List of A Touch of Frost episodes

The following is a list of episodes detailing the long-running ITV drama series A Touch of Frost, starring David Jason, John Lyons and Bruce Alexander.^[1]

Episodes

Series 1 (1992)

Episode	Title	Written by	Directed by	Viewers (millions)[2]	Original airdate
1	"Care and Protection"	Richard Harris	Don Leaver	TBA	6 December 1992
After his superior DCI Allen falls ill, Frost is left to handle the disappearance of Tracy Uphill, who vanished when her prostitute mother was late arriving at the community centre to collect her. He's also assigned DC Clive Barnard (Matt Bardock), the Chief Constable's nephew, who receives a frosty reception from some of his fellow officers. In the course of searching for the girl, they uncover human remains that have been buried for 30 years or more. The remains are those of a bank clerk who had vanished with a large sum of money. When the assistant bank manager is murdered with the same gun used to kill the bank clerk, Frost must determine who else might have been implicated in the robbery. All during this time, Frost's wife is dying of cancer and he must juggle the increasing workload with being by her side.
2	"Not With Kindness"	Richard Harris	David Reynolds	TBA	13 December 1992
With DCI Allen still away, Frost investigates the murder of a 15-year-old girl who disappeared while completing her newspaper round, assisted by DS Sandy Gilmore (Tony Haygarth), who is temporarily relieving sick officers. He also has to look into vandalism at a local churchyard as Supt. Mullett fears it might be the work of Satanists, but it is also where the 15-year-old's body is found. Then there is the wealthy Compton couple, who have been receiving threatening phone calls. The Comptons are dealers of rare books and keep a large and valuable inventory in their home. When Mr. Compton is killed in a house fire, Frost quickly has a prime suspect. Finally, Frost receives a visit from his late wife's sister who now lives in America and doesn't seem to be in any hurry to return, frustrating him further.
3	"Conclusions"	Richard Harris	Anthony Simmons	TBA	20 December 1992
Frost is paired with new Scottish DC Webster (George Anton), an officer who is struggling to fit in with life in Denton. The pair investigate a robbery at a local casino and a hit and run accident that may involve Roger Massie, the son of a local Member of Parliament. Massie has previously been charged, but never convicted of reckless driving. Supt. Mullett is concerned that Frost is on a witch hunt but Frost soon realises there is a connection between Massie and the casino, in the form of Massie's girlfriend, Julia King. Frost also receives a complaint about PC Shelby, who is accused of stealing jewellery but when Shelby turns up dead Frost must solve yet another complex puzzle. A local small-time crook hiding out in Denton after a failed bank robbery is the prime suspect, and with police suspicion heavily upon him, Frost appears alone in his view that the case might not be so straight-forward...

Series 2 (1994)

Episode	Title	Written by	Directed by	Viewers (millions)[2]	Original airdate
1	"A Minority of One"	Christopher Russell	Roger Bamford	TBA	9 January 1994
Frost investigates a series of commercial robberies. He's assisted by DC Carl Tanner (Lennie James), a West Indian officer recruited by Supt. Mullett to encourage racial balance on the local force. When Frost makes an arrest on the local housing estate, Mullett's only concern is the culprit's racial background as he's concerned that the area not become a racial powder keg. When Frost's informant on the estate is killed, the case becomes a murder investigation, but all of the suspects are black and racial tensions are on the rise. In the course of his investigation, Frost determines that his informant had a number of secrets.
2	"Widows and Orphans"	Richard Harris	Roy Battersby	TBA	16 January 1994
Frost investigates a series of burglaries directed against old age pensioners, assisted by new female DS Maureen Lawson (Sally Dexter). Things take a serious turn when an elderly woman is badly beaten. On examination however, this case doesn't fit the pattern of the others and may not be related. As well, the victim was very difficult and disliked by many, including neighbours and community volunteers. The case takes a nasty turn when another elderly victim is found dead, with the potential to create a panic among the public. Frost concludes that the second victim knew her attacker and proceeds to eliminate all possible suspects, one by one.
3	"Nothing to Hide"	Richard Harris	John Glenister	TBA	23 January 1994
Frost investigates the death of a young junkie, Ben Cornish. He is assisted by DC Frank Costello (Neil Dudgeon), recently demoted after a punch up with a superior officer. The pathologist initially believes that Cornish choked on his own vomit but the autopsy reveals that he was beaten to death. Cornish had been in a good deal of trouble lately. He had stolen from his sister, he was harassing a local doctor and had been forcefully evicted while squatting in an abandoned house. A chance comment from a police constable gives Frost the vital information needed to bring the case to a close.
4	"Stranger in the House"	Christopher Russell	Don Leaver	TBA	30 January 1994
A sexual predator is on the loose in Denton. There have been a series of rapes and in all cases, he has broken into a home and waited for the victim to come home. The only exception is Emma Fox who, while driving home late one evening, finds that a man has hidden in the back seat of her car. The same evening, 17-year-old Alison Cook has gone missing. A girlfriend thought she saw a man in an upstairs window but assumed it was her dad and thought nothing more of it. WPC Hazel Wallace (Caroline Harker) is assigned to Frost and he decides to set a trap. Meanwhile, Frost is invited to a reunion in London for all Victoria and George Cross holders and the Chief Constable lets it be known that he expects Jack to attend. Only problem is that Jack has no idea where he's put his medal and can't find it.

