New Tricks - Season 8

New Tricks - Season 8

Season 8

Brian Lane, Jack Halford and Gerry Standing may be eccentric, ignore procedure, bend the rules and take risks, but they get results. Series 8 sees them opening the files on the death of a senior palaeontologist at the Natural History Musuem, the hit and run of a cycle courier, the murder of a vagrant on a tube train, a missing scientist who disappeared on the London to Paris Eurostar and the murder of the leader of a notorious criminal biker gang. Among the guest stars appearing in the series are Sheila Hancock, Keith Allen, Peter Davison, Tim McInnerny, Rebecca Front, Sally Phillips, Paul McGann, Shaun Williamson and Emily Glenister. The team also face their own personal dilemmas with Brian suspecting wife Esther of having an affair, Sandra questioning her role at UCOS, Jack struggling to deal with his own emotions during the hit and run case and Gerry back on the dating scene -older, but not wiser.
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Episodes10
DatesJul 4, 2011 - Sep 5, 2011
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Episodes

Old Fossils
Season 8Episode 160 min

Old Fossils

The team reinvestigates a decades old death at the Natural History Museun. Did senior palentologist Bernard Fletcher die from a fall, or was he murdered? To solve the case, the aging detectives must walk amoung the dinosaurs.

Jul 4, 2011
End of the Line
Season 8Episode 260 min

End of the Line

When DNA tests on a suspected robber prove his innocence, they also point to an earlie r crime: the 15 year old murder of an unarmed vagrant on a tube train.The trailleads the team to the victim's posh relatives, and Brian has a run-in with the homeless community.

Jul 11, 2011
Lost in Translation
Season 8Episode 360 min

Lost in Translation

When DNA tests on a charred remains from 1996 reveal family ties to a fingerprint analyst at the Home Office, drawing the team into a world of immigration loopholes and Albanian gangs. Meanwhile, Gerry takes a class in French cooking and meets a saucy woman

Jul 18, 2011
Setting Out Your Stall
Season 8Episode 460 min

Setting Out Your Stall

New information sheds light on the 2009 death of a popular market trader. It seems that she was drugged and killed by a serial rapist, but with that case still ongoing, the team must look elsdwhere for clues. It doesn't help when Sandra's mother comes for a visit.

Jul 25, 2011
Moving Target
Season 8Episode 560 min

Moving Target

A psycologist arrives to conduct a study of older men in the workplace and asks the team for help on a personal matter, Years earlier, her berother, a bicycle messenger, was the victim of a hit and run that left him with severe memory loss. Now he claims he was a target--and still is.

Aug 1, 2011
Object of Desire
Season 8Episode 660 min

Object of Desire

Reinvestigating the murder of a respected antiques dealer reunites Sandra with an old flame, DCI James Larson. Will she follow her head or her heart? Meanwhile, Brian faces his own crisis at home. His wife, Esther is behaving very oddly. Is she having an affair?

Aug 8, 2011
The Gentleman Vanishes
Season 8Episode 760 min

The Gentleman Vanishes

In 2004, a prominent physics professor disappeared from a train bound for Paaris. When his wife receives emails from someone claiming to know the reason, the team reopens the case. Then their boss, DAS Strickland, is warned off by a shadowy Whitehall figure.

Aug 15, 2011
Only the Brave
Season 8Episode 860 min

Only the Brave

When a frightened young woman offers new information about the killin of the leader of a biker gang, the team agrees to take another look at the case--and perhaps prevent a second murder. A former colleague tells Sandra that she is wasting her career.

Aug 22, 2011
Half Life
Season 8Episode 960 min

Half Life

A man found murdered in an alleyway seven years earlier is identified on a website about unsolved cries. The team reinvestigates the case, but the man seems to have no past. Meanwhile, job cuts are imminent, and Brian and Gerry fear being downsized

Aug 29, 2011
Tiger Tiger
Season 8Episode 1060 min

Tiger Tiger

In 2006, when a zookeeper's body was discovered in the tiger enclosure, the death was ruled a tragic accident. New evidence now suggests it was murder. As the team tracks down clues, animal rights activist Brian clashes with the zoo's PR department.

Sep 5, 2011

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