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Episode 9

On The Cards

January 22, 1993

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The Bill - S9 - E9

Martella is taken off a two-week old murder hunt to work on a case involving obscene phone calls but soon stumbles on to evidence that leads her Dave Frank and Jim to the killer.

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The Bill: Season 9 - 59 Episode s

9x1 - Dying Breed
January 5, 1993
Carver is injured in an armed robbery at Bennetts Jewellers and Woods discovers a link between the burglary the murder of Sammy Chambers in 1988 and Robbie Campbell.
9x2 - Fact Of Life
January 7, 1993
The law allows a known burglar to go free but Greig and Quinnan desperately try to pin him down again.
9x3 - All Through The Night
January 8, 1993
Stamp expects a dull evening on the party patrol until he is paired with a pretty young female Environmental Health Officer Diane Eckersley.
9x4 - New Tune Old Fiddle
January 12, 1993
Conway learns of a new chief inspector being posted to Sun Hill as Community Liaison Officer and he feels that he's been overlooked and applies for it himself without telling Brownlow.
9x5 - Delinquent
January 14, 1993
Dave arrests a persistent young offender is arrested for burgling his parents house.
9x6 - Bringing Up Baby
January 15, 1993
Datta investigates the sale of a missing newborn baby as she Monroe and CID are work against the clock to find her.
9x7 - Rainy Days & Mondays
January 19, 1993
Loxton And Marshall get called to a women's hostel when one of the girls claims to have been indecently assaulted by the night guard Alan And Steve later get wind that the warden is up to no good herself.
9x8 - Supply & Demand
January 21, 1993
Harris visits Jardine the joint founder of Operation Bumblebee while Garfield takes on a complaint about a pornographic home video of a housewife in a bubble bath leads to a result for Alistair Donna and the Sun Hill Operation Bumblebee team.
9x9 - On The Cards
January 22, 1993
Martella is taken off a two-week old murder hunt to work on a case involving obscene phone calls but soon stumbles on to evidence that leads her Dave Frank and Jim to the killer.
9x10 - Shock To The System
January 26, 1993
Charles returns from holiday to discover the news that Derek has been appointed new area Community Liaison Officer and Sgt Jane Kendall of Prescott Street arrives for Her Youth And Community and Section Staff Sergeant interview to pit her wits against Sun Hill's own Lamont.
9x11 - Living It Down
January 28, 1993
Social worker Lynda Chambers Frank and Viv lead the search for Debbie Fisher a missing victim of abuse but instead they jointly uncover a child pornography ring.
9x12 - Heat Of The Moment
January 29, 1993
A woman admits to killing her husband but insists that she did it in the heat of the moment. Viv believes her, Meadows on the other hand is convinced that the crime was premeditated.
9x13 - Shake Rattle N Roll
February 2, 1993
PC Mike Jarvis has an unusual first day having to watch Charles loses his temper with Monroe over pub landlord and Known villain Terry McGill.
9x14 - No Thanks To You
February 4, 1993
George has a bad day. Firstly he fails to save the life of a glue sniffer and then allows a bail absconder to escape.
9x15 - A Better Life
February 5, 1993
An elderly woman disturbs an intruder in her home and Alistair is convinced that a known villain has committed the burglary, but the victim insists that he is not the culprit.
9x16 - Echo
February 9, 1993
A girl goes missing and Jim and Alan suspect a known villain of murdering her until another man walks into another station and confesses.
9x17 - Fagins
February 11, 1993
Frank lets Sun Hill's burglars know he and Operation Bumblebee mean business.
9x18 - Cried Too Late
February 12, 1993
An arrested woman shoplifter refuses to talk to the police when Datta finally breaks through the wall of silence a tragic tale of domestic violence unfolds.
9x19 - Gone For A Soldier
February 16, 1993
Ackland is teamed up with military policeman Dakin who has come to Sun Hill to find a young soldier David Armstrong who has gone Absent Without Leave with an army gun.
9x20 - Persuasion
February 18, 1993
Burnside investigates when a female drug dealer is attacked by another dealer to get off his patch.
9x21 - Hard Man
February 19, 1993
Greig investigates a stabbing and uncovers benefit fraud at a bed and breakfast establishment.
9x22 - Missionary Work
February 23, 1993
Conway has to decide which of two grant bids he should recommend to Hicks he and Garfield want to use police funds to support a local youth club while Cato and Brownlow have their own ideas.
9x23 - Hypocritical Oath
February 25, 1993
The overdose of a boy on the Cockcroft Estate enables D.C.s Woods and Carver to link registered addicts to a doctor.
9x24 - Trivial Pursuits
February 26, 1993
Loxton ignores a call to a domestic argument between two lovers as a waste of time but when he is called back to the same address, he finds himself staring down the barrel of a gun.
9x25 - Out Of The Mouths
March 2, 1993
Hollis takes the Bumblebee message into a local school, asking for help in the fight against burglary. One of the boys asks him to help end a domestic nightmare.
9x26 - Keeping In Touch
March 4, 1993
An employee of a private security firm is identified by the elderly blind woman he assaulted.
9x27 - If It Isn't Hurting
March 5, 1993
New trainee constable Croft learns some old style policing methods from Burnside.
9x28 - Keeping Out Of Trouble
March 9, 1993
A woman claims to have inside information about a series of violent raids on petrol stations which are nipped in the bud by Meadows and Roach.
9x29 - School Of Hard Knocks
March 11, 1993
Burnside investigates the abduction of a villain's son.
9x30 - A Little Family Business
March 12, 1993
Meadows investigates a burglary gone wrong while Cato is gunning for Loxton and Stringer.
