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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 14 Episode 2 - Dead End
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    S14:E2

    A bus driver and conductress are abducted. Frost is unhappy at being paired with DS Marsh, who made a complaint about him 15 years before.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:N/A

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  2. undefined Season 9 Episode 2 - Mistaken Identity (2)
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    S9:E2

    Background enquiries turn up two previous deaths, which appear related to the case. But their initial suspect, armed bank-robber Charlie Lehman, turns out to have died in prison over a year earlier. As they work to profile the killer they are hunting, Frost starts to get close to Hartley personally as well as professionally, though neither realises just how closely she is linked to the case until it is almost too late. Frost has a race against time to find where she is being held.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:N/A

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  3. undefined Season 8 Episode 2 - Benefit of the Doubt (2)
    8.7/10(3 votes)

    S8:E2

    With the railroad murder solved, Frost tries to come to terms with having a previously unknown daughter. Detective Reid is sent to look for contraband cigarettes, but is found nearly dead on a public toilet. Was he high, or did Frost's lookalike have anything to do with it? Meanwhile, Frost eliminates suspect after suspect in the surgeon murder, and ends up saving several lives.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:N/A

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  4. undefined Season 9 Episode 1 - Mistaken Identity (1)
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    S9:E1

    A body with no identification is found in a local reservoir, and a couple fall victim to a brutal killer in their own home. Frost is assigned a new, female, West Indian detective constable, Ronni Lonnegan, and gets off to a bad start with a few racially-insensitive remarks. He then reluctantly accepts the help of a psychological profiler, psychiatrist Pam Hartley, whom he met at a conference. Meanwhile, there is an inspection of Denton Police underway, and Frost's old-fashioned methods are not endearing him to the inspector, so Supt Mullett is forced to give him more support than usual.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:N/A

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  5. undefined Season 8 Episode 1 - Benefit of the Doubt (1)
    8.3/10(2 votes)

    S8:E1

    While Denton's female population has to be on the lookout for a con man posing as Frost, Frost himself has more dire concerns: a woman found dead by the railroad. To top it off, Frost has to work with a soon-to-be wash-out with possible drug problems. Then, a disliked surgeon goes missing, and turns up dead.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:N/A

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  6. undefined Season 10 Episode 3 - Held In Trust
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    S10:E3

    DI Frost pursues a paedophile suspected of abducting a 10-year-old boy from a Denton Town football match. Initially, Frost is unsure whether the lad simply ran away or is genuinely the victim of a kidnapping, but when the boy is found dead and a man is found dead following a hit and run incident, the identity of the latter creates a frightening link to the missing child. When a second child turns up dead in a deserted quarry, Frost is in a desperate race against time to stop a third child being murdered. While Frost is contending with this a note arrives from a secret admirer and Mullet tries to push Frost into a promotion he doesn't want.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:N/A

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  7. undefined Season 2 Episode 1 - A Minority of One
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    S2:E1

    Frost is assigned a new, West Indian detective constable, Clive Tanner; transferred in to help him investigate a string of commercial burglaries, which leads him to a black family on the local Eastdean estate, that he calls ""the crime academy"", while feeling guilt over the death of one of his informants. Will the arrest of the apparent culprit lead to accusations of police racism?

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:N/A

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  8. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - Who Won the War Anyway?
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E2

    Neville is suspended from work when his boss finds out that he's a bricklayer rather than a carpenter. Watching a group of men playing football, Neville spots an unexploded bomb which has been unearthed by a mechanical digger. He raises the alarm and is hailed as a hero. The boss finds a bricklaying job for him. There's a sudden vacancy because Oz has been in a fight with a group of Germans and has been sacked. The German workers go on strike until Oz is reinstated.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:N/A

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  9. undefined Season 1 Episode 3 - The Girls They Left Behind
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E3

    Oz's wife, Marjorie, hasn't heard from him for quite a while and she's getting desperate for money. She goes to see Dennis' wife, Vera, and asks her where the lads are in Germany. Oz gets a letter from Marjorie, but marks it 'not known at this address' and sends it back. He takes a trip to watch a football match, gets drunk and wakes up on a plane bound for Newcastle. He makes his way home and gives Marjorie a sob story about not having any money. When Oz is still missing after several days, the lads back in Dusseldorf auction off his belongings and send the proceeds to his Newcatle address. He reappears to find that Marjorie has, apparetly, got the money she wanted from him after all.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:N/A

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  10. undefined Season 1 Episode 6 - The Accused
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E6

    Neville meets a German girl in a bar and they share a taxi home. The girl is later assaulted and Neville is arrested by the police for the assault and protests his innocence. But none of his English friends are of any use to him it takes a group of German workers from the building site track down the real culprit and force him to give himself up to the police, and therefore freeing Neville.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:N/A

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  11. undefined Season 1 Episode 7 - Private Lives
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E7

    Dennis is getting it together with Dagmar from the site office. He takes her off to a hotel for a romantic interlude. Meanwhile, Wayne and Barry are 'on the pull' and have met up with a couple of Swedish air hostesses staying at the same hotel. Oz decides to play a practical joke on them, so he rings the hotel and leaves a message telling Barry and Wayne to go up to a particular room. The room is occupied by a German couple who think they're being mugged. Wayne and Barry have to 'do a runner' from the hotel. Their escapades ruin Dennis and Dagmar's chances of a romantic evening.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:N/A

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  12. undefined Season 1 Episode 8 - The Fugitive
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E8

    The lads go off for a weekend's fishing in the country, where they meet up with an English hitchhiker who is very mysterious, they lads suspicions grow when he later runs away from the police. However after a large confruntation the lads find out the truth, the boys turns out to be AWOL from the Army. The lads persuade him to do the right thins and return to his unit.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:N/A

