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Danny Griffin

Nicholas Lyndhurst arrived in episode five of series 10 as Danny Griffin, a recently retired officer with experience in both Murder Squad and the Diplomatic Protection Group.

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Job title
Retired Officer from the Murder Squad
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Nicholas Lyndhurst

Though he cuts a statuesque figure, Danny is more brains over brawn and his quick mind and hyper-vigilance has proven invaluable to cracking UCOS’ more complex cases. Mysterious but fiercely clever, Danny unnerves suspects with his left field interview techniques and quiet, unsettling remarks.

He is good mates with , who is easily wound up by his colleague’s dead-pan humour and tendency to rain on his parade.

This series, we see a softer side to Danny emerge as his relationship with forensic anthropologist Fiona blooms. His daughter has given her approval – her dad is the happiest she’s seen him in years – but Danny is nervous of telling his ex-wife Sarah, who has been recently sectioned.

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New arrival Dan gives Gerry an unwelcome history lesson.

Nicholas Lyndhurst

Nicholas Lyndhurst is one of British comedy's most recognised faces. He made his television debut in Heidi in 1976, soon gaining recognition in The Prince and the Pauper, Going Straight and Butterflies, as well as presenting the Saturday morning children's series Our Show, where he was billed as 'Nicky' Lyndhurst.

It wasn’t long before Nicholas became a household name as Rodney Trotter in John Sullivan's Only Fools and Horses. During the series 15 year run, Rodney evolved from a teenage ‘plonker’ to a sensitive family man, preceding Lyndhurst’s emergence as a leading man in The Two of Us, The Piglet Flies and Goodnight Sweetheart.

Nicholas has since appeared in an adaptation of Dickens' David Copperfield, as well as a crime drama Murder in Mind. In 2007, Lyndhurst returned with his first new sitcom in thirteen years, After You've Gone. In 2010, he played Freddie Robdal, the 1960s gangster father of Rodney Trotter in the prequel to Only Fools and Horses, entitled Rock & Chips. Nicholas revived Rodney Trotter for a Sports Relief Special in March 2014.

Nicholas joined New Tricks as a cast regular in 2013.