Episode:The Chief Super's Party

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The Chief Super's Party

Episode No.		Series
23	1986x006	2

Original Airdate

10th February 1986

Written By

Barry Appleton

Produced By

Peter Cregeen

Directed By

Peter Cregeen

Episode Chronology:

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Whose Side Are You On?

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The New Order of Things

The Chief Super's Party is the 23rd episode of The Bill.

Plot

P.C. Muswell and P.C. Lyttleton are on the lookout for a lorry full of stolen sheepskin coats.

Ch. Supt. Brownlow is throwing a farewell party for his retiring clerk. D.I. Roy Galloway questions D.S. Burnside when he gatecrashes the party, and Burnside admits that he fancies W.P.C. June Ackland. D.C. Mike Dashwood realises that the scotch being poured at the bar is stolen, and Galloway asks Ackland to keep the remaining bottles aside as evidence.

Galloway and Burnside.

Despite warnings from the D.I. and the Chief Super, D.S. Ted Roach drives home extremely drunk and crashes his car through a fence into a garden. Knowing he'll be sacked if he's found out, Roach sleeps on a friend's boat overnight while he sobers up, but spots the coat thieves on the docks when he awakens, and the men are arrested when they are found stuck in a cold storage warehouse. Roach also sweet-talks the man whose garden he crashed into by offering to get him into the Special Constabulary. P.C. Reg Hollis grasses on Roach to Brownlow, in the hope of getting the clerk's job. Desperate to save his sergeant's career, Galloway gets Dashwood to trace the stolen scotch to Mr. Brownlow's golf club, and manages to get Roach off the hook.

Cast

(Episode Cast: in credits order)

Regular Cast: John Salthouse as Det. Insp. Galloway Eric Richard as Sgt. Cryer Tony Scannell as Det. Sgt. Roach Jon Iles as Det. Con. Dashwood Mark Wingett as P.C. Carver Trudie Goodwin as W.P.C. Ackland Colin Blumenau as P.C. Edward Ralph Brown as P.C. Muswell Robert Hudson as P.C. Smith Nula Conwell as W.P.C. Martella Ronny Cush as P.C. Lyttleton Jeffrey Stewart as P.C. Hollis Roger Leach as Sgt. Penny Larry Dann as Sgt. Peters Ashley Gunstock as P.C. Frank Peter Ellis as Chief Supt. Brownlow Gary Olsen as P.C. Litten

Guest Cast: Christopher Ellison as Det. Sgt. Burnside David Arlen as Elkins Chris Johnston as Crawley John Dair as Larry Cheryl Hall as Sadie Jason James as Henry Talbot Brian Croucher as Bernie Tommy Wright as Bernard Peter Attard as Johnnie Allister Bain as O'Ryan Sidney Kean as Luigi Shaun Curry as Cold Store Manager Patrick Blackwell as Wiggins

Notes

• At this point in the series, the only people to appear in every episode have been John Salthouse, Eric Richard, Mark Wingett, Trudie Goodwin and Colin Blumenau.
• Last appearance of the original Sun Hill Police Station.
• Third and final guest appearance of Christopher Ellison as Det. Sgt. Burnside before he joins the regular cast in series 4.
• Gary Olsen returns for his final appearance as P.C. Dave Litten.
• Final appearances of P.C.s Pete Muswell (Ralph Brown) and Abe Lyttleton (Ronny Cush).

External links

• "The Chief Super's Party" on TV.com

• "The Chief Super's Party" at the Internet Movie Database