Series 3 (1995)

Episode	Title	Written by	Directed by	Viewers (millions)[3]	Original airdate
1	"Appropriate Adults"	Michael Russell	Herbert Wise	TBA	8 January 1995
Frost investigates the disappearance of 8 year-old Tricia Martin. The last person to see her alive was 19-year-old Billy Conrad who has Down syndrome and learning disabilities. He regularly played with children of that age and seems to be keeping a secret. Supt. Mullett is concerned about the number of cars being taken by joy riders and expects Frost to do something about it. Frost has to deal with a new DCI whose idea of teamwork comes up against his own more individualistic style.
2	"Quarry"	Christopher Russell	Roy Battersby	TBA	15 January 1995
Frost investigates the murder of Nick Walder who was part of a group of saboteurs trying to disrupt the local hunt. DC Clive Barnard (Matt Bardock), the Chief Constable's nephew, is re-assigned to Denton CID. Suspicion falls on many, including the local hunt organisers and some of the saboteurs themselves as there was a schism within the group. A second saboteur, a local landscape gardener, is also murdered but when police uncover several barrels of antiques carefully packed and buried at the garden centre, the investigation takes a different turn. One of the hunt members, Stephen Milmore, owns an art gallery and also employs Ruth, the daughter of hunt organiser Alex Ormrod. Frost now needs to connect these events to identify the murderer.
3	"Dead Male One"	Christopher Russell	Roger Bamford	TBA	22 January 1995
An unidentified body is found floating in Denton river, and the victim, despite carrying a driving licence, is not who he claims to be. Meanwhile, the star player of local soccer team Denton F.C., Adie Carr, collapses during a press conference, following an incident on the field in which he received serious head injuries. However, it is soon discovered that someone had spiked Adie's pre-match drink with a deadly dose of steroids, leaving him with permanent brain damage. Frost soon finds himself on the trail of three suspects - a devious coach prepared to accept a backhander from a rival club, a grand-daughter with a grudge after her grandfather's house was shoddily worked on, and a rival player who gave Adie a good kicking.
4	"No Refuge"	Christopher Russell	Don Leaver	TBA	29 January 1995
An employee is shot dead during an armed robbery at a local family-run glass works business. One of the witnesses, the business owner, is threatened, and he goes into hiding. Frost must understand the family's tangled web of personal relationships in order to find who is doing the threatening. Meanwhile, Shirley Fisher's mother dies, and Frost does not attend the funeral. Meanwhile, DS Lawson (Sally Dexter) mixes her professional and personal relationships - with serious consequences.

