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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

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    New Tricks Season 1 Episode 2 - ID Parade
    7.0/10(384 votes)

    #1 - 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.

    Director:Paul Seed
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. New Tricks Season 1 Episode 3 - Painting on Loan
    7.0/10(348 votes)

    #2 - 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

    Director:Jamie Payne
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. New Tricks Season 5 Episode 6 - Magic Majestic
    7.5/10(262 votes)

    #3 - 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.

    Director:Julian Simpson
    Writer:Paul Rutman

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  4. New Tricks Season 5 Episode 7 - Communal Living
    7.5/10(259 votes)

    #4 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. New Tricks Season 12 Episode 9 - Life Expectancy
    7.5/10(168 votes)

    #5 - Life Expectancy

    S12:E9

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. New Tricks Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot: The Chinese Job
    7.7/10(399 votes)

    #6 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. New Tricks Season 1 Episode 4 - 1984
    8.0/10(344 votes)

    #7 - 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.

    Director:Jamie Payne
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. New Tricks Season 1 Episode 5 - Good Work Rewarded
    8.0/10(324 votes)

    #8 - Good Work Rewarded

    S1:E5

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

    Director:Paul Seed
    Writer:Roy Mitchell

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  9. New Tricks Season 1 Episode 6 - Home Truths
    8.0/10(325 votes)

    #9 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. New Tricks Season 1 Episode 7 - Talking to the Dead
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. New Tricks Season 2 Episode 1 - A Delicate Touch
    8.0/10(364 votes)

    #11 - 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.

    Director:Jon East
    Writer:Roy Mitchell

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  12. New Tricks Season 2 Episode 2 - Family Business
    8.0/10(339 votes)

    #12 - Family Business

    S2:E2

    In 1996 a beautiful newlywed, was attacked and left for dead. The only thing taken was her wedding ring and she has been in a coma ever since. The man jailed for the crime is now a born-again Christian and is protesting his innocence

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. New Tricks Season 2 Episode 3 - Trust Me
    8.0/10(325 votes)

    #13 - Trust Me

    S2:E3

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. New Tricks Season 2 Episode 4 - Old and Cold
    8.0/10(305 votes)

    #14 - Old and Cold

    S2:E4

    Tabloid editor Chris McConnell asks Sandra Pullman to help him prove celebrity chef Kitty Campbell killed her drunken husband Bertie 40 years ago at the height of their 60s TV fame.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. New Tricks Season 2 Episode 5 - Creative Problem Solving
    8.0/10(265 votes)

    #15 - Creative Problem Solving

    S2:E5

    Attractive widow and probate assessor Elise Allen asks Halford to find the rightful owner of a large, uncut red diamond, worth £15 million. She found the rare jewel in a flat rented by John Newman who died in 1982.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. New Tricks Season 2 Episode 6 - Eyes Down for a Full House
    8.0/10(305 votes)

    #16 - Eyes Down for a Full House

    S2:E6

    Luck turns against Standing when he loses a poker game, owing bookie Michael Jacobs £10,000. But Michael offers him a chance to clear his debt by finding out what happened to his dad Joe, who died after being mugged outside Walthamstow stadium in 1983.

    Director:Juliet May
    Writers:Roy Mitchell, Danny Miller

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  17. New Tricks Season 2 Episode 7 - Fluke Of Luck
    8.0/10(263 votes)

    #17 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. New Tricks Season 2 Episode 8 - 17 Years of Nothing
    8.0/10(329 votes)

    #18 - 17 Years of Nothing

    S2:E8

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. New Tricks Season 3 Episode 1 - Lady's Pleasure
    8.0/10(290 votes)

    #19 - Lady's Pleasure

    S3:E1

    A car in which five years ago a teacher was murdered is returned to the victim's husband. Pullman re-opens the unsolved case, hoping her team can track down the dead woman's secret lover, and a clue soon leads them to a male prostitute. Pullman had worked on the original case and been troubled throughout by the lack of emotion shown by Nancy's husband Stephen

    Director:Rob Evans
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. New Tricks Season 3 Episode 2 - Dockers
    8.0/10(323 votes)

    #20 - Dockers

    S3:E2

    The murky death of Joe Walsh, General Secretary of the Crane Driver's Union, whose body was found in the Thames in 1975, is reinvestigated. At the time of his death, Walsh stood accused of stealing money from the union's account. The team find themselves at the centre of a political minefield, with suggestions of misappropriated union funds, MI5 involvement and a union leader whose threats of strike action were gravely threatening the national interest.

    Director:Rob Evans
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. New Tricks Season 3 Episode 3 - Old Dogs
    8.0/10(300 votes)

    #21 - Old Dogs

    S3:E3

    When a serial dog killer starts stalking local parks, the team are reluctantly forced into taking on the case.

    Director:Juliet May
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. New Tricks Season 3 Episode 4 - Diamond Geezers
    8.0/10(320 votes)

    #22 - 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.

    Director:Juliet May
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. New Tricks Season 3 Episode 5 - Wicca Work
    8.0/10(331 votes)

    #23 - 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.

    Director:Roberto Bangura
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. New Tricks Season 3 Episode 6 - Bank Robbery
    8.0/10(308 votes)

    #24 - Bank Robbery

    S3:E6

    Ray Cook, a legendary criminal has turned prime time celebrity. The team set off to find him, because there was a notorious bank job which left a cashier dead. He is a suspect, but was he responsible, or is he as innocent as he claims?

    Director:Roberto Bangura
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. New Tricks Season 3 Episode 7 - Ice-Cream Wars
    8.0/10(305 votes)

    #25 - Ice-Cream Wars

    S3:E7

    The team are on the case of the ice cream bandit, an armed robber who's targets were the ice cream vans of two feuding ice cream manufacturers in the mid 1990s. The battle between the two families erupts into violence, so UCOS decide to track down the bandit and stop the conflict once and for all.

    Director:Rob Evans
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"ID Parade" is the worst rated episode of "New Tricks". It scored 7/10 based on 384 votes. Directed by Paul Seed and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/1/2004. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Painting on Loan".