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It starred Sir David Jason as Detective Inspector William Edward Frost, G.C., known as Jack to everyone but his late wife. He is a down-to-earth, straightforward copper who is more interested in banging up crooks than figures and statistics. His immediate superior, Superintendent Norman "Horn-rimmed Harry" Mullett, is a by-the-book, procedural man who seems to see Jack as a personal insult.
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It starred Sir David Jason Creator/DavidJason as Detective Inspector William Edward Frost, G.C., known as Jack to everyone but his late wife. He is a down-to-earth, straightforward copper who is more interested in banging up crooks than figures and statistics. His immediate superior, Superintendent Norman "Horn-rimmed Harry" Mullett, is a by-the-book, procedural man who seems to see Jack as a personal insult.
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''A Touch of Frost'' (1992-2010) was a detective television series produced by Yorkshire Television for {{ITV}}. It was based on a series of books by R D Wingfield.
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''A Touch of Frost'' (1992-2010) was a detective television series produced by Yorkshire Television for {{ITV}}.Creator/{{ITV}}. It was based on a series of books by R D Wingfield.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A decidedly NOT PlayedForLaughs example in "No Other Love". Mullet see's an opportunity to finally get rid of Frost and repeatedly tries to sideline him the entire episode in order to make Jack resign. But then [[spoiler: Frosts' partner Barnard is killed by the deranged Charlie Lawson and Frost, in a fit of shell shocked guilt, hands in his resignation notice. Mullett can only stare at Frost in horror when he gives in his notice, and his face screams MyGodWhatHaveIDone?]]
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A decidedly NOT PlayedForLaughs example in "No Other Love". Mullet Mullett see's an opportunity to finally get rid of Frost and repeatedly tries to sideline him the entire episode in order to make Jack resign. But then [[spoiler: Frosts' partner Barnard is killed by the deranged Charlie Lawson and Frost, in a fit of shell shocked guilt, hands in his resignation notice. resignation. Mullett can only stare at Frost in horror when he gives in his notice, and his face screams MyGodWhatHaveIDone?]]MyGodWhatHaveIDone]]
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A decidedly NOT PlayedForLaughs example in "No Other Love". Mullet see's an opportunity to finally get rid of Frost and repeatedly tries to sideline him the entire episode in order to make Jack resign. But then [[spoiler: Frosts' partner Bernard is killed by the deranged Charlie Lawson and Frost, in a fit of shell shocked guilt, hands in his resignation notice. Mullett can only stare at Frost in horror when he gives in his notice, and his face screams MyGodWhatHaveIDone?]]
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A decidedly NOT PlayedForLaughs example in "No Other Love". Mullet see's an opportunity to finally get rid of Frost and repeatedly tries to sideline him the entire episode in order to make Jack resign. But then [[spoiler: Frosts' partner Bernard Barnard is killed by the deranged Charlie Lawson and Frost, in a fit of shell shocked guilt, hands in his resignation notice. Mullett can only stare at Frost in horror when he gives in his notice, and his face screams MyGodWhatHaveIDone?]]
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** '''Frost:''' ''Are you trying to tell me that a bloke who died a year ago, hops out of his coffin; hitches a lift to Riverside Apartments commits a murder then nips back to the graveyard probably stopping off at the Red Lion for a pint?''
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->'''Frost:''' ''Get on the radio to the station son and tell Sergeant Wells we found a body in the churchyard. And when he stops laughing, tell him I think it is young Paula Barkner''
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Jack" Frost.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Jack" Frost. Frost is universally known as "Jack". His real first name is William. This was changed from the books on which the series is based where his name actually ''was'' Jack, but the producers deemed it too implausible.
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* DecemberDecemberRomance: [[spoiler: Jack himself in the last series, with RSPCA investigator Christine Moorhead ([[DowntonAbbey Phyllis Logan]]).]]
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* DecemberDecemberRomance: [[spoiler: Jack himself in the last series, with RSPCA investigator Christine Moorhead ([[DowntonAbbey ([[Series/DowntonAbbey Phyllis Logan]]).]]
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** Sydney Snell from "House Calls" is a very tragic and unbalanced man. Well into his forties, he still has the mind of a child. Always wanting to be a doctor he ended up breaking into houses, and harmlessly injecting children with water, under the delusion he was in someway helping them. Frost arrested him several years before the events of the episode, and he was promise Psychological help. But he never got it, and was instead thrown in prison, where he was beaten up by the other inmates for being a child abuser. This did nothing to help his fragile sanity. Sydney was very much a kind and quite pitiful man, who never hurt anyone and had no idea what he was doing was wrong. Following being mistaken for murdering two children, he ends up confessing despite being innocent, as he even doesn't understand hi actions.