Series 4 (1996)

Episode	Title	Written by	Directed by	Viewers (millions)	Original airdate
1	"Paying the Price"	Christopher Russell	Ross Devenish	TBA	7 January 1996
Pauline Venables has been running a successful party store in Denton with her sister Sue, but the siblings don't get on as well as they should. Their little world changes when Pauline brings home Karl Edwards, a divorced ex-con and announces he will be moving in after they are married. Sue resents him as an interloper interested only her sister's money. Sue's resentment can be traced back to an earlier incident when she found her then husband and Pauline in bed. Looking to make amends to her sister, Pauline decides to have Linda, a shop employee, take her to a deserted farmhouse to buy Sue a Labrador puppy for her birthday, something she's always wanted. Things go awry when Pauline is brutally kidnapped by Linda's accomplice, sociopath Graham McCardy (Marc Warren), who binds Pauline and demands £30,000 in ransom... or else. Frost, alongside WPC Claire Toms (Colette Brown), tries to negotiate her safe return.
2	"Unknown Soldiers"	Michael Russell	Adrian Shergold	TBA	14 January 1996
Frost is now living above an Indian curry restaurant, and his day is off to an inauspicious start when he is held by a gun-toting teenager suspected of dealing in drugs. The police are concerned that there may be others guns being sold on the street. He also has to deal with another armed robbery of a security van and the death of a part-time soldier on manoeuvres who was shot when everyone was supposed to be using blanks. Frost suspects the van robberies are an inside job. It's determined that the soldier could not have been shot with a military weapon and the police find an identical pistol to that used by the gun-toting teenager. Frost soon determines the motive and the identity of the killer, but is later forced to juggle this with moving out of the flat above the restaurant, after the owner complains his presence is scaring away his customers.
3	"Fun Times for Swingers"	Robert Smith	Peter Smith	TBA	21 January 1996
Frost finds himself investigating the murder of Damien Law who was killed in his flat. This time around, he is assisted by DS Prentice (Russell Hunter), a somewhat dour Scot. Law was essentially a gigolo and a paid male escort who spent a great deal of time with a great many women. At least one client became obsessed with him and he also may have set himself up in competition with the long-time owner of an escort agency. Frost also determines that the case may be related to a recent suicide. Frost is also investigating a theft at the local cricket club.
4	"The Things We Do for Love"	Alma Cullen	Adrian Shergold	TBA	28 January 1996
Frost, along with DS Frank Nash (Neil Stuke), who has just transferred from London, investigate the murder of Vicky Phillips, a local physiotherapist who was stabbed to death in her car. Frost suspects one of her patients, Jonathan Meyerbridge, who has a criminal record but is now a born-again Christian. The local butcher, Mr. Sykes, is also acting strangely and denies knowing the dead woman even though she had keys to the vacant flat above his shop. Frost is also investigating a series of smash and grab robberies in the commercial district. The culprits drive a vehicle through the front window of a business and take anything they can within a minute or so before they scamper off.
5	"Deep Waters"	Christopher Russell	Don Leaver	TBA	4 February 1996
Frost investigates the stabbing of a woman during a robbery at a sub-post office. He is convinced that they have the culprits in custody but is frustrated by the limits placed on his ability to gather evidence. He also looks into an attack on the very pretty Helen Tudor who was pushed down the stairs at her university. She has no idea who may have pushed her but had recently rebuffed a professor, Dr. Michaelson, who had a reputation for getting too "close" to his students. In the course of the investigation, Frost uses WPC Lindsey Hunter (Katrina Levon) to get close to Helen, and learns that a woman very similar in appearance to Helen drowned some two years previously, even though she was a very good swimmer. Clive Barnard, now a DS in Boxborough, assists Frost in locating a possible suspect, a student who knew both girls. Frost finally finds himself a flat but also gets some unexpected lodgers.

Series 5 (1997)

