This police drama follows the activities in and around Sun Hill, a police station located in the fictional East London borough of Canley. The focus is not just the gritty reality of police work, however; the lives and loves of the officers who staff the precinct get equal play.
'Ello 'ello 'ello! What's all this then? Deakin and Holmes set a trap for an old adversary to find a missing kidnap ransom.
Gritty action from the bobbies on the beat. In the world of Turkish gambling, an undercover officer goes missing. For Meadows, it is a race against time.
Gritty police action with the bobbies from the Sun Hill estate. Holmes goes undercover as a prison inmate to crack a drugs ring.
Sharpe investigates a case involving stolen benefit cheques, and PC Rickman takes an Ecstasy tablet while out clubbing - only to be called up on duty in an emergency.
Catch up with the officers patrolling the mean streets of London town. Garfield volunteers for a weekend at the races, but gets more than he bargained for.
The boys and girls in blue are on the look out for villains on the Sun Hill estate. Boyden is forced to rely on Santini when a one-night stand goes terribly wrong.
Topical, gritty cop soap. A registered paedophile has moved into the Sunhill estate. But how long can it stay a secret?
Crime-cracking action with the tough geezers and gals. Garfield has got problems - a body with no head and a reporter who fancies him rotten.
Burnside and Rawton aggressively pursue a serial rapist and his accomplice.
Realistic, gritty action following the boys and girls on the beat around the rough and ready Sun Hill estate. Meadows goes to court and finds himself on trial.
Cops and robbers action from the mean streets of London. Boulton and Rawton clash when a house fire reveals a sordid secret.
Gritty action with the boys and girls in blue. Burnside investigates a predatory gang of women - with Lennox and Skase as bait.
On the beat with the tough London coppers. A gang of teenage boys take revenge on a Sunhill policeman - with tragic results.
Gritty action on the beat with the London bobbies. PC Quinnan is still fighting for his life in hospital. Who is to blame - a gang of teenagers or DS Boulton?
Top cop drama. Sun Hill is relieved that Dave Quinnan is on the mend, but out on the streets, Garfield and Boulton are still at war.
Gritty action with the London bobbies. Conway gets beginner's nerves on his first radio talk show, but must find his feet fast when a caller starts confessing to a crime.
Boulton joins Burnside on the trail of two cunning Indian crime bosses - old enemies from way back. But with friends like Burnside, who needs enemies?
Top cop drama. Sun Hill is relieved that Dave Quinnan is on the mend, but out on the streets, Garfield and Boulton are still at war.
Drama from the dark side of London's streets. Burnside's unorthodox methods bring Sun Hill and Kerry Holmes under siege from a gang of drug dealers.
A TV show within a TV show as Sun Hill is the subject of a fly-on-the wall documentary - but will Boulton beat the ruthless producer at her own game?
Gritty police drama. Quinnan is back on the streets - but has he still got what it takes to be a copper?
Gritty action with the girls and boys in blue. Gossip is rife when Luke Ashton is accused of getting a teenage witness pregnant.
Action from the streets of Sun Hill. Lennox and Rawton go on the road with an enigmatic con man.
Gritty drama with the boys and girls in blue. New technology or old-fashioned copper's instinct? Lennox and Proctor have to fight it out.
Gritty police drama series. Harker and Beech clash over the family from hell. Quinnan discovers there is someone new in Garfield's life.
Rough and ready action from the tough streets of London. Will 'Robocop' Boulton get the blame for chasing a suspect to his death?
Gritty police drama. Is Boulton a murderer? The jury must decide.
Adventures with the bobbies on the mean streets of London. Harker thinks his luck is in when an attractive woman gives him a lead on a juicy case.
A trip to the seedier side of London's streets with the hard-pressed modern day police force. Carver comes up with a plan for a career shift. Will Sun Hill buy it?
Action with the London cops. Carver has his first day back in uniform. He looks the part, but can he hack it on the street?
Action with the cops. The senior officers at Sun Hill go on a team-building exercise alongside their counterparts at Barton Street.
Tensions mount in Sun Hill as Kerry Holmes decides to exact revenge on Boulton, but who will be the victor?
The first of a four-part story in the nation's favourite police drama. Santini's dodgy dealing is threatened by Hagen - so how can Eddie ensure her silence?
The second of a four-part story. Sun Hill's resident loose cannon Eddie Santini watches his burning ambitions go up in smoke when Rosie Fox returns to Sun Hill.
Third of a four-part story from Sun Hill. With Fox in pursuit, Santini takes more chances. EastEnders beckons!
Two-part special. Eddie and Rosie have a showdown.
Conclusion of a four-part story. With Fox on his tail and blood on his hands, Santini finds his luck is running out. But he still has one card left to play.
The CID realise that both Santini and Fox are in trouble.
Meadows and Skase go all pro-EU and enlist the help of the French police to track down a wife killer. But their trip to France goes awry when they both get arrested.
Top cop drama. Scouser WPC Rickman kicks off her career at Sun Hill by losing a gun on her way to the lab. Brownlow finds himself in a struggle for supremacy.
The 'guvners' get a taste of the sharp end of Sun Hill life. When Conway and Brownlow spend a night in the cells, Boyden's nightmare has just begun.
Quinlan thinks he's got the short straw when he has to guard a prisoner in hospital. It sounds dull - but a man with a gun soon changes that.
The gritty series which became the nation's favourite police drama. A shoot-out at a site yard threatens Garfield's plans for a romantic evening.
Poor old Reg! Things always seem to turn sour as his caravan becomes the target of a young arsonist on its triumphant return to the streets of Sun Hill.
