mysterious collapse of an old lady who has been burgled.
8x67 - Human Resources
August 20, 1992
Two con men are preying on women through the small ads in the local paper. Lack of personnel for D.S. Roach's operation places W.D.C. Martella in danger.
8x68 - Exit
August 25, 1992
A loan shark is attacked. D.S. Greig has a vital witness who is young, blonde and pretty, but she keeps stringing him along, and then disappears.
8x69 - Loyalties
August 27, 1992
Acting on information from a snout, D.I. Burnside mounts a raid on crack-houses. When details of the raid are leaked, D.C.I. Meadows challenges Burnside over the trustworthiness of his team.
8x70 - Snapshot
September 1, 1992
A complaint over loud music quickly escalates into an armed siege, as a man waves a gun at P.C.s Stamp and Quinnan.
8x71 - Letting Go
September 3, 1992
Reg is playing with a train set before going out. He is looking for a place to live as he is moving out of the section house but ends up moving to a different corridor instead. Greig and Tosh investigates a stabbing in a station car park. The case is being dropped but Greig goes to see the widow and finds a new lead. June and Reg act as back up to bailiffs trying to evict a family. The case is turned over to Tosh.
8x72 - Travelling Light
September 8, 1992
Viv helps Donna dress up for a reconstruction of a murder case. They find a man who spoke to the dead woman and gives them a new lead. The ex-boyfriend of the murder victim asks to see Burnside protesting his innocence.
8x73 - Radio Waves
September 10, 1992
Monroe talks to Conway about a problem with a car chase. Tony and Dave were chasing joy riders with Ron in the back. Norika and George help catch the children who were joy riding. CID think they might be part of a gang knocking off car stereos. The fathers have a fight in custody after their children were interviewed.
8x74 - A Blind Eye
September 15, 1992
Viv brings in an elderly mugging victim who helps make an identikit picture. Boyden gets spoken to by Monroe about working with the relief. Tony assists George with a disturbance when there is another mugging which turns out to be a misunderstanding. Tony see what he thinks is a mugger getting beaten up but the suspect turns out to be an off-duty copper.
8x75 - Sympathy For the Devil
September 17, 1992
Tosh is at the building society waiting for an armed robber. Dave and Barry assist CID and they catch an old age pensioner. Steve goes to a disturbance behind a pub. He finds an attacked man. He thinks it might be racially motivated. It turns out to be a revenge attack.
8x76 - Force Is Part of the Service
September 22, 1992
Brownlow and Conway have a meeting with councillors about the changes in the police force. Conway gives them a tour of the station. Steve brings in a man suspected of street robbery. The man accuses Steve of harassment. Reg tells Steve the bad news that he brought in the wrong man. The man makes a complaint against Steve and Brownlow wants it sorted honestly. Steve is trying to get George to back up his story.
8x77 - On the Record, Off the Record
September 24, 1992
CID investigates a break-in at a warehouse which resulted in the theft of personal CD players. Steve spots the van used in the robbery. After talking to a worker with form, fingers start pointing at the security guard. Jim gets spoken to by Meadows about complaints. He gets into further trouble after arresting a man on information received.
8x78 - Stoning the Glasshouse
September 29, 1992
Bob visits a friend who is the head of a neighbourhood watch. His son is stealing to support his drug habit. Bob's friend thinks the police are turning a blind eye towards the Cockcroft Estate. Conway gets a report on the Cockcroft Estate and a visit from the head of the Cockcroft Action Committee complaining of harassment.
8x79 - Tip-Off
October 1, 1992
Tosh is asked for by a burglar whom he put inside. He gives Tosh information that there might be a bank robbery. CID catches the robbers after the job but when Tosh tries to arrange protection for his informant he is too late as the man has had his face slashed. Reg talks to Donna for an article in the station newspaper.
8x80 - Open to Offers
October 6, 1992
Monroe and the relief go to a pub where some men are damaging it. One of the men tries to blackmail Dave over some moonlighting Dave did to get off the charge. Monroe thinks the men might be involved in protection. Dave tells both Sgts Boyden and Maitland who advises him to tell Monroe. Dave asks Barry's advice as Fed Rep. Barry asks Reg's advice as he was previous Fed Rep.
8x81 - Playing God
October 8, 1992
CID are tied up with a court case. A burglary suspect of Ted's may have to be released as he is at court. Tony brings in an old lady who has been abusive in the street. Dave and George find a man in the street who might have killed his wife who had terminal cancer.
8x82 - Crack of Doom
October 13, 1992
There is a search of people looking for crack. A man has a scuffle with another man and claims a piece of crack was planted on him. Tony discovers the man, an ex-boxer, lives over the road from the crack house and CID ask if they could use it as a base for an obbo.
8x83 - Spit and Polish
October 15, 1992
Steve is late for shift. Just as Steve is about to arrest a fine defaulter Dave is nearly run over by a speeding BMW. Steve really wants to arrest the fine defaulter, who has already left by the time he gets back, but Dave wants to deal with the driver. They find the body of the car owner's lover in the boot of the car.
8x84 - Overdue
October 20, 1992
Burnside talks to a snout in a bus queue about a delivery. Woods and Carver observe the delivery and CID raid the premises. The cartons contain bricks and motor parts instead of the stolen goods expected. Burnside goes to a promotions board and is passed over.
8x85 - We Should Be Talking
October 22, 1992
George is following a silver car that might have been involved in a ramraid. While checking in with the station, his radio goes dead. Sgt. Cryer discovers the radio link is down. June is investigating a failure to stop and enlists the help of people on the estate to help find a hurt kid.
8x86 - Reasonable Grounds
October 27, 1992
Norika goes to see a man about a missing child. Barry has to tell a man his brother is dead after complaining of having to let a suspected burglar go with a caution. the man takes off as soon as he sees Barry.
8x87 - Discipline
October 29, 1992
An obbo on a club nearly goes wrong when a fight starts outside it. The man who started the fight turns out to be a D. S. suspended from the Drug Squad.
8x88 - Minefield
November 3, 1992
Sgt. Maitland finds himself in the wrong when he discovers a serious procedural error meant that a dangerous and possibly psychopathic man has been arrested twice for the same offence and released.
8x89 - Gamers
November 5, 1992
Tosh investigates a fire bombing of an Asian shop. Dave and Cathy investigates an Asian lady accused of shoplifting. Cathy thinks there is something going on. Her husband is gambling. Dave and Sgt. Boyden join the game.
8x90 - Occupational Hazard
November 10, 1992
When sex appeal doesn't get him what he wants, Harry Osborne turns vicious. W.D.C. Martella has to pick up the pieces.
8x91 - Just Send Some Flowers
November 12, 1992
W.D.C. Martella investigates a burglary that occurred during a funeral. D.C. Carver links it to previous burglaries and an employee with a criminal record who claims to be innocent.
8x92 - Waifs and Strays
November 17, 1992
A missing girl's blood-stained book leads D.C. Lines to uncover the family's dark secrets and come up with an unexpected result. P.C. Hollis has to deal with a lost dog. P.C. Loxton discovers the dog has been beaten and decides to keep it.
8x93 - Happy Families
November 19, 1992
What's a smart girl like Sharon doing with a villain like Daniel Batt? D.I. Burnside thinks it's all to do with female hormones, but W.D.C. Martella isn't so sure.
8x94 - Well Out of Order
November 24, 1992
Meadows and Burnside want to go in force to the Tankeray estate to root out the criminal element, but Brownlow is committed to a softer approach. P.C. Smollett proves more effective than C.I.D. at catching a dangerous mugger.
8x95 - Into The Mire
November 26, 1992
CID receive information that leads to the arrest of a prolific handler of stolen goods.
8x96 - Master Of The House
December 1, 1992
The body of a respectable family man is found on a notorious patch of wasteland.
8x97 - Fireworks
December 3, 1992
Stamp uses some old-fashioned policing methods to tackle the problem of children playing with railway detonators.
8x98 - Cold Shoulder
December 8, 1992
A local youth with form is stabbed in the centre of a densely populated housing development. D.C.I. Meadows investigates when no witnesses come forward.
8x99 - Safety First
December 10, 1992
D.I. Burnside investigates when a pawnbroker is shot in the leg with a legally-acquired shotgun during a robbery at his shop.
8x100 - Counting the Cost
December 15, 1992
A local hero who prevented a robbery, and was severely injured in the process, but received no compensation, is being harassed by a scrap dealer until W.P.C. Ackland turns the tables with some harassment of her own.
8x101 - Compassion
December 17, 1992
A probation officer seems eager to assist D.I. Burnside over the murder of a prostitute, but how close is she to the murderer?
8x102 - Finders Keepers
December 22, 1992
D.C. Carver finds a buried treasure and the glory should be his. D.C. Dashwood, now with the Art and Antiques Squad, takes the case away and gets a result.
8x103 - Return Match
December 24, 1992
When a collection of valuable dolls is stolen, D.C. Dashwood from the Art and Antiques Squad turns up, wrong-foots D.C. Lines and gets a result.
8x104 - High Places
December 29, 1992
An ex-criminal who used to be part of a circus high-wire act is found dead, apparently from a fall, but the pathologist says he died elsewhere.
8x105 - When Push Comes To Shove
December 31, 1992
Sun Hill officers are drinking after shift when some troublemakers arrive at the pub. W.P.C. Ackland tries to calm the situation, but P.C.s Quinnan and Loxton decide that she needs their protection, and provoke a fight with a violent thug.

