The Bill

Anyone know what'll become of the exterior set of the Sun Hill police station? I assume they've already removed all
the elements that made it look like a police station, and it's gone back to being an ordinary warehouse in London.

all the unforms and props have been bought by the met so they don't fall into the wrong hands, the vehicles have stick on magnetic strips so they will just look like normal cars / vans

the police use the set for training so they may keep it for that purpose

that final shot was really well done in one take, using all the cast, from the press meeting out the back, round the side and up in the air, that's probably harder to do that in one take than an explosion, which has to be done in one take


my favorite story like was the child abduction which they returned to a year later

sad about Kevin lloyd, think he's the only actor to pass away during the series run

Last time I saw it the signs were covered up (as they always were when they weren't filming) but it still looks like Sun Hill. TalkbackThames aren't advertising it as a facility anymore though so not sure what the future for the site will be.

The uniforms are going for destruction (they cannot be issued to new police officers). The radios are useless to the Met and are going back to Motorola. I also believe the cars are going to ESV Action Vehicles.

I've just watched the last two episodes on the tellybox...

I'm sure it wasn't the vat of wine I fell into this evening which made me susceptible to emotional finales: I've always had to be within easy reach of the cheap tissues when the blubbering scenes come on in some soaps....but...

...the special composition of the theme music at the end (following the repeat of the first ever line - as the last), was the final choker.

A fitting end. Fab, really!

Haven't had a chance to see the final episode, however I'm still sad of The Bill's demise, just glad they've released some of the older ones on DVD now (up to late 1988 now), just wish Network DVD/Talkback Thames would hurry up & release more DVD's.

Agreed. The music was a nice touch, but the announcer spoiled it.

Well in the documentary afterwards, they showed Simon "Meadows" Rouse rehearsing the last shot, and he broke down-- the speech Meadows gives at the end was a little too close to home I think! Actor who plays Micky Webb did the same too.

Despite my misgivings about the recent revamp, I'm certainly sorry to see it go. It could have gone on indefinitely, given that the storylines are inspired by real events (certainly less tiresome than OAPs going down West Yorkshire hillsides in bath-tubs :lol)

I agree, The Bill is certainly a much sadder end for me than Last Of The Summer Wine, The Bill definitely could have carried on for many more years, where as LotSW should have ended as soon as Bill Owen died, and certainly after Kathy Staff had died.

Apparently according to Bruce Brydon (DC Terry Perkins) he had heard that a week after ITV announced that The Bill was to be axed that one of the ITV bigwigs said that they need a programme "like The Bill" to be commissioned, if true further evidence of how good the "management" at ITV is

Can we have ITV removed from the title?

Not much point is there? The thread will be dead in a couple of weeks.

Does anyone know if ITV 3 are now going to rerun any classic The Bill episodes at all? I'm hoping they do so in the near future.