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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 magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry”

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    A Touch of Frost Season 11 Episode 2 - Dancing In The Dark
    4.0/10(6 votes)

    #1 - Dancing In The Dark

    S11:E2

    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:Unknown

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  2. A Touch of Frost Season 11 Episode 1 - Another Life
    5.0/10(4 votes)

    #2 - Another Life

    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 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:Roger Bamford
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. A Touch of Frost Season 6 Episode 3 - Private Lives
    5.6/10(5 votes)

    #3 - Private Lives

    S6:E3

    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:Unknown

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  4. A Touch of Frost Season 6 Episode 4 - Keys To The Car
    5.6/10(5 votes)

    #4 - Keys To The Car

    S6:E4

    Frost is called upon by Supt Mullett to investigate the theft of his friend's car from their golf club by a confidence trickster, who leaves behind a trail of satisfied golfing widows, unpaid bar bills and stolen cars. It gets complicated when the car is recovered with the body of a local drugs dealer in the boot. What are the connections between the car owner, the con-man and the dead drug dealer?

    Director:Adrian Shergold
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. A Touch of Frost Season 3 Episode 3 - Dead Male One
    5.7/10(6 votes)

    #5 - Dead Male One

    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:Unknown

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  6. A Touch of Frost Season 5 Episode 1 - Penny for the Guy
    6.0/10(6 votes)

    #6 - Penny for the Guy

    S5:E1

    A ruthless kidnapper holds a supermarket chain to ransom by threatening the life of a young boy.

    Director:Paul Seed
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. A Touch of Frost Season 1 Episode 3 - Conclusions
    6.5/10(10 votes)

    #7 - Conclusions

    S1:E3

    Frost investigates an MP's son who is involved in a hit-and-run accident, and a robbery at a private casino, which occur on the same night. He gets a humorless new partner to assist him.

    Director:Anthony Simmons
    Writers:Richard Harris, Anthony Simmons

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  8. A Touch of Frost Season 1 Episode 1 - Care and Protection
    6.6/10(10 votes)

    #8 - Care and Protection

    S1:E1

    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

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  9. A Touch of Frost Season 4 Episode 1 - Paying the Price
    7.0/10(5 votes)

    #9 - Paying the Price

    S4:E1

    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:Ross Devenish
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. A Touch of Frost Season 4 Episode 3 - Fun Times for Swingers
    7.2/10(4 votes)

    #10 - Fun Times for Swingers

    S4:E3

    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:Adrian Shergold
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. A Touch of Frost Season 4 Episode 4 - The Things We Do for Love
    7.2/10(5 votes)

    #11 - The Things We Do for Love

    S4:E4

    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:Unknown

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  12. A Touch of Frost Season 7 Episode 2 - Line of Fire (2)
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #12 - Line of Fire (2)

    S7:E2

    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:Unknown

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  13. A Touch of Frost Season 2 Episode 1 - A Minority of One
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #13 - A Minority of One

    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:Unknown

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  14. A Touch of Frost Season 2 Episode 3 - Nothing to Hide
    7.8/10(6 votes)

    #14 - 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.

    Director:John Glenister
    Writer:Richard Harris

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  15. A Touch of Frost Season 3 Episode 2 - Quarry
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    #15 - 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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  16. A Touch of Frost Season 1 Episode 2 - Not with Kindness
    7.9/10(7 votes)

    #16 - 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.

    Director:David Reynolds
    Writer:Richard Harris

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  17. A Touch of Frost Season 2 Episode 4 - Stranger in the House
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #17 - 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.

    Director:Don Leaver
    Writer:Christopher Russell

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  18. A Touch of Frost Season 3 Episode 4 - No Refuge
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #18 - 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:Don Leaver
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. A Touch of Frost Season 4 Episode 2 - Unknown Soldiers
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #19 - 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:Adrian Shergold
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. A Touch of Frost Season 5 Episode 3 - True Confessions
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #20 - 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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  21. A Touch of Frost Season 6 Episode 1 - Appendix Man
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #21 - 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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  22. A Touch of Frost Season 10 Episode 3 - Held In Trust
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #22 - 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:Roger Bamford
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. A Touch of Frost Season 2 Episode 2 - Widows and Orphans
    8.2/10(5 votes)

    #23 - 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.

    Director:Roy Battersby
    Writer:Richard Harris

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  24. A Touch of Frost Season 3 Episode 1 - Appropriate Adults
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #24 - 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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  25. A Touch of Frost Season 8 Episode 1 - Benefit of the Doubt (1)
    8.3/10(2 votes)

    #25 - 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:Roger Bamford
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Dancing In The Dark" is the worst rated episode of "A Touch of Frost". It scored 4/10 based on 6 votes. Directed by Roy Battersby and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/22/2004. This episode scored 1.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Another Life".