The Bill

8:30pm – Saturday, March 13 on ABC1

Police are called to the local hospital when a doctor punches a man who’s accused him of having an affair with his wife.

At Sun Hill station, the victim Trevor Berwick (Anton Saunders), is determined to press charges against the doctor, as DC Mickey Webb (Chris Simmons) tries to deal with Berwick’s highly agitated state.

DC Webb asks Sgt. Callum Stone (Sam Callis) to drive Berwick home, but Stone can’t resist the temptation to express his point of view, and tells Berwick to pull himself together and behave like a man.

When Berwick and his baby son are reported missing just a few hours later, DC Webb reveals his earlier concern for Berwick’s state of mind and a full scale search is mounted.

Meanwhile, investigations reveal that Berwick had lost his job some months beforehand, a fact that leaves his wife Penny (Amelia Curtis) reeling. But she admits that their marriage had been on shaky ground for some time, and that she had met the doctor – an old friend – earlier for coffee.

Out on patrol, Sgt. Stone spots Berwick’s car and follows him into an industrial estate. Berwick stops the car, but before Stone can react, accelerates into a group of stationary vehicles. As his car overturns and catches alight, Stone is left devastated in its wake.

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8:30pm – Saturday, March 6 on ABC1

DC Mickey Webb (Chris Simmons) is finding it tough sleeping on the streets in his effort to find out who murdered a lawyer whose body police found floating in the Thames.

The dead man was found wearing homeless man Reggie Sharpe’s (Jay Simpson) coat, and he becomes their chief suspect. Meanwhile, Mickey has managed to make friends with Reggie’s best mate Nicola McKenzie (Michelle Asante) in an effort to get information.

However, DCs Jacob Banks (Patrick Robinson) and Jo Masters (Sally Rogers) discover the dead lawyer had been intending to meet with a rogue property developer Greg Simm (Ralph Ineson), on the day of his murder and the investigation takes a different turn.

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8:30pm – Saturday, February 27 on ABC1

The body of a young man is recovered from the Thames wearing a vagrant’s overcoat, but designer trousers.

When the vagrant, Reggie Sharp (Jay Simpson), tries to sell a camera in the local market and is spooked into fleeing, police examine the photos it contains. Fortunately for them, a young woman in the pictures bears a name tag and they track her down. The woman, Susie Hughes (Amy Cudden), tells them it’s her solicitor fiancé Jake Evans’s camera. She says that they had had a fight a couple of nights before but she hadn’t seen him since.

When no-one answers his door, DCs Grace Dasari (Amita Dhiri) and Mickey Webb (Chris Simmons) use Susie’s keys to enter Jake’s apartment, and find traces of blood. And they find a picture that identifies Jake as the dead man.

When Susie is ruled out as the murderer, suspicion falls on her flatmate and old flame Paul Harding (Gyuri Sarossy). He admits that he and Jake had an altercation over Susie, but he has a solid alibi for the time of the murder.

As Jake had been volunteering at a local shelter, DC Webb goes undercover as a homeless person to pursue the investigation, and makes friends with Nicola McKenzie (Michelle Asante) whose best mate is Reggie Sharp – now their chief suspect.

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8:30pm – Saturday, February 6 on ABC1

PCs Nate Roberts (Ben Richards) and Leon Taylor (Dominic Power) respond to an emergency call to find 18-month-old Chelsea Wright with a serious head injury. Her mother Lily (Lauren Taylor) insists she fell from her high chair, but the officers suspect her father Gavin Downey (Roland Manookian) may be responsible, as he was recently made the subject of an order to stay away.

However, Gavin gives police a solid alibi so their suspicions turn to the child’s mother. And when Lily is caught on CCTV earlier in the day arguing with her father, they begin to think that she may be at breaking point and has harmed the child herself.

However, niggling doubts have the officers double-checking Gavin’s alibi, and when his flatmate is told the reason Gavin is being questioned, he admits he lied.

Insp. Smith (Alex Walkinshaw) orders both parents to be brought in for questioning and it’s not long before Lily tells the truth.

Meanwhile, as PC Tony Stamp (Graham Cole) prepares to leave Sun Hill to take up a driving instructor post elsewhere, he and Smithy share a moment to reflect on all their years working together at Sun Hill.

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8:30pm – Saturday, January 30 on ABC1

Local shop owner Angie Burgess (Charlette Palmer) is pleased when Supt. Meadows (Simon Rouse) and Insp. Smith (Alex Walkinshaw) finally heed hers and others’ calls for something to be done about the drug-dealing, prostitution, and other illegal activities taking place on a local estate.

After gathering all the intelligence they need – the police mount a major raid and people are rounded up, but they fail to uncover the large quantity of cocaine they know was delivered to drug dealer David Clayton (Jimmy Akingbola) overnight.

Insp. Smith is frustrated in his attempt to engage the local community especially when Clayton turns up at a meeting to intimidate the locals. However, Angie Burgess continues to speak out.

But when Angie’s daughter Stephanie (Lisa Saville) is stabbed, Smith sees the urgency in getting Clayton off the streets, and old timer PC Tony Stamp (Graham Cole) comes to the rescue.

However, Stamp tells Smith that he’s an old style policeman now and wants to move on to other things.

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8:30pm – Saturday, January 23 on ABC1

While out on patrol PCs Leon Taylor (Dominic Power) and Nate Roberts (Ben Richards) witness a car-jacking. As they assist the car’s owner Lily Wright (Lauren Taylor), she tells them that her baby, Chelsea, is in the back seat of the car.

However, when the vehicle is later involved in an accident, the car-jacker and baby are nowhere to be found.

