New Tricks – The DVD series of a motley crew of retired police officers who re-open troublesome cases that were never laid to rest.
Starring: Alun Armstrong, Amanda Redman, James Bolam, Dennis Waterman.
Season 1 – New Tricks
Release Date: 01 September 2005
Superintendent Sandra Pullman whose brilliant career is sidelined after a hostage rescue goes disastrously wrong has been put in charge of a new department – The Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS). However she is soon dismayed to discover that her unit is to be manned by former detectives who have long since hung up their badges. Pullman’s recruits – grieving widower Jack Halford, once her mentor in the murder squad; the compulsive obsessive ex-Inspector Brian Lane and ex-Sergeant Gerry Standing, one of the top thief-takers of his time, who left the force amid rumours of corruption – might have years of experience, but they know little of modern police methods. Can she create a crack team out of this trio of eccentric dinosaurs who are quickly discovering the rules of the game are no longer what they used to be?
New Tricks – Series 1
Season 2 – New Tricks
Release Date: 06 July 2006
Superintendent Sandra Pullman whose brilliant career is sidelined after a hostage rescue goes disastrously wrong has been put in charge of a new department – The Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS). However she is soon dismayed to discover that her unit is to be manned by former detectives who have long since hung up their badges. Pullman’s recruits – grieving widower Jack Halford, once her mentor in the murder squad; the compulsive obsessive ex-Inspector Brian Lane and ex-Sergeant Gerry Standing, one of the top thief-takers of his time, who left the force amid rumours of corruption – might have years of experience, but they know little of modern police methods. Can she create a crack team out of this trio of eccentric dinosaurs who are quickly discovering the rules of the game are no longer what they used to be?
New Tricks – Series 2
Season 3 -New Tricks
Release Date: 07 November 2007
All the episodes from the third series of the popular crime fighting comedy.
The stellar cast of Bolam, Waterman and Armstrong play retired detectives recalled by Redman to form an unlikely team to investigate unsolved crimes.
New Tricks – Series 3
Season 4 – New Tricks
Release Date: 03 April 2008
They may have handed in their badges and collected their pensions years ago, but Lane, Standing and Halford are back for a fourth series, still working at the London Metropolitan Police as civilians investigating unsolved crimes as part of boss Pullman’s team, Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS). Led by Pullman, who spends half her time trying to reign them in, the three men investigate an array of challenging and disturbing crimes.You’d have to be very brave to tell this motley crew they are too old to chase criminals. Whatever they lack in agility, they more than make up for in their years of experience. Out of touch with modern policing, Jack, Brian and Gerry thrive on bending and even breaking the rules to get a result; something which certainly annoys Pullman. The question is: will Pullman stop them or join them in doing just about anything to get to the truth?Amongst the many cases the team have to deal with in the fourth series, they head to the big top to investigate the murder of a circus owner and ringmaster, and look into the case of a rich old lady who loved her cats more than her relatives, leaving the cats all her money in her will.
New Tricks – Series 4
Season 5 – New Tricks
Release Date: 06 August 2009
New Tricks stars Alun Armstrong, James Bolam and Dennis Waterman as three wonderfully individual old dogs back at work, cracking unsolved crimes from the past in their own tried-and-tested ways. Amanda Redman also stars as Superintendent Sandra Pullman, who recruited the three retired detectives to her newly formed Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS).
New Tricks – Series 5
Season 6 – New Tricks
Release Date: 02 December 2010
New Tricks returns for a sixth series, starring Amanda Redman, Dennis Waterman, Alun Armstrong and James Bolam as a team of ex-coppers brought out of retirement to investigate unsolved cases from the past. From solving crimes to fighting their own personal demons, the Unsolved Crime And Open Case Squad (UCOS) have their work cut out for them in this compelling new season. Episodes include: The War Against Drugs; The Truth Is Out There; Fresh Starts; Shadow Show; Death Of A Timeshare Salesman; The Last Laugh; Blood Is Thicker Than Water; and Finale.
New Tricks – Series 6
Season 7 – New Tricks
Release Date: 21 April 2011
Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman’s unconventional team of ex detectives – Jack Halford Brian Lane and Gerry Standing – may be eccentric bend the rules ignore procedure follow their hunches and take risks but they get results. Among the cold crimes they crack in Series 7 are the death of a boxer the murder of a celebrated graffiti artist the stabbing of a fashion designer and the suspicious suicide of a college professor. As usual there are plot twists and red herrings galore plus a bewildering number of suspects played by well-known guest stars.
New Tricks – Series 7
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