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** Sydney Snell from "House Calls" is a very tragic and unbalanced man. Well into his forties, he still has the mind of a child. Always wanting to be a doctor he ended up breaking into houses, and harmlessly injecting children with water, under the delusion he was in someway helping them. Frost arrested him several years before the events of the episode, and he was promise Psychological help. But he never got it, and was instead thrown in prison, where he was beaten up by the other inmates for being a child abuser. This did nothing to help his fragile sanity. Sydney was very much a kind and quite pitiful man, who never hurt anyone and had no idea what he was doing was wrong. Following being mistaken for murdering two children, he ends up confessing despite being innocent, as he even doesn't understand hi his actions.
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* AntiHero: Jack, [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Pragmatic Anti-Hero]].
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* TheMentallyDisabled: Frost met several insane people during his career, raging from simply mentally disabled to outright delusional. Nevertheless they almost always portrayed as seriously ill and their problems caused them multiple problems, even the very dangerous ones.
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* TheMentallyDisabled: TheMentallyDisturbed: Frost met several a few clearly insane people during his career, raging from simply mentally disabled to outright delusional. Nevertheless they almost always portrayed as seriously ill and suffering from their problems caused them multiple problems, even the one's who proved to be very dangerous ones.dangerous.
** [[spoiler: Tony Jarvis]] from "Deep Waters" is a delusional SerialKiller, he was also obsessed with the ocean, water and the idea of mermaids. To the point he ended up convinced that his victims were mermaids, and that by drowning them, he was freeing them. Its best displayed at the end while he's in custody, he can't even grasp the idea that he's hurt anyone.
** Sydney Snell from "House Calls" is a very tragic and unbalanced man. Well into his forties, he still has the mind of a child. Always wanting to be a doctor he ended up breaking into houses, and harmlessly injecting children with water, under the delusion he was in someway helping them. Frost arrested him several years before the events of the episode, and he was promise Psychological help. But he never got it, and was instead thrown in prison, where he was beaten up by the other inmates for being a child abuser. This did nothing to help his fragile sanity. Sydney was very much a kind and quite pitiful man, who never hurt anyone and had no idea what he was doing was wrong. Following being mistaken for murdering two children, he ends up confessing despite being innocent, as he even doesn't understand hi actions.
** [[spoiler: Tony Jarvis]] from "Deep Waters" is a delusional SerialKiller, he was also obsessed with the ocean, water and the idea of mermaids. To the point he ended up convinced that his victims were mermaids, and that by drowning them, he was freeing them. Its best displayed at the end while he's in custody, he can't even grasp the idea that he's hurt anyone.
** Sydney Snell from "House Calls" is a very tragic and unbalanced man. Well into his forties, he still has the mind of a child. Always wanting to be a doctor he ended up breaking into houses, and harmlessly injecting children with water, under the delusion he was in someway helping them. Frost arrested him several years before the events of the episode, and he was promise Psychological help. But he never got it, and was instead thrown in prison, where he was beaten up by the other inmates for being a child abuser. This did nothing to help his fragile sanity. Sydney was very much a kind and quite pitiful man, who never hurt anyone and had no idea what he was doing was wrong. Following being mistaken for murdering two children, he ends up confessing despite being innocent, as he even doesn't understand hi actions.
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* TheSociopath: Anton Caldwell, a Paedophile and diagnosed psychopath is the main antagonist of "Held In Trust," a cruel and quite disturbed man, he was responsible for the abduction of two eight year old boys and the murder of two people (one of them being the first little boy). He seemed to consider the whole matter one big joke, and was dangerously intelligent, even wiling to drop clues during his interrogation.
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* TheMentallyDisabled: Frost met several insane people during his career, raging from simply mentally disabled to outright delusional. Nevertheless they almost always portrayed as seriously ill and their problems caused them multiple problems, even the very dangerous ones.
* MurderMakesYouCrazy: [[spoiler: Tony Jarvis]] as a boy he murdered his little sister in a fit of jealousy. The guilt of what he did, drove him completely insane to the point that in his adulthood, he's a completely delusional SerialKiller.
