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The Best Episodes of A Touch of Frost

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Every episode of A Touch of Frost ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of A Touch of Frost!

The Best Episodes of A Touch of Frost

Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a...
  1. Background image for Deep Waters
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #1 - Deep Waters

    S4:E5

    A sub-postmistress is fatally stabbed in a small-scale robbery, and Frost wastes a lot of time questioning the leading suspects. Then, Helen Tudor, a beautiful first-year psychology student and keen swimmer at Denton University, is attacked on the campus, and suspicion initially falls on her psychology tutor, Keith Michaelson, but Frost's investigations uncover a link with the death of another beautiful young girl swimmer two years earlier, in another town.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  2. Background image for House Calls
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #2 - House Calls

    S5:E2

    The body of Lemmy Hoxton, a small-time burglar, is found at an abandoned farm. There is a spate of break-ins where the intruder gives the sleeping children injections, which reminds Frost of a similar series a few years earlier. A man returns home late one night to find his children dead and his wife missing. Frost's investigations make as many demands on his compassion as on his professional expertise, and he makes a serious error of judgement.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  3. Background image for No Other Love, aka Love Me Tender
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #3 - No Other Love, aka Love Me Tender

    S5:E4

    Frost investigates two domestic cases. The first is the tragically straightforward murder of a cantankerous old man by his wife. The other is a more cruelly deceptive one, in which a man is killed, and his son and one of his daughters go missing: Frost tracks them down to Blackpool, where she has gone for an abortion - but who was the father? The answer leads him and DS Barnard into a tragic confrontation with an armed and dangerous paedophile.

    Writer:Unknown
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  4. Background image for Appendix Man
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #4 - Appendix Man

    S6:E1

    Hazel Wallace returns from her training, as the new Detective Sergeant, and is put to work by Supt Mullett sorting out the mess left behind by DI Frost, while he is on extended compassionate leave. Before long she is called upon, when a man is found hanged in his home, and she suspects it was not suicide. Routine investigations show that a fresh set of fingerprints at the scene belong to an unidentified man who had been found drowned a year previously. Frost is summoned back by Supt Mullett to sort things out, and he connects a painting that appears to have been stolen from the hanged man with an art robbery & murder some years before.

    Director:Sandy Johnson
    Writer:Unknown
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  5. Background image for One Man's Meat
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #5 - One Man's Meat

    S6:E2

    Frost investigates two deaths: a homeless teenage girl, found beaten up and drowned in Denton's river; and that of an environmental health officer, after a dismembered arm is washed up on the shoreline. This leads to the investigation of a local meat processing factory.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  6. Background image for Line of Fire (1)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Line of Fire (1)

    S7:E1

    Frost's Christmas is overshadowed by a local power station worker falling to his death in a mysterious accident, shortly after he was burgled. Then a young police detective, Tim Fox, is murdered, and Frost wonders if it really is related to the large investigation he was working on to uncover a car theft gang.

    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Benefit of the Doubt (2)
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #7 - Benefit of the Doubt (2)

    S8:E2

    With the railroad murder solved, Frost tries to come to terms with having an 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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  9. Background image for Mistaken Identity (2)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Mistaken Identity (2)

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  10. Background image for Hidden Truth
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Hidden Truth

    S10:E1

    A vital witness to a gangland killing goes missing before she can give evidence in court, And frost finds himself under pressure to find her and her son before a hitman can get to them. Frost thinks he has won the lottery but he has lost his ticket!

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  11. Background image for Held In Trust
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Held In Trust

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  12. Background image for Near Death Experience
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Near Death Experience

    S12:E1

    The murder of a widow soon gives Frost a chance to prove his worth again, but the investigation only reveals an intriguing web of deceit, and it isn't until a forensic psychologist joins the team that they realise a serial killer is at work.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  13. Background image for In the Public Interest
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - In the Public Interest

    S14:E3

    Three naked bodies are found buried, and laid out in the shape of a triangle. Meanwhile, there is trouble when a multi-millionaire businessman decides to relocate his corporate headquarters to Denton.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  14. Background image for If Dogs Run Free (1)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - If Dogs Run Free (1)

