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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...

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    #1 - Blue Flower

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    S9:E8

    The team investigate the murder of an East German immigrant, but they only have his mysterious final words to work with. As they attempt to piece together his remarkable story, Sandra attempts to gain the trust of his estranged daughter.

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    #2 - The Sins of the Father

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    S10:E3

    Brian Lane knows his days at UCOS are numbered. Meanwhile the team investigate a 16-year-old murder of a young mum by her criminal husband that could be a miscarriage of justice. However Gerry Standing feels very strongly that the conviction should not be called into question.

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    #3 - Roots

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    S10:E9

    With Sandra having left, the team wait to meet their new boss, and Sasha Miller wastes no time fitting in and getting on with her first UCOS case. It features the murder of an Italian immigrant on a west London allotment 25 years ago.

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    #4 - Bermondsey Boy

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    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
  5. 7.2/10(318 votes)

    #5 - Wicca Work

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    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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  6. 7.2/10(185 votes)

    #6 - The Curate's Egg

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    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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  8. 7.3/10(237 votes)

    #7 - Magic Majestic

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    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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  9. 7.3/10(166 votes)

    #8 - The Fame Game

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    S12:E6

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

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  10. 7.4/10(314 votes)

    #9 - Painting on Loan

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    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
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  11. 7.4/10(183 votes)

    #10 - The Wolf of Wallbrook

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    S12:E4

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

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  12. 7.4/10(165 votes)

    #11 - Prodigal Sons

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    S12:E5

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

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  13. 7.5/10(292 votes)

    #12 - Home Truths

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    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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  14. 7.5/10(240 votes)

    #13 - Spare Parts

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    S5:E1

    New series of the drama featuring an eccentric group of ex-police officers brought out of retirement to investigate unsolved crimes. Jack confronts his nemesis in court when Ricky Hanson stands trial for his attempted murder, and Gerry faces the consequences of lying to his 'daughter', Emily. The team uncover a shady organ-donor racket when they reinvestigate the murder of a wealthy businessman who left a three million pound fortune to a prostitute.

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  15. 7.5/10(230 votes)

    #14 - The Final Curtain

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    S5:E2

    The team return to the 1992 case of actor Michael Austin, shot dead by his wife on stage during the opening night performance of Death at the Masked Ball. Already a man down when Halford goes AWOL, the case looks like claiming another member of the team as Lane embraces his newfound love of acting and the theatre.

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  16. 7.5/10(240 votes)

    #15 - A Face For Radio

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    S5:E3

    The team reinvestigates the murder of a popular DJ who died live on air after an arson attack at 80s music station Roxy Radio. Lane is determined to find the missing Jack Halford when Pullman and Standing threaten to quit rather than work with a new team member.

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  17. 7.5/10(163 votes)

    #16 - Lottery Curse

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    S12:E8

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

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  18. 7.5/10(156 votes)

    #17 - Life Expectancy

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    S12:E9

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

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  19. 7.6/10(223 votes)

    #18 - Father's Pride

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    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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  20. 7.6/10(234 votes)

    #19 - Couldn't Organise One

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    S5:E5

    The team investigate the death of the Chief Brewer at Felspar's Brewery which proves to be rather intoxicating for the boys. For Pullman, the case has a more personal agenda and she learns some difficult truths about her dead father.

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  21. 7.6/10(236 votes)

    #20 - Communal Living

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    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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  22. 7.6/10(165 votes)

    #21 - The Russian Cousin

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    S12:E7

    The movements of a rare stamp could hold the key to the murder of a private investigator.

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  23. 7.7/10(360 votes)

    #22 - Pilot: The Chinese Job

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    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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  24. 7.7/10(306 votes)

    #23 - Dockers

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    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.

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  25. 7.7/10(275 votes)

    #24 - Big Topped

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    S4:E8

    The news that Sandra's father, a DI, killed himself while under investigation for corruption, throws into doubt everything she believed in. Her mother, Grace , is in hospital following a stroke, and she wastes no time in confronting her, but she doesn't get the answers she's looking for. Unfortunately, her father's service records provide Pullman with some revelations she may never come to terms with. Meanwhile, Christy Berlin asks the team to look into the death of the man she's recently discovered was her biological father - ringmaster The Great Miraculob. But will the investigation at Spingles Circus be enough to distract Sandra from feeling betrayed by her colleagues?

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  26. 7.8/10(347 votes)

    #25 - ID Parade

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    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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Blue Flower" is the worst rated episode of "New Tricks". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Andy Hay and written by Simon Allen, it aired on 10/15/2012. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Sins of the Father".