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  13. undefined Season 1 Episode 13 - When the Boat Goes Out
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E13

    It's just about time to pack up and go home now that the German government has decided that all foreign workers will have to register and pay income tax. Dennis has decided to go back to Vera, so he plans to spend one last night with Dagmar. The rest of the lads go out on the town. When they get back to the building site, a fire starts and the hut is burnt to the ground. They all go round to stay the night at Dagmar's place. Next day, the lads go their separate ways and Dennis, Neville and Oz catch the ferry back to England.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:N/A

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  14. undefined Season 3 Episode 3 - Dead Male One
    5.7/10(6 votes)

    S3:E3

    Frost's Saturday afternoon is disrupted by the discovery of a man's body floating in the river, and it turns out that he is not who he claimed to be. Events become more intriguing when the star player of a local football team collapses during a press conference, following an incident on the pitch in which he received head injuries.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:N/A

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  15. undefined Season 11 Episode 1 - Another Life
    5.0/10(4 votes)

    S11:E1

    After a seven-month long suspension, Frost is back on the job. His first case is a floater in Denton River, with £6000 in his pockets. The man also carries with him a list with four sets of mysterious numbers, and the keys to two different cars. The local dance competion is the venue for another drama: a missing con man who recently switched dance partners, and a woman with a Hollywood name and a terrible temper - who keeps on ordering new fridges for her dance partners... But Frost is more interested in getting his teeth back in order after a particularly vicious lollipop.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:N/A

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  16. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - If I Were a Carpenter
    4.0/10(2 votes)

    S1:E1

    Dennis, Neville and Oz head for Germany, looking for work as bricklayers. They get work in Dusseldorf, but only two bricklayers are needed. Dennis makes out that Neville is a carpenter so that the trio can stay together. Neville isn't too happy with his work, since his carpentry skills are very limited. He decides to call it a day and head back home. That night, he goes out on the town and has too much to drink. He wakes up next morning with a tattoo on his arm, dedicated to someone named Lotte. He decides that he'll have to stay in Dusseldorf for the time being.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:N/A

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  17. undefined Season 2 Episode 1 - The Return of the Seven Part 1
    4.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E1

    Barry needs some help to finish renovating his house in Wolverhampton before he marries his girlfriend, Hazel. He sends out an SOS to his old pals from Dusseldorf. Dennis, Neville, Wayne and Bomber turn up to help out. They all go off for a drink and come back to find an intruder in Barry's house. It's Moxie - unknown to the others, he's escaped from prison.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:N/A

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  18. undefined Season 2 Episode 2 - The Return of the Seven Part 2
    4.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E2

    Dennis has to go back to Newcastle to see his boss, Ally Fraser. While he's there, he meets up with Oz and brings him back to Wolverhampton. Ally Fraser asks him to put together a work gang to renovate an old manor house in Derbyshire.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:N/A

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  19. undefined Season 2 Episode 3 - A Law for the Rich
    4.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E3

    The gang, minus Barry, arrive at Thornley Manor to start the renovation work. One of the locals reports them to the police, thinking they're housebreakers. They're staying at a local pub, where landlord Arthur Pringle takes an instant dislike to them.

    Director:Roger Bamford
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  20. undefined Season 2 Episode 4 - Another Country
    4.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E4

    It's discovered that Thornley Manor is a listed building, so the lads are forced to stop work. Arthur Pringle throws everyone out of the pub after he catches Wayne in bed with his daughter.

    Director:Roger Bamford
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  21. undefined Season 2 Episode 5 - A Home from Home
    4.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E5

    The lads can't find accommodation because Arthur Pringle has 'put the word out' about them. They have to 'rough it' in Thornley Manor. Then they find an amateur video showing sexy goings on at the Manor - with Arthur Pringle as one of the stars.

    Director:Roger Bamford
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  22. undefined Season 2 Episode 7 - No Sex Please, We're Brickies
    4.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E7

    Ally Fraser wants the conversion work at Thornley Manor to be finished quickly. He offers the lads some more work renovating his villa in Spain. Arthur Pringle discovers that Wayne didn't bother to get an import license for his German car. He tells the Customs & Excise and they impound Wayne's car. The lads help to get the car back and manage to finish the work at the manor. Before leaving, they brick up Arthur Pringle's front door.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:N/A

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  23. undefined Season 2 Episode 8 - Marjorie Doesn't Live Here Anymore
    4.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E8

    Oz goes back to Newcastle and finds that his wife Marjorie has moved away and someone else is living in his flat. He goes to his son Rod's school and waits for the lad to come out. He learns that Marjorie is now living with an Italian named Sandro. She plans to move to Italy with him, taking Rod with her.

    Director:Roger Bamford
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  24. undefined Season 2 Episode 10 - Scoop
    4.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E10

    Spain turns out to be a bit of a let-down, with a distinct lack of the 'action' some of the lads were looking forward to. The gang have problems with the local police after they go swimming in someone's pool, thinking it belongs to Ally Fraser. A British journalist thinks the lads are a gang of bank robbers on the run. They end up being featured in all of the British tabloid newspapers.

    Director:Roger Bamford
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  25. undefined Season 2 Episode 11 - Law and Disorder
    4.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E11

    The lads have a few days off work. Ally tells them to make a real effort to persuade everyone that they're tourist rather than illegal workers.

    Director:Roger Bamford
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Roger Bamford Ratings Summary

"Dead End" is the best rated episode directed by Roger Bamford. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 10/19/2008 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Mistaken Identity (2)".