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Episodes: All (42)

Season: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14
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Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: Care and Protection

Original Air Date—6 December 1992
DI Jack Frost has to cope with the impending death of his wife as he investigates the disappearance of a young girl and a 30 year old cold case.

Season 1, Episode 2: Not with Kindness

Original Air Date—13 December 1992
Frost investigates churchyard vandalism, a missing paper girl, and a harassed woman as copes with his sister-in-law's visit after his wife's death.

Season 1, Episode 3: Conclusions

Original Air Date—20 December 1992
Frost copes with an unhappy new partner as he investigates a casino robbery, a hit-an-run death, and a bank robber on the lam.

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: A Minority of One

Original Air Date—9 January 1994
While Frost is investigating a series of burglaries in a black area of Denton, one of his informants, a single mother, is murdered as Mullett worries about bad press.

Season 2, Episode 2: Widows and Orphans

Original Air Date—16 January 1994
Frost investigates two serial criminals preying on senior women, a burglar and a serial killer while working with a beautiful new partner.

Season 2, Episode 3: Nothing to Hide

Original Air Date—23 January 1994
Although DCI Frost is initially advised that a young addict found in a public toilet died by choking on his own vomit, he later learns that he was beaten to death.

Season 2, Episode 4: Stranger in the House

Original Air Date—30 January 1994
DI Frost has been making no progress in finding a serial rapist in the Denton area, so Mullet assigns WPC Wallace to him to broaden his perspective.

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: Appropriate Adults

Original Air Date—8 January 1995
When an 8 year old girl disappears near the local woods, foul play is suspected as circumstances point to a seemingly harmless 20 year old with Down's Syndrome.

Season 3, Episode 2: Quarry

Original Air Date—15 January 1995
Two animal rights activists are murdered following a protest of a fox hunt.

Season 3, Episode 3: Dead Male One

Original Air Date—22 January 1995
DCI Frost investigates a misidentified body floating in a river and the drug related death of a football prima donna who dies after a kick in the head.

Season 3, Episode 4: No Refuge

Original Air Date—22 January 1995
Although the three armed robbers who held up a glass factory are caught, there is no trace of the 15 thousand pounds they stole.

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: Paying the Price

Original Air Date—7 January 1996
A ruthless kidnapper tests Frost's skills to the full - it proves a tough case to crack and, for one woman, time is running out.

Season 4, Episode 2: Unknown Soldiers

Original Air Date—14 January 1996
DC Frost has to deal with discovering the source of a handgun owned by a teenager, the culprits involved in an armored car heist, and a fatal accident on an army base.

Season 4, Episode 3: The Things We Do for Love

Original Air Date—21 January 1996
When a beautiful therapist is found stabbed to death 18 times in a parking lot, Frost suspects one of her clients, a reformed alcoholic and family man.

Season 4, Episode 4: Fun Times for Swingers

Original Air Date—28 January 1996
Frost investigates the murder of a pizza waiter who doubled as a gigolo for middle-aged women and ongoing acts of vandalism at Mullett's cricket club.

Season 4, Episode 5: Deep Waters

Original Air Date—4 February 1996
Frost is frustrated in his interrogations of two men that stabbed a young woman during a robbery and a predatory professor possibly involved in an assault on a pretty co-ed.

Season 5


Season 5, Episode 1: Penny for the Guy

Original Air Date—9 February 1997
A manpower shortage and a rash of child kidnapped for ransom force a vacationing Frost back to work partnering with beautiful but ambitious DS Liz Maud.

Season 5, Episode 2: House Calls

Original Air Date—16 February 1997
Jack 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 Jack has little to go on. DS Liz Maud has a case of a child abuser who is injecting children with water. Jack recalls a similar case and when they learn he is now in the area, have an immediate suspect. Jack 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, Jack 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 Jack, he sees a number of holes in Maud's case leading him to the the real killer.

Season 5, Episode 3: True Confessions

Original Air Date—23 February 1997
Just back from a holiday in Spain with his friend Kitty Rayford, DI Jack Frost investigates the death of Jeanette Barr, found on a nearby riverbank. The autopsy reveals that although she downed, it more likely happened in her bathtub and 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.

Season 5, Episode 4: No Other Love

Original Air Date—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 DI Jack Frost, now reunited with DS Clive Barnard, onto the case but all does 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 Jack in particular. At the Station, Supt. Mullett is being forced to cut his budget and has his eyes squarely set on making Jack redundant.