8x54 - Snakes & Ladders

8x55 - Street Cleaning

8x56 - Hands Up

8x57 - A Scandalous Act

8x58 - Raiders

8x59 - Talk Out

8x60 - True Confessions

8x61 - Private Enterprise

8x62 - Getting Through

8x63 - Last Night Of Freedom

8x64 - Cutting Loose

8x65 - Soft Targer

8x66 - I've Never Been To Harrogate

8x67 - Human Resources

8x68 - Exit

8x69 - Loyalties

8x70 - Snapshot

8x71 - Letting Go

8x72 - Travelling Light

8x73 - Radio Waves

8x74 - A Blind Eye

8x75 - Sympathy For the Devil

8x76 - Force Is Part of the Service

8x77 - On the Record, Off the Record

8x78 - Stoning the Glasshouse

8x79 - Tip-Off

8x80 - Open to Offers

8x81 - Playing God

8x82 - Crack of Doom

8x83 - Spit and Polish

8x84 - Overdue

8x85 - We Should Be Talking

8x86 - Reasonable Grounds

8x87 - Discipline

8x88 - Minefield

8x89 - Gamers

8x90 - Occupational Hazard

8x91 - Just Send Some Flowers

8x92 - Waifs and Strays

8x93 - Happy Families

8x94 - Well Out of Order

8x95 - Into The Mire

8x96 - Master Of The House

8x97 - Fireworks

8x98 - Cold Shoulder

8x99 - Safety First

8x100 - Counting the Cost

8x101 - Compassion

8x102 - Finders Keepers

8x103 - Return Match

8x104 - High Places

8x105 - When Push Comes To Shove

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