"New Tricks" Mad Dogs (2008)

Director:

Dermot Boyd

Writers:

Roy Mitchell (written by)
Al Ashton (story)

TV Series:

"New Tricks" (2003)

Original Air Date:

25 August 2008 (Season 5, Episode 8)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

The UCOS team investigates the death of Eric Trimble, a soldier who was beaten to death in 1991. Their informant tells them that he and Eric...

Cast

Alun Armstrong	...	Brian Lane
James Bolam	...	Jack Halford
Amanda Redman	...	Det Supt Sandra Pullman
Dennis Waterman	...	Gerry Standing
Anthony Calf	...	D A C Strickland
Susan Jameson	...	Esther Lane
Sam Hazeldine	...	Mark Lane
René Zagger	...	Andy Merrill (as Rene Zagger)
Ralph Ineson	...	D I Hamilton
Nicole Charles	...	Alicia Trimble
Ellen Thomas	...	Cora Trimble
Michael Simkins	...	Colonel Kilmartin
Andrew Tiernan	...	Sgt Major Sharratt
Will Keen	...	Ronnie Glazebrook
Phyllis Logan	...	Dr. Mathieson

Company:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Goofs:

Continuity: When Brian Lane was briefing the rest of the team about the murder, the photographs of the victim and his friends who were the last people to see him alive were fastened to a notice board by magnets of various different colours. In the long shots of Brian in front of the board and in the extreme close-ups of the photos, the victim's photo has a green magnet. However in the medium shots of Brian, the magnet is grey.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Brian Lane: Crap. Absolute crap. You're a bloody disgrace. Three-nil to that shower. What a load of complete, five-star, total, bloody rubbish!
Mark Lane: Dad, it was a friendly.
Brian Lane: There's no such thing. You should never have lost. Never in a million years.
Mark Lane: Against Spurs? We're non-league; they're ten divisions above us. What do you want to drink?
Brian Lane: Nothing. I'll just eat me bloody orange.