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The Bill » 26x30 & 31 - Respect: Parts I & II » Uniform

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Whys he looking at him like that

Like ok stone, we know his your man just chill he always looks like he wants to check him out I've noticed that he looks at him alot

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Your Dream Sun Hill Staff Line Up

This will only work if we ignore the obvious problem with aging and make everyone as old as when they were onscreen for the majority of the time all at the same time (so ignoring returns and later sad deaths like Ted in the numbered episodes and people leaving the service like Rod/Yorkie etc.)

I have included those who rose through the ranks or 'acted up' onscreen in those positions as well [For example - acting Superintendent Derek Conway would be allowed to be chosen as a Superintendent, however you couldn't promote someone who hadn't been seen onscreen as that rank - say making Will Fletcher a Superintendent] It's likely that I've forgotten some so please feel free to point it out and add them in!

You obviously cannot have people in more than one position however, so unfortunately (for me!) there's no Inspector Smith, Sgt Smith and PC Smith all working at the same time!

There are no rules on the sexes of characters (ie - you don't have to have 6 PC's of each sex). The numbers are as follows...

Allowances

1 Superintendent

1 Chief Inspector

1 Detective Chief Inspector

2 Detective Inspectors

3 Detective Sergeants

10 Detective Constables

1 Inspector

3 Sergeants

12 Constables (in total)

(Initially a little bit generous on PC's and DC's allowances. I did start with 8 and 10 but it was a bit too hard for that! If we go for another round we might need to bring that down...)

Superintendent Chief Superintendent Charles Brownlow Acting Superintendent Derek Conway Superintendent Tom Chandler Superintendent Adam Okaro Superintendent Amanda Prosser Superintendent John Heaton Superintendent Jack Meadows

Chief Inspector Chief Inspector Derek Conway Chief Inspector Philip Cato Chief Inspector Paul Stitch

Detective Chief Inspector Detective Chief Inspector Kim Reid Detective Chief Inspector Frank Burnside Detective Chief Inspector Gordon Wray Detective Chief Inspector Jack Meadows

Detective Inspector Detective Inspector Roy Galloway Acting Detective Inspector Ted Roach Detective Inspector Frank Burnside Detective Inspector Harry Haines Detective Inspector Sally Johnson Detective Inspector Chris Deakin Detective Inspector Claire Stanton Acting Inspector Liz Rawton Detective Inspector Alex Cullen Detective Inspector Neil Manson Detective Inspector Rowanne Morell Acting Detective Inspector Ramani De Costa Detective Inspector Samantha Nixon

Detective Sergeants Detective Sergeant Ted Roach Detective Sergeant Danny Pearce Detective Sergeant Jo Morgan Detective Sergeant Alistair Greig Detective Sergeant Mike Dashwood Detective Sergeant Chris Deakin Detective Sergeant John Boulton Detective Sergeant Don Beech Detective Sergeant Geoff Daly Detective Sergeant Claire Stanton Detective Sergeant Rosie Fox Detective Sergeant Debbie McAllister Detective Sergeant Phil Hunter Detective Sergeant Sam Nixon Detective Sergeant Vik Singh Detective Sergeant Mickey Webb Detective Sergeant Ramani De Costa Detective Sergeant Stuart Turner Detective Sergeant Jim Carver Detective Sergeant Max Carter Detective Sergeant Stevie Moss

Detective Constable Detective Constable Mike Dashwood Detective Constable Jim Carver Detective Constable Alfred 'Tosh' Lines Detective Constable Tony 'Yorkie' Smith Detective Constable Viv Martella Detective Constable Alan Woods Detective Constable Jo Morgan Detective Constable Suzi Croft Detective Constable Rod Skase Detective Constable Liz Rawton Detective Constable Kerry Holmes Detective Constable Tom Proctor Detective Constable Duncan Lennox Detective Constable Mickey Webb Detective Constable Danny Glaze Detective Constable Kate Spears Detective Constable Paul Riley Detective Constable Eva Sharpe Detective Constable Brandon Kane Detective Constable Ken Drummond Detective Constable Juliet Becker Detective Constable Rob Thatcher Detective Constable Terry Perkins Detective Constable Ramani De Costa Detective Constable Jo Masters Detective Constable Suzie Sim Detective Constable Gary Best Detective Constable Zain Nadir Detective Constable Kezia Walker Detective Constable Grace Dasari Detective Constable Jacob Banks Detective Constable Stevie Moss Detective Constable Will Fletcher