9x31 - Breaking The Chain
March 16, 1993
Kendall tries to keep a young offender from a life of crime.
9x32 - The Fortress
March 18, 1993
The owner of an off licence shop makes a citizen's arrest of a young shoplifter and Maitland arrests the shopkeeper for use of unreasonable force.
9x33 - In Broad Daylight
March 19, 1993
While on the trail of two rapists Morgan investigates an attempted abduction and puts her life in danger.
9x34 - Credible Witness
March 23, 1993
Stringer feels discredited when his description of a thief fleeing from a jeweller's shop conflicts with that of the main witness, who works in the shop.
9x35 - The Price Of Fame
March 25, 1993
Page goes undercover as a model to investigate a possible scam at a modelling agency.
9x36 - The Short Straw
March 26, 1993
When her car breaks down on the way to the station, DC Viv Martella misses an important CID briefing about an obbo on a suspected armed robbery, and is furious when she is taken off the case by DI Frank Burnside. As CID and SO19 wait outside the target, Martella and PC Tony Stamp follow up a simple case to arrest a suspected bag snatcher. As they wait outside the suspect's house, a van pulls up, obscuring their view. Having missed the briefing, Martella fails to recognise the van's occupants as the armed robbers, and when she approaches their van she is shot and killed. Stamp is wounded, but manages to give a description of the van which is spotted by a traffic police motorcycle. As the India 99 police helicopter and SO19 cars pursue Martella's killers across London, PC Loxton and WPC Ackland disobey Ch. Insp. Cato's orders and pursue the suspect vehicle in the Area Car. The vehicle hits a bulldozer and explodes, killing all inside.
9x37 - Missing
March 30, 1993
A young man with an intellectual disability goes missing and Burnside has to deal with the consequences for the parents.
9x38 - Goods Received
April 1, 1993
Greig investigates a burglary at an ailing business a case that leads him to a missing schoolboy.
9x39 - Double Enmity
April 2, 1993
Woods goes undercover as a contract killer to expose a woman who wants her husband killed.
9x40 - Hard Evidence
April 6, 1993
A murder investigation team arrive at Sun Hill. Meadows is uneasy at the Corby's approach who is willing to exploit his relationship with Woods to get a result regardless of the evidence.
9x41 - High Hopes & Low Life
April 8, 1993
Carver and Morgan investigate a career ending attack on a promising young boxer.
9x42 - On The Loose
April 9, 1993
Loxton and Garfield corner a savage pit bull terrier at an illegal dogfight while Boyden tracks down a pensioner who has turned to crime.
9x43 - Out Of Court
April 13, 1993
Stamp and Ackland are keen to get a conviction against a woman for assault on a minicab driver, but she is acquitted.
9x44 - Bedfellows
April 15, 1993
Chief Inspector Cato arrests two youths, actions which cause a riot outside Sun Hill station.
9x45 - Cat & House
April 17, 1993
A woman is keen to be get rid of her burglar boyfriend and his fence with whom she has been having an affair.
9x46 - Brothers
April 20, 1993
Two young brothers are suspected of burglary and Croft discovers that they were deserted by their mother and left to fend for themselves.
9x47 - Playing Away
April 22, 1993
Ackland arrests a fifteen-year-old boy for shoplifting and finds herself investigating his relationship with a woman twenty years his senior.
9x48 - Coming To Terms
April 24, 1993
The parents of a young man awaiting trial for the murder of a child are distressed when their home is broken into and they receive threatening phone call and Ackland discovers the connection.
9x49 - Return To Sender
April 27, 1993
A young postwoman is beaten up but the motive is unclear and she seems unwilling to talk to the police.
9x50 - Sticks & Stones
April 29, 1993
When Lines hits the jackpot during a raid, it makes an already difficult court case for Greig even harder.
9x51 - Tangled Webs
May 1, 1993
A mysteriously unmotivated break-in at a garage leads Burnside to a web of sexual deception and a jealous husband's rampage.
9x52 - Recruiting Officer
May 4, 1993
Maitland enlists McCann's help in reassuring a young black applicant whose wife has serious misgivings about the job but McCann is discovering racism within the force for himself.
9x53 - Give Em An Inch
May 6, 1993
Cato allows a demonstration to go ahead despite being warned that it could be hijacked by racists. When things turn ugly, he is forced to reverse his previous orders.
9x54 - By Hook Or By Crook
May 8, 1993
Roach is disgusted when a judge halts the trial of a man accused of crippling a police officer and decides to take matters into his own hands.
9x55 - Home To Roost
May 11, 1993
Dave and Tony attend to an assault victim at the market while sergeant Kendall organises an outing and take some local kids to Chessington World of Adventures, with a reluctant Steve assigned as a last-minute replacement for an ill Ron.
9x56 - In Safe Hands
May 13, 1993
Lines and Morgan arrest two members of a shoplifting team.
9x57 - Punch Drunk
May 15, 1993
Called to attend to a pub brawl, PC Tony Stamp and PC Dave Quinnan are stunned to find one man unconscious and the other Sun Hill's own DS Ted Roach. Roach is taken back to the station, and while DI Frank Burnside manages to pursuade the victim to drop the charges against him, nothing can be done when Roach headbutts Insp. Andrew Monroe during a heated argument. Ch. Supt. Brownlow calls in MS15 to investigate him, but Roach turns in his warrant card and walks out of the station.
9x58 - Fall Out
May 18, 1993
With the departure of Roach one of his informants wants out Burnside and Monroe investigate threats against her.
9x59 - Awaydays
May 20, 1993
An elderly ex copper is in London to search for his estranged daughter and claims that he has been robbed in his hotel which Lines investigates.