    S15:E1

    The first in the final two-part episode in the series sees Frost attempting to crack an illegal dog-fighting ring, only to discover that its manager, a wealthy Denton businessman, has links to a drug-smuggling operation. Frost also begins to form a relationship with RSPCA Inspector Christine Moorhead, and attempts to finally get over the death of his wife.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  15. Background image for If Dogs Run Free (2)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - If Dogs Run Free (2)

    S15:E2

    Frost considers retiring from the Police force and plans to get married, ending the series, however DS George Toolan dies of heart failure following a collision outside the church where the wedding is about to take place. It is noteworthy that an alternate ending was filmed, where Frost is killed instead of George, but David Jason chose the 'happier' ending over this one.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  16. Background image for Widows and Orphans
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #15 - Widows and Orphans

    S2:E2

    Frost investigates a series of break-ins and brutal attacks at the homes of elderly people. He is helped by a female detective, DS Lawson, who also offers him advice on his personal life.

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  17. Background image for Appropriate Adults
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #16 - Appropriate Adults

    S3:E1

    An 8-year-old girl is missing, and the last person to have seen her is Billy Conrad, a gentle young man with Down's syndrome, but who appears is hiding something.

    Director:Herbert Wise
    Writer:Unknown
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  18. Background image for Benefit of the Doubt (1)
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #17 - Benefit of the Doubt (1)

    S8:E1

    While Denton´s female population has to watch out 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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  19. Background image for Endangered Species
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #18 - Endangered Species

    S13:E1

    Frost responds to a call for help but, when he arrives at the scene, all he finds is a disembodied leg… and a crocodile!

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  20. Background image for Stranger in the House
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #19 - Stranger in the House

    S2:E4

    Frost is invited to join fellow George Cross recipients in London. He is instructed to enlist the aid of WPC Hazel Wallace as a decoy to catch a serial rapist, but it exposes her to serious danger.

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  21. Background image for No Refuge
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #20 - No Refuge

    S3:E4

    There is an armed robbery at a local family-run glassworks, in which an employee is shot dead. The owner, who is one of the witnesses, is then threatened, and goes into hiding. The family has a tangled web of personal relationships, which Frost has to understand, in order to find who is doing the threatening. Meanwhile, Shirley Fisher's mother dies, and he fails to attend the funeral. DS Lawson lets business and personal relationships mix, with serious consequences.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  22. Background image for Unknown Soldiers
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #21 - Unknown Soldiers

    S4:E2

    Frost is held at gunpoint by a drugs dealer, a Territorial soldier is shot dead on an exercise, and a security van is robbed by a shotgun-wielding gang. Frost investigates the three incidents, and tries to find any links between them. His intrusions onto the army base stir up hostility from the commanding officer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  23. Background image for Not with Kindness
    7.2/10(5 votes)

    #22 - Not with Kindness

    S1:E2

    Frost investigates the murder of a teenage girl, and the case of a woman who has been receiving threatening phone calls. Meanwhile, at the Denton police station, there are threats, deaths, arson and a staff shortage.

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  24. Background image for Quarry
    7.2/10(4 votes)

    #23 - Quarry

    S3:E2

    An odd group of animal rights advocates attempting to sabotage a foxhunt includes a working-class teenager, who is murdered. Then another person associated with the anti-hunt protesters is murdered. His investigations take Frost to tea with a local squire, but Supt Mullett is apprehensive lest he upset the gentry.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  25. Background image for Nothing to Hide
    7.0/10(4 votes)

    #24 - Nothing to Hide

    S2:E3

    Upon investigation, Frost discovers that the apparently accidental death of a drug addict was actually murder. He also decides to confront an aspect of his own past.

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  26. Background image for True Confessions
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #25 - True Confessions

    S5:E3

    A man's church confession provides an insight into what appears to be a straightforward murder. But before Frost can make an arrest, he is suspended over the outcome of a related case 10 years earlier.

    Director:Sandy Johnson
    Writer:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"Deep Waters" is the best rated episode of "A Touch of Frost". It scored 8/10 based on 3 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/4/1996. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "House Calls".