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Why did Dennis Waterman leave New Tricks? ›

Actor Dennis Waterman is leaving crime drama New Tricks after working on the show for over a decade because he "misses the original line-up". The 66-year-old star has been on the show since it began in 2003 and is the last remaining member of the original cast.

New Tricks is being axed after 12 series of the BBC1 detective drama. The BBC announced the decision, saying it was time to make way for new series on its flagship channel. Launched in 2003, New Tricks will screen one last series featuring Larry Lamb, Tamzin Outhwaite, Nicholas Lyndhurst and Denis Lawson.

The Chinese Job was the first episode of the first series of New Tricks and was subsequently the first regular appearance of DSI Sandra Pullman, Jack Halford, Gerry Standing, Brian Lane, DAC Donald Bevan and PC Izzy Clarke.

Really enjoyable, fun to watch, well written! Good stories and well defined characters. I like British police procedurals, this is a lighthearted version of that genre.

While making New Tricks, Redman and Waterman formed a "joyous" bond with the other leads James Bolam and Alun Armstrong. She said: "It was an incredibly close-knit bunch, the four of us. We were so close. We never disagreed about things.

He would later be dismissed from the team in 2013 after inappropriately giving a tape to Sarah Kaye concerning the death of her son, Anthony Kaye.

In 1982, Waterman starred in the musical Windy City. A relatively short-lived production. The cast included Amanda Redman, with whom Waterman had an eighteen-month affair during the run of the musical and with whom he later went on to star in the TV series New Tricks.

"I love New Tricks and I have loved playing Sandra - I've got some gritty plotlines - but I feel I have to try something new," Redman told The Mirror. "And that is why I've decided I am going to film a further eight episodes and then I'll leave.

A Death In The Family was the first episode of the ninth series of New Tricks.

As a result of a cold case in which Gerry is unsuccessfully framed for murder, a major gangster is convicted despite several attempts on Gerry's life, and he decides to fake his death to protect his family. At his "funeral", a text to Sasha reveals he has retired to America.

When did Amanda Redman leave New Tricks? ›

From 2003 to 2013, Redman took the role of DSI Sandra Pullman in the BBC's New Tricks. In July 2013, she announced her departure; Tamzin Outhwaite replaced her.

In the episode, titled The Crazy Gang, the team investigates the murder of a political activist 15 years earlier but, just as it is getting somewhere, Ted orders the investigation to be halted and UCOS is threatened with closure following its perceived mishandling of the Hanway case.

Change in cast

In 2013, both Alun Armstrong and Amanda Redman departed to be replaced by Nicholas Lyndhurst and Tamzin Outhwaite, respectively.

New Tricks was a perennial black sheep at awards shows – according to IMDb, the only thing it ever won was a single Tric award six years ago – and critics spent years mercilessly clambering over it in search of newer and prettier shows.

"I love New Tricks and I have loved playing Sandra - I've got some gritty plotlines - but I feel I have to try something new," Redman told The Mirror. "And that is why I've decided I am going to film a further eight episodes and then I'll leave.

She was scalded by a pan of boiling hot turkey and vegetable soup and suffered burns to 75% of her body. Her arm was the only part of her body permanently affected, but the trauma was so severe that she was pronounced clinically dead at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, Sussex.

When Frank Patterson reveals evidence that ties Ricky and his son, Luke, to Mary's death, Ricky is sent to prison. Although Jack never gets over the death of his wife, the culprit's incarceration gives the detective the peace of mind he deserves.