Episode	Title	Written by	Directed by	Viewers (millions)[2]	Original airdate
1	"Penny for the Guy"	Malcolm Bradbury	Paul Seed	TBA	9 February 1997
It's a busy night for the Denton CID. Just as Frost is about to leave on a fortnight's leave, the body of a young boy is found dead in an alley. He was found gagged and the pathologist determines he had been chloroformed and had choked on his own vomit. He had also had his left little finger cut off. The police had initially thought the young boy was Bobby Kirby who had gone missing that evening, but they determine it's not the same child so they have both a murder victim and a missing child. The same evening, a couple returns home to find their front door open and their teenage daughter missing. The parents paid 25,000 pounds for her release but Frost has his doubts having had business with the girl's father in the past. As for Bobby, kidnappers demand a half million pounds from a major supermarket chain or the boy will be killed. The payment is made but the police operation is botched and they have to go back a few steps in order to get on the right track.
2	"House Calls"	Malcolm Bradbury	Graham Theakston	TBA	16 February 1997
Frost is in charge of the case of a three-month-old corpse found in the coal bin of an abandoned farm house. The body is eventually identified as that of a well-known thief, but Frost has little to go on. DS Liz Maud (Susannah Doyle) has a case of a child abuser who is injecting children with water. Frost recalls a similar case and when they learn he is now in the area, have an immediate suspect. Frost feels sorry for him however and concludes that he can't be the person they're after. However, when two children are killed, both with indications of having injections, Frost may be in the soup. Supt. Mullett advises him that he will have no choice but to advise the Chief Constable and that it will likely lead to a disciplinary hearing. Fortunately for Frost, he sees a number of holes in Maud's case leading him to the real killer.
3	"True Confessions"	Michael Russell	Sandy Johnson	TBA	23 February 1997
Just back from a holiday in Spain with his friend Kitty Rayford, Frost investigates the death of Jeanette Barr, found on a nearby riverbank. The autopsy reveals that although she drowned, it more likely happened in her bathtub and not in the river. In the course of the investigation, Frost learns that she was having an affair with Richard Sheridan, a graphic designer who worked for her husband and his brother but he has an alibi for the time of her death. Jeanette's husband, Jack Barr, is known to Frost from when he investigated the murder of his first wife 10 years previously. Unfortunately someone is already serving a sentence for that killing and Jack finds himself suspended while an internal investigation takes place.
4	"No Other Love"	Sian Orrells	David Reynolds	TBA	2 March 1997
Peter Lawson is a pawnbroker with a difficult family life. His father, retired after a long career in the army, is a demanding patriarch and his oldest children hate him. An armed robbery at his shop brings Frost, now reunited with DS Clive Barnard (Matt Bardock), onto the case but all does not sit well with the police. When Lawson is murdered a few days later, Frost and Barnard uncover a case of child abuse that has gone on for years. The ensuing investigation leads to a tragedy that will long affect the police and Frost in particular. At the Station, Supt. Mullett is being forced to cut his budget and has his eyes squarely set on making Frost redundant…

Series 6 (1999)

Episode	Title	Written by	Directed by	Viewers (millions)[2]	Original airdate
1	"Appendix Man"	Malcolm Bradbury	Sandy Johnson	16.04m	7 March 1999
Hazel Wallace (Caroline Harker) returns from her training as the new Detective Sergeant. Supt. Mullett assigns her to sorting the mess left behind by Frost while he was on extended compassionate leave. Wallace's first case is a man found hanged in his home. She suspects the death was not suicide. A set of fingerprints at the scene belong to an unidentified man discovered drowned a year previously. Frost is summoned by Supt Mullett to sort things. He connects a painting that appears to have been stolen from the hanged man with an art robbery and murder several years earlier.
2	"One Man's Meat"	Michael Russell	Alan Dossor	14.64m	14 March 1999
Frost is left holding the dog after his owner, a junior PC, falls down a flight of stairs. Meanwhile, he is tasked to investigate a suspicious death and a missing person. The suspicious death involves a homeless teenage girl, Jane Owens, who drowned in Denton river. An argument with her brother and her refusal to sell her body for money are two possible motives for murder - but is anyone really responsible for her death? Meanwhile, the missing person case involves Warren Barber, an environmental health officer who disappeared after investigating a local meat processing factory on the quiet. When a dismembered arm washes up on the shoreline in Hull, Frost uncovers two businessmen desperate to conceal their involvement in a multi-national drug smuggling operation.
3	"Private Lives"	Russell Gascoigne	David Reynolds	16.85m	21 March 1999
Frost and newly seconded DS Billy "Razor" Sharpe (Philip Jackson) investigate an accident where housewife Bryony Darrow was hit by a car while walking home. In a coma and unlikely to recover, Frost starts looking into her background. Her husband was at home with their daughter when the accident happened but there is evidence of sexual activity and Frost suspects that she may have been having an affair. What he learns about her shows that she had a far more complex life than anyone imagined. Separately, Frost investigates a robbery at a local brewery. He describes the robbery as "OTT" - over the top - since the thieves wore ski masks and used a sawed off shotgun when there was only one elderly security guard on duty. Using information from the police archives, he manages to lay a trap for the would-be thieves.
4	"Keys to the Car"	Malcolm Bradbury	Adrian Shergold	15.83m	28 March 1999
With Superintendent Mullett off work on a fortnight's leave, Frost is called on the carpet by the newly promoted Assistant Chief Constable for using unorthodox questioning techniques on suspected drug dealer Richie Dearne. Meanwhile, Mullett calls Frost in when Ben Pecksmith has his Mercedes stolen at the local golf club. Turns out the thief travels from club to club, stealing cars as he goes along. Things take an interesting twist when the Mercedes is recovered the next day, with Dearne's body in the trunk. Frost is placed on desk duty and his investigation is left to the mercy of his latest secondment, DS Bill Dorridge (Paul Jesson).

