(25 Jun 2014, 12:18 pm)Andreos Constantopolous wrote Not sure about anywhere in Felling, but the old Elf garage in Birtley (by the leisure centre) was used.
(25 Jun 2014, 12:29 pm)AdamY wrote I'm pretty sure that the deliberately grotty second-hand car garage used for DCI Frank Burnside's undercover operations was based on Sunderland Road. But that being said, it could have been any part of Gateshead as any second-hand garage in the borough looks dodgy.
I will have to go and watch the episode again at some point.
(25 Jun 2014, 12:38 pm)Andreos Constantopolous wrote When Burnside went bad? Definitely used the one in Birtley.
First Class Commercials had it for a while after it was converted from a filling station.
First Class Commercials are across the road now in the old English Mustard site - not sure if they still use the old site at all now.
The Bill may have used one along Sunderland Rd at some point though...
(25 Jun 2014, 12:58 pm)AdamY wrote The episode was called 'Thug on the Tyne' (how original) and I think Burnside had seconded Liz Rawlton to work with him on a case investigating gangsters on Tyneside.
Timeline-wise, I think it occurred after he'd been working deep-cover in Manchester trying to infiltrate a crime syndicate with links to Sun Hill. IIRC, Jim Carver and John Boulton nearly blew his cover.
(25 Jun 2014, 1:36 pm)Andreos Constantopolous wrote Just been looking online to find videos/clips of the episode.
Struggling... Every other episode seems to be there, apart from the two that made up Thug on the Tyne.
I had moved away from Birtley by the time the episodes were made, but often used to see them filming when I was visiting family etc.
Ended up working with the wife of someone who worked at FCC.
They repeat episodes on Drama - haven't seen it for a few weeks, but Ted Roach came back and made a guest appearance.
If you can work out when that was, it may give a clue as to whether Thug on the Tyne is due to be shown sooner, rather than later.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EuZpjllJ-U0
This episode was on a month or two ago too
(31 Jul 2014, 11:38 am)AdamY wrote As this forum contains a rather surprising amount of fans of 'The Bill', I was wondering how everyone came to appreciate the series.
I have to admit that I had no time for The Bill in my adolescent years. My parents used to watch it but I thought it was rather boring. It was not until my early-20s when I started to the show on a regular basis. And the main reason for that was because it always seemed to be on UK Gold no matter what hour of the day I happened to switch on my television. After a while I started to enjoy it before actively seeking past episodes on the net.
(11 Aug 2014, 3:54 pm)aureolin wrote "So you thought you'd setup shop in my town eh?!"
(12 Sep 2014, 6:15 pm)Andreos Constantopolous wrote Following on from the revelation that Eddie Santini from The Bill raped Kat Slater and his subsequent disappearance from our screens, it got me thinking about all of the other actors who appeared in The Bill and haven't been seen since.
Any examples of those who have made it on another show?
#missingBillactors
#hashtagsonNEB
(12 Sep 2014, 6:23 pm)Dan wrote I forget what his name was, but there was one of them on Casualty two weeks ago (?)
Would have been one of the more recent cast members on The Bill.
Only played a minor role - fell off some sort of building work within the first ten minutes of the ep.
(25 Sep 2014, 8:09 pm)Andreos1 wrote Was flicking around the channels earlier on and an episode of Bread was on one of the channels.
It was never a favourite, but gave it a few mins and one of the first people to appear, was the fella who played Jack Meadows.
He was playing a scouse gangster and was dressed like a pimp in his fur coat.
(25 Sep 2014, 8:11 pm)Dan wrote An ep which has just sprung to mind... Does anyone remember the ep when one of the coppers was in a garden, disarming a bomb? Sure he couldn't move or he'd be blown up - or something like that - so he had to disarm the bomb himself.
(25 Sep 2014, 8:18 pm)AdamY wrote I don't remember that episode at all.
It sounds like one of the bombs Jeff Bridges had to diffuse in the 1994 film Blown Away.
(25 Sep 2014, 8:24 pm)Dan wrote Wish I could remember more of it to describe the episode in more detail... It must have been a more recent one, providing I haven't mistaken it for something else...
Manson reluctantly agrees to Sam's requests to hire a profiler to help catch Sun Hill's serial rapist. Sam and profiler Dr Hugh Wallis review the cases and the locations, and conclude that the perpetrator knows the area very well. Gabriel's vigilante actions on the Cole Lane Estate spiral out of control when he arranges for a skinhead gang to attack two black youths as revenge for mugging an elderly Asian lady. With his former allies on the estate turning against him, he must act quickly to ensure his involvement is not discovered. Sheelagh is in court on the case of a drink-driving Rastafarian she arrested for refusing a blood test, and is humiliated when the case is thrown out of court, and she is accused of racism and insensitivity to the man's religious beliefs. Advocate Jerome Taylor alerts the Borough Commander to the case, and Okaro is forced to offer Sheelagh a choice between transfer or demotion. Honey and Cameron attend to a man dressed as a bear protesting for fathers' rights. Cameron realises the man has booby-trapped his ex-wife's house, and Sheelagh risks her life to defuse the bombs he has hidden. With the situation literally defused, Cameron and Honey continue their patrol, but are horrified when a car containing two small children rolls into the Thames in front of them.