Woodentop (The Bill) Woodentop (The Bill) "Woodentop" is an episode of the Thames Television series "Storyboard", which includes a series of one-off plays on different themes. The episode was originally broadcast on 16 August 1983. "Woodentop" became the forerunner to long-running British police television series "The Bill", which went on air 14 months later and continued for 26 years. The name "woodentop" is a colloquialism for beat policemen who traditionally wear helmets; the nickname is itself an allusion to the Children's TV series "The Woodentops". The episode documents PC Jim Carver's first day at Sun Hill Police Station, where he is partnered with
Tenko (TV series) one DVD box-set in 2011 through Acorn Media UK. Three paperback books were published in the 1980s. One covering the first series, titled Tenko, while a second called Last Tenko, covered the second and final series. The third book, written by Anne Valery, covered the Reunion. A book about the making of Tenko called "Remembering Tenko" by Andy Priestner was published in October 2012. Tenko (TV series) Tenko is a television drama, co-produced by the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), which was broadcast between 1981 and 1984. The series dealt with the experiences of British, Australian and Dutch