Series 7 (2000)

Episode	Title	Written by	Directed by	Viewers (millions)[2]	Original airdate
1	"Line of Fire (Part One)"	Michael Russell	Robert Knights	12.10m	25 December 1999
Christmas 1999. Frost and Dorridge are called to investigate the murder of a young regional crime squad police detective, Tim Fox. Frost wonders if Fox's death is really related to the large investigation he was working on to uncover a car theft gang, or if an affair between the deceased's wife and one of his colleagues could also hold a motive for murder. Meanwhile, a local power station worker, Cocroft, is burgled. Shortly afterward, he falls to his death in a mysterious accident. Nothing is suspect, until new WPC Susan Kavanagh establishes a link between the burglary and a series of pet shootings.
2	"Line of Fire (Part Two)"	Michael Russell	Robert Knights	11.95m	1 January 2000
January 2000. As Frost and Dorridge continue to try to identify detective Tim Fox's killer, his colleague, DI Newcombe, protests his innocence - but Frost is sure he is responsible for the killing. Meanwhile, WPC Kavanagh links a series of other local burglaries to the pet shootings - and a further incident in which a woman's car is tampered with, causing her to have a serious accident - also appears to fit into the picture. Forced to seek help from Kavanagh's new computer system, Frost uncovers the real identity of Tim Fox's killer - whilst she goes to investigate two young men working at the power station to question them about the burglaries, shootings and attempted murder. She soon, however, finds herself in grave danger - and Frost's pursuit leads to a confrontation above the power station.

Series 8 (2001)

Episode	Title	Written by	Directed by	Viewers (millions)[2]	Original airdate
1	"Benefit of the Doubt (Part One)"	David Gilman	Roger Bamford	14.69m	14 January 2001
As is usually the case, there's a lot on Frost's plate these days. He's been assigned a new officer, DS Terry Reid (Robert Glenister), who has been transferred somewhat abruptly after investigating a university student for selling contraband cigarettes. He has other problems as well, as Frost soon learns, but generally he is a good copper. Their first case is that of a woman, eventually identified as Sylvia Carter, whose remains are found on the railroad tracks after being run over by several trains. She worked for a local sandwich maker and Frost is convinced she was having an affair with someone. Dr. Helena Gibson, a senior surgeon at the local hospital in Denton, goes missing over a weekend. From all accounts she was in on Saturday but didn't show up at a colleague's house for lunch on Sunday. She was brilliant in her field but was disliked by virtually everyone at the hospital so there is no shortage of possible suspects if in fact anything is amiss.
2	"Benefit of the Doubt (Part Two)"	David Gilman	Roger Bamford	14.44m	15 January 2001
Having solved the death of Sylvia Carter, Frost now focuses on the murder of Dr. Gibson, whose corpse was found in a plastic bag in a truckload of medical waste. According to the pathologist, she was killed with a blow to the head from a blunt instrument. Many at the hospital didn't like the woman including the hospital administrator, Jameson and several members of her surgical team including Dr. Retnick from whom she was demanding a letter of resignation. She had also recently had a run-in with a parent whose young son inexplicably died in post-operative care. In fact, there is an investigation into an abnormally large number of post-operative deaths at Denton General but as Frost learns, everyone who dies seems to have done so while occupying bed 5. DS Reid is in hospital having been beaten in a public washroom. Frost is certain it has to do with his earlier investigation of Tim Hamilton.

