The Bill was broadcast on ITV under the title "Woodentop" on 16 August 1983. "Woodentop" starred Mark Wingett as PC Jim Carver and Trudie Goodwin as WPC June Ackland of London's Metropolitan Police, both attached to the fictional Sun Hill police station. Although originally only intended as a one-off, "Woodentop" impressed ITV to the extent that a full series was commissioned, first broadcast on 16 October 1984 with one post-watershed episode per week, featuring an hour-long, separate storyline for each episode of the first three series. The first episode of the full series was "Funny Ol' Business – Cops & Robbers". With
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series. This award and Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series replaced Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Series in 2002. As of 2015, "24" and "Breaking Bad" are the only shows to have won this award four times. In the following list, the first titles listed in gold and bold are the winners; those not in gold are nominees, which are listed in alphabetical order.