8.7/10249 votesLoading...#1 - Last Man Standing, Part Two
Season 12 Episode 2 - Aired 8/11/2015
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.5/10326 votesLoading...#2 - A Death in the Family
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 8/27/2012
Jack announces that he he has decided to leave the team, but before Sandra, Brian and Gerry can question his reasons, Whitehall figure Stephen Fisher shows up with one of his secret cases featuring the unsolved murder of a woman dating back around a hundred years. With only 24 hours to solve it, the team attempt to find time to get to the bottom of Jack's surprising decision and attempt to persuade him not to leave.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.5/10249 votesLoading...#3 - The One That Got Away
Season 10 Episode 8 - Aired 9/17/2013
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.4/10316 votesLoading...#4 - Casualty
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 4/9/2007
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.4/10250 votesLoading...#5 - The Last Laugh
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 8/20/2009
The team reinvestigate the disappearance of two young political activists.
Director: Robin Sheppard
Writer: N/A
8.4/10216 votesLoading...#6 - Last Man Standing, Part One
Season 12 Episode 1 - Aired 8/4/2015
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/10295 votesLoading...#7 - Congratulations
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 6/5/2006
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/10229 votesLoading...#8 - The Fourth Man
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 11/12/2010
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.
Director: Julian Simpson
Writer: Julian Simpson
8.3/10221 votesLoading...#9 - The Rock: Part Two
Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 8/6/2013
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.
Director: Brian Grant
Writer: Simon Allen
8.3/10231 votesLoading...#10 - The Little Brother
Season 10 Episode 4 - Aired 8/20/2013
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?
Director: Metin Hüseyin
Writer: Julian Simpson
8.2/10298 votesLoading...#11 - 17 Years of Nothing
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 6/27/2005
The Home Office pathologist asks the team to identify the remains of an unidentified woman, whose remains were found back in 1987. These remains are the only body that he was unable to identify. With his help and that of his attractive assistant, not only must the team identify the body bits, but how she died and who killed her.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/10299 votesLoading...#12 - God's Waiting Room
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 4/16/2007
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/10268 votesLoading...#13 - Buried Treasure
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 5/14/2007
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/10232 votesLoading...#14 - The War Against Drugs
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 7/16/2009
Brian Lane enters rehab to treat his alcoholism, but the rest of the team soon join him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/10219 votesLoading...#15 - Meat Is Murder
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 9/3/2009
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.
Director: Martyn Friend
Writer: Roy Mitchell
8.2/10214 votesLoading...#16 - The Gentleman Vanishes
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 8/15/2011
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/10283 votesLoading...#17 - Diamond Geezers
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 5/8/2006
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.
Director: Juliet May
Writer: N/A
8.1/10286 votesLoading...#18 - Powerhouse
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 5/7/2007
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10291 votesLoading...#19 - 1984
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/15/2004
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.
Director: Jamie Payne
Writer: N/A
8.0/101 votesLoading...#20 - Talking to the Dead
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/6/2004
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10292 votesLoading...#21 - Trust Me
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 5/23/2004
The team re-examine the case of Hannah Taylor who was kidnapped from her home in 1992. A body, previously thought to be Hannah's, has just been identified as that of another kidnap victim
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10262 votesLoading...#22 - Old Dogs
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 5/1/2006
When a serial dog killer starts stalking local parks, the team are reluctantly forced into taking on the case.
Director: Juliet May
Writer: N/A
8.0/10233 votesLoading...#23 - Nine Lives
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 4/30/2007
A family feud erupts when a rich and lonely old woman, Dorothy Hepple, is found dead in her home. Dorothy leaves all her money and property to her beloved cats, rather than her nephew, Harry, and niece, Caroline. Her body lay undiscovered for two weeks and the cause of death is undetermined, but the fact that her cats were deliberately locked in the house, forcing them to start eating their owner's remains and any evidence, makes Jack suspicious. There appears to have been no love lost between the late Ms Hepple and her neighbour, Tim Cuswell. Meanwhile her carer, Dale , seems to have been devoted to her, his motives are questionable. When the last of Dorothy's feline beneficiaries dies, her estate suddenly comes up for grabs. With no shortage of people laying claim to the estate, the team decides to reopen the investigation into Dorothy's death.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10232 votesLoading...#24 - It Smells Of Books
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/2010
Brian finds the library card of cold case victim Dr Richard Symes, leading him to reinvestigate the death of the professor, who died after falling from the roof of his college three years previously. Sandra and Gerry interview Symes' widow, who believes principal Jeremy Ventham drove her husband to suicide following a conflict over teaching methods.
Director: Martyn Friend
Writer: J.C. Wilsher
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#25 - The Girl Who Lived
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 9/17/2012
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of New Tricks
Every episode of New Tricks ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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...
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Best Episodes Summary
"Last Man Standing, Part Two" is the best rated episode of "New Tricks". It scored 8.7/10 based on 249 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 8/11/2015. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Death in the Family".