The Bill (series 1) The Bill (series 1) The first series of "The Bill", a British television drama, consisted of eleven episodes, broadcast between 16 October 1984 and 22 January 1985. Whilst "Woodentop" used a traditional three-wall set built at Thames Television's studios at Teddington, for the series, Sun Hill Police Station was created by converting the premises of a two-storey former cigarette packing company on the corner of Artichoke Hill and Pennington Street, in Wapping, East London. The police station was significantly smaller than subsequent versions, with almost-all of the interior offices being seen on-screen - Only the original packing/warehouse area alongside the
Television Centre, London for such productions rapidly declined with the last major drama series to be shot there being "The House of Eliott", which ended in 1994, and the last single drama recorded was "Henry IV, Part 1", in 1995. This was because drama production moved almost entirely onto film or single-camera video, and Television Centre was a video-based, multi-camera production environment. At 19:00 on 22 March 2013, a special edition of "The One Show" was broadcast from the front of Television Centre followed by the building's last live broadcast "Madness Live: Goodbye Television Centre" and special programming to mark the end of