The fourth series of The Bill, a British television drama, consisted of forty-eight episodes, broadcast between 19 July and 29 December 1988.

The original Australian box set features a sole image of DI Frank Burnside.

Sun Hill evict squatters from a number of houses leading to a lot of people becoming homeless.

Yorkie befriends Marie Tucker, a single mother who is struggling to make ends meet.

Yorkie takes a sympathetic interest in Mickey Cozen, a man with the mental age of 7 whom he has arrested.

Burnside has his work cut out as Jarvis assaults the criminal and causes an affray at a seedy strip club.

Yorkie volunteers to do some work at a youth club, a decision he will later regret when he is forced to deal with a gang of vicious teenagers who go joyriding in a flash car; it ends in tragedy.

CID attempt to find a burglar on a dangerous estate, with serious ramifications for Dashwood's car.

Yorkie makes an arrest, but the suspect is high on drugs and collapses and dies before he is processed.

The station is besieged by angry friends of the deceased, but his father blames the drug dealers rather than the police.

Burnside pushes Brenda to the truth and the man's identity is revealed; Sam Rice, a surrogate father.

Ackland are on their lunch break, and they warn a man for flying a model helicopter too close to the road.

They then investigate a terrible smell coming from a nearby property, and discover a shed full of the carcasses of battery hens.

Ackland investigates the theft of a cat's gravestone, and finds it in the elderly cat-owner's rest home.

Ramsey is amused that the witness, Andrew Pike, has a high opinion of the police and is applying to become a special constable.

At the track, Ramsey throws a drunk out of the toilets, and Pike takes offence to his handling of the situation and threatens to report him.

Conway and several armed police from Sun Hill and the TSG move in to try and negotiate the gunman's surrender with no response.

One of them winds the magistrate up so much he is sentenced to 28 days in jail and the diplomat father of another waives his immunity.

The elderly homeowner doesn't think the company is to be trusted and he is proven right after visiting the station three times.

They see a young man, Kevin Boswell, climbing over a wall with a bag full of 50p pieces, and they arrest him for theft.