Police manage to identify the car-jacker, but find him badly beaten and unconscious. He won’t say what happened, except that he left the baby in a spot where she would be found easily.

Puzzled that they haven’t found Chelsea already, police are suspicious about the father Gavin Downey’s (Roland Manookian) behaviour. The baby is eventually found in an alley in her up-turned car seat buried under boxes and suffering cuts and abrasions. However, when questioned again, the car-jacker denies hurting the baby in any way.

Although they suspect parental abuse by the child’s father, Insp. Smith (Alex Walkinshaw) warns his troops they can do nothing without proof, or the mother admitting it is happening.

Having watched the whole ordeal unfold, an enraged PC Taylor sets out to find the proof, but oversteps the mark by bringing Gavin in after finding him in a pub with the baby. Even though he’s cross with Taylor, Insp. Smith decides to back him up and sets up another interview with the child’s mother http://abc.net.au/iview/

8:30pm – Saturday, January 16 on ABC1

After a tip-off, DS Max Carter (Christopher Fox) and DC Terry Perkins (Bruce Byron) trail drug dealer Mark Wilson (Daniel Caren), hoping to catch him in the act. Instead, they witness him in an altercation with a woman and PC Leon Taylor (Dominic Power).

Suspicions are aroused when CID learns that the woman, Josie Hibbert (Kirsty Mitchell), is a guard at Longmarsh prison where Wilson’s brother, Shaun (Alister Barton), is an inmate. PC Taylor claims he has no idea who Wilson is, but says Josie, a friend he meets for breakfast occasionally – was being hassled by Wilson, and he stepped in to help.

Meanwhile, Shaun Wilson’s girlfriend Ria Crossley (Gemma Atkinson) visits Josie to hand over a mobile phone he wants smuggled into the prison. DS Carter wants this to go ahead so they can track his plans, and convinces PC Taylor, against his better judgement, to convince Josie to do it.

However, when she hesitates, Taylor is forced to tell her the truth about his involvement, and she feels betrayed. But when CCTV footage reveals Josie enjoying a drink with Ria, Carter fears that Josie may not be so innocent after all. And then he learns that Wilson wasn’t planning a drug deal, but a hit.

Meanwhile, Ria visits Wilson in prison, and he goes into a rage and attacks her. She tells Carter that he lashed out because, even though he had threatened her, she finally got up the courage to leave him.

It slowly dawns on Carter that Ria is the intended target, and a text from Mark Wilson to his brother gives him a clue as to where she is. Who will get there first.

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8:30pm – Saturday, January 9 on ABC1

Police are called when an eight-year-old boy, Owen Reaney (Jake Hathaway), is reported missing from school.

DS Stevie Moss (Lucy Speed) and DC Terry Perkins (Bruce Byron) discover that the boy’s parents Phil (Alan Cox) and Maggie Reaney (Emma Cunniffe), are involved in a bitter custody battle, and there is resentment toward Maggie’s new partner Daniel Maier (Alan McKenna).

Owen’s father Phil immediately comes under suspicion when police learn his car was parked outside the school earlier in the day. He argues that he hasn’t been allowed near his son for three months and this is the only way he can be near him.

But when CCTV reveals that Owen voluntarily got into a car with a man after talking to someone on the man’s mobile, a connection is made with that man, Nick McCann (Adrian Schiller), and Owen’s mother’s partner, Daniel Maier.

Maier, a luggage supervisor at the airport, tells police he agreed to help hide a bag arriving in the UK for drug dealer McCann in exchange for cash, but then changed his mind. McCann then abducted Owen to force Maier to go ahead with the deal.

Superintendent Jack Meadows (Simon Rouse) sets up an operation to catch McCann in the swap-over and police stake out the meeting place. But all doesn’t go to plan…

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8:30pm – Saturday, December 26 on ABC1

A 17-year-old youth is found in an alley with cuts and abrasions and in possession of a pamphlet with a picture of a young person called David Jarvis, who’d been missing for five years.

He tells police he is David and that he had been held against his will by a man called Gareth. When police track down the only possible suspect called Gareth, he tells them he took ‘David’ home with him the previous night, and that David has attacked him and he fell down the stairs.

Police ask David’s sister Michelle (Joanna Horton) to come and identify him, and she convinces herself that it is her brother. However, forensics prove that David is actually Simon Eastfield (Alex Matten), a runaway who was working as a rent boy, but who had gone to school with David and knew certain things about him.

But all is not lost when Simon confesses that he had seen David several weeks before and once again there is hope.

8:30pm – Saturday, December 19 on ABC1

DS Max Carter (Christopher Fox) and DC Jo Masters (Sally Rogers) conflict over his hard-nosed approach when an informant Fran Morris (Kelly Harrison), is found bashed and her 12-year-old son Noah (George Sear) is missing.

Carter is convinced that Damien Tucker (Dorian Lough), the drug dealer she helped set up, and who is now in prison is behind the attack, and they check all of his known associates.

Meanwhile, Fran’s ex-neighbour Lynne Emery (Lu Corfield) arrives to take Noah to school, and when police find Noah’s blood-stained jacket nearby they fear for his safety. But he is found in Lynne’s flat frightened and hiding in the bathtub.

Tyson Archer, a heroine dealer connected to Tucker, is brought in for questioning when CCTV shows him near Fran’s apartment about the time of the attack, but he says he was just delivering heroine and didn’t touch her. Then Martin Goodrum (Tony Bluto), one of Fran’s ex-clients from her days as a prostitute, is spotted on the CCTV, but he has an alibi for the time she was assaulted.

As they struggle to piece together the scenario, Carter befriends Fran’s son in the hope he might know something that he isn’t telling them.