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| Episode | Credits | Transcript |
| Episode No. | Series | |
| 14 | 1985x006 |
Lost is the 14th episode of The Bill. For Sun Hill a missing child means heartache and hard work. But who cares when there's a good result. If there's a good result...
Plot[]
DS Roach and DC Dashwood are on an obbo at a phone box to catch someone making hoax bomb threats to the Town Hall. Another case soon takes precedence, however, when a woman arrives at the station and reports her eight-year-old daughter Samantha missing. When Samantha's friend Theresa tells WPC Ackland that they were approached by a flasher, there is concern that the girl could have been abducted by a child sex offender. CID question suspects in the area while a full-scale search is underway. Ackland notices that Samantha likes boats, so the search is concentrated in the docks area, and a drunken boat owner gives a description of a woman he saw with the girl. With Roach and Dashwood halfway to Brighton to question a paedophile, a call comes in to PC Carver in the incident room from a shop assistant who recognised Samantha and the woman who bought her some colouring books. Finding the woman's identity from credit card slips, DI Galloway and WPC Ackland find Samantha safe and well in the house of a lonely widow. Ackland is horrified, however, when she returns the child to her parents and the mother slaps her daughter, screaming "Where have you been, you stupid bitch?".
Cast[]
(Episode Cast: in credits order)
- Colin Blumenau as P.C. Edwards
- Ralph Brown as P.C. Muswell
- Nula Conwell as W.P.C. Martella
- Ronny Cush as P.C. Lyttleton
- Peter Ellis as Chief Supt. Brownlow
- Trudie Goodwin as W.P.C. Ackland
- Robert Hudson as P.C. Smith
- Jon Iles as Det. Con. Dashwood
- Roger Leach as Sgt. Penny
- Eric Richard as Sgt. Cryer
- John Salthouse as Det. Insp. Galloway
- Tony Scannell as Det. Sgt. Roach
- Jeff Stewart as P.C. Hollis
- Mark Wingett as P.C. Carver
- Ivor Roberts as Mr. Davies
- Patti Love as Mrs. Welsh
- Annie Wensack as Miss Horrocks
- Anna Murphy as Theresa O'Brien
- Keith Hodiak as Mr. Welsh
- Tricia Ronane as Lowe's Neighbour
- Anna Welsh as Mrs. Hammond
- Joe Wilshire as Garage Owner
- Paul Gamble as 1st Mechanic
- Norman Lovett as Derek Hammond
- Walter Brown as Boat Owner
- Virginia Fiol as Shop Assistant
- Caroline John as Mrs. Lubaczewska
- Madeline Ingram-Peters as Samantha Welsh
Release[]
- This episode was released on the Series 2 DVD Boxset released by Network in the UK in 2005.