New Tricks: Series 11
Role: Meticulous television and film archivist. Task: Produce a JSON object for "New Tricks" Season 11. Keys: overview (160-220 words), primer (array of exactly 4 concise bullet points). Constraints: Use ONLY provided synopsis and sources. No invented facts. No markdown/asterisks/headings/bullets in the prose (though the primer is an array). Output valid JSON only. Content: overview: Factual summary of Season 11's na
Season 11 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of New Tricks Season 10.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Season overview
Role: Meticulous television and film archivist.
Task: Produce a JSON object for "New Tricks" Season 11.
Keys: overview (160-220 words), primer (array of exactly 4 concise bullet points).
Constraints: Use ONLY provided synopsis and sources. No invented facts. No markdown/asterisks/headings/bullets in the prose (though the primer is an array). Output valid JSON only.
Content:
overview: Factual summary of Season 11's narrative arc.
primer: 4 concise bullet points on previous lore/characters/stakes.
TMDB Season Synopsis:
Only one original member left: Gerry Standing (Dennis Waterman).
Team has changed.
Former leader: DS Sandra Pullman (Amanda Redman) left in the last series.
New leader: DCI Sasha Miller (Tamzin Outhwaite).
Other squad members: Steve McAndrew (Denis Lawson) and Dan Griffin (Nicholas Lyndhurst).
Source [1]: British comedy-drama about the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police.
Source [2]: Originally led by DS Sandra Pullman. Made up of retired police officers recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.
Source [3]: Created by Nigel McCrery and Roy Mitchell.
Source [4]: Dates 2003-2015.
Overview:
Season 11 of the British comedy-drama New Tricks focuses on the evolving dynamics of the Metropolitan Police Service's fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad. The team has undergone significant changes, leaving Gerry Standing, portrayed by Dennis Waterman, as the sole remaining member of the original squad. The leadership of the unit has also transitioned; the ambitious Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, played by Amanda Redman, departed the series in the previous season. She has been replaced by DCI Sasha Miller, portrayed by Tamzin Outhwaite, who now leads the group. The current squad composition includes Steve McAndrew, played by Denis Lawson, and Dan Griffin, played by Nicholas Lyndhurst. As a police procedural, the series continues to follow these retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes. This season highlights the new team structure as they navigate their roles within the squad, maintaining the core mission of the unit while adapting to the loss of original members and the introduction of new leadership to handle cold cases.
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Episode Guide
Season 11 Progress Shield
Bermondsey Boy
Aug 18, 2014 · 60 min
Family ties affect both Gerry Standing and Sasha Miller. While Sasha is forced to work with ex-husband Ned as he fills in for Strickland, Gerry returns to his roots in Bermondsey t
Tender Loving Care
Aug 25, 2014 · 60 min
The team investigate the unsolved killing of brilliant young doctor Lydia Dryden in a case that takes them into the two very different worlds of public and private medicine. Danny
Deep Swimming
Sep 1, 2014 · 60 min
The team looks into the death of a terrorist 30 years previously after his daughter receives an anonymous note claiming he was murdered - an investigation that takes them right bac
Ghosts
Sep 8, 2014 · 60 min
When Steve McAndrew's teenage son Stewie is arrested for drug possession, he finds himself face to face again with his ex-wife Tricia as they try to save the boy from a downward sp
London Underground
Sep 15, 2014 · 60 min
Tension mounts as Ned and Sasha are forced to work together when the body of a film critic found in a sewer is thought to be linked to the 20-year-old murder of a concept artist, D
Roman Ruined
Sep 22, 2014 · 60 min
The team investigate the death of a personal trainer who had belonged to a Roman reenactment society and discover a gang selling illegal steroids, but the motive for murder may not
In Vino Veritas
Sep 29, 2014 · 60 min
UCOS want to talk to a Turkish girl who is found working illegally in Dalston, regarding a unsolved murder from 2009. The landlord of a pub, Richard Gibson, died in a fire and th
The English Defence
Oct 6, 2014 · 60 min
While investigating the murder of 55 year-old interpreter Agnes Bradley, the UCOS team get a partial DNA match from a teenage boy who once threw a brick onto a motorway as a dare.
Breadcrumbs
Oct 13, 2014 · 60 min
When cold-crime enthusiast Ellen Barker is murdered, a photo of Dan Griffin is found at her house. Griffin is interviewed by the murder team, who realise that Ellen was a friend of
The Queen's Speech
Oct 20, 2014 · 60 min
A mix tape from 1983 is discovered, containing the voice of a teenage girl who was murdered shortly after it went into her school's time capsule. Griffin becomes convinced that the