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The Worst 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 Deep Swimming
    7.1/10(197 votes)

    #1 - Deep Swimming

    S11:E3

    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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    Director:Philip John
    Writer:Chloe Moss
  2. Background image for Wicca Work
    7.2/10(322 votes)

    #2 - Wicca Work

    S3:E5

    A young woman insists that the suspicious death of a local librarian was because of witchcraft and the team are drawn into the world of magic and the supernatural. A series of strange events occur and they are put under increasing pressure. The squad gets convinced that the supernatural exist and struggle to remain cynical.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Tender Loving Care
    7.2/10(195 votes)

    #3 - Tender Loving Care

    S11:E2

    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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    Director:Andy Hay
  4. Background image for The Curate's Egg
    7.2/10(186 votes)

    #4 - The Curate's Egg

    S12:E3

    Ted Case is welcomed by Danny and Steve into the UCOS office in Sasha's absence, but for all his wealth of experience, they aren't sold on his superstitious quirks. The team take a look at the case of a brutally murdered vicar who received racist hate mail in the lead up to his murder.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for The Fame Game
    7.2/10(167 votes)

    #5 - The Fame Game

    S12:E6

    The boys' investigations take them to a lookalike agency whose top acts were found dead.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Cry Me a River
    7.3/10(230 votes)

    #6 - Cry Me a River

    S10:E5

    A young woman's paternity test leads to the reopening of a notorious murder case from the seedy underworld of 1980s Soho in which the prime suspect was mysterious ex-jazz chanteuse Angela Gold. Meanwhile in UCOS, feathers are ruffled when recently retired police officer Dan Griffin joins the team.

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  8. Background image for Bermondsey Boy
    7.3/10(213 votes)

    #7 - Bermondsey Boy

    S11:E1

    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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    Director:Andy Hay
  9. Background image for Roman Ruined
    7.3/10(190 votes)

    #8 - Roman Ruined

    S11:E6

    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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  10. Background image for Good Morning Lemmings
    7.4/10(227 votes)

    #9 - Good Morning Lemmings

    S7:E5

    When graffiti appears around London by an unknown person claiming to have murdered a celebrated street artist, the team reopens the four-year-old case. Originally part of a gang, the victim went solo when he received support from a wealthy art patron, leaving the detectives suspicious of his resentful former crew members. Meanwhile, Brian signs up to Twitter to chart the gritty life of a lawman, much to his colleagues' displeasure.

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    7.4/10(199 votes)

    #10 - Ghosts

    S11:E4

    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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    Director:Philip John
    Writer:Matt Evans
  12. Background image for In Vino Veritas
    7.4/10(174 votes)

    #11 - In Vino Veritas

    S11:E7

    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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    Director:Brian Grant
  13. Background image for The Wolf of Wallbrook
    7.4/10(184 votes)

    #12 - The Wolf of Wallbrook

    S12:E4

    Ted leads an investigation into the apparent suicide of a city trader in the 80s.

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    Director:Unknown
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  14. Background image for Prodigal Sons
    7.4/10(167 votes)

    #13 - Prodigal Sons

    S12:E5

    With Sasha back on fighting form, UCOS investigate the death of a cricket prodigy.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Fluke Of Luck
    7.5/10(239 votes)

    #14 - Fluke Of Luck

    S2:E7

    Lane indulges his obsession with fishing when UCOS investigates the case of two boys abducted from a fishing lake in 1979, believing it could be linked to a recent spate of snatches near the M25.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Magic Majestic
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Magic Majestic

    S5:E6

    The team investigate the art of illusion when they reopen a case involving a magic trick that ended in murder. Powerful mind games and hypnosis prove a dangerous mix for Brian Lane, however, sending him down a destructive path. Meanwhile, a session with the Magic Circle's Dr Moroni leaves a sceptical Gerry Standing feeling paranoid and his colleagues a little nervous around him.

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  17. Background image for Communal Living
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Communal Living

    S5:E7

    As Brian Lane struggles to control and conceal his desire to drink again, he finds the perfect refuge in a commune at the centre of the team's investigation into the death of a university student. The case also helps Gerry face up to his relationship with Emily, who has not spoken to him since she discovered the truth about the DNA test at Ricky Hanson's trial.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Fashion Victim
    7.5/10(228 votes)

    #17 - Fashion Victim

    S7:E6

    When a retrospective exhibition of murdered fashion designer Ritchie Levene's work opens, the team is prompted to re-examine the three-year-old crime. The detectives learn about his tempestuous relationships with his new spouse, personal assistant and ex-wife Sarah, who believes his brother Adrian is the killer because he had the most to gain from his death. Meanwhile, Gerry enlists Emily to help update his image, although not everyone is impressed with the results.

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  19. Background image for Coming Out Ball
    7.5/10(223 votes)

    #18 - Coming Out Ball

    S7:E8

    When 18-year-old debutante Barbara Linden-Warner disappeared without trace 27 years ago, the assumption at the time was that she had been kidnapped and her father, a wealthy British arms manufacturer, paid a ransom for her return. When new evidence emerges about her last movements, the indication is that she may still be alive.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Breadcrumbs
    7.5/10(177 votes)

    #19 - Breadcrumbs

    S11:E9

    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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  21. Background image for Lottery Curse
    7.5/10(164 votes)

    #20 - Lottery Curse

    S12:E8

    The team investigate when a skeleton is uncovered in the foundations of a swimming pool.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Life Expectancy
    7.5/10(156 votes)

    #21 - Life Expectancy

    S12:E9

    UCOS investigate the case of an alternative medicine practitioner bludgeoned to death.

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  23. Background image for Father's Pride
    7.6/10(225 votes)

    #22 - Father's Pride

    S4:E7

    When a camera and film belonging to a photographic lab assistant murdered in 1987 are found in a Soho pub toilet, the team reopen a 20-year-old case. Elsewhere, Gerry is less than happy when his daughter Emily joins the team and looks to Sandra as a role model.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Left Field
    7.6/10(237 votes)

    #23 - Left Field

    S7:E3

    After being released from jail, notorious paedophile John Davies admits to the abduction and murder of a child 25 years previously. Suspicious of his motives, the detectives reopen the unsolved case in an unusual attempt to prove his innocence, reinvestigating the boy's disappearance while on a demonstration with his left-wing activist parents. Guest starring Adrian Schiller (Being Human) and Samantha Bond (Outnumbered)

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  25. Background image for Into the Woods
    7.6/10(211 votes)

    #24 - Into the Woods

    S10:E6

    When blood-stained clothes belonging to Simon Belgrade, missing for five years, are uncovered in a London forest, UCOS find themselves trying to solve the conundrum of what seems to have been the perfect vanishing act. Standing finally faces up to a childhood fear, while Griffin is a comfort to Pullman as she passes a milestone and McAndrew makes a big decision about his son.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Things Can Only Get Better
    7.6/10(198 votes)

    #25 - Things Can Only Get Better

    S10:E7

    When the team investigate the death of an MP's researcher and find themselves in hot pursuit of a mysterious Bosnian woman, Strickland introduces Pullman to a war crimes prosecutor who proves to be more than helpful to their case.

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    Director:Andy Hay

Worst Episodes Summary

"Deep Swimming" is the worst rated episode of "New Tricks". It scored 7.1/10 based on 197 votes. Directed by Philip John and written by Chloe Moss, it aired on 9/1/2014. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Wicca Work".