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New Tricks

2004TV-PG12 seasons7.3 / 10

New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.

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Synopsis

New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.

Season 11 episodes

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Episode 1

Bermondsey Boy

1h8.0 / 10

Family ties affect both Gerry Standing and Sasha Miller. While Sasha is forced to work with ex-husband Ned as he fills in for Strickland, Gerry returns to his roots in Bermondsey to help arrange his daughter's wedding. As a consequence he is thrown into a case involving the possible murder of an architecture student who is also the grandson of an old friend. Meanwhile, Danny Griffin has been on an FBI course in reading body language.

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Directed by Andy HayWritten by Simon AllenGuest stars Barnaby Kay, Susie Blake, David Hayman, Amy Nuttall

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Episode 2

Tender Loving Care

1h8.0 / 10

The team investigate the unsolved killing of brilliant young doctor Lydia Dryden in a case that takes them into the two very different worlds of public and private medicine. Danny Griffin is bereft when daughter Holly leaves home to start university, so his UCOS colleagues throw some fun distractions his way. And he might even be about to acquire a pet...

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Directed by Andy HayWritten by Marston BloomGuest stars Oliver Cotton, Richard Dillane, Tanmay Dhanania, Jon Foster

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Episode 3

Deep Swimming

1h8.0 / 10

The team looks into the death of a terrorist 30 years previously after his daughter receives an anonymous note claiming he was murdered - an investigation that takes them right back to the Greenham Common anti-nuclear protests. Meanwhile, Sasha agrees to go for dinner with her ex-husband Ned, which he is hoping will lead to a reconciliation.

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Directed by Philip JohnWritten by Chloe MossGuest stars Anthony Calf, Barnaby Kay, Charlotte Cornwell, Clare Higgins

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Episode 4

Ghosts

1h8.0 / 10

When Steve McAndrew's teenage son Stewie is arrested for drug possession, he finds himself face to face again with his ex-wife Tricia as they try to save the boy from a downward spiral. And after a distressed dementia patient escapes her care home to report a murder, the team look into the disappearance of a policeman, possibly murdered but missing since 1956...

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Directed by Philip JohnWritten by Matt EvansGuest stars Emily Taaffe, Louis Mahoney, Julie Graham, Georgine Anderson, Samuel Taylor, Jasper Jacob, Keith Ramsay, Katherine Jakeways

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Episode 5

London Underground

1h8.0 / 10

Tension mounts as Ned and Sasha are forced to work together when the body of a film critic found in a sewer is thought to be linked to the 20-year-old murder of a concept artist, David Straka. As the team interview Straka's contemporaries, groupies and assistants, looking for possible connections between the deaths, they find themselves immersed in the macabre world of the occult. And Griffin's expert knowledge of the history of London and in particular the hidden Fleet River, proves invaluable.

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Directed by Julian SimpsonWritten by Julian SimpsonGuest stars Anthony Calf, Barnaby Kay, Sophie Thompson, Nicola Stephenson, Benjamin Whitrow, Stephen Boswell, Jarred Christmas, Robin Berry

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Episode 6

Roman Ruined

1h8.0 / 10

The team investigate the death of a personal trainer who had belonged to a Roman reenactment society and discover a gang selling illegal steroids, but the motive for murder may not be all it seems. And Danny Griffin starts to become attracted to his forensic pathologist colleague Fiona Kennedy just as he receives some troubling news about his wife.

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Directed by Julian SimpsonWritten by Roy MitchellGuest stars Storme Toolis, Sophie Thompson, Carol Starks, Liz White, Hermione Gulliford, Gary Oliver, Alix Wilton Regan, Tim Dugdale

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Episode 7

In Vino Veritas

1h8.0 / 10

UCOS want to talk to a Turkish girl who is found working illegally in Dalston, regarding a unsolved murder from 2009. The landlord of a pub, Richard Gibson, died in a fire and the case had remained unresolved. The team meet the landlady of the pub, Joanna Gibson, who is also Richard's widow. His best friend, David is also someone of interest, especially when the team find out the French champagne he is selling, is actually sparkling wine produced in Britain. Sasha enters the team into a 5-a-side football competition.

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Directed by Brian GrantWritten by Dan MuirdenGuest stars Anthony Calf, Niamh Cusack, Joanne Gibson, Tom Georgeson, Jack Ellis, Phil Davis

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Episode 8

The English Defence

1h8.0 / 10

While investigating the murder of 55 year-old interpreter Agnes Bradley, the UCOS team get a partial DNA match from a teenage boy who once threw a brick onto a motorway as a dare. They interview the boy to see if one of his male relations could be the murderer, only to discover that his mother was raped and they could be looking for a rapist-turned-murderer. Agnes was a chess enthusiast so Gerry Standing and Steve McAndrew interview members of her local club while Sasha Miller and Strickland investigate leads from Agnes’s working life, where they meet a Chilean diplomat with a possible axe to grind. Steve McAndrew’s elderly father is dying, so he brings him to a London hospice for his last days.

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Directed by Brian GrantWritten by Marston BloomGuest stars Mariah Gayle, Finlay Robertson, Leanne Best, Nicholas Woodeson

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Episode 9

Breadcrumbs

1h8.0 / 10

When cold-crime enthusiast Ellen Barker is murdered, a photo of Dan Griffin is found at her house. Griffin is interviewed by the murder team, who realise that Ellen was a friend of his. The senior investigating officer assigned to Ellen’s murder investigation is DCI Grace Mackie, one of Sasha Miller’s contemporaries from their Hendon training. Griffin is convinced that the last case Ellen was looking at could lead to her killer, and heads to Minchampton, where a woman called Sally Tunstall was murdered 25 years ago by local lad Dougie Haynes.

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Directed by Keith BoakWritten by Richard M. DavidsonGuest stars Anthony Calf, Emma Fielding, Dominic Mafham, Margot Leicester, Struan Rodger, Claire Goose

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Episode 10

The Queen's Speech

1h8.0 / 10finale

A mix tape from 1983 is discovered, containing the voice of a teenage girl who was murdered shortly after it went into her school's time capsule. Griffin becomes convinced that the girl is reading from a speech secretly prepared for the Queen to broadcast in the event of a nuclear war. Meanwhile Sasha is distracted by a romantic entanglement with a charming record shop owner and Gerry is dreading his future son-in-law Robin's stag night, which promises to be something very special...

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Directed by Keith BoakWritten by Simon AllenGuest stars Anthony Calf, Alun Raglan, Claire Cathcart

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More about New Tricks

Cast

Dennis WatermanGerry Standing
Amanda RedmanSandra Pullman
James BolamJack Halford
Alun ArmstrongBrian Lane
Tamzin OuthwaiteSasha Miller
Denis LawsonSteve McAndrew
Nicholas LyndhurstDanny Griffin
Chiké OkonkwoPC Clark

Credits

Created by
Nigel McCrery
Written by
Roy Mitchell, Julian Simpson, Simon Allen, Marston Bloom, Lisa Holdsworth, J.C. Wilsher, Michael Crompton, Matthew Thomas

Production details

Status
Ended
Series type
Scripted
Episodes
107
Original language
English

Networks & production

  • BBC OneUnited Kingdom
  • Wall to WallUnited Kingdom
  • BBCUnited Kingdom

Themes

cosy crimecrime investigationelderlylondon, englandmysteriousplayfulunsolved crime