New Tricks - Series 1 (DVD)

...With each episode offering a new case for the four person team to crack… * What the Series one DVD has to offer… Pilot episode… UCOS is founded with the intentions of investigating previously unsolved crimes… With the introduction of the small team, headed by dog shooting Sandra Pullman, they begin to investigate their first case, trying to prove who actually murdered a nightclub hostess twenty years earlier, sending an innocent man to prison. ...
...a murdered police woman after new evidence emerges from the bottom of a lake. * 2... When UCOS begins to look into some strange happening involving the Queens art collection they soon find more than they bargained, including fraud and possibly murder. * 3... A case from the early '80s , involving a nuclear power base, is re-opened but the team soon discover that the murder may be a cover up from a much higher power. * 4... A childs murder from ...

blissman70 17.01.2009 (22.01.2009) · Read full review
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...Pullman is unimpressed with her new role is an understatement; however she is given the right to handpick her team. Her first choice for the team is her former boss Jack Halford (James Bolam). Halford retired from the police force after a hit and run accident killed his wife. He is still haunted by his wife's death and still talks to her (not literally) when ever he needs to talk about things. Halford is keen to join the squad and after he and Pullman ...
...Esther is concerned that this new job will bring back all of Brian's problems from the past. Finally we have Ex Detective Sergeant Gerry Standing (Dennis Waterman), Standing is a throw back to the 1970's and appears to have been stuck in a time warp. It is fair to say that Standing has more baggage than the rest of them put together. With three ex wives (of which they form a rather bizarre extended family relationship!) Gerry retired from the force ...

kerman 01.05.2006 · Read full review
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New Tricks is something completly new, different and easy to understand. I love it so much I've watched each episode twice! Sandra is the only one who is a policeman, Jack, Brian and Jerry are all retired policemen. Each episode has a different case that needs solving. The episodes also enclude Sandras, Jacks, Brians and Jerrys own problems. Sandra has some troubles and doughts and she goes to a shrink. Jacks wife is brutaly killed, he still talks ...

emma_xop 27.05.2007 · Read full review
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