Series 9 (2002)

Episode	Title	Written by	Directed by	Viewers (millions)[2]	Original airdate
1	"Mistaken Identity (Part One)"	David Gilman	Roger Bamford	12.37m	27 January 2002
Frost welcomes a new member of the CID team, DC Ronnie Lonnegan (Michelle Joseph). They soon are investigating a mysterious death when a body is found in the local water reservoir. There is no identification on the body and there doesn't seem to be a car parked nearby so they're not sure how he got there. The post-mortem indicates however that he didn't drown in the place where his body was found. They also investigate the death of Paul and Jean Harris who are killed when an assailant ties them up and sets their house on fire. The main suspect is Mike Patterson, a handyman who had been doing work for the couple and who may have also been having an affair with Jean. Forensics indicate there is a connection between the death of the unknown man and the Harrises. Meanwhile, Supt. Mullett is his usual concerned self about a formal inspection of the station by a senior officer. Frost is also his usual self, which doesn't help matters.
2	"Mistaken Identity (Part Two)"	David Gilman	Roger Bamford	11.66m	28 January 2002
Frost now has Mike Patterson in custody, but he vehemently denies having anything to do with the death of the Harrises. Toolan thinks that Patterson is their man but Frost isn't so sure and believes the solution lies elsewhere. The dead man in the reservoir is identified as Reginald Molloy, a one-time resident of Denton. His mother returns to Denton to identify the body and hasn't a clue as to how or why her son would be there. They had moved away some 13 years ago after she witnessed a bank robbery and was required to give evidence in court. When Frost learns that Paul Harris' father was also a witness at the same trial he has the beginnings of the solution. Melanie Monkton, the daughter of the local gentry, is also missing and although under pressure to include her disappearance as part of the murder investigation, Frost thinks it's a completely separate case.

Series 10 (2003)

Episode	Title	Written by	Directed by	Viewers (millions)[2]	Original airdate
1	"Hidden Truth"	David Gilman	Paul Harrison	11.71m	19 January 2003
Frost is tasked with protecting Cathy Thompson, a vital witness to a murder committed by Jack Flynn, who has hired a hit-man to eliminate her. He requests the help again of Sergeant Terry Reid, because of his contacts in the London underworld, where Flynn comes from. But with the hit-man finding the safe house easily, it's obvious that there's a leak coming from someone inside the protection team. Then one of the armed team is shot dead while trying to apprehend a second hit-man. In an attempt to stay safe, Cathy and her son go on the run - ending up in an aircraft museum, where Frost has a showdown with the pursuer. Meanwhile, Frost has mislaid his jackpot-winning lottery ticket, and has to get Ernie Trigg to search the station for it.
2	"Close Encounters"	Michael Russell	Paul Harrison	12.24m	3 March 2003
Laurence Burrell, an autistic young man, is the only witness to an attack on a security guard at Denton Quarry, but he claims that aliens were responsible - and after being bailed, he returns to the quarry and threatens to blow it up. Superintendent Mullett asks Frost to investigate a series of burglaries on homes that have been recently occupied, and drafts him in some help, in the form of Det Sgt Hazel Wallace, who sometimes has to bring her new baby Emma into work. Frost is also suspicious about the link between a local takeaway delivery service and another series of burglaries. Then a seven-year-old child of divorced parents goes missing, and the father is unable to account convincingly for his whereabouts in the hours afterwards. Frost wonders if there is a coincidental link between him and the first series of burglaries. Meanwhile, his suspicions are growing about what is happening behind the scenes at the quarry, and how it relates to a proposed large development in the area that would include it.
3	"Held in Trust"	David Gilman	Roger Bamford	10.37m	14 September 2003
Presents keep arriving at Denton Police station from Frost's new secret admirer, though their identity turns out to be ironic, rather than adoring. He is up for promotion but Mullett seems to be more enthusiastic on his behalf and he even walks out of an interview panel because duty calls - a very sad duty, in fact. Bobby Palmer has gone missing whilst at a football match with his father, and there seems no doubt that the corpse discovered in a shed is his. The body of a second, malnourished boy is also found dumped but this at least allows Frost to save a third lad from a grasping family. The fact that Anton Caldwell, a known paedophile, has been released from another area, and is living unsupervised in a local hostel fills him with rage, causing him to berate the psychiatrist who can only point out to him the failings of the system. Caldwell is not only a seedy little man but an extremely provocative one who taunts the police. At the end, Frost attacks Caldwell and is suspended.

