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The Bill
The twelfth series of The Bill, a British television drama, consisted of 156 episodes, broadcast between 2 January and 31 December 1996. On 6 February 2013, The Bill Series 12 Part 1 & 2 and The Bill Series 12 Part 3 & 4 DVD sets were released (in Australia). The show aired the death of PC Cathy Marshall early in the series, actress Lynne Miller departing after seven years in a mysterious plot that saw her drown whilst chasing a suspect, but it was never confirmed if she was pushed or slipped off a riverside barge during the pursuit. The death followed that of DS Jo Morgan in a four-part special towards the end of the previous series, with the first three of the four episodes rebroadcast in the summer as part of a single special episode; Target.
Skase and Croft investigate a series of hoax phone calls that are tearing a family apart.
Loxton and Slater deal with a woman drink-driver.
Meadows offers a bottle of scotch as a reward for catching an elusive burglar.
Lines and Skase try to avert an ice-cream war in Sun Hill after a vendor is assaulted.
Ackland and Jarvis follow up a vicious assault.
Boulton is determined to arrest a local drug dealer, at any cost.
Beech and Croft investigate the murder of a hairdresser who had been fighting for a share of her dead fiancé's estate.
Datta is called to a burglary and is subjected to the unwanted affections of a civic-minded admirer. Monroe is suspicious when Loxton tries to settle an old score.
Uniform and CID are on the lookout for escaped prisoner Jim Brodie, so both Brodie's wife and his drug dealer are under observation. PC Nick Slater and WPC Cathy Marshall pursue two burglers down to the riverfront, where one of them gives Slater a severe beating. Marshall sees a person on the barges and gives chase. By the time their backup arrives, delayed by PC Reg Hollis' dodgy belly, Marshall has disappeared. When her dead body is fished out of the river, the two crooks she and Slater had been pursuing are questioned over her possible murder. Searching the barge that Marshall was last seen, CID find evidence that someone has been sleeping rough on board - and it looks like it's their escaped prisoner, Brodie. The river police intercept Brodie fleeing to Amsterdam on his friend's boat, but there is not enough evidence to charge him for Cathy Marshall's murder.
As Sun Hill gets to grips with its new computer system, Boyden discovers that it pays to stay one step ahead of the opposition.
While Deakin investigates the kidnapping of a five-year-old boy, Conway gets some unsettling news.
Five-year-old Tommy Laker is still missing, and Deakin discovers an evil and sinister ring which may hold the clue.
Datta and Quinnan look into the mysterious death of a jogger, while Ackland and Jarvis try to reconcile a couple of warring lovers.
Slater and Garfield struggle to keep the peace when two women fall out over the same man.
Meadows and Croft investigate the murder of an elderly woman, and question two young children living on the floor below who may have heard what happened.
Croft and a badly-hungover Beech investigate when a body is found in a car with a large amount of crack cocaine.
A reconstruction brings forward an unexpected witness to an assault on a 15-year-old boy.
Acting Superintendent Conway is stirred into action by a face from the past.
Lines investigates an allegation of underage sex.
Cryer and Slater follow up on a murder but a legal loophole may allow the perpetrator to get away with it.