9x1 - Dying Breed

9x2 - Fact Of Life

9x3 - All Through The Night

9x4 - New Tune Old Fiddle

9x5 - Delinquent

9x6 - Bringing Up Baby

9x7 - Rainy Days & Mondays

9x8 - Supply & Demand

9x9 - On The Cards

9x10 - Shock To The System

9x11 - Living It Down

9x12 - Heat Of The Moment

9x13 - Shake Rattle N Roll

9x14 - No Thanks To You

9x15 - A Better Life

9x16 - Echo

9x17 - Fagins

9x18 - Cried Too Late

9x19 - Gone For A Soldier

9x20 - Persuasion

9x21 - Hard Man

9x22 - Missionary Work

9x23 - Hypocritical Oath

9x24 - Trivial Pursuits

9x25 - Out Of The Mouths

9x26 - Keeping In Touch

9x27 - If It Isn't Hurting

9x28 - Keeping Out Of Trouble

9x29 - School Of Hard Knocks

9x30 - A Little Family Business

9x31 - Breaking The Chain

9x32 - The Fortress

9x33 - In Broad Daylight

9x34 - Credible Witness

9x35 - The Price Of Fame

9x36 - The Short Straw

9x37 - Missing

9x38 - Goods Received

9x39 - Double Enmity

9x40 - Hard Evidence

9x41 - High Hopes & Low Life

9x42 - On The Loose

9x43 - Out Of Court

9x44 - Bedfellows

9x45 - Cat & House

9x46 - Brothers

9x47 - Playing Away

9x48 - Coming To Terms

9x49 - Return To Sender

9x50 - Sticks & Stones

9x51 - Tangled Webs

9x52 - Recruiting Officer

9x53 - Give Em An Inch

9x54 - By Hook Or By Crook

9x55 - Home To Roost

9x56 - In Safe Hands

9x57 - Punch Drunk

9x58 - Fall Out

9x59 - Awaydays

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