Storyboard - Woodentop | Episode 1 | Series 1 | THE BILL 

Great to see how this show all started. Carver was in this show forever. Thanks for posting this.

The best UK police show ever. Routine, everyday drama under fluorescent lights. Strong long-term characterizations; it neither glamorized nor vilified the job.

The bill is one of the greatest and longest running tv shows ever. Also considering that many great actors and actresses started out in the bill

Saw this series while stationed in the UK in the early '90's. It reminded me of the old Hill Street Blues from the '80's. Excellent program.

Bring back the bill 2022 who s with me watched it since this episode

Jim Carver, June Ackland, Reg Hollis, Fucking Burnside - damn, I can't name as many as I thought I could. Thanks for the upload. :-)

I've never seen this show before. But I love the serious, precise tone of the screenplay as portrayed by the actors and seen on their faces, as well as the documentary style cinematography and the absence of music.

Great TV show and very innovative with their documentary style cinematography, being shot on Video gives it an analogue look which isn't too earthy/reality, or else it would look crap, but it isn't overly glossy/glamourous; you feel like you are in the same room and place with them; feeling what they feel.

I've never watched this series, but it started pretty good. What I most enjoy is the slow pace in some scenes, it gives the opportunity to analyze the situation and all. Nowadays, especially the American prime time series run on such a fast pace it just makes you dizzy sometimes. I love the amount of outdoor footage.

Remember watching original series and thinking, great writing and cast do a decent job, so got hooked pretty quickly but it never lasts, once the writers changed it all sort of went downhill. Missed the first episode so always appreciate someone sticking these old shows up.

hard to believe carver was ever that young

Thanks for posting

I LOVE Mark Wingett! Fantastic actor :-)

Just watched this episode and im going re watch the series from the start such a great series i wish itv would bring it back i would also love to be able to buy the whole series 1-26 on a box set watch it all at my own leisure

Thames Television of those time had the best ending themes.

This is actually quite good! never heard of this but its definitely one to watch!

Thank you for this one. Love this show and it's great to see London as it used to be. Oh, well one of these days I'll go back when I get a coupla mills together. Cheers.

Love this series.

Thank you..love this series

I can remember watching this when it aired ! Loved it ever since !..Still can’t get used to it, though,…the sight of coppers in the UK, Ireland, NZ, wandering about unarmed. It’s just gobsmacking.

YES YES YES! Thank you for doing this!

i can remember when this show started and yeah it seems strange to see the changes in attitudes on both sides of the law ,back then i remember going out triping away a some party somewhere or other ,the cops might pull up as you were walking home and give us a lift,i remember the old lady saying to get them to drop us round the corner so the neighbours wouldn't think we were in the shit,then in 1990 moved to where they carried guns all the time and their attitude was so different towards people .,then popped back to london for the first time in 23 years in ;"13 and before we had even got off the plane two cops with guns came on board and arrested someone ,then going through the terminal at customs and they were every where with bullet proof vests ,para boots and a semi auto ? guns and probably a hand guns.see once upon a time if you were going to get up to any illegal activities you went flat out for a couple of years then got out but during the 90"s something changed and enough was never the case for so many people .they just got greedy ,and probably watched to many scarface/gangster type movies too.even the cops look like crims now sleaved tatts ,and none of them covered, wrap round sunnys,etc ,anyways sorry for waffling on but thanks for the nostalgia watching these again and the trip down memory lane

This will be my first time of watching this as I never saw it when it was first broadcast

Glad to find this on RU-vid to see how it all started. I have season 25 on britbox and was hoping to see some earlier shows. Well, here it is. Looks like I’ll be busy for a while!

I believe you don't realize that there is nothing in the world that's universally and eternally liked, this is just a tv series. Even if it isn't tops, it's much better than most of american tv stuff.

Only started watchin the bill from series 20 watched to end series 31 now glad I found series 1 episode 1 started watchin from begining see hw it all started lots to watch yet glad can find on here wicked crime drama love it x

How times change - smoking inside, empty the ashtrays. At its peak - it was easily the best show on television. Brilliant. Gritty. Real. Thought provoking. Including avery young Jim and equally young June plus Taffy.

wonderful tv show

Thanks for posting this up, thought it was going to be hard to find! I love UK crime drama / series. The new stuff they make today can be pretty shocking and very PC!! Just finished watching the entire Trial and Retribution - another great series worth watching, a reflection of how life used to be.

GReat series- thanks for uploading

Thames tv, this is a real classic. 37 years ago.

The number number 15 bus @ 20:41. Used to take it home a lot as I lived in Forest Gate E7!

Also, Trudie Goodwin was brilliant in this.

Always loved dishy Jim and June together.

It's a bit like watching Dixon of Dock Green. A different World back then. No mobiles let alone smart phones - no internet - home computers were a tad slow (BBC Acorn - Sinclair Spectrum) and the front seat belt law had just been passed which was just as well as ABS - Airbags and traction control didn't exist for the majority of drivers. Love the row of cars at 22:06 - Austin Allegro - Triumph Dolomite and a Datsun. These programs really are like a living historical document.

thanks for posting

I watch this show in Australia I love so much

Cheers heaps for putting this up!!! Gimmi old school bill over any cop show now! Does anyone know if the whole series is available somewhere?