Season 6


Season 6, Episode 1: Appendix Man

Original Air Date—7 March 1999
Hazel Wallace returns from her training as the new Detective Sergeant. Supt. Mullett assigns her to sorting the mess left behind by DI 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.

Season 6, Episode 2: One Man's Meat

Original Air Date—14 March 1999
Frost investigates two murders. The first is a homeless teenage girl, discovered beaten and drowned in Denton's river. The second is an environmental health officer, after a dismembered arm washes up on the shoreline. This discovery leads to the investigation of a local meat processing factory.

Season 6, Episode 3: Private Lives

Original Air Date—21 March 1999
A woman is discovered in critical condition in a quiet village on the outskirts of Denton, the apparent victim of a hit-and-run incident. Frost's investigation exposes the secret life of a rural England corner.

Season 6, Episode 4: Keys to the Car

Original Air Date—28 March 1999
Frost investigates a dapper con man with a taste for golf at posh clubs and other people's cars, especially after the body of a drug dealer is found in the trunk.

Season 7


Season 7, Episode 1: Line of Fire: Part 1

Original Air Date—25 December 1999
DI Frost investigates the murder of a policeman murdered during a sting of a ring of international; car thieves and someone murdering local pets.

Season 7, Episode 2: Line of Fire: Part 2

Original Air Date—1 January 2000
Frost continues to try to identify detective Tim Fox's killer. In addition, he tries to solve a series of pet shootings, for which he is eventually forced to seek help from a computer system run by a new junior WPC. His pursuit leads to a confrontation above a power station.

Season 8


Season 8, Episode 1: Benefit of the Doubt: Part 1

Original Air Date—14 January 2001

Season 8, Episode 2: Benefit of the Doubt: Part 2

Original Air Date—15 January 2001

Season 9


Season 9, Episode 1: Mistaken Identity: Part 1

Original Air Date—27 January 2002

Season 9, Episode 2: Mistaken Identity: Part 2

Original Air Date—28 January 2002

Season 10


Season 10, Episode 1: Hidden Truth

Original Air Date—19 January 2003
Cathy Thompson and her son, who has witnessed a murder, are being looked after in a safe house but it is not just negligence on the part of one of their protectors who goes to the shops which worries Frost. Somebody has located the Thompsons and, in Frost's book, this can only mean that there is a traitor within the police ranks. Cathy and her son go on the run, ending up in an aircraft museum where Frost has a showdown with the pursuer.

Season 10, Episode 2: Close Encounters

Original Air Date—3 March 2003
Autistic teenager Laurence Burrell is the only witness to an attack on a security guard at Denton's last remaining quarry and is hauled in by the police, later escaping back to the quarry, which he threatens to blow up. Frost is also kept busy when a woman claims that her ex-partner has abducted their young son, and Mr. Mullet is anxious that he investigate a series of burglaries which are strangely related.

Season 10, Episode 3: Held in Trust

Original Air Date—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 Mullet 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, saying that he 'loves' children and that it is quite all right for him to do so. Frost must restrain himself from allowing Caldwell to make him do something that will have an effect on his promotion.

Season 11


Season 11, Episode 1: Another Life

Original Air Date—26 October 2003
A recently reinstated Frost re-teams with D.S. Lawson to investigate a corpse floating in the canal and a mutilated body in a discarded refrigerator.

Season 11, Episode 2: Dancing in the Dark

Original Air Date—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 Richman. He denies murder but confesses that he was shocked to realize 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 and rightly so. The escort agency is involved in bringing in Eastern European girls to work as pole dancers and Heather's desire to join in the profits of the enterprise may just have caused her death. Frost eventually solves both cases and can at last relax with Julie.

Season 12


Season 12, Episode 1: Near Death Experience

Original Air Date—25 September 2005
A beautiful, media savvy forensic psychologist is recruited to assist Frost in profiling a serial murderer who targets women at home.

Season 12, Episode 2: Endangered Species

Original Air Date—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 oriental 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 its 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.

Season 13


Season 13, Episode 1: Mind Games

Original Air Date—31 May 2008
DI Frost must deal with a desperate mother and solve a 20 year old missing persons case following the discovery of a teenage girl's remains.

Season 13, Episode 2: Dead End

Original Air Date—19 October 2008
An old antagonist teams with frost to investigate the kidnapping of two bus drivers and the death of a clown.

Season 13, Episode 3: In the Public Interest

Original Air Date—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.

Season 14


Season 14, Episode 1: If Dogs Run Free: Part 1

Original Air Date—2010

Season 14, Episode 2: If Dogs Run Free: Part 2

Original Air Date—2010

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