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Rob Cook
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TV Historian, presenter on #TheBillPodcast, author of #CaseStudies - Making Peak Practice Series 1-3 #ComingSoon
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Lisa Maxwell (DI Samantha Nixon) appeared on Celebrity Squares in Series 1, Episode 3 (1993).

#LisaMaxwell #CelebritySquares #TheBill #OffTheBill #gameshow
January 8, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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#OnThisDay 1993 : The first episode of Zzap! was broadcast on ITV. It ran for 10 series and ran until 2001.

#90s
Zzap! title TV listing The television comic, featuring characters like Cuthbert Lilly, smart Arty and Tricky Dicky.
January 8, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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January 5, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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📢 New on YouTube! 📢

An advert for Military Police documentary series Redcaps, advertised on BBC1 in February 1996.

youtu.be/6xvvtrQUxho?...
January 4, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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Gary Whelan (D.I. Harry Haines) as Steve, a CID officer interrogating animals in this humourous series of idents for Tango's sponsorship of The Word in the 1990's.

Loads more photos of different animal suspects over on our Insta.

#TheBill #OffTheBill #GaryWhelan #Tango
January 3, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Matthew Crompton (PC Sam Harker) presenting Saturday Disney in 1995.

#MatthewCrompton #TheBill #OffTheBill #Disney #SaturdayDisney
January 2, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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Ofo Uhiara (PC Lance Powell) as Joseph Asagai in promotional photos for the stage production of A Raisin In The Sun at the Young Vic Theatre in London (2001).

Also pictured is Kananu Kirimi as Beneatha Younger.

#TheBill #OffTheBill #OfoUhiara #KananuKirimi #YoungVicTheatre
January 1, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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Over on Insta, I have an account called OffPeakPractice covering the stars of #PeakPractice in other roles (ala. @offthebill.bsky.social).

Here's the Top Nine for 2025.

If you're on Insta, feel free to give it a follow 😊
January 1, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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Happy New Year everyone!

Here's our Instagram Top Nine for 2025 with Tony Scannell proving popular.

Here's to 2026 and seeing our Sun Hill legends in other projects old and new...

#TheBill #OffTheBill
January 1, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Happy New Year everyone!

Here's our Instagram Top Nine for 2025 with Where The Heart Is proving popular.

Here's to 2026 and seeing plenty of other vintage TV and film memories...

#CookiesClassics #ThrowbackThursday
January 1, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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I love a bit of Instagram and here's my Top Nine for 2025 😁

Happy New Year!
January 1, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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Fuck it I don’t care anymore
Mogwai
January 1, 2026 at 7:01 AM
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Tom Cotcher (D.C. Alan Woods) as various scotsmen in the Sooty and Co. episode 'Highland Fling' (1996).

Thanks to @pcstratford.bsky.social for the nod.

#TheBill #OffTheBill #SootyandCo
December 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Ciarán Griffiths (DC Gary Best) as Company Runner in Episode One of Monsignor Renard (2000).

#TheBill #OffTheBill #MonsignorRenard #CiaránGriffiths #throwback
December 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Clara Salaman (DS Claire Stanton) as Kathy Reynolds in the A Touch of Frost episode 'Widows and Orphans' (1994).

#ClaraSalaman #ATouchofFrost #TheBill #OffTheBill #throwback
December 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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I thought the ghost of Mark McManus (the original Taggart), was in church this morning for BBC One Christmas service 🙈

(Bottom left)
December 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Merry Christmas!

I hope you all got what you asked Santa for 😁🎅🎄🎁
December 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Merry Christmas!

Did you find any #TheBill related gifts under your tree?
December 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Merry Christmas!

What did you find under the tree today?

#PeakPractice
December 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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The Christmas specials of The Bill are celebrated in a brand new article in December's Best of British magazine!

#TheBill #BestofBritish
December 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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The Bruce & Ronnie Christmas Special airs tonight on BBC Four!

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
December 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Journey back to Christmas 1988 and a host of comedy favourites on BBC1....

youtu.be/0qz9UGFECVk?...
December 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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You can watch this advert on YouTube:

youtu.be/NiTFKjlNzJU?...
BBC Biteback (1995)
YouTube video by Telly Vintage
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December 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Caroline Catz (Sgt. Rosie Fox) appears as Dawn in this advert for Preston Front on BBC1 in 1995.

#TheBill #OffTheBill #PrestonFront #CarolineCatz #AllQuietOnThePrestonFront
December 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Ever since I started my #Dangerfield (re)watch in 2022, my single memory of the series was a scene on a driving range at night. I finally reached it this week in Series 5, Episode 2 "The Long Weekend".
The idea of heading off to the driving range in the evening fascinated me as a kid! 🙈🏌‍♂️⛳️
December 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM