High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The fifth series of The Bill, a British television drama, consisted of one-hundred and four episodes, broadcast between 3 January – 28 December 1989. The series was first released on DVD as part of the Collection 3 and Collection 4 DVD boxsets in Australia, made available on 8 August – 7 November 2007, respectively. The first thirteen episodes of the series were later issued on DVD in the United Kingdom, under the title Volume 5, on 11 July 2011, the next 48 episodes of Series five will be released on DVD in the UK under the title Volume 6, on 15 October 2012. The series was later re-issued as two half-series boxsets in Australia, released on 7 March 2012. The above DVD artwork is taken from the most recent Australian release. It features images of Sgt. Bob Cryer and DC Jim Carver. The British volume artwork features a collage image featuring a variety of characters from across the season. The original Collection box-sets contained sole images of PC Pete Ramsey and PC June Ackland respectively.