The Bill - Season 17

Series 17 of British television drama The Bill consisted of 92 episodes, broadcast between 5 January and 21 December 2001. As well as 85 regular episodes, the series also included a spinoff Beech is Back, following a special 90-minute episode in Australia. The story follows ex-Sun Hill officer Claire Stanton, now a DI, as she goes to Australia to try and extradite ex-DS Don Beech for the murder of his colleague John Boulton. The spinoff that follows concludes the Beech storyline, which began in Series 16. Although the idea of making the series into a serial drama did not fully take effect until April 2002, many of the stories in the latter half of the year were multi-part stories, some containing up to six episodes, such as the "Night Games" saga. The two-part episode "Lifelines" is the last two-parter to feature in the series until the return of episode titles in 2007.

• S17 E1 - Appropriate Action

• S17 E2 - Criminal Practice

• S17 E3 - Upon Information Received

• S17 E4 - No Victim

• S17 E5 - Common Language

• S17 E6 - PC Smith

• S17 E7 - Family Honour

• S17 E8 - Words Of Wisdom

• S17 E9 - Out Of The Frying Pan

• S17 E10 - Mexican Stand Off

• S17 E11 - Cruise Control

• S17 E12 - Real Crime

• S17 E13 - Home and Away

• S17 E14 - Going Under

• S17 E15 - Faultline

• S17 E16 - Long Shadows (1)

• S17 E17 - Long Shadows (2)

• S17 E18 - Higher Power

• S17 E19 - Touched By Evil

• S17 E20 - The Leopard (1)

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