The 25th series of The Bill, a British television drama, was the penultimate series of the programme. This series saw the show transition to a post-watershed time slot of 9pm, dropping from two episodes to one week-by-week as ITV aimed to save up to £65 million. Producers used the post-watershed slot to introduce "darker, more gritty" storylines. DI Samantha Nixon left prior to the transition, after seven years on the show, in a special two-parter storyline that included a cameo appearance by her daughter Abigail , who was a recurring character on the show from 2002 to 2005. A six-part storyline came as part of the end of the twice-weekly episodes, Conviction, that concluded with four cast members leaving, including Superintendent John Heaton DCI Jack Meadows was promoted into the role. The four characters were part of seven who left as part of the revamp, however the axing of PC Tony Stamp after 22 years on the show proved controversial.

Season 25 Episode 31 - Smash & Grab: Part II

Brown and the sister of a suspect in an armed robbery investigation are taken captive by armed drug addicts. Carter, convinced he knows who is behind both the robbery and the kidnapping, mounts an observation with Armstrong and Gayle, but their operation is compromised when the kidnap victim's ex-husband arrives at the scene to confront their prime suspect. When Carter discovers his prime suspect is not responsible, he enlists his help to identify two of his employees, the men suspected of the abduction. Fletcher is intrigued to discover the toy shop manager was victim of another armed robbery a few years earlier; is he foolish enough to try it again or is it pure coincidence? Air Date : 21st-May-2009

Season 25 Episode 1 - The Morning After

After having been seen arguing with her boyfriend in an alleyway a young woman is found badly beaten up. When the team look into the case they find her personal life very complex and it complicates the investigation. Air Date : 1st-Jan-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 2 - Little Girl Lost: Part I

After a night out a couple return home to find their daughter missing and the story offered by the nanny ends up being unreliable. Air Date : 7th-Jan-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 3 - Little Girl Lost: Part II

The baby girl's body is found and the nanny's boyfriend look like the guilty party. After being questioned though Sam and Jacob find themselves with a new suspect. Air Date : 8th-Jan-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 4 - Teenage Kicks: Part I

After a teenager is found dead following house party the main suspects are soon revealed to be a couple of his class mates. Air Date : 15th-Jan-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 5 - Teenage Kicks: Part II

Heaton hold a press conference as he attempts to get a confession out of the prime suspects in the case. When the truth is finally revealed Heaton is shocked. Air Date : 21st-Jan-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 6 - Feet Of Clay: Part I

A body of a murdered woman is found in a park. It is soon discovered that the body belongs to a woman who has been missing since 1988 and her family are informed. Heaton seems the similarities in the crime to a murder case he worked on 20 years ago. Air Date : 22nd-Jan-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 7 - Feet Of Clay: Part II

With CID hitting a brick wall in the investigation to the death of Susan Clark, Heaton interviews jailed murderer Ian Ellis. When another missing person is revealed, Heaton arrests him for Clark's murder. When the third body is found, Ellis goes on hunger strike and dismisses his solicitor, leading Heaton to come under fire. Air Date : 28th-Jan-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 8 - Feet Of Clay: Part III

Ian Ellis is rushed to hospital following a suicide attempt in his cell, and things only go worse for Heaton when Banksy discovers Ellis was in custody when the third victim went missing, leading Ellis' family to call for Heaton’s job. He promises Ellis a quick release as he recovers in hospital, but Heaton offers to speed up the process if he gives information on two contractors that could be responsible. One is cleared, but the other is hunted down. After a chase, a woman is found unconscious but alive in his van, and Heaton considers using this to open up the suspect's wife. Air Date : 29th-Jan-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 9 - One Year On

Smithy finds a taxi driver beaten up and his takings missing. An Oyster Card belonging to Ellie Gladstone is found nearby and she is questioned about the attack. As the case develops another suspect is uncovered. Air Date : 5th-Feb-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 10 - Bleeding Hearts

Nate and Ben investigate a break in at the home of Jill Bentley and learn that that her teenage daughter, Sarah, was home alone. Ben discovers that Sarah was holding a party at the time. After her boyfriend is found beaten up, Sarah admits there was a party and that Aubrey Haynes persuaded her to take drugs and then tried to attack her. Air Date : 12th-Feb-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 11 - Broken Hearts

Maria Joseph visits Nate at work to return the handcuffs he left at her house after they spent the night together. He is not happy though when he finds out that she tends to Aisha Katri's wounds at the hospital and did not get her to report being attacked to the police. As they argue Maria informs Nate that Aisha and her family are illegal immigrants. Air Date : 19th-Feb-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 12 - Righteous Kill: Part I

PCs Millie Brown and Mel Ryder come across a group of Polish teens hassling a burger seller whilst out on patrol. Pawel is arrested and DS Max Carter interrogates him and finds out he is the nephew of Marek, who runs a local extortion racket. When Carter discovers his latest operation he sets up a sting to bring him down and he asks Pawel's stepmother Julie, to help with it. Air Date : 25th-Feb-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 13 - Righteous Kill: Part II

CID's raid goes pear shaped after the disappearance of Marek Jankowski, and the shooting of informant Cezar Sobiesneki. Cezar's niece, Marek's sister in law Julie, accompanies him to hospital where he dies. Julie blames Carter for Cezar's death, and things get worse when Carter lets slip he killed her husband. When Marek attempts to abduct Julie's son Lukas, Carter convinces her to help him find her other son Pavel, prime suspect for Cezar's shooting, before CO19 do. Air Date : 4th-Mar-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 14 - Bail Me Out

As Carter, Dasari and Banks are trying to catch a drug dealer his accomplice injures a young woman as he tries to escape. The team are determined to find out his identity. Air Date : 5th-Mar-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 15 - Matters Of The Mind

