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A Touch of Frost

TV·1992–2010·15 seasons, 42 episodes·ITV1·Drama, Crime, Mystery·7.5·Created by Roger Bamford

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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” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.

Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01A Touch of Frost S14E01Mind GamesS14E01 · 10.0A 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.
  2. 02A Touch of Frost S14E02Dead EndS14E02 · 10.0A bus driver and conductress are abducted. Frost is unhappy at being paired with DS Marsh, who made a complaint about him 15 years before.
  3. 03A Touch of Frost S09E02Mistaken Identity (2)S09E02 · 9.0Background enquiries turn up two previous deaths, which appear related to the case. But their initial suspect, armed bank-robber Charlie Lehman, turns out to have died in prison over a year earlier. As they work to profile the killer they are hunting, Frost starts to get close to Hartley personally as well as professionally, though neither realises just how closely she is linked to the case until it is almost too late. Frost has a race against time to find where she is being held.

Cast

Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode3Episodes1992Aired 7.0Season avg
  1. S01E01A Touch of Frost S01E01Care and ProtectionDecember 6, 1992 6.6Nursing his terminally-ill wife, Det Insp ""Jack"" Frost's life becomes more stressed when, during a missing-child investigation, he unearth
  2. S01E02A Touch of Frost S01E02Season's bestNot with KindnessDecember 13, 1992 7.9Frost investigates the murder of a teenage girl, and the case of a woman who has been receiving threatening phone calls. Meanwhile, at the D
  3. S01E03A Touch of Frost S01E03ConclusionsDecember 20, 1992 6.5Frost 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.

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season02Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode4Episodes1994Aired 7.9Season avg
  1. S02E01A Touch of Frost S02E01A Minority of OneJanuary 9, 1994 7.6Frost is assigned a new, West Indian detective constable, Clive Tanner; transferred in to help him investigate a string of commercial burgla
  2. S02E02A Touch of Frost S02E02Season's bestWidows and OrphansJanuary 16, 1994 8.2Frost investigates a series of break-ins and brutal attacks at the homes of elderly people. He is helped by a female detective, DS Lawson, w
  3. S02E03A Touch of Frost S02E03Nothing to HideJanuary 23, 1994 7.8Upon investigation, Frost discovers that the apparently accidental death of a drug addict was actually murder. He also decides to confront a
  4. S02E04A Touch of Frost S02E04Stranger in the HouseJanuary 30, 1994 8.0Frost 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 cat

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season03Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode4Episodes1995Aired 7.4Season avg
  1. S03E01A Touch of Frost S03E01Season's bestAppropriate AdultsJanuary 8, 1995 8.2An 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 appear
  2. S03E02A Touch of Frost S03E02QuarryJanuary 15, 1995 7.8An odd group of animal rights advocates attempting to sabotage a foxhunt includes a working-class teenager, who is murdered. Then another pe
  3. S03E03A Touch of Frost S03E03Dead Male OneJanuary 22, 1995 5.7Frost'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 claim
  4. S03E04A Touch of Frost S03E04No RefugeJanuary 29, 1995 8.0There 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 th

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

Season04Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode5Episodes1996Aired 7.6Season avg
  1. S04E01A Touch of Frost S04E01Paying the PriceJanuary 7, 1996 7.0Frost's house is burned down, and he moves in with a colleague temporarily. A mysterious, ruthless kidnapper on a motorcycle tests Frost's s
  2. S04E02A Touch of Frost S04E02Unknown SoldiersJanuary 14, 1996 8.0Frost 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-wi
  3. S04E03A Touch of Frost S04E03Fun Times for SwingersJanuary 21, 1996 7.2A 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 b
  4. S04E04A Touch of Frost S04E04The Things We Do for LoveJanuary 28, 1996 7.2A young woman is found viciously stabbed to death. Frost consults the victim's personal organiser, from which a trail leads him to a religio
  5. S04E05A Touch of Frost S04E05Season's bestDeep WatersFebruary 4, 1996 8.5A sub-postmistress is fatally stabbed in a small-scale robbery, and Frost wastes a lot of time questioning the leading suspects. Then, Helen

Season 4 ranked & reviewed

Season05Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode4Episodes1997Aired 7.8Season avg
  1. S05E01A Touch of Frost S05E01Penny for the GuyFebruary 9, 1997 6.0A ruthless kidnapper holds a supermarket chain to ransom by threatening the life of a young boy.
  2. S05E02A Touch of Frost S05E02Season's bestHouse CallsFebruary 16, 1997 8.7The body of Lemmy Hoxton, a small-time burglar, is found at an abandoned farm. There is a spate of break-ins where the intruder gives the sl
  3. S05E03A Touch of Frost S05E03True ConfessionsFebruary 23, 1997 8.0A man's church confession provides an insight into what appears to be a straightforward murder. But before Frost can make an arrest, he is s
  4. S05E04A Touch of Frost S05E04No Other Love, aka Love Me TenderMarch 2, 1997 8.7Frost investigates two domestic cases. The first is the tragically straightforward murder of a cantankerous old man by his wife. The other i

