Woodentop (1983)
50m
Running Time
August 16, 1983
Release Date
Woodentop (1983)
50m
Running Time
August 16, 1983
Release Date
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Plot.
It's the first day on the job at Sun Hill police station for probationary P.C. Jim Carver, but by no means an uneventful one…
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Cast & Crew.
Mark Wingett
PC Carver
Trudie Goodwin
WPC Ackland
Peter Dean
Sgt Wilding
Robert Pugh
DI Galloway
Gary Olsen
PC Litten
Jon Croft
Ins. Deeping
Colin Blumenau
PC Morgan
Gary Hailes
Reg Taylor
Paul McKenzie
Winston Summers
Richard Huw
Duty PC
Chris Jenkinson
Duty Sgt
Dawn Perllman
1st Neighbour
Derek Parkes
Caretaker
Michael Chapman
Producer
Michael Chapman
Producer
Geoff McQueen
Writer
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"Woodentop" is an episode of the Thames Television series Storyboard, which comprises a series of one-off plays on different themes. The episode was originally broadcast on 16 August 1983. Woodentop became the first ever episode in the long-running British police television series The Bill. The name woodentop is a colloquialism for beat policemen who traditionally wear helmets; the nickname is itself an allusion to the Children's TV series The Woodentops.