The WORST episodes of New Tricks
Every episode of New Tricks ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of New Tricks!
Drama about a police unit, made up of retired detectives and a long-suffering boss, looking at unsolved crimes.
#1 - Fresh Starts
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/30/2009
The team exhumes the body of a car crash victim after claims she has been seen alive.
#2 - Talking To The Dead
Season 1 - Episode 6 - 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.
#3 - Communal Living
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/18/2008
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.
#4 - Shadow Show
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/6/2009
UCOS are forced to re-open the investigation into producer Max Stone's death.
#5 - Deep Swimming
Season 11 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/1/2014
A dynamic high-flying city lawyer, Bryony Willis, receives a note to say that her terrorist father was not accidentally killed by his own bomb in 1982 but was actually murdered by the police. The UCOS team interviews Bryony's mother, who raised her on Greenham Common, and stumbles upon a dangerous, high-powered police cover-up. Sasha's ex-husband Ned tries to win her back. Is she tempted? Or has too much water passed under the bridge?
#6 - Home Truths
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/29/2004
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.
#7 - ID Parade
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/1/2004
UCOS investigate into the death of a policewomen-whose case was closed years ago-following the recovery of the murder weapon from a lake.
#8 - Good Work Rewarded
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/22/2004
The members of a prestigious golf club come under suspicion when the UCOS team investigate a child murder.
#9 - Couldn't Organise One
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/4/2008
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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#10 - Breadcrumbs
Season 11 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/13/2014
Tragedy strikes for Griffin when a friend is found murdered. Gerry has to move in to McAndrew's flat, which causes problems at work.
#12 - Eyes Down for a Full House
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/13/2005
Luck turns against Standing when he loses a poker game, owing bookie Michael Jacobs £10,000. 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.
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#13 - The Rock (1)
Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/30/2013
Lane's future at UCOS is threatened by a death in custody which emerges from his past. The discovery of a mysterious gun in the Thames re-opens the unsolved 1998 murder of a playboy shipping heir and leads the team to the Rock of Gibraltar.
#14 - Body of Evidence
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/24/2012
The body of a missing computer expert turns up in a hospital morgue under a false name, so the team reopens the investigation into his disappearance. The dead man worked for the Metropolitan Police, giving him access to a great deal of sensitive information—added to which, he was in contact with a group of online hackers. As the seasoned detectives unravel the mystery, Brian struggles to accept Steve as the new UCOS member, forcing Esther to intervene.
#15 - The Curate's Egg
Season 12 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/18/2015
Danny and Steve 'welcome' new boss Ted Case into the UCOS office in Sasha's absence, but for all his wealth of experience, keen eye for detail and a killer instinct for detecting liars, they aren't quite as sold on his superstitious quirks.
#17 - Painting On Loan
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/8/2004
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
#18 - Wicca Work
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/15/2006
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.
#20 - In Vino Veritas
Season 11 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/29/2014
The arrest of a Turkish barmaid working in London illegally reopens the cold case of a landlord who died in a suspected arson attack on his City pub. Gerry and Steve take a trip out to a vineyard in Kent while Griffin indulges his passion for fruit machines. When Miller decides to get the boys match fit for a charity football game it proves more difficult than she imagined.
#21 - Glasgow UCOS
Season 9 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/29/2012
McAndrew and Standing are sent to Scotland by Strickland for a week, to help the Glasgow Police try and establish a new UCOS section led by DCI Fiona MacDougall. While there, they end up being caught up in a cold case from 1993 featuring the murder of bookie James Soutar.
#22 - Prodigal Sons
Season 12 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/1/2015
With Sasha back on fighting form, UCOS investigate the death of a talented cricket prodigy: star of the pitch and apple of his father's eye - yet loathed by his teammates. The death was recorded as misadventure, but with new evidence pointing to infighting, overzealous autograph hunters and extramarital affairs, UCOS are soon bowled over by the list of potential murder suspects. Wise to Steve's monetary problems, Danny appoints himself as personal financial advisor and enforces a strict no-frills, no-fun budget. But even with this distraction, he can't escape his own worries about revealing his relationship with Fiona to his ex-wife. Sasha cracks down on the boys' lacklustre fitness and reluctance to come to the 'cursed' Mum and Dad's Do.
#23 - A Face For Radio
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/21/2008
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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#24 - Things Can Only Get Better
Season 10 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/10/2013
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.
#25 - Dockers
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/24/2006
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.