Series 11 (2004)

Episode	Title	Written by	Directed by	Viewers (millions)[3]	Original airdate
1	"Another Life"	David Gilman	Roger Bamford	11.41m	26 October 2003
Returning from his seven months suspension, Frost is immediately plunged into two parallel murder investigations, despite a defective police lollipop causing him the need for major, painful dentistry. A man's body is pulled from the canal, with £6000 in cash and a list of numbers on him, but no identifying papers. Tasked to work with former sergeant and good friend Maureen Lawson, Frost's investigations reveal not one, but two, separate lives that he led, and how he financed them. Meanwhile, at a local fridge recycling holding site, a dismembered man's body is found in one of fridges. All the body parts fit together, except that he has two left feet - could he be linked to the local ballroom dancing scene? Frost's investigation leads him into the competitive world of ballroom dancing and Miss Dolores Delmonte, whose search for perfection in her partners goes to alarming lengths.
2	"Dancing in the Dark"	Christopher Blake	Roy Battersby	12.96m	22 February 2004
Frost's efforts to join a gym and date Julie, the fitness instructor, are hampered by two suspicious deaths. The first concerns a man found dead on a waste tip with no identity beyond an empty wallet, seemingly a mugging victim. However his wife comes to report his disappearance and Frost, in following through, is intrigued to learn that her sleep therapist is rather more than just the concerned friend he professes to be. Could these two meek little souls be capable of murder? The other body is that of escort girl Heather, found in a hotel room booked by married businessman Stephen Richford. He denies murder but confesses that he was shocked to realise what she did as she was a student friend of his daughter. Later he is found dead in his car but Frost can see no reason for his suicide. Paired with cocky young under-graduate DC Jasper Tranter (Nicholas Burns), Frost is forced to juggle his own personal relationships whilst solving both murders.

Series 12 (2005)

Episode	Title	Written by	Directed by	Viewers (millions)[3]	Original airdate
1	"Near Death Experience"	David Gilman	Paul Jackson	10.28m	25 September 2005
A priest, Father Rose, is found covered in the blood of a murdered woman, the death bearing the hallmarks of a ritual killing, and Detective Sergeant 'Razor' Sharpe (Philip Jackson) is drafted in to assist Frost, having investigated a similar death in his own area. The dead woman's family feel that her ex-boyfriend is to blame but Frost believes the priest is more involved than he is letting on. A glamorous profiler joins the team and suggests that they are dealing with a serial killer. And she is right. At the same time Frost feels responsible for the loyal George Toolan being hospitalised with severe injuries after falling from a high building whilst helping him prevent a suicide.

Series 13 (2006)

Episode	Title	Written by	Directed by	Viewers (millions)[3]	Original airdate
1	"Endangered Species"	Christopher Blake	Roy Battersby	10.07m	5 November 2006
Frost is summoned to a remote farm-house by criminal Kevin Flanagan who is in a blind panic. At the farm he finds a crocodile and cages full of endangered species, as well as a severed leg. This transpires to belong to an Asian man, part of the gang who have been smuggling rare animals, and Flanagan, who has escaped the gang, is used by Frost to help locate it's leader. At the same time the Harris family are shocked to find the nude corpse of a local art teacher in their bedroom. A search of his studio yields revealing photos of a female colleague but it is the Harrises' teenage son who literally holds the key to events. Meanwhile, Frost is forced to puppywalk a new trainee, DC Robert Presley (Blake Ritson), who has a lot to learn about divisional CID.

