New Tricks: Season 1

This video series is for all ages. Funny and a great mystery to solve. The characters are great. buy it.

If you own a DVD player that plays all formats, this is a great value. The entire series is here, funny and entertaining. What better way to solve old crimes! We waited a while to receive this since it came from UK but the price was good and it arrived in good condition.

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 #1.0Original Air Date--27 March 2003As 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 #1.1Original Air Date--1 April 2004The 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 #1.2Original Air Date--8 April 2004Sir 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 #1.3Original Air Date--15 April 2004The team investigate the murder of a young peace protester, killed near a nuclear base in 1984. Was it a cover-up?Episode #1.4Original Air Date--22 April 2004A 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 #1.5Original Air Date--29 April 2004The 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 #1.6Original Air Date--6 May 2004Jack 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.

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.

We were familiar with the series but from later shows. We enjoyed seeing how it began. In my effort to get closed caption working we got to hear the theme song too many times. Good series. We enjoyed this season.

A fast rising female detective inspector runs into a problem' in an otherwise successful raid, she shot a dog. Never mind that it was a guard dog lunging for her, all the public cares about is, she shot a dog! She is shunted into a new position dedicated to cracking cold cases with a squad of retired senior detectives working on contract. Sherlock Holmes, Peter Wimsey and Hercule Poirot they are NOT. In the first episode, we see the hiring interviews. After eliminating the drunks, the racists, the sexists, and those who have heart attacks upon being offered the job, she is left with a trio of detectives of the old school whose methods are not exactly approved by modern courts, and who are all battling their own particular demons from their days on the force. Nonetheless, they generally succeed, although with the unheralded and generally unrecognized assistance of a junior black constable assigned to do a lot of the administrative work.Played with a straight face, but with scripts which go as much for humor as for the mystery. This show has been going on for quite a while. Most of the first season cases seem to derive from the late 70s and early 80s, but at the time of filming they would only have been about 20-25 years old.

I realize the time and effort taken to "fix" used dvds. The quality is like new. I appreciate the response I received from the company. unfortunately I am computer illiterate and don't know how to remove my previous review.

The DVD's sent would not work on USA equipment. Why did Amazon import these DVD's knowing they will not work on USA equipment. Makes them look like amateurs.

arrived on time for home use

This series was one that has been thoroughly enjoyed in our home several times. It had great story lines, some that carried over several series. The stars of the show made it a stellar cast. I was disappointed that it was cancelled. This is a great series for anyone who enjoys an easy to watch but compelling police series. Great British tv!

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Addictive and great pleasure to see them all again!Unexpected plots and marvelous actors! We need more of this series!!

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