* MurderMakesYouCrazy: [[spoiler: Tony Jarvis]] as a boy he murdered his little sister in a fit of jealousy. The guilt of what he did, drove him completely insane to the point that in his adulthood, he's a completely delusional SerialKiller.
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* SerialKiller: Frost chases one in "Windows and Orphans" who targeted old women. He turned out to be a mentally unstable man, who outside of his attacks was the nicest person anyone ever met. His problems stem from being abandoned as an infant by his mother, and raised by his abusive grandmother who he still lives with in the presence. As such he started two killing spree's on his mothers birthday. And as a child was caught in an incident to try and burn down the school, after the psychiatrist report deemed him unstable.
* SerialRapist: The villain of "Stranger In The House" responsible for raping six different women (one only fifteen years old). He attacks them in their own home and holds then at knife point.. He also attempts to rape WPC Wallace, in a particularly disturbed example when confessing he admits he's not insane, he just doesn't get pleasure out of consensual sex.
* SerialRapist: The villain of "Stranger In The House" responsible for raping six different women (one only fifteen years old). He attacks them in their own home and holds then at knife point.. He also attempts to rape WPC Wallace, in a particularly disturbed example when confessing he admits he's not insane, he just doesn't get pleasure out of consensual sex.
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** Frost chases one in "Windows and Orphans" who targeted old women. He turned out to be a mentally unstable man, who outside of his attacks was the nicest person anyone ever met. His problems stem from being abandoned as an infant by his mother, and raised by his abusive grandmother who he still lives with in the presence. As such he started two killing spree's on his mothers birthday. And as a child was caught in an incident to try and burn down the school, after the psychiatrist report deemed him unstable.
** He also faces another one in "Deep Waters" in this case [[spoiler: Tony Jarvis]], he was [[TheMentallyDisturbed completely insane]] when he was ten years old he drowned his seven year old sister out of jealously, to deal with the guilt he developed an obsession with water and the sea. And ended up believing his sister was an actual mermaid (the family had dubbed her "are little Mermaid" as she was so good at swimming) and he had released her to swim forever. This lead to him in his adulthood drowning at least one other woman who reminded him of his sister, convinced she was a mermaid to. Then later trying to drown a third woman under the same delusion. Frost managed to save the final victim.
* SerialRapist: The villain of "Stranger In The House" responsible for raping six different women (one only fifteen years old). He attacks them in their own home and holds then at knifepoint..point. He also attempts to rape WPC Wallace, in a particularly disturbed example when confessing he admits he's not insane, he just doesn't get pleasure out of consensual sex.
** Frost chases one in "Windows and Orphans" who targeted old women. He turned out to be a mentally unstable man, who outside of his attacks was the nicest person anyone ever met. His problems stem from being abandoned as an infant by his mother, and raised by his abusive grandmother who he still lives with in the presence. As such he started two killing spree's on his mothers birthday. And as a child was caught in an incident to try and burn down the school, after the psychiatrist report deemed him unstable.
** He also faces another one in "Deep Waters" in this case [[spoiler: Tony Jarvis]], he was [[TheMentallyDisturbed completely insane]] when he was ten years old he drowned his seven year old sister out of jealously, to deal with the guilt he developed an obsession with water and the sea. And ended up believing his sister was an actual mermaid (the family had dubbed her "are little Mermaid" as she was so good at swimming) and he had released her to swim forever. This lead to him in his adulthood drowning at least one other woman who reminded him of his sister, convinced she was a mermaid to. Then later trying to drown a third woman under the same delusion. Frost managed to save the final victim.
* SerialRapist: The villain of "Stranger In The House" responsible for raping six different women (one only fifteen years old). He attacks them in their own home and holds then at knife
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* SerialKiller: Frost chases one in "Windows and Orphans" who targeted old women. He turned out to be a mentally unstable man, who outside of his attacks was the nicest person anyone ever met. His problems stem from being abandoned as an infant by his mother, and raised by his abusive grandmother who he still lives with in the presence. As such he started two killing spree's on his mothers birthday. And as a child was caught in an incident to try and burn down the school, after the psychiatrist report deemed him unstable.
* SerialRapist: The villain of "Stranger In The House" responsible for raping six different women (one only fifteen years old). He attacks them in their own home and holds then at knife point.. He also attempts to rape WPC Wallace, in a particularly disturbed example when confessing he admits he's not insane, he just doesn't get pleasure out of consensual sex.
