Can Bill boss Chandler sink any lower?: The Bill (ITV): The Brits Who Fought For Hitler (five)

The union between Sun Hill police station boss Tom Chandler and detective Debbie McAllister was not a marriage made in heaven. More a liaison consummated in a disabled toilet during a colleague's funeral service.

Their wedding day in The Bill was no more romantic, with Chandler pursued over a 20-year-old rape allegation and a heavily-pregnant McAllister subjected to a horrendous wedding night ordeal.

Last night's double episode proved a fitting, edge-of-the-seat finale to the downfall of Chandler, whose despicable behaviour entitles him to free entry to the TV villains hall of fame, or should that be, infamy?

If Chandler was a traitor to his profession, The Brits Who Fought For Hitler were clearly traitors to their country although this documentary muddied the waters as some maintained they only enlisted in a Waffen SS during the Second World War to try to escape. Others were clear they donned the German uniform, which bizarrely bore both the British flag and the three lions of England on the collar, to fight communists and never intended to take up arms against their fellow countrymen.

The idea of recruiting prisoners of war was the brainchild of John Amery, ironically son of a leading member of Churchill's wartime Cabinet. He was described as a sexual psychopath and devious fraudster whose best friends called him The Rat. Sounds like a nice chap.

Despite being a quarter Jewish, he was a fanatical anti-Semite and devout fascist who was living in France in 1940 when the city fell to the Germans. Amery's plan to enlist imprisoned Brits into a SS unit was approved by Hitler. Holiday camps were set up where British and Commonwealth prisoners were well-fed and well treated in a bid to make them better disposed to the Germans.

They were promised they'd be part of a European crusade against Communism. If ideology failed, prostitutes and blackmail were used as means of persuasion.

The scheme was not a great success. At its peak the British Free Corps comprised just 27 volunteers, many of whom were prosecuted after the war. The documentary makers had tracked down one former member to Australia. He was never charged and receives a war pension. Unsurprisingly, he didn't want to recall his past.

The man who commanded the unit did talk, as did the father of one volunteer who'd served ten years for joining the Germans. He had ambivalent feelings about his father's behaviour: "Most of the war he was swanning about Berlin, getting to grips with Norwegian maids and having a wonderful time. I know it doesn't sound very moral, but to me he doesn't seem to have done much harm."