The Worst Episodes of A Touch of Frost

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7.4/10(483 votes)
#1 - A Minority of One
S2:E11/9/1994
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:Roger Bamford
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Roger Bamford
Writer:Unknown
7.5/10(302 votes)
#2 - Dead End
S14:E210/19/2008
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:Roger Bamford
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Roger Bamford
Writer:Unknown
7.6/10(449 votes)
#3 - Nothing to Hide
S2:E31/23/1994
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
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Director:John Glenister
Writer:Richard Harris
7.6/10(414 votes)
#4 - Quarry
S3:E21/15/1995
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:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
7.6/10(399 votes)
#5 - Dead Male One
S3:E31/22/1995
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 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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Director:Roger Bamford
Writer:Unknown
7.6/10(399 votes)
#6 - Unknown Soldiers
S4:E21/14/1996
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:Adrian Shergold
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Adrian Shergold
Writer:Unknown

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7.6/10(390 votes)
#7 - No Refuge
S3:E41/29/1995
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:Don Leaver
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Don Leaver
Writer:Unknown
7.6/10(378 votes)
#8 - Fun Times for Swingers
S4:E31/21/1996
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:Adrian Shergold
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Adrian Shergold
Writer:Unknown
7.6/10(368 votes)
#9 - Endangered Species
S13:E111/5/2006
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
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Director:Roy Battersby
Writer:Christopher Blake
7.6/10(350 votes)
#10 - Another Life
S11:E110/26/2003
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 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:Unknown
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Director:Roger Bamford
Writer:Unknown
7.6/10(334 votes)
#11 - In the Public Interest
S14:E310/26/2008
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:Paul Harrison
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Paul Harrison
Writer:Unknown
7.7/10(405 votes)
#12 - Appendix Man
S6:E13/7/1999
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:Unknown
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Director:Sandy Johnson
Writer:Unknown
7.7/10(402 votes)
#13 - Deep Waters
S4:E52/4/1996
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:Don Leaver
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Don Leaver
Writer:Unknown
7.7/10(397 votes)
#14 - The Things We Do for Love
S4:E41/28/1996
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:Unknown
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Director:Peter Smith
Writer:Unknown
7.7/10(347 votes)
#15 - Dancing In The Dark
S11:E22/22/2004
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:Unknown
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Director:Roy Battersby
Writer:Unknown
7.8/10(448 votes)
#16 - Widows and Orphans
S2:E21/16/1994
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
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Director:Roy Battersby
Writer:Richard Harris
7.8/10(371 votes)
#17 - Private Lives
S6:E33/21/1999
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:Unknown
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Director:David Reynolds
Writer:Unknown
7.9/10(664 votes)
#18 - Care and Protection
S1:E112/6/1992
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
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Director:Don Leaver
Writer:Richard Harris
7.9/10(386 votes)
#19 - Hidden Truth
S10:E11/19/2003
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:Paul Harrison
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Paul Harrison
Writer:Unknown
7.9/10(364 votes)
#20 - One Man's Meat
S6:E23/14/1999
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:Alan Dossor
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Alan Dossor
Writer:Unknown
7.9/10(353 votes)
#21 - Close Encounters
S10:E23/3/2003
Denton's last remaining quarry is vandalised. Frost finds a baby in his office and is delighted to discover it belongs to DS (previously WPC) Hazel Wallace. He gets Hazel to look into some burglaries that have been occurring 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 a 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 severe telling off.
Director:Paul Harrison
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Paul Harrison
Writer:Unknown
7.9/10(334 votes)
#22 - Line of Fire (1)
S7:E112/25/1999
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:Unknown
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Director:Robert Knights
Writer:Unknown
7.9/10(317 votes)
#23 - Line of Fire (2)
S7:E21/1/2000
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:Unknown
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Director:Robert Knights
Writer:Unknown
8.0/10(403 votes)
#24 - True Confessions
S5:E32/23/1997
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:Unknown
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Director:Sandy Johnson
Writer:Unknown
8.0/10(443 votes)
#25 - Paying the Price
S4:E11/7/1996
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:Ross Devenish
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Ross Devenish
Writer:Unknown