* SerialRapist: The villain of "Stranger In The House" responsible for raping six different women (one only fifteen years old). He attacks them in their own home and holds then at knife point.. He also attempts to rape WPC Wallace, in a particularly disturbed example when confessing he admits he's not insane, he just doesn't get pleasure out of consensual sex.
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* LetMeGetThisStraight: A truly epic case of this trope occurs in the episode "Appendix Man" where a truly bewildered Jack is informed by police archivist Ernie Trigg that fingerprints found at a crime scene match those of the titular "Appendix Man" who died a year previously and Jack naturally employs this trope in response.
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* LetMeGetThisStraight: A truly An epic case of this trope occurs in the episode "Appendix Man" where a truly bewildered Jack is informed by police archivist Ernie Trigg that fingerprints found at a crime scene match those of the titular "Appendix Man" who died a year previously and Jack naturally employs this trope in response.response.
**'''Frost:''' ''Are you trying to tell me that a bloke who died a year ago, hops out of his coffin; hitches a lift to Riverside Apartments commits a murder then nips back to the graveyard probably stopping off at the Red Lion for a pint?''
**'''Frost:''' ''Are you trying to tell me that a bloke who died a year ago, hops out of his coffin; hitches a lift to Riverside Apartments commits a murder then nips back to the graveyard probably stopping off at the Red Lion for a pint?''
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* KilledOffForReal: Of the recurring characters, [[spoiler:Barnard]] and [[spoiler:Toolan]].
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* KilledOffForReal: Of the recurring characters, [[spoiler:Barnard]] and [[spoiler:Toolan]]. [[spoiler:Toolan]].
*LetMeGetThisStraight: A truly epic case of this trope occurs in the episode "Appendix Man" where a truly bewildered Jack is informed by police archivist Ernie Trigg that fingerprints found at a crime scene match those of the titular "Appendix Man" who died a year previously and Jack naturally employs this trope in response.
*LetMeGetThisStraight: A truly epic case of this trope occurs in the episode "Appendix Man" where a truly bewildered Jack is informed by police archivist Ernie Trigg that fingerprints found at a crime scene match those of the titular "Appendix Man" who died a year previously and Jack naturally employs this trope in response.
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* [[{{Bowdlerise}} Bowdlerisation]]: The series is very, very, heavily toned down from the novels, in which Jack is much more unsympathetically bigoted, violent, irresponsible and semi-corrupt, and there is a lot more general depravity among the characters. It could be argued that the TV Frost is the sympathetic version of the OldFashionedCopper, and the prose Frost is the realistic one.
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* BritishBrevity: Seasons tended to be very short - seasons 7, 8, 9 and 15 were each a single two-part story, and seasons 12 and 13 were just one episode each, which tends to lead to them being lumped together as season 12, and season 13 being treated as an UnInstallment.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: Mullet's complaints aren't always baseless; a good example appears in ''Appendix Man'' where Jack not only manages to lose one highly critical case file due to sloppiness but an entire shelf full of them. He doesn't get them back either.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: Mullet's complaints aren't always baseless; a good example appears in ''Appendix Man'' where Jack not only manages to lose one highly critical case file due to sloppiness but an entire shelf full of them. He doesn't get them back either.
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* InformedAttractiveness: The episode ''Deep Waters'' centres around a girl who is supposedly so attractive that every boy on campus wants her and every girl is either jealous of her or wants to be her. This is not only pointed out by several characters but even Frost and Barnard are enraptured by her beauty.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The location of Denton is never revealed. Fans believe it to be somewhere in or between Wiltshire and Oxfordshire given the repeated references to Swindon, Reading and Oxford within the show.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The location of Denton is never revealed. Fans believe it to be somewhere in or between Wiltshire and Oxfordshire given the repeated references to Swindon, Reading and Oxford within the show. Like the TropeNamer, Denton is a fairly common place name, though none of the real-life Dentons are big enough to resemble the fictional one.
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* MedalOfDishonor: Winning the George Cross is a matter of some embarrassment to Frost, even more so after [[spoiler:Barnard]] dies in more heroic circumstances.
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->'''Frost:''' ''Get on the radio to the station son and tell Sergeant Wells we found a body in the churchyard. And when he stops laughing, tell him I think it is young Paula Barkner''
''A Touch of Frost'' (1992-2010) was a detective television series produced by Yorkshire Television for {{ITV}}. It was based on a series of books by R D Wingfield.
