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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 2 Episode 1 - A Minority of One
    7.4/10(480 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. A Touch of Frost Season 3 Episode 3 - Dead Male One
    7.5/10(397 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. A Touch of Frost Season 14 Episode 2 - Dead End
    7.5/10(300 votes)

    #3 - 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:Roger Bamford
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. A Touch of Frost Season 2 Episode 3 - Nothing to Hide
    7.6/10(445 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. A Touch of Frost Season 3 Episode 2 - Quarry
    7.6/10(413 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. A Touch of Frost Season 3 Episode 4 - No Refuge
    7.6/10(389 votes)

    #6 - 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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  7. A Touch of Frost Season 4 Episode 2 - Unknown Soldiers
    7.6/10(397 votes)

    #7 - 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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  8. A Touch of Frost Season 4 Episode 3 - Fun Times for Swingers
    7.6/10(375 votes)

    #8 - 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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  9. A Touch of Frost Season 11 Episode 1 - Another Life
    7.6/10(349 votes)

    #9 - 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 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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  10. A Touch of Frost Season 13 Episode 1 - Endangered Species
    7.6/10(367 votes)

    #10 - 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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  11. A Touch of Frost Season 14 Episode 3 - In the Public Interest
    7.6/10(330 votes)

    #11 - 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:Paul Harrison
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. A Touch of Frost Season 4 Episode 4 - The Things We Do for Love
    7.7/10(394 votes)

    #12 - 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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  13. A Touch of Frost Season 4 Episode 5 - Deep Waters
    7.7/10(400 votes)

    #13 - 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:Don Leaver
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. A Touch of Frost Season 6 Episode 1 - Appendix Man
    7.7/10(404 votes)

    #14 - 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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  15. A Touch of Frost Season 11 Episode 2 - Dancing In The Dark
    7.7/10(344 votes)

    #15 - 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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  16. A Touch of Frost Season 2 Episode 2 - Widows and Orphans
    7.8/10(443 votes)

    #16 - 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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  17. A Touch of Frost Season 6 Episode 3 - Private Lives
    7.8/10(370 votes)

    #17 - 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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  18. A Touch of Frost Season 1 Episode 1 - Care and Protection
    7.9/10(659 votes)

    #18 - 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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  19. A Touch of Frost Season 6 Episode 2 - One Man's Meat
    7.9/10(363 votes)

    #19 - 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:Alan Dossor
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. A Touch of Frost Season 7 Episode 1 - Line of Fire (1)
    7.9/10(331 votes)

    #20 - 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.

    Director:Robert Knights
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. A Touch of Frost Season 7 Episode 2 - Line of Fire (2)
    7.9/10(315 votes)

    #21 - 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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  22. A Touch of Frost Season 10 Episode 1 - Hidden Truth
    7.9/10(385 votes)

    #22 - 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:Paul Harrison
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. A Touch of Frost Season 10 Episode 2 - Close Encounters
    7.9/10(350 votes)

    #23 - Close Encounters

    S10:E2

    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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  24. A Touch of Frost Season 1 Episode 2 - Not with Kindness
    8.0/10(534 votes)

    #24 - 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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  25. A Touch of Frost Season 4 Episode 1 - Paying the Price
    8.0/10(441 votes)

    #25 - 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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Worst Episodes Summary

"A Minority of One" is the worst rated episode of "A Touch of Frost". It scored 7.4/10 based on 480 votes. Directed by Roger Bamford and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/9/1994. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Dead Male One".