Season 5 ranked & reviewed

Season06Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode4Episodes1999Aired 7.0Season avg
  1. S06E01A Touch of Frost S06E01Appendix ManMarch 7, 1999 8.0Hazel Wallace returns from her training, as the new Detective Sergeant, and is put to work by Supt Mullett sorting out the mess left behind
  2. S06E02A Touch of Frost S06E02Season's bestOne Man's MeatMarch 14, 1999 8.7Frost investigates two deaths: a homeless teenage girl, found beaten up and drowned in Denton's river; and that of an environmental health o
  3. S06E03A Touch of Frost S06E03Private LivesMarch 21, 1999 5.6A 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 hu
  4. S06E04A Touch of Frost S06E04Keys To The CarMarch 28, 1999 5.6Frost 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

Season 6 ranked & reviewed

Season072Episodes1999–00Aired 8.1Season avg
  1. S07E01A Touch of Frost S07E01Line of Fire (1)December 25, 1999 8.7Frost's Christmas is overshadowed by a local power station worker falling to his death in a mysterious accident, shortly after he was burgle
  2. S07E02A Touch of Frost S07E02Line of Fire (2)January 1, 2000 7.5Frost continues to try to identify the detective's killer. The task is complicated by a bizarre series of pet shootings, about which he is r

Season 7 ranked & reviewed

Season082Episodes2001Aired 8.5Season avg
  1. S08E01A Touch of Frost S08E01Benefit of the Doubt (1)January 14, 2001 8.3While 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
  2. S08E02A Touch of Frost S08E02Benefit of the Doubt (2)January 15, 2001 8.7With the railroad murder solved, Frost tries to come to terms with having an previously unknown daughter. Detective Reid is sent to look for

Season 8 ranked & reviewed

Season092Episodes2002Aired 8.8Season avg
  1. S09E01A Touch of Frost S09E01Mistaken Identity (1)January 27, 2002 8.5A 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 assigne
  2. S09E02A Touch of Frost S09E02Mistaken Identity (2)January 28, 2002 9.0Background enquiries turn up two previous deaths, which appear related to the case. But their initial suspect, armed bank-robber Charlie Leh

Season 9 ranked & reviewed

Season10Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode3Episodes2003Aired 8.5Season avg
  1. S10E01A Touch of Frost S10E01Season's bestHidden TruthJanuary 19, 2003 9.0A vital witness to a gangland killing goes missing before she can give evidence in court, And frost finds himself under pressure to find her
  2. S10E02A Touch of Frost S10E02Close EncountersMarch 3, 2003 8.5Denton's last remaining quarry is vandalised. Frost finds a baby in his office and is delighed to discover it belongs to DS (previously WPC)
  3. S10E03A Touch of Frost S10E03Held In TrustSeptember 14, 2003 8.0DI Frost pursues a paedophile suspected of abducting a 10-year-old boy from a Denton Town football match. Initially, Frost is unsure whether

Season 10 ranked & reviewed

Season112Episodes2003–04Aired 4.5Season avg
  1. S11E01A Touch of Frost S11E01Another LifeOctober 26, 2003 5.0After 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 m
  2. S11E02A Touch of Frost S11E02Dancing In The DarkFebruary 22, 2004 4.0Pole dancers, false passports and murder. A lethal combination of events draws Inspector Jack Frost and his new assistant into a tragic case

Season 11 ranked & reviewed

Season121Episodes2005Aired 9.0Season avg
  1. S12E01A Touch of Frost S12E01Near Death ExperienceSeptember 25, 2005 9.0The murder of a widow soon gives Frost a chance to prove his worth again, but the investigation only reveals an intriguing web of deceit, an

Season 12 ranked & reviewed

Season131Episodes2006Aired 8.3Season avg
  1. S13E01A Touch of Frost S13E01Endangered SpeciesNovember 5, 2006 8.3Frost responds to a call for help but, when he arrives at the scene, all he finds is a disembodied leg… and a crocodile!

Season 13 ranked & reviewed

Season14Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode3Episodes2008Aired 9.7Season avg
  1. S14E01A Touch of Frost S14E01Season's bestMind GamesOctober 12, 2008 10.0A 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
  2. S14E02A Touch of Frost S14E02Dead EndOctober 19, 2008 10.0A bus driver and conductress are abducted. Frost is unhappy at being paired with DS Marsh, who made a complaint about him 15 years before.
  3. S14E03A Touch of Frost S14E03In the Public InterestOctober 26, 2008 9.0Three naked bodies are found buried, and laid out in the shape of a triangle. Meanwhile, there is trouble when a multi-millionaire businessm

Season 14 ranked & reviewed

Season152Episodes2010Aired 9.0Season avg
  1. S15E01A Touch of Frost S15E01If Dogs Run Free (1)April 4, 2010 9.0The first in the final two-part episode in the series sees Frost attempting to crack an illegal dog-fighting ring, only to discover that its
  2. S15E02A Touch of Frost S15E02If Dogs Run Free (2)April 5, 2010 9.0Frost considers retiring from the Police force and plans to get married, ending the series, however DS George Toolan dies of heart failure f

Season 15 ranked & reviewed

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