David Townsend is a fictional character portrayed by Gary Powell in the TV series New Tricks.
They appear in 1 episodes out of a total of 105 aired
Episodes1
The Gentleman Vanishes
episode S8.E7 august 2011In 2004 physics professor Philip MacKenna was apparently abducted from a Paris-bound train. His journey was last minute, after a colleague was robbed, and witnesses at the time proved to be using false identities, suggesting a plot to kidnap him for his expertise. Now his wife is getting cryptic emails, impossible to trace, suggesting he is alive, but she has been holding back a secret. A tip off from a Whitehall mandarin leads the team closer to the truth.