The cuffs were in a small Hiatts pouch on the belt, notebook and pen in the left pocket and truncheon in a trouser truncheon pouch (16" long for the 16" peg) - there was no need for duty belts! However as stated above they do have cuffs! Also WPCs carried their smaller 8" peg in the issued handbag that had to be carried!

Can I just say, that police officers looked a lot smarter back in the day.

No problem, I'm glad we got it sorted out!

Legend!!

The way carver waks

can hardly believe this was 33 years ago

THANK YOU ,THANK YOU, THANK YOU

This reminds me of my rookie days when I started fresh out of the academy. Although it’s an entirely different country, time period, and equipment (or lack of sidearm), some things still remain the exact same.

Robert Pugh! It was his voice I recognized! Great stuff!

Wow look how young Jim Carver looks

I would rather let crime destroy the city than get up at 4:45

Hard to believe that this evolved into the hit ITV Television Series, The Bill!

When the bill, was like real,policing, sad, how it got so dramatically out of touch towards the end.

So young!!!

very good

For other flavour of this era check out Grange Hill (a London secondary school).

So great beginning when he was awakening!

The coloring scheme in those offices would leave you seriously depressed.

Thanks for posting the series from the first season.. I missed seeing it when it was shown on T.V. I started watching from series 4 onwards and I missed seeing the last 3 seasons caused by moving to asia and they don't show it at all! but by you releasing one episonde a week I will be dead before you show it on RU-vid! Last time I was in Australia the ABC store told me it will be about 5 years before the dvd's will be released for the last 3 seasons! why do we have to wait so long?

nice

Wow how things have changed.

Chap in blue at 20:05 "Ooooo look I'm on the telly!"

I reckon it should be an episode a day at least.

The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan. Good flick!

I recognize some of these actors from Eastenders. In this pilot episode I think the characters looked rougher than they did later in the series.

Glad you liked it Ayanle. Make sure you subscribe and come back next Tuesday for episode two!

Is there a new series of the bill coming soon

I wish this had subtitles. lol

How times have changed officers not having to wear met vest and kit belts sad how we have become

will you be uplaoding all episodes from 1989-2010 ?

any chance you could upload the episodes more than once a week

Woodentop is really Storyboard, next episode is really the first episode of The Bill.

it gets better dahir a lot better classic series ran forever too

I really wonder how people in northern Europe cope with 4:45am daylight?

Younger Jim Carver and June Ackland . Two women only,no Black Officer, nor Asian at this 80s Period than decades later especially in the 2000s in which all will evolve.

Gender is still two types, male and female and yes there are differences between the two.

i think carver had the right idea, sometimes a smack around the head can stop a whole lot of trouble later on down the track.

Any plans to upload more than one episode a week ???

Have you guys forgotten to upload anymore episodes of #TheBill?

Eastenders' Pete Beale is one of the sergeants :)

This was when the police had the resources to investigate burglaries. Less resources today and time taken up with terrorism and historical sex cases.

I know that drawbridge - it's up by Wapping - Carver must have been going it some to be by Battersea Power Station a minute later.

A few silly questions on here, don't you people have "GOOGLE"?!?! The Bill first aired in 83 I believe and ran up until 2010 and has been praised for keeping as real to the current police issue equipment as possible, and the "bag" that someone mentioned it most likely the WPC.s bag witch carried their note book and truncheon. Just a guess though ;)

Me too :)

Correction Episode 1 - this is Episode 0

Galloping Galloway!!!!!!

Britt TV at it's best.

Oh, ok. thank you for enlightening me and please accept my unreserved apology x

Any news on the new series, SUNHILL ?

Young Jim, before he became a miserable old Grinch

Why don't people like you quit complaining and be grateful that somebody is going to the time and effort to upload them at all? You want to see it so bad? YOU do something about it! This is a free service that somebody has taken time out of their day to do. Does the word gratitude mean anything to you?

I take it grey was a big hit in the 80's because all the shows like this and early red dwarf all were grey

Apparently this won’t play in the UK?

jim put on the weight over the years

I'm looking for episodes "All Fall Down" and "Two Way Burn" as I worked on them. Any help would be appreciated!

You seem to have come in late to all this so I'll explain. Up until recently, there were *hundreds* of Bill episodes on RU-vid that people had uploaded over many years. Then a few months ago, FremantleMedia UK demanded they all be taken down. At the same time, they issued a press release announcing that they were going to upload all the episodes on RU-vid. You can probably work out the rest. This is an official FremantleMedia channel and nobody "took time out of their day" to upload this.

lol have seen this before. young mark wingett sounds like hes been sucking helium. the bill was something both aussie and pom kids my age grew up with my whole family loved it, mum hated carver from day one to day..... however many there was!

I keep seeing 4:44 😂

Sorry I meant series 26 not 31

Good grief! is that a typewriter?!?

although June A doesn't look like aged. always looked older than actual age?

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