The Bill – Volume 7 DVD – Roger Leach, Peter Ellis 

48 consecutive episodes of the long-running ITV police drama. The episodes feature characters including Sgt Cryer (Eric Richard), WPC Ackland (Trudie Goodwin), Det Sgt Ted Roach (Tony Scannell) and DI Burnside (Christopher Ellison). The episodes are: ‘Street Games and Board Games’, ‘Pressure’, ‘A Little Knowledge’, ‘Pathways’, ‘Seen to Be Done’, ‘Tulip’, ‘Nothing But the Truth’, ‘It’s Not Majorca’, ‘Mending Fences’, ‘Exit Lines’, ‘That Old Malarkey’, ‘Craig Verses Taylor’, ‘Tottering’, ‘I Counted Them All Out’, ‘Zig Zag’, ‘A Matter of Trust’, ‘Tourist Trap’, ‘The One That Got Away’, ‘Found Offending’, ‘All Part of the Job’, ‘In the Cold’, ‘Just a Little Runaround’, ‘Fair Appraisal’, ‘Visitors’, ‘Private Wars’, ‘Feasting With Panthers’, ‘By the Book’, ‘Beer and Bicycles’, ‘Grace of God’, ‘Just Another Day’, ‘Gone Fishing’, ‘Early Bird’, ‘Just for the Crack’, ‘Woman in Brown’, ‘Speaking Freely’, ‘Return of the Prodigal Son’, ‘Chinese Whispers’, ‘Powers of Exclusion’, ‘Saturday Night Fever’, ‘By the Skin of Our Teeth’, ‘Officers and Gentlemen’, ‘Carry Your Bag, Sir’, ‘I Thought You’d Gone’, ‘CAD’, ‘A Day Lost’, ‘A Clean Division’, ‘Roger and Out’ and ‘Addresses’.

The Bill went from strength to strength in 1988 when it was restructured into the half-hour format that stormed to the top of the ITV ratings, and the show remained a Top Ten UK drama for over two decades – becoming the longest-running police procedural drama ever screened on British television. Starring fan favourites Sgt. Cryer (Eric Richard), WPC Ackland (Trudie Goodwin), DS Ted Roach (Tony Scannell), DC Lines (Kevin Lloyd) and the ever irascible DI Burnside (Christopher Ellison), this se…