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The Bill
S11.E128
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  • Episode aired Nov 8, 1995
  • TV-14
  • 50m
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8.3/10
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David Tennant and Mark Wingett in The Bill (1984)
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DI Deakin arrests a kidnapper, but doesn't know where the teenage girl he abducted is hidden.DI Deakin arrests a kidnapper, but doesn't know where the teenage girl he abducted is hidden.DI Deakin arrests a kidnapper, but doesn't know where the teenage girl he abducted is hidden.

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    • A.J. Quinn
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    • Geoff McQueen
    • David Hoskins
  • Stars
    • Shaun Scott
    • Kerry Peers
    • Lisa Geoghan
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    • Director
      • A.J. Quinn
    • Writers
      • Geoff McQueen
      • David Hoskins
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      • Shaun Scott
      • Kerry Peers
      • Lisa Geoghan
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    Shaun Scott
    • D.I. Deakin
    Kerry Peers
    • W.D.C. Croft
    Lisa Geoghan
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    9Sleepin_Dragon

    A brilliant episode.

    Boyden attends to a distraught mother, who explains that her teenage daughter is missing, it transpires that she had argued with her father, and had been getting creepy phonecalls.

    The first feature length episode for ages, and it really is a cracker.

    Very much a race against the clock episode, it is such a tense watch, it works on every level, and not just for the obvious reason.

    Thoroughly enjoyed this episode, it's pretty sinister, quite gripping and it's of course incredibly well acted. It takes some unexpected turns, what you think is initially a domestic family saga, turns into something very different.

    Within two seconds of hearing that answerphone message, you can hear the voice of David Tennant, who would have thought that such an awesome actor would have turned up, he is terrific in this. It's a very well acted episode, with a cracking cast, Dermot Crowley and Barbara Marten are great, look out for a young Honeysuckle Weeks too.

    Loved it, 9/10.

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      Steven Clemens: We each get dealt a hand in life. Some get a good one. Some not so good. We'll all have to play the cards as best we can.

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      • November 8, 1995 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
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      • England, UK
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      • Thames Television
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      • 1.33 : 1

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