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The Best Episodes of New Tricks

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The Best Episodes of New Tricks

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...
  1. Background image for The Girl Who Lived
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - The Girl Who Lived

    S9:E4

    Retired DI Steve McAndrew from Glasgow joins the team to reopen one of his old cases when the DNA of a woman who went missing as a teen turns up at the scene of a petrol station robbery.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Last Man Standing, Part Two
    8.7/10(265 votes)

    #2 - Last Man Standing, Part Two

    S12:E2

    Gerry attempts to clear his name before his enemies catch up with him. Sasha and Steve get Fiona's help to examine the evidence against the clock. Danny takes Gerry on the run as they look for the proof they need to prove his innocence.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for The One That Got Away
    8.5/10(264 votes)

    #3 - The One That Got Away

    S10:E8

    Pullman seizes the chance to solve a murder that she believes is linked to her first ever case, and the team start putting together a jigsaw puzzle of suspects from a photograph taken in a London park in the 90s. Eventually faced with increasing pressure to hand over the investigation, Sandra makes a huge decision, which is going to change UCOS forever.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.4/10(333 votes)

    #4 - Casualty

    S4:E1

    The future of the team is threatened and without having that to deal with, Sandra has to take drastic measures to prevent Jack from exacting revenge against the man who killed his wife Mary. Sandra also has the added benefit of trying to keep Jack’s actions from shady new recruit DCI Karen Hardwick while working on a 10-year-old murder case.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for The Last Laugh
    8.4/10(261 votes)

    #5 - The Last Laugh

    S6:E6

    The team reinvestigate the disappearance of two young political activists.

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    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Last Man Standing, Part One
    8.4/10(230 votes)

    #6 - Last Man Standing, Part One

    S12:E1

    Gerry feels spooked following the discovery of UCOS's latest victim, a policeman, whose body has lain untouched under a basement for the last 30 years. Accusations of police corruption and underhand dealings start to surface causing Gerry to face up to some skeletons in his own closet.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Congratulations
    8.3/10(311 votes)

    #7 - Congratulations

    S3:E8

    Pullman struggles to keep the boys in line as their chequered pasts begin to be revealed. Halford is determined to nail a vicious criminal who has so far eluded him and in doing so he puts himself in grave danger. Standing receives a surprise visitor which shocks him. Pullman is increasingly frustrated and weighs up an opportunity that could end her time in UCOS.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for The Fourth Man
    8.3/10(245 votes)

    #8 - The Fourth Man

    S7:E10

    The team reinvestigate a 30-year-old safety deposit robbery, and they soon find themselves being drawn into a case involving police corruption that threatens the future of the UCOS itself.

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    8.3/10(234 votes)

    #9 - The Rock: Part Two

    S10:E2

    The team unlock over three decades of secrets and lies on the Rock of Gibraltar and find the link which solves the murder of a playboy shipping heir from '98 and a young local boy from '82. With both cases solved, they return to England where Lane faces a disciplinary hearing, dragging up a death in custody from his past which threatens his career in UCOS.

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    Director:Brian Grant
  11. Background image for The Little Brother
    8.3/10(244 votes)

    #10 - The Little Brother

    S10:E4

    As Lane comes to terms with life after UCOS, Esther asks him to help one of her book club friends find her missing brother - but will his nose for the truth get him into further trouble? And how will his former colleagues cope without their most dogged sleuth?

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    8.2/10(320 votes)

    #11 - God's Waiting Room

    S4:E2

    Sandra's private and professional worlds become intertwined when her mother has a fall and goes into a care home - but the establishment is revealed to be a scene of a suspicious death a year earlier.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for The War Against Drugs
    8.2/10(249 votes)

    #12 - The War Against Drugs

    S6:E1

    Brian Lane enters rehab to treat his alcoholism, but the rest of the team soon join him.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.2/10(236 votes)

    #13 - Meat Is Murder

    S6:E8

    As the series comes to an end, the desiccated, neatly carved-up body of a butcher who disappeared more than 30 years ago is discovered, leading Sandra Pullman and her boys to pay a visit to Smithfield meat market in London, the original murder scene. It's a pity the butcher is dead, because he has a few questions to answer about why the body of a doctor was found hanging from a meat hook all those years ago at the back of his market stall. It's an episode peppered with revelations. We discover Gerry Standing's very interesting family history - he's descended from French Huguenots and is thus tormented by his colleagues for being a fake cockney, much to his annoyance: "Je suis ang-bleedingglais!" he protests. But it's Sandra who has to face up to a startling personal disclosure that has a direct bearing on the case and also throws a whole new light on her father. For once Gerry, Brian and Jack are left completely speechless.

