What is "woodentop"

n. (alternative form of wooden-top English)

Woodentop may refer to:

• The Woodentops (TV series), a 1950s BBC children's series
• The Woodentops, a British rock band
• Woodentop, a pejorative term used by plain-clothed British police for uniformed police officers
• Woodentop (The Bill), the pilot episode of the long-running television programme 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.