DVD
New tricks. Season 1 [videorecording] / a Wall to Wall production for BBC ; producer, Gina Cronk ; screenwriters, Roy Mitchell, Simon Block, Nic Fisher, Alison Hume, Tony McHale ; directors, Paul Seed (episodes 1 & 4), Jamie Payne (episodes 5 & 6), and Jon East (episodes 5 & 6).
As punishment for messing up a kidnap rescue and shooting a dog in the process, Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman is re-assigned to the newly created unsolved murder squad. Due to a manpower shortage her team is made up of veteran detectives brought back onto the police force, bringing a 1970's mentality to modern policing. The team's first case is to re-investigate a twenty year old murder conviction which has suddenly come into question due to police corruption. Sifting through the lies, dubious motives and the police cover up during the first investigation, the unorthodox methods of the dinosaur detectives eventually discover what really happened twenty years ago. In the process, the squad clears up two murders and an armed robbery.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781419884153
- ISBN: 883929079339
- Physical Description: 3 videodiscs (ca. 437 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: [London] : BBC Video ; c2009.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Contains the pilot and 6 episodes from the first season. Created by Roy Mitchell and Nigel McCrery. Originally broadcast on BBC television in 2003. Title from container. |
| Creation/Production Credits Note: | Music, Martin Phipps. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Amanda Redman, James Bolam, Alun Armstrong, Dennis Waterman. |
| Target Audience Note: | Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A. |
| System Details Note: | DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital stereo. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | For private home use only. |
| Language Note: | Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. |
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In this comic thriller, disgraced detective Sandra Pullman (Redman) is being given one last chance to save her career. But to do so, she must lead a ragtag band of retired ex-detectives in a new department, the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS). Pullman's motley crew - grieving widower Jack Halford (Bolam), obsessive/compulsive ex-Inspector Brian Lane (Armstrong) and ex-Sergeant Gerry Standing (Waterman) - have a wealth of experience, but times have changed and this trio of eccentric dinosaurs soon discover that the rules of the game are no longer what they used to be. - Baker & Taylor
Disgraced detective Sandra Pullman is given a chance to save her career by heading up a team of retired detectives in charge of solving open cold cases.