Series 14 (2008)

Episode	Title	Written by	Directed by	Viewers (millions)[2]	Original airdate
1	"Mind Games"	Michael Russell	Paul Harrison	8.37m	12 October 2008
Two young men are tricked by their girlfriends into stripping themselves nude for a midnight swim, during which the girls run off with the boys' clothes, leaving them to streak through Denton. One is arrested but the other, Roman Cassell, gets back to his office where, the next day, he is found beaten to death. Suspicion falls on Jason Cohu and his father-in-law Joshua Ray, who blame Cassell for the death of Jason's wife and were in the vicinity of the office that night. Joshua admits to the murder but Frost believes he is innocent, misguidedly protecting his son-in-law and CCTV footage proves him right. At the same time Carl Meyer is released from a twenty year prison term. When he was a young boy he was accused of murdering a little girl with whom he used to play and with whose corpse he was found. Her cousin disappeared on the same day and he was also accused of killing her. The girls' family conduct a vendetta against him to which he shows no malice...
2	"Dead End"	David Gilman	Roger Bamford	8.52m	19 October 2008
The Heal family is appalled to see the man whose lorry killed three of their members some years earlier is driving a bus. Because the lorry's mechanism was faulty he was acquitted of dangerous driving but the Heals are not happy and Andy Heal goes to the bus depot for a confrontation. Later the driver and his conductress are abducted from their bus. The conductress is diabetic and needs her insulin shots and, after a television appeal, she is dumped, alive, in town, not far from an alley where a clown is found dead. He recently entertained at a children's party where one of the mothers has a pathological phobia of clowns, and believes she attacked him without knowing. However, it turns out that he was also a thief, robbing the houses he visited and his killer may have been somebody else. In solving the death and finding the bus driver Frost's work is not helped by having to work with DS Annie Marsh (Cherie Lunghi), who once reported him for being unprofessional.
3	"In the Public Interest"	Thomas Ellice	Paul Harrison	8.16m	26 October 2008
The naked bodies of three young men are found, arranged in a triangle, in a grave at an old burial site and an American anthropologist insists to Frost that these are ritual killings. However the fact that she has a book to promote and reports of unrest among local Eastern European immigrant workers suggest that the murders are not mystical at all. Ever the maverick, Frost enjoys crossing swords with James Callum, an unpleasant local business man who is going to tear down the local youth club to make way for new offices. When Callum's fitness instructress mistress, Rosemary, is found dead on her houseboat, and evidence also suggests that another of Callum's girlfriends died in suspicious circumstances some years earlier Frost cannot wait to pounce. First, however, he must get past Callum's adoring personal assistant, Michael. Perhaps a spot of breaking and entering would help Frost find the clues he is after.

Series 15 (2010)

Episode	Title	Written by	Directed by	Viewers (millions)[2]	Original airdate
1	"If Dogs Run Free (Part One)"	Michael Russell	Paul Harrison	8.79m	4 April 2010
Frost and his men assist RSPCA officer Christine Moorhead in smashing an illegal dog-fighting ring but its organiser, local gangster Gerry Berland, eludes them. One of Christine's helpers, Brian, is stabbed to death by Berland's thuggish son Sean, who believes he set the police on the ring, and Christine recognises him and his accomplice, Neil. Berland arranges alibis for the boys and, though initially appalled, his wife Sally colludes with him as he has always run her life. She persuades Neil's honest and horrified parents to go along with the lie. Having failed to warn Christine off, Berland sends a thug, Lisowski, to torch the RSPCA unit with Christine inside it with her rescued dogs. Meanwhile a mysterious criminal is duplicating unsolved crimes on Frost's books from years earlier and, as he goes to rescue Christine, Jack finds chalked on his car's windscreen, 'You Die Next.'
2	"If Dogs Run Free (Part Two)"	Michael Russell	Paul Harrison	9.94m	5 April 2010
Christine survives her ordeal and grows closer to Jack, who meets her apparently friendly ex-husband. To silence Lisowski, a drug addict, Berland gives him an extra strong fix, which kills him. Frost realises the two men know each other but decides to bide his time. However, he has a piece of good fortune when Salmond, Berland's cocky solicitor, has his car stolen by joy-riding colleagues and Salmond's large, personal stash of cocaine is found in the car. Frost levers him into revealing the location of the site where Berland trains his fighting dogs and from here on Berland's world collapses. Sean kills himself and Sally leaves him, watched by Neil's mother, who takes her boy to the police to confess everything. Berland, finally recognising the pain of losing a loved one, allows Frost to arrest him in peace.

References

1. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108967/?ref_=tt_ov_inf
2. "Top 30 Programmes – BARB". barb.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
3. http://www.barb.co.uk/whats-new/weekly-top-30?