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The Worst Episodes of A Touch of Frost

Every episode of A Touch of Frost ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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...
Genres:DramaCrimeMystery
Network:ITV1

Worst Episodes Summary

"A Minority of One" is the worst rated episode of "A Touch of Frost". It scored 7.4/10 based on 415 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/9/1994. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Fun Times for Swingers".

  • A Minority of One
    7.4/10415 votes
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    #1 - A Minority of One

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/9/1994

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Fun Times for Swingers
    7.5/10321 votes
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    #2 - Fun Times for Swingers

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/1996

    A woman commits suicide naked in public, and Frost connects her death with the later death of a gigolo. He discovers that the dead man had business with several women in Denton. Meanwhile there appears to be a series of break-ins at the local cricket pavilion, and Supt Mullett, who is a member, orders Frost to investigate them as well as the murder.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dead End
    7.5/10259 votes
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    #3 - Dead End

    Season 14 Episode 2 - Aired 10/19/2008

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Nothing to Hide
    7.6/10389 votes
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    #4 - Nothing to Hide

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/23/1994

    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.

    Director: John Glenister

    Writer: Richard Harris

  • Quarry
    7.6/10358 votes
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    #5 - Quarry

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/15/1995

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dead Male One
    7.6/10339 votes
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    #6 - Dead Male One

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/22/1995

    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 soccer team collapses during a press conference, following an incident on the pitch in which he received head injuries.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • No Refuge
    7.6/10335 votes
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    #7 - No Refuge

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/29/1995

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Unknown Soldiers
    7.6/10343 votes
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    #8 - Unknown Soldiers

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 1/14/1996

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Endangered Species
    7.6/10320 votes
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    #9 - Endangered Species

    Season 13 Episode 1 - Aired 11/5/2006

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

    Director: Roy Battersby

    Writer: Christopher Blake

  • In the Public Interest
    7.6/10285 votes
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    #10 - In the Public Interest

    Season 14 Episode 3 - Aired 10/26/2008

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Widows and Orphans
    7.7/10384 votes
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    #11 - Widows and Orphans

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/16/1994

    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.

    Director: Roy Battersby

    Writer: Richard Harris

  • The Things We Do for Love
    7.7/10331 votes
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    #12 - The Things We Do for Love

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/1996

    A young woman is found viciously stabbed to death. Frost consults the victim's personal organiser, from which a trail leads him to a religious community.

    Director: Peter Smith

    Writer: N/A

  • Deep Waters
    7.7/10339 votes
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    #13 - Deep Waters

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/1996

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Another Life
    7.7/10296 votes
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    #14 - Another Life

    Season 11 Episode 1 - Aired 10/26/2003

    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 partner, 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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Appendix Man
    7.8/10348 votes
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    #15 - Appendix Man

    Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 3/7/1999

    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: N/A

  • Private Lives
    7.8/10313 votes
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    #16 - Private Lives

    Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 3/21/1999

    A woman is found in a critical condition in a quiet village on the outskirts of Denton, a victim of an apparent hit-and-run incident. Her husband and daughter are distraught. Frost's investigation exposes the secret life of a corner of rural England.

    Director: David Reynolds

    Writer: N/A

  • Dancing In The Dark
    7.8/10297 votes
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    #17 - Dancing In The Dark

    Season 11 Episode 2 - Aired 2/22/2004

    Pole dancers, false passports and murder. A lethal combination of events draws Inspector Jack Frost and his new assistant into a tragic case of lust, greed and death

    Director: Roy Battersby

    Writer: N/A

  • Care and Protection
    7.9/10561 votes
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    #18 - Care and Protection

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/6/1992

    Nursing his terminally-ill wife, Det Insp ""Jack"" Frost's life becomes more stressed when, during a missing-child investigation, he unearths evidence on a 30-year-old case involving a skeleton chained to a locked strongbox that turns out to be empty.

    Director: Don Leaver

    Writer: Richard Harris

  • One Man's Meat
    7.9/10309 votes
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    #19 - One Man's Meat

    Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 3/14/1999

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Line of Fire (1)
    7.9/10287 votes
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    #20 - Line of Fire (1)

    Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 12/25/1999

    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.

    Director: Robert Knights

    Writer: N/A

  • Hidden Truth
    7.9/10337 votes
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    #21 - Hidden Truth

    Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 1/19/2003

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Not with Kindness
    8.0/10457 votes
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    #22 - Not with Kindness

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/13/1992

    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.

    Director: David Reynolds

    Writer: Richard Harris

  • Paying the Price
    8.0/10377 votes
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    #23 - Paying the Price

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/1996

    Frost's house is burned down, and he moves in with a colleague temporarily. A mysterious, ruthless kidnapper on a motorcycle tests Frost's skills to the limit. It proves a tough case to crack, and for the abducted woman, time is running out.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • True Confessions
    8.0/10345 votes
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    #24 - True Confessions

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 2/23/1997

    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: N/A

  • Line of Fire (2)
    8.0/10273 votes
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    #25 - Line of Fire (2)

    Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 1/1/2000

    Frost continues to try to identify the detective's killer. The task is complicated by a bizarre series of pet shootings, about which he is reluctantly forced to seek help from a computer system run by a seconded new junior WPC. His pursuit leads to a confrontation high above a power station.

    Director: Robert Knights

    Writer: N/A