Despite what people say, they still catch the odd villain at Sun Hill as Deakin nets an international drug dealer.
Top cop drama. Dale Smith becomes an explosive addition to the team when he accuses Luke Ashton of cowardice.
The Who's Roger Daltrey guest stars in this episode of the iconic police drama. With Smithy on his case, is this the end of the line for Luke Ashton?
There's wedding bells down at Sun Hill as Smith and Rickman uncover an illegal marriage fraud. Holmes has Smith playing her reluctant groom.
Things couldn't get much worse for Jimbo surely. Depressed about his future on the beat, Carver unwittingly sleeps with a prostitute and jeopardises his career.
These coppers should be out catching villains, not eyeing up women! Proctor's head is turned by a glamorous detective sergeant. But is she as straight as she seems?
Top cop drama. Beech and Glaze are sent to Shadwell Prison to quell a riot. Angry prisoners have made allegations of brutality against the warders.
Take cover! Sun Hill has to be evacuated when a bomb is found in the station. But can it be defused in time?
A feature-length episode of the police drama. Could a punter be trying to infect the prostitutes of Sun Hill with the HIV virus? Ackland and Rawton investigate.
More crime-related drama at Sun Hill. Meadows has a crisis on his hands when he fails to hear a cry for help.
More power struggles down at the Sun Hill nick. Harker and Daly lock horns over the integrity of a reformed drug dealer.
A hungover Rickman goes to the local lido, only to find the place crawling with her colleagues. Doesn't that always happen?
Sharpe investigates a case involving stolen benefit cheques, and PC Rickman takes an Ecstasy tablet while out clubbing - only to be called up on duty in an emergency.
First of a two-parter as a new PC joins Sun Hill - but does he bring more crime with him than he is likely to fight?
The second of a two-parter as Smith's involvement with a dangerous racist puts Brownlow's covert operation in jeopardy - and Klein's career on the line.
Long-running police drama that became an institution in itself! Rawton and Meadows clash when a violent ex-con returns to Sun Hill.
It only comes around every 1,000 years but life must go on for the Sun Hill team, as they grapple with millennial madness. DS Stanton has a tough first day in CID.
Down at Sun Hill, it's more tense than normal as Ackland, Boyden and Cryer are at each other's throats over the death of a prisoner in custody.
Time for crime with another visit to Sun Hill. Beech pulls rank when Glaze arrests one of his informants, and they agree on a deal which Glaze lives to regret.
Popular police drama that ran for over 25 years. Unhappy Jim Carver is offered a ticket out of Sun Hill - but will he take it?
Action from that rather crime-heavy London area, Sun Hill. Poor old Reg Hollis faces tragedy when he uncovers a protection racket on a housing estate.
Another slice of life from Sun Hill. Garfield is anxious to know where he stands with Jenny. Quinnan is behaving strangely, and seems to have something to hide.
Top cop drama. Quinnan's secret comes out, dividing Sun Hill. Crime fighting takes a back seat as Quinnan and Garfield clash.
Another shift with the cops from Sun Hill. Burnside and Meadows take a gamble when they set up an undercover operation in a local casino.
The popular police drama continues. A plane makes a crash-landing in Sun Hill, plunging Daly into an investigation in which his ex-lover plays a crucial role.
Family ties are rekindled at Sun Hill. Boyden's estranged daughter asks him for protection. Boyden helps her out and they start to rekindle their relationship.
Arresting drama from the busiest police station on the box. Skase feels he is the laughing stock of CID when he is abducted and robbed by a gang of teenage girls.
Gritty police drama. Carver loses friends when the relief realises how much he has changed. Drinking to excess, he finally goes too far.
Another shift at Sun Hill. The normally moderate Duncan Lennox is outraged to be accused of racism by a suspected robber.
More crime drama at the ever-eventful Sun Hill. Burnside discovers Carver's drinking habit, but he has secrets of his own to protect.
While Quinnan tries to catch the person who is threatening his friend, finding the right moment to propose becomes increasingly difficult. More grief for Polly!
Jim takes the whisky in a tea cup a bit too far. Knowledge of his drinking is now widespread, and his colleagues are becoming increasingly frustrated.
Iconic police drama series. The relief have to cover for Jim Carver yet again when he arrives at the station still very drunk.
Police drama series. Ackland's romantic evening away from Sun Hill spirals into something more sinister when a neighbour appears on her doorstep - carrying a shotgun.
More action from the boys and girls in blue at Sun Hill. Holmes falls out with Proctor when he publicly undermines her.
Gritty cop drama series. Jim Carver has gone missing, and fears for his safety grow when a youth is arrested in possession of his credit card.
More drama from Sun Hill. Jim Carver hits rock bottom when Burnside is forced to arrest his old friend for murder.
Classic police drama with the London coppers. When the Sun Hill team form a syndicate to buy a greyhound, Quinnan's Jenny discovers she is part of it.
More drama from Sun Hill. Quinnan's stag night is being organised by Hollis, so will anything go right? The evening certainly promises a few surprises!
Another installment of the iconic police drama. What could possibly go wrong on Quinnan's wedding day? Garfield's unexpected reappearance is only the beginning!
Popular police drama. Lennox and Rawton are drawn closer together when a dangerous ghost from Rawton's past returns to haunt her.
Beware things that go bump in the night! The Sun Hill CID must deal with ghosts, clairvoyants and messages from beyond the grave.
It's two nights before Christmas, and the whole of Sun Hill is desperately hoping there won't be a shout. Pretty unlikely!
Another slice of life at Sun Hill. PC Rickman becomes increasingly friendly with a drug user and soon comes under suspicion of using drugs herself.