Inspector Inspector Sam Deeping Inspector Brian Kite Inspector Christine Frazer Inspector Andrew Monroe Acting Inspector Matt Boyden Inspector Gina Gold Inspector Rachel Weston Inspector Dale Smith

Sergeant Sergeant Bob Cryer Sergeant Tom Penny Sergeant Alec Peters Sergeant Joseph Corrie Sergeant Stuart Lamont Sergeant Ray Steele Sergeant Jane Kendall Sergeant John Maitland Acting Sergeant Cathy Marshall Sergeant June Ackland Sergeant Matt Boyden Sergeant Craig Gilmore Sergeant Nikki Wright Sergeant Dale Smith Sergeant Sheelagh Murphy Acting Sergeant Yvonne Hemmingway Sergeant Phil Hunter Sergeant Callum Stone Sergeant Diane Noble Sergeant Rachel Weston Sergeant Jo Masters

Male Constables SO101 - Francis 'Taffy' Edwards SO128 - Lewis Hardy SO134 - Phil Young SO139 - Timothy Able SO140 - Nick Klein SO148 - Tony 'Yorkie' Smith SO149 - Gary Best SO171 - Reg Hollis SO201 - Dave Litten SO201 - Pete Muswell SO218 - George Garfield SO275 - Roger Valentine SO294 - Dinesh Patel SO315 - Dan Casper SO330 - Robin Frank SO330 - Ron Smollett SO340 - Dave Quinnan SO342 - Abe Lyttleton SO351 - Malcolm Haynes SO354 - Arun Ghir SO355 - Cameron Tait SO358 - Gary McCann SO362 - Luke Ashton SO363 - Steve Loxton SO363 - Lance Powell SO408 - Nick Slater SO416 - Sam Harker SO416 - Ken Melvin SO416 - Gabriel Kent SO432 - Des Taviner SO437 - Leon Taylor SO452 - Adam Bostock SO510 - Billy Rowan SO543 - Will Fletcher SO577 - Barry Stringer SO595 - Tony Stamp SO740 - Ben Hayward SO743 - Pete Ramsey SO759 - Steve Hunter SO795 - Ben Gayle SO800 - Richard Turnham SO833 - Dale Smith SO876 - Nate Roberts SO876 - Nick Shaw SO988 - Eddie Santini

Female Constables SO148 - Mel Ryder SO158 - Honey Harman SO181 - Norika Datta SO202 - Kerry Young SO212 - Millie Brown SO217 - Laura Bryant SO227 - Viv Martella SO235 - Roz Clarke SO249 - Gemma Osbourne SO251 - Jamila Blake SO258 - Beth Green SO298 - Yvonne Hemmingway SO335 - Donna Harris SO361 - Emma Keane SO361 - Vicky Hagen SO363 - Kirsty Knight SO437 - Leela Kapoor SO469 - Polly Page SO483 - Diane Noble SO487 - Cathy Marshall SO487 - Rosie Fox SO487 - Suzi Croft SO518 - Cass Rickman SO561 - Debbie Keane SO570 - Cathy Bradford SO643 - June Ackland SO659 - Suzanne Ford SO661 - Sheelagh Murphy SO682 - Di Worrell SO686 - Sally Armstrong SO832 - Delia French SO832 - Claire Brind SO888 - Amber Johannsen SO943 - Andrea Dunbar SO988 - Ruby Buxton

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Appreciation post for Sam Callis as he is a great actor but he is nowhere on here.

