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
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