Woodentop (The Bill) has GR on the helmet badge where it should have had ER, the same that was on PC Carver's helmet. Also the tunics the male officers wore had buttoned down epaulettes, whereas they should have just had the insignia placed on the shoulder of the tunic as this is what the Metropolitan Police wore at the time. Only four of the cast of "Woodentop" would go on to be regulars in the main series of "The Bill": Mark Wingett, Trudie Goodwin, Gary Olsen and Colin Blumenau, while a number of characters were re-cast, including Roy Galloway. Woodentop (The Bill) "Woodentop"
The Cops (TV series) a third series, creator Robert Jones later confirmed that the third series was written as a way of 'bringing "The Cops" to a close', with the final episode broadcast on 11 April 2001. The first series was released on VHS on 24 January 2000, available as four individual volumes or as a complete box set. Both the second and third series remain commercially unreleased. All three series received a single re-run on UKTV Drama in the early 2000s, although remain unrepeated since. The programme won back-to-back British Academy Television Awards in the Best Drama Series category in 1999 and 2000,