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The Bill » 26x29 - Tombstone » "I will go whichever way you call it."

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The Bill » 24x31 - RIP: PI

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The Bill » 25x43 - Conviction: Riot City

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The Bill » Top 100 Episodes (In No Particular Order) » 25x43 - Conviction: Riot City

Smithy: Devlin's alledging assault, and planting of evidence... Callum: Well he's been nicked - what else is he going to say? It doesn't change anything.

So I will admit, right away, that the inclusion of this one on my list is a little cheeky as it is very blatantly only here for the Smithy/Callum fight, which is also why it's the only ep on this list which is here independent of the multi-parter it's from. I should also point out that I do think Conviction in overall the weakest of the three Big Smithy Arcs, and neither Witness or Gun Runner appear on this list either. That said, there's a lot I do love about it, and most of the things I don't love about it stem from the issues imposed by the fact that parts of this arc had to be quickly rewritten to account for the changes coming in the reboot, and that is unfortunately done in a way that actively undermines the story that was already there.

So we're here in the middle of the Devlin investigation - Smithy is struggling with his assault on Devlin and Rachel is struggling to assert her authority over the troops, and Callum is not especially making things easier for either of them, though he is... sort of trying ?? with Smithy. He's just bad at it, because their moral values don't particularly align.

Luckily, Callum's inability to deal with emotions in a healthy and productive fashion ABSOLUTELY aligns with Smithy's, so we get to see Smithy lead Callum off into a quiet alley so they can punch each other about it. Absolutely crisp character work, 10/10. It's also one of the better edited and choregraphed fight scenes the show has ever managed. The overuse of steadicam makes sense here and while it does make giffing or capping the fight harder, it's the right choice for the visual experience. It's also a very messy fight, lots of slapping and pulling, and it feels wonderfully realistic for two men that are not strangers to violence but also not trained martial artists.

We also see Stevie trying to help Smithy and failing an integrity test in the process, but since Smithy doesn't fuck it up, she does get away with it. I really enjoyed the Smithy/Stevie pairing, and I liked where they ended up as friends with this enchanced closeness bubbling away behind it, it's just a shame that the reboot pretty much benches Stevie entirely (despite promoting her🙃) and we see their dynamic appear in the whole of, like, one episode after this.

I also like Neil being so instantly 100% behind Smithy (even though he's wrong) given that Neil returned to Sun Hill because he couldn't stay impartial during Smithy's murder trail. Jack's scepticism is fine for the most part, and for a long time viewer it makes sense given how much nonsense had flown past Jack in the past, it just.... he's known Smithy ten years at this point, it doesn't feel right that he feels so disconnected from the outcome - it just feels like Jack is there to offer counter dialogue to Neil, rather than it being written as based on the character's personality and history. The writers also don't really take advantage of the fact that Smithy is - this time - truly and 100% guilty of committing GBH, but I do have a review of the reboot as a whole in the works so I'll expand on that then.

The Rachel storyline is fine on paper, and Claire does fine with the material, it just... never has a chance to land properly and that's in part because of the fact she leaves immediately afterwards. It also doesn't help that while Rachel's storyline is concerned with the fact she's struggling to be the most authorative voice in the same room as her two incredibly strong-willed male sergeants, Smithy and Callum are not engaged with her part of the story at all as they are completely distracted by the Devlin thing and rolling around on top of each other, so Rachel's 'growth' just... never actually materialises on screen in any meaningful way. And then she leaves.

The Conviction arc ends with the main clear out of cast ahead of the reboot, and this episode in particular sets up John and Rachel's exit, and honestly it's just weird to see a character who's made little discernible impact and spent this episode in particular struggling with her position be head hunted for a task squad like this. It just feels so flimsy, though it is still miles better than next episode's 'oh btw stuart and kezia are coming as well'.

So yeah, overall not the best episode on this list by any stretch, but there's a full three minutes of two attractive men grappling with each other so there we go.