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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 14 Episode 1 - Mind Games
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #1 - Mind Games

    S14:E1

    A man is released on licence after serving 20 years for the murder of a 14-year-old girl. When the body of her best friend, who disappeared at the same time, is found, Frost has to investigate a 20-year-old murder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. A Touch of Frost Season 14 Episode 2 - Dead End
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #2 - Dead End

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. A Touch of Frost Season 11 Episode 2 - Dancing In The Dark
    2.8/10(5 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. A Touch of Frost Season 11 Episode 1 - Another Life
    3.3/10(3 votes)

    #4 - 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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. A Touch of Frost Season 6 Episode 3 - Private Lives
    4.5/10(4 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. A Touch of Frost Season 6 Episode 4 - Keys To The Car
    4.5/10(4 votes)

    #6 - 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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

    #11 - 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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  12. A Touch of Frost Season 5 Episode 3 - True Confessions
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - 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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  13. A Touch of Frost Season 7 Episode 2 - Line of Fire (2)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - 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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  14. A Touch of Frost Season 9 Episode 1 - Mistaken Identity (1)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Mistaken Identity (1)

    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, who 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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. A Touch of Frost Season 10 Episode 2 - Close Encounters
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Close Encounters

    S10:E2

    Denton's last remaining quarry is vandalised. Frost finds a baby in his office and is delighed to discover it belongs to DS (previously WPC) Hazel Wallace. He gets Hazel to look into some burglary's that have been occuring just after removal jobs have been completed. At the quarry a second body is found, which causes them to call the police. The only witness to the murder is an autistic boy, who immediately becomes prime suspect. Frost finds out about some dodgy dealings in the past between the quarry owner and his former partner. The boy escapes through a window and the Officers on duty get a sever telling off. A woman comes in saying her 7-year-old son has been abducted by her husband. The quarry owner then turns up dead in a brook a small way from the quarry. The boy is found but he has rigged the Autistic boy is found and he has rigged Denton Quarry with explosives and threataning to blow the quarry and himself up. Frost manages to get the boy down but the explosives in the boy's bag still explode. Frost then goes and arrests the quarry owner's partner for the double murder and finds the other boy safe and sound in a removals depot. He arrests the missing boy's father for robbery.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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

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

    #17 - 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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  18. A Touch of Frost Season 8 Episode 1 - Benefit of the Doubt (1)
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #18 - 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. A Touch of Frost Season 13 Episode 1 - Endangered Species
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #19 - 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!

    Director:Roy Battersby
    Writer:Christopher Blake

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

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

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

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

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

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

    #25 - 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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Mind Games" is the worst rated episode of "A Touch of Frost". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/12/2008. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Dead End".