A Touch of Frost - Series 6-12 - 14-DVD Box Set

A Touch of Frost - Series 6-12 - 14-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
1523 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1992 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Sandy Johnson

Written By:
R.D. Wingfield
Malcolm Bradbury

Actors:
David Jason ..... DI Frost
Caroline Harker ..... DS Wallace
Bruce Alexander ..... Supt Mullett
David Gooderson ..... Simpkins
Cheryl Campbell ..... Diana Grey
Bill Stewart ..... Sandy Longford
Dominic Letts ..... Lester Bryce-Jones
Suzan Sylvester ..... Debbie Viner
Kate McEnery ..... Leonie Viner
Peter Kelly ..... Brian
John Lyons ..... DS Toolan
Arthur White ..... PC Ernie Trigg
Ian Driver ..... DC Jordan
James McKenna ..... Sgt Brady
Thomas Wheatley ..... Chief Constable
David Blair ..... PC Martins
Simone Bendix ..... Joanna
Jane Wheldon ..... Mrs Dale
Judy Browne ..... Staff Nurse
Alison Lintott ..... Miss Dill
Phil Atkinson ..... Petrol Attendant
Joseph Kpobie ..... Darren Matthews
Chris Armstrong ..... Fisherman
Rupert Degas ..... Insurance Rep
Bev Willis ..... Barman
Paul Williamson ..... Chairman
David Summer ..... TV Journalist
Peter Glancy ..... Hospital Porter
Christopher Grimes ..... Shop Assistant
The Lydian String Quartet ..... Musicians at the Concert

Synopsis:

A Touch Of Frost - Series 6-12 is a fourteen disc box set containing the complete collection of episodes from series 6 to series 12 of this award-winning cops and crime drama. The show is based on the novels by R. D. Wingfield, and David Jason stars in the lead role of gruff and tough Detective Inspector Jack Frost. He is joined by Bruce Alexander (who plays the incredibly officious Superintendent Norman Mullett), Blake Ritson (as DC Robert Presley, aka Frost's sidekick), and John Lyons (DS Toolan, another colleague). Set in a fictitious and dreary town called Denton, A Touch of Frost contains a good dose of humour. Each episode features plots related to violence and/or murder and Frost's pursuit of the ladies is another fairly regular sub-plot in the show.

DI Frost is an old-school no-nonsense copper who believes in traditional policing methods. Assisted by several officers including the ever-able DS Toolan, Frost uses what he knows about the street to find solutions to complex crimes as a member of the Denton CID. His home life is complex as he cares for his wife until her death and then leads a quiet bachelor's life, with only the occasional attempt at a relationship with another woman. His daily nemesis however is the Station's commander, Supt. Mullett, who is constantly worrying about budgets, staffing levels and crime statistics. He doesn't appreciate DI Frost's rough and ready manner, which doesn't stop him from trotting him out - with his George Cross, Britain's highest civilian honour for gallantry - when it suits him.

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 takes in a boarder as he investigates the body of a dead teenage girl floating in the canal and a disembodied arm washed up on the shoreline.

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
Working with a problematic new partner, Frost investigates a homicide and a disappearance and has to prove that he is not the man harassing women in Denton.

Season 8, Episode 2: Benefit of the Doubt: Part 2
Original Air Date-15 January 2001
Frosts turns his energies to solving the murder of a doctor found with medical waste and stand by his problematic new partner despite pressure from Mullet.
Season 9

Season 9, Episode 1: Mistaken Identity: Part 1
Original Air Date-27 January 2002
DI Frost welcomes a new member of the CID team, PC Ronnie Lonnegan. 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 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.

Season 9, Episode 2: Mistaken Identity: Part 2
Original Air Date-28 January 2002
The police now have Mike Patterson in custody but he vehemently denies having anything to do with the death of the Harrises. DS 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. Meanwhile, Frost's relationship with psychologist Pam Hartley seems to be going well though it does take an unexpected twist.
Season 10

Season 10, Episode 1: Hidden Truth
Original Air Date-19 January 2003
Frost misplaces a winning lottery ticket while trying to find a security leak that lead to the murder of two key witness in a supposed safe house.

Season 10, Episode 2: Close Encounters
Original Air Date-3 March 2003
Frost investigates the murder of a security guard at a quarry with an autistic teenager the only witness while DS Williams helps Frost with an unusual series of burglaries.

Season 10, Episode 3: Held in Trust
Original Air Date-14 September 2003
AS Frost has mixed emotions about promotion, a young boy is reported missing and the malnourished corpse of another youngster is presumed to be his.
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.

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