After the one off pilot, The Bill was greenlit to a series.
The focus has broadened from woodentop PC Carver and towards Detective Inspector Galloway and Sergeant Bob Cryer.
The similarities with Hill Street Blues are evident as Sergeant Cryer gives a morning briefing and is the anchor for all the uniformed officers. Someone they can all rely on.
DI Galloway is there at the briefing asking the cops to be on a lookout for a particular kind of burglary featuring double glazed doors.
You get a wider team here from WPCs Ackland and Martella to the brash PC Litten.
Carver gets his first arrest only for the criminal to be released as he is a snout. Carver also gets his uniformed messed up.
Although there is a talk of a National Front march, it is not featured in this episode. A lot of the stories are neatly wrapped up here. Galloway identifies the double glazing firm whose fitters were copying keys to gain entry. A pickpocket finds that one man who had lived in Hong Kong knew how to use fishhooks to deter pilfering hands.
I did not realised that Burnside appeared in the first episode. Then only a Detective Sergeant, he needs a favour from Galloway as it is his snout that Carver arrested. Burnside would return several years later as Galloway's replacement.
The focus has broadened from woodentop PC Carver and towards Detective Inspector Galloway and Sergeant Bob Cryer.
The similarities with Hill Street Blues are evident as Sergeant Cryer gives a morning briefing and is the anchor for all the uniformed officers. Someone they can all rely on.
DI Galloway is there at the briefing asking the cops to be on a lookout for a particular kind of burglary featuring double glazed doors.
You get a wider team here from WPCs Ackland and Martella to the brash PC Litten.
Carver gets his first arrest only for the criminal to be released as he is a snout. Carver also gets his uniformed messed up.
Although there is a talk of a National Front march, it is not featured in this episode. A lot of the stories are neatly wrapped up here. Galloway identifies the double glazing firm whose fitters were copying keys to gain entry. A pickpocket finds that one man who had lived in Hong Kong knew how to use fishhooks to deter pilfering hands.
I did not realised that Burnside appeared in the first episode. Then only a Detective Sergeant, he needs a favour from Galloway as it is his snout that Carver arrested. Burnside would return several years later as Galloway's replacement.
