The Bill - Season 17 - Eps 73: The Value of Nothing
DC Duncan Lennox is on a week's secondment to Scotland Yard's Art and Antiques Squad. Investigating a young woman, Tessa Gannon, who tried to sell a forged painting to a gallery, Lennox finds a receipt from a gallery owned by an art dealer named Ivor Gregory, who has form for deception. Lennox befriends an artist named Richard Townes, who charges into Gregory's gallery as Lennox peruses the paintings. In the hope of getting a closer look at one of the paintings, Lennox arranges for his wife Shona to buy one of them. He gets it verfied, and is disappointed when it is an original. Shona insists on keeping it, but sends it back to the gallery to be re-framed. When the painting is returned, Lennox realises Gregory has swapped it for a fake, and it's the work of Richard Townes, but to his horror, Shona returns the painting to Gregory before the squad can arrest him. Tessa Gannon admits she had a painting copied by Townes, but she too is in possession of a fake. Gregory is arrested, and Lenn
About The Bill
Title: The Bill
First Air Date: 1984-10-16
Last Air Date: 2010-08-31
Status: Canceled
Rating: 6.7/10 (from 40 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 27
Total Episodes: 2373
Network: ITV1
Genres: Crime, Drama
Production Companies: Talkback Thames, Thames Television, ITV
Synopsis
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
Cast
Simon Rouse
Jack Meadows
Sarah Manners
Kirsty Knight
Andrew Lancel
Neil Manson
Alex Walkinshaw
Dale Smith
Amita Dhiri
Grace Dasari
Ben Richards
Nate Roberts
Bruce Byron
Terry Perkins
Chris Simmons
Mickey Webb
Christopher Fox
Max Carter
Dominic Power
Leon Taylor