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    8.2/10(233 votes)

    #14 - The Gentleman Vanishes

    S8:E7

    A woman is sent anonymous emails from someone claiming to know what happened to her husband Phillip Mackenna, a prominent scientist working on cold fusion who disappeared while on a train to Paris. As the team investigate, DAC Strickland receives a warning from Whitehall.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Diamond Geezers
    8.1/10(305 votes)

    #15 - Diamond Geezers

    S3:E4

    The vicious criminal Chopper Hadley, who has been back in the country for a week, is searched for by the team. However, Halford is viciously intimidated and the squad start to realise the full danger of their target. Desperate measures are used and Brian is sent undercover to get Hadley once and for all.

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    Director:Juliet May
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.1/10(301 votes)

    #16 - Powerhouse

    S4:E5

    The team reinvestigates the 1950s murder of a young wages clerk at Battersea Power Station. Richard Dunne was hanged for Frederick Tully's murder, but his granddaughter, Hannah, is waging a campaign to have Dunne posthumously pardoned. The discovery of a suitcase containing used fivers in the attic of the Tully home sheds new light on the case, revealing a possible blackmail plot. A trace on the used fivers reveals that they should have been destroyed in the Battersea Power Station furnaces back in the 1950s, but were actually being saved by Douglas Murray, a friend of Tully's. It also becomes clear that the Battersea furnaces were being used to destroy other sensitive documents as well as used bank notes. When the team discovers a classified document relating to a massacre of civilians carried out by the British Army in Kenya, they uncover a blackmail plot spanning more than 50 years.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Buried Treasure
    8.1/10(285 votes)

    #17 - Buried Treasure

    S4:E6

    When Brian's dog finds a body, it prompts two people to confess to murder. It turns out that the body is over 600 years old, so Sandra, Jack, Brian and Gerry must discover why the pair took responsibility for a crime they couldn't possibly have committed and if they are the perpetrators of other killings. Elsewhere, Strickland is rather keen for them to solve an even more tricky mystery that is closer to home.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Pilot: The Chinese Job
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Pilot: The Chinese Job

    S1:E1

    The Metropolitan Police set up a new unit, UCOS, which stands for Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad, to investigate previously unsolved crimes. Led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, the team is made up of retired policemen Jack Halford, Brian Lane and Gerry Standing. Their first case is to investigate the murder of a nightclub hostess. The man who was convicted of killing her is released on appeal after serving twenty years in prison, having always claimed his innocence. The renewed investigation eventually produces proof of his innocence, but also his guilt of a different murder. In the end the team finds proof that the man's wife killed the nightclub hostess out of jealousy.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for ID Parade
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - ID Parade

    S1:E2

    UCOS investigate into the death of a policewomen-whose case was closed years ago-following the recovery of the murder weapon from a lake.

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    Director:Paul Seed
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Painting on Loan
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Painting on Loan

    S1:E3

    The discovery of a fake painting in the Queen's art collection sends the UCOS team on a hush-hush mission to uncover the forger. Their investigations swiftly uncover a trail of high class frauds and suspicious deaths, but also lead to suspension for one of the squad. NOTE: In Scotland This Episode Was Shown On Sunday 11th April Due To LIVE Sportscene Football Being Shown

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    Director:Jamie Payne
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for 1984
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - 1984

    S1:E4

    The UCOS team investigate the murder of a young peace protestor, killed at the outskirts of a nuclear base in 1984, and realise that they may be in danger of exposing a Special Branch cover up.

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    Director:Jamie Payne
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Good Work Rewarded
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Good Work Rewarded

    S1:E5

    The members of a prestigious golf club come under suspicion when the UCOS team investigate a child murder.

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    Director:Paul Seed
  24. Background image for Home Truths
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Home Truths

    S1:E6

    When a missing person case which Lane originally investigated gets re-activated, he's determined to crack it. But when the team swiftly uncover another two mysterious disappearances, they start to think they've got a serial killer on their hands.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Talking to the Dead
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Talking to the Dead

    S1:E7

    In an attempt to make contact with his late wife Mary, Jack goes to see a clairvoyant. Instead he meets a girl who died in a shipping container in 1982 and has the case re-opened.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for A Delicate Touch
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - A Delicate Touch

    S2:E1

    Deputy Assistant Commissioner Robert Strickland is the new boss in charge of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS). He asks the team to look into the death of David Barrie, a top barrister found in his car in 1980 after being bound and gagged.

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    Director:Jon East

Best Episodes Summary

"The Girl Who Lived" is the best rated episode of "New Tricks". It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/17/2012. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Last Man Standing, Part Two".