Sally and Ben investigate a theft at a local social club. Magician Drake Danvers' gambling problems make him a prime suspect. When his girfriend is attacked, Drake admits that he is being blackmailed by somebody. Air Date : 11th-Mar-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 16 - Leap Of Faith: Part I

Some drugs are found at a local boxing club following an attempted suicide. The police have a hard time getting the truth out of anyone at the club. Beth and Terry finally come to some some of understanding. Beth finally receives the letter from Witness Protection she has been waiting for but it would mean leaving Sun Hill for good. Air Date : 12th-Mar-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 17 - Leap Of Faith: Part II

Beth and Nate discover a woman lying unconscious at the bottom of her stairs after they are called out to a domestic incident. It is revealed she is married to the owner of the boxing club, Charlie. Charlie insists that his wife just fell. Later their daughter is arrested for stealing money from her father's shop. Beth kisses Nate goodbye. Air Date : 18th-Mar-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 18 - Decision Time

Art Minshull is found unconscious injured in a layby. Smithy thinks the lorry he was driving has been hijacked for the cigarettes it was carrying. CTV footage shows Art and woman and a child getting into the back of the lorry though. Art will not tell the police the identity of the people who seem to have been smuggled into the country but does admit he was attacked. Air Date : 19th-Mar-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 19 - On The Money

After Callum and Leon investigate a burglary they are called to say the missing goods have been returned. Connor Deegan admits his guilt and when his flat is searched by the police his sister is discovered beaten up there. It is she revealed that she is the the real thief and commited the crime to help pay for her drug habit. Connor agrees to help the police catch local drug dealer Darren Bailey. Air Date : 25th-Mar-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 20 - Deal Me Out

Sally and Millie attend a domestic disturbance at a house. Larry is throwing his girlfriend out who is a former drug addict as he believes she is using drugs again. When Larry's daughter later disappears he believes that his ex girlfriend is involved. Air Date : 26th-Mar-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 21 - Got You Wrong

Sgt Stone, called to the scene of a reported theft, realises that the suspect is the victim of domestic violence. She alerts Stone to a meeting between her husband and his criminal associates, so TDC Fletcher and DS Carter mount a surveillance operation. Air Date : 2nd-Apr-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 22 - Back To School

Nate Roberts is assigned as the Safer Schools Officer at Deansgate School after investigating a case of arson there. When he and Smithy investigate a fight in a local park, Smithy ends up being stabbed. Nate is determined to catch the guilty culprit as Smithy recovers in hospital. Air Date : 8th-Apr-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 23 - Learning Curve

Nate has to investigate drugs being taken at Deansgate School after a pupil is taken to hospital after taking ecstasy. Everything is not as it seems though as he investigates the case. Air Date : 9th-Apr-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 24 - Peer Pressure

When Rhys Tanner's home is broken into Nate investigates. Nate discovers that two school pupils could be involved and investigates further. Air Date : 15th-Apr-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 25 - Growing Pains

Nate has to break up a fight between two parents at the school. Nate later finds out that one of them has become slandered in a rape case. After he is beaten up CID investigate and are shocked to discover the identity of the real culprit. Air Date : 16th-Apr-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 26 - Class Action

Nate and Mel investigate a burglary in a class at the school which leads on to a whole another case. Air Date : 22nd-Apr-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 27 - School's Out

School pupil Kim Patterson gives Nate some surprising information. Nate discovers that her father was involved in the theft of Becky's computer. Becky tells Nate the reasons why she split up with Kim's father but is everything as straight forward as it seems. Air Date : 23rd-Apr-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 28 - Old Habits

Former Sun Hill PC Diane Noble, now a Sergeant, joins Sun Hill for a night before joining her new post at Barton Street. She and Smithy lead the troops to a rooftop party at a building site, but events take a sinister twist when a boy falls from a ledge whilst high on ecstasy. Tests at hospital reveal they were mis-labelled as ketamine. Backed by Turner and Fletcher, uniform go undercover at a club to snare the dealer, with Taylor keen to impress Noble after getting off on the wrong foot. As Noble prepares to bow out of Sun Hill for one last time, she is called back to St. Hugh's when the overdose victim's father stands on the roof in a bid to commit suicide. Air Date : 30th-Apr-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 29 - Forensic Evidence

Leon and Roger find Tommy Mackenzie and his wounded father when thay attend a call out.A friend of Tommy's mother fits the description that has been given but their ends up being more to the case than first seems. Air Date : 7th-May-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 30 - Smash & Grab: Part I

Gayle, Armstrong and Smith attend an armed robbery at a toy shop, with the manager shot during the raid, but a pursuit fails to prevent an escape. Carter takes charge of the investigation, and CCTV footage appears to show two known thieves casing the shop the day before. Carter suspects that a woman seen arguing with an employee moments before the robbery was acting as a decoy, but while Brown is convinced of her innocence, the rogue DS is only interested in undermining her opinion. Air Date : 14th-May-2009  Read More

Season 25 Episode 31 - Smash & Grab: Part II

Brown and the sister of a suspect in an armed robbery investigation are taken captive by armed drug addicts. Carter, convinced he knows who is behind both the robbery and the kidnapping, mounts an observation with Armstrong and Gayle, but their operation is compromised when the kidnap victim's ex-husband arrives at the scene to confront their prime suspect. When Carter discovers his prime suspect is not responsible, he enlists his help to identify two of his employees, the men suspected of the abduction. Fletcher is intrigued to discover the toy shop manager was victim of another armed robbery a few years earlier; is he foolish enough to try it again or is it pure coincidence? Air Date : 21st-May-2009  Read More