The Bill

Digging Up the Past

Series 4    Episode 47
December 27, 1988    TV-14
An excavator on a building site has uncovered some human remains, and Sgt. Cryer calls in C.I.D. Cryer is avoiding returning to the station, as his son Patrick is being charged with causing death by dangerous driving. Ch. Insp. Conway, Burnside and Roach have a word with Cryer, who is avoiding his family. On the building site, D.C. Dashwood and the S.O.C.O. wind up the site manager by saying it may have been a murder, although the bones are very old. A riot ensues as the men want to return to work. Burnside arrives and nicks the whole lot of them. The bones turn out to be from the Great Plague in 1665. P.C. Edwards is angry after being sold forger theatre tickets by Ramsey. Ramsey claims innocence, and the pair manage to locate the forgers. Unable to interest C.I.D. in the case, they investigate on their own and blow a joint Fraud Squad/U.S. Treasury operation to catch counterfeiters printing fake American dollars.

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Cast of Digging Up the Past
  • Christopher EllisonFrank Burnside
  • Susan MajolierMarion Layland
  • Vicky Gee-DareSuzanne Ford
  • Peter EllisCharles Brownlow
  • Barbara ThornChristine Frazer
  • Ben RobertsDerek Conway
  • Ashley GunstockRobin Frank
  • Colin BlumenauFrancis Edwards
  • Eric RichardBob Cryer
  • Graham ColeTony Stamp
  • Jeff StewartReg Hollis
  • Jon IlesMike Dashwood
  • Larry DannAlec Peters
  • Mark WingettJim Carver
  • Nula ConwellViv Martella
  • Robert HudsonTony Smith
  • Roger LeachTom Penny
  • Tony ScannellTed Roach
  • Trudie GoodwinJune Ackland
  • Mark PowleyKen Melvin
  • Kelly LawrenceClaire Brind
  • Kevin LloydAlfred Lines
  • Nick RedingPete Ramsey
  • Dicken Ashworth

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