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• 5.0 out of 5 stars A Motley Cold case Squad from England that gets their man (or woman).

  Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2009

  I was pleased when PBS started airing this british detective series. Retired police detectives are hired by the police department to solve COLD CASES.

  But the real fun is in watching this motley crew work. Like Columbo, they are real geniuses full of quirks, old & seasoned but with more energy than most half their age.

  If you like quirky detective drama with a few laughs thrown in, then htis is the series for you.

  Yes, that is Dennis Waterman from the old 1970's British cop series "The Sweeney".

  Episode #1.0
  Original Air Date--27 March 2003
  As punishment for messing up a kidnap rescue and shooting a dog in the process Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman (Amanda Redman) is assigned to the newly created unsolved murder squad. Due to a manpower shortage her team is made up of veteran detectives seconded back into the police force who bring a 1970's attitude to modern policing rather than vice versa. The team's first case is to re-investigate a twenty year old murder conviction which has suddenly become unsafe due to police corruption.

  Episode #1.1
  Original Air Date--1 April 2004
  The team investigate the murder of a policewoman 17 years ago, but what is Sandra's connection, and what secrets from her days at Hendon are revealed?

  Episode #1.2
  Original Air Date--8 April 2004
  Sir Tim is Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures. He discovers that some of the pictures in his charge are fakes. But they never used to be. Was his predecessor making money on the side?

  Episode #1.3
  Original Air Date--15 April 2004
  The team investigate the murder of a young peace protester, killed near a nuclear base in 1984. Was it a cover-up?

  Episode #1.4
  Original Air Date--22 April 2004
  A ten year old boy is killed on a golf course. 20 years later the team investigate but face obstruction from a snobbish golf club committee who struggle to keep women out of the bar and to protect the memory of a Falklands war hero.

  Episode #1.5
  Original Air Date--29 April 2004
  The team investigate the disappearance of an attractive young mum and her six-month old son in the 1970s. They also have to submit to a physical and psychological assessment.

  Episode #1.6
  Original Air Date--6 May 2004
  Jack Halford hopes a clairvoyant will put him in touch with his late wife. Instead he is contacted by a girl who disappeared twenty years earlier.

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• 5.0 out of 5 stars Great show!

  Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2024

  I had seen some of the episodes on tv and wanted to see the first ones, how they got started. I've thoroughly enjoyed it.
  

• 1.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful DVD but Subtitles on discs 2 and 3 don't work

  Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2011

  I have fallen in love with "New Tricks" and ordered all available seasons. The #1 season cost a fortune through an outside vendor and on Amazon Prime. I am an older lady who is hard of hearing. The last two discs said there were subtitles but they wouldn't work and I couldn't hear the dialog. I sent it back and hope to someday get the #1 season without the price gouging. I am surprised Amazon does business with a company that charges so outrageously. I should have ordered from one of the other vendors and now probably will. Amazon is my most favorite place to purchase almost everything.
  

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• 5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoying this Detective Series!

  Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2023

  Clever British detective series with engaging characters and mostly light-hearted and humorous. Doesn’t take itself too seriously. The caveat to this review is that, like so many television shows, I wouldn’t be able to watch this with children or my parents because of the sexual dialogue at times. There is also an occasional gory crime photo, but that has not been a big feature of this series so far. Media writers are so lacking in creativity and imagination that they have to keep trotting out the sexual innuendos and scenes, attacking God and the Bible, while portraying demonic and witch stuff in titillating fashion. Gets very old! We get through it to have something to watch, but wouldn’t share it with others. Definitely not as good as the Foyle’s War series.
  

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• 5.0 out of 5 stars This is a wonderful opening act for a great series

  Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2014

  Take three cranky retired detectives, add in one tough female supercop who's had a little bit of a career hiccup involving a dead dog and you get what is arguably one of the best British police shows ever. The concept is not especially new - "The Over-the-Hill Gang" was, after all, done about 40 years ago in the U.S. - but the execution of this cop show is especially well done because it is (a) brilliantly written, (b) extremely well acted and (c) because the characters are so very, very human. The top cop is Sandra Pullman, who has dedicated her life to her career at the expense of any true relationships. She falls in love with the wrong men and sometimes she drinks too much. One of her detectives has a slightly tarnished past and is a serial womanizer, another talks to his dead wife over a glass of scotch in his garden and the third is a recovering alcoholic who is certain that he is the victim of multiple conspiracies.
  They do not all get on well at first - in fact there are some classic scenes that show you exactly how badly they get on - but despite their differences and their quirks they do solve crimes that have been filed away as, well, unsolvable by other cops.
  This first series - including the pilot episode - sets the stage for many brilliant seasons that followed. If you are a fan of British police shows, and I am, you won't find the grittiness that mark some of them but what you will find is some great storytelling acted by some of Great Britain's most accomplished actors.
  

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