The BEST episodes of A Touch of Frost

Every episode of A Touch of Frost ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of A Touch of Frost!

Detective Inspector Jack Frost is a disorganised DI for the Denton Police Force and will do anything to see that justice is done, even if he has to break the rules.

Last Updated: 1/10/2024Network: ITV1Status: Ended
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If Dogs Run Free (2)
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8.60
103 votes

#1 - If Dogs Run Free (2)

Season 15 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/5/2010

Frost considers retiring from the Police force and plans to get married, ending the series, however DS George Toolan dies of heart failure following a collision outside the church where the wedding is about to take place. It is noteworthy that an alternate ending was filmed, where Frost is killed instead of George, but David Jason chose the 'happier' ending over this one.

Directors: Paul Harrison
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Held In Trust
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8.47
104 votes

#2 - Held In Trust

Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/14/2003

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.

Directors: Roger Bamford
Writer: David Gilman
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Benefit of the Doubt (2)
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8.38
64 votes

#3 - Benefit of the Doubt (2)

Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/15/2001

With the railroad murder solved, Frost tries to come to terms with having an previously unknown daughter. Detective Reid is sent to look for contraband cigarettes, but is found nearly dead on a public toilet. Was he high, or did Frost´s lookalike have anything to do with it? Meanwhile, Frost eliminates suspect after suspect in the surgeon murder, and ends up saving several lives.

Directors: Roger Bamford
Writer: David Gilman
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Endangered Species
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8.37
73 votes

#4 - Endangered Species

Season 13 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/5/2006

Frost responds to a call for help but, when he arrives at the scene, all he finds is a disembodied leg… and a crocodile!

Directors: Roy Battersby
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Line of Fire (2)
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8.30
63 votes

#5 - Line of Fire (2)

Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/1/2000

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.

Directors: Robert Knights
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Appropriate Adults
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8.17
176 votes

#6 - Appropriate Adults

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/1995

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.

Directors: Herbert Wise
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Stranger in the House
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8.13
206 votes

#7 - Stranger in the House

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/30/1994

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.

Directors: Don Leaver
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No Refuge
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8.13
112 votes

#8 - No Refuge

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/29/1995

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.

Directors: Don Leaver
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True Confessions
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8.12
81 votes

#9 - True Confessions

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/23/1997

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.

Directors: Sandy Johnson
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In the Public Interest
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8.12
77 votes

#10 - In the Public Interest

Season 14 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/26/2008

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.

Directors: Paul Harrison
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Paying the Price
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8.07
145 votes

#11 - Paying the Price

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/1996

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.

Directors: Ross Devenish
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The Things We Do For Love
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8.06
104 votes

#12 - The Things We Do For Love

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/1996

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.

Directors: Adrian Shergold
Writer: Alma Cullen
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Mind Games
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8.02
84 votes

#13 - Mind Games

Season 14 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/12/2008

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.

Directors: Paul Harrison
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Mistaken Identity (1)
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8.01
113 votes

#14 - Mistaken Identity (1)

Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/27/2002

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.

Directors: Roger Bamford
Writer: David Gilman
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Appendix Man
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8.01
149 votes

#15 - Appendix Man

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/7/1999

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.

Directors: Sandy Johnson
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Mistaken Identity (2)
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7.99
100 votes

#16 - Mistaken Identity (2)

Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/28/2002

Background 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.

Directors: Roger Bamford
Writer: David Gilman
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Hidden Truth
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7.97
150 votes

#17 - Hidden Truth

Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/19/2003

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!

Directors: Paul Harrison
Writer: David Gilman
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Widows and Orphans
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7.96
159 votes

#18 - Widows and Orphans

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/16/1994

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.

Directors: Roy Battersby
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Another Life
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7.90
121 votes

#19 - Another Life

Season 11 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/26/2003

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 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.

Directors: Roger Bamford
Writer: David Gilman
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Nothing to Hide
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7.89
211 votes

#20 - Nothing to Hide

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/23/1994

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.

Directors: John Glenister
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Dancing In The Dark
star
7.87
77 votes

#21 - Dancing In The Dark

Season 11 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/22/2004

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

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Near Death Experience
star
7.85
117 votes

#22 - Near Death Experience

Season 12 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2005

The murder of a widow soon gives Frost a chance to prove his worth again, but the investigation only reveals an intriguing web of deceit, and it isn't until a forensic psychologist joins the team that they realise a serial killer is at work.

Directors: Paul Harrison
Writer: David Gilman
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A Minority of One
star
7.85
198 votes

#23 - A Minority of One

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/9/1994

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?

Directors: Roger Bamford
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Close Encounters
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7.84
108 votes

#24 - Close Encounters

Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/3/2003

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.

Directors: Paul Harrison
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If Dogs Run Free (1)
star
7.83
156 votes

#25 - If Dogs Run Free (1)

Season 15 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/4/2010

The 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 manager, a wealthy Denton businessman, has links to a drug-smuggling operation. Frost also begins to form a relationship with RSPCA Inspector Christine Moorhead, and attempts to finally get over the death of his wife.

Directors: Paul Harrison
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