The 8th series of New Tricks had 10 episodes which aired from July 4 to September 5 2011. The show is crime drama with a nice bit of comedy and entertaining characters. It was at the top of it's popularity this series. Eight of the episodes had over 9 million viewers and The Gentleman Vanishes is the most popular episode in the whole series with 9.87 million viewers. There are two more series after this one and an 11th one coming later this year.
Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman is played by Amanda Redman. She's the lead detective on the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS). She got 3 detectives to come out of retirement to investigate cold cases. The guys are Ex-Detective Inspector Brian Lane, played by Alun Armstrong; Ex-Detective Sergeant Gerry Standing played by Dennis Waterman; Ex-Detective Chief Superintendent Jack Halford, played by James Bolam. I really like all the actors, they really make their characters come alive. There's a bit of stuff from their home lives but not too much. They don't always have the best of times but who does.
Old Fossils The gang is investigating a murder from 2001. A palaeontologist was killed at the National History Museum.
End of the Line The UCOS squad is investigating the murder of a vagrant on a tube train from 15 years ago.
Lost in Translation Gerry's taking French cooking lessons from a pretty lady. The gang is investigating the charder remains of some dead guy who might have links to Albania.
Setting Out Your Stall Someone is drugging women and raping them, which ties into a murder from several years earlier. Amanda has issues with her old and ill mum.
Moving Target A psychologist is visiting the UCOS unit to research older men in the working place. She gets them to investigate the hit and run of her brain damaged brother.
Objects of Desire The team invistigates the death an antiques dealer.
The Gentleman Vanishes A man disappears between tube train cars. He was a scientist working on cold fusion. What happened to him? Find out by watching.
Only the Brave Has the team investigating the death of a biker in order to stop his son from killing a man.
Half Life The UCOS squad is investigating the death of a man in the witness protection program.
Tiger Tiger The team investigates the death of a zoo keeper who's dead body was disposed of by being tossed into the Tiger's cage. Chomp, chomp!
A nice series, one worth watching, at least once, maybe more. The stories are nice and tight, well written and not to melodramatic. They're all an hour long and it moves quite quickly to the conclusion. I find them engaging and while I don't plan on buying them but I might run through the series again once a time or two has past.
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