Woodentop (The Bill) "Woodentop" has an unusual place in the history of "The Bill" due to the original premise of this being a one-off play. After broadcast, Thames commissioned a full series to be shown the following year, under the name "The Bill" as the show had the potential to appeal to a mass audience. Although "The Bill" is clearly a continuation from this episode, the main series contradicts it in a number of ways. For instance, in Woodentop Litten has completed his secondment to CID and is close to securing his place in the detective branch, whereas in "The Bill" he does
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