It starred Sir David Jason as Detective Inspector William Edward Frost, G.C., known as Jack to everyone but his late wife. He is a down-to-earth, straightforward copper who is more interested in banging up crooks than figures and statistics. His immediate superior, Superintendent Norman "Horn-rimmed Harry" Mullett, is a by-the-book, procedural man who seems to see Jack as a personal insult.
Let's be fair. Jack is, by whatever measure, a bent copper. He has planted evidence, bribed, bullied and tricked, but he does it to get the criminals behind bars. Old, grumpy and misogynistic, Frost has a near endless supply of dirty jokes and considers teaching someone how to fiddle his expenses claim to be a cornerstone of police training. He is not as great a detective as some other TV detectives are shown, but he is good at his job. The TV adaptation actually toned DOWN the scale of Frost's unscrupulous antics compared to the original crime novels.
He also has the George Cross, a fact that has saved his career more than once, after he tried and failed to commit [[SuicideByCop suicide by armed criminal]].
The show concluded in a two-part final in April 2010, with [[spoiler: Georgie being killed after the bitter ex-husband of the woman Jack was about to marry drove his car into theirs.]]
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This show provides examples of:
* AntiHero: Jack, Type III.
* BookEnds: Jack being widowed in the first episode and remarrying in the last. And relatedly, being called William rather than Jack.
* CommutingOnABus: Hazel Wallace was PutOnABus when she was promoted from uniform to [=CID=], but returned several times.
* CrazyCatLady: One is featured in the very first episode.
* DaChief: "Horn-rimmed Harry" Mullet.
* DeathSeeker: In the aforementioned suicide attempt.
* DecemberDecemberRomance: [[spoiler: Jack himself in the last series, with RSPCA investigator Christine Moorhead ([[DowntonAbbey Phyllis Logan]]).]]
* DeusExMachina: Frost's magic keys. It is never explained how he got them, where he got them and why they can open seemingly every door in Denton. It is theorized by some however that they are meant to be the mythical Police Skeleton Keys.
* DownerEnding: Frequently, even when the killer is caught.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Frost's real first name is the normal sounding William, but prefers to go by the obvious nickname Jack.
* EpunymousTitle: "Night Frost", "Christmas Frost", "Hard Frost"...
* InformedAttractiveness: The episode ''Deep Waters'' centres around a girl who is supposedly so attractive that every boy on campus wants her and every girl is either jealous of her or wants to be her. This is not only pointed out by several characters but even Frost and Barnard are enraptured by her beauty.
* KilledOffForReal: Of the recurring characters, [[spoiler:Barnard]] and [[spoiler:Toolan]].
* {{Nepotism}}: Subverted by [=DS=] Barnard. In-universe, he is initially seen as a beneficiary of nepotism, but with Jack's support he is able to prove himself as a capable detective.
* NeverLiveItDown: In an unusual in universe example, Frost tends to get depressed whenever people refer to him winning the George Cross, feeling that he doesn't really deserve it.
* NoOneIsIndispensable: Subverted once when, after saying it, Mullet is forced to admit that yes, for the moment at least, Jack ''is'' indispensable.
** On the other hand when Frost starts catching flak for letting go a child abuser who's later blamed for a murder, a friendly journalist points out that if the publicity is bad enough anyone ''is'' expendable, even decorated heroes, so Frost had better get off his backside and find the real killer (he does).
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Jack" Frost.
* OldFashionedCopper: And doesn't it piss off Mullet.
* OvertookTheSeries
* PoliceProcedural
* ScarsAreForever: Jack has a facial scar which is explained by his backstory.
* UselessSecurityCamera: In one episode, Frost asks Toolan if he managed to get the evidence from the camera for a murder that had happened in an alley, only to be told that it was facing the wrong way.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The location of Denton is never revealed. Fans believe it to be somewhere in or between Wiltshire and Oxfordshire given the repeated references to Swindon, Reading and Oxford within the show.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Jack is only called by his real first name, William, by two people: his late wife in the first episode and [[spoiler:Christine Moorhead]] in the last.
* YouDoNotHaveToSayAnything
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''A Touch of Frost'' (1992-2010) was a detective television series produced by Yorkshire Television for {{ITV}}. It was based on a series of books by R D Wingfield.
It starred Sir David Jason as Detective Inspector William Edward Frost, G.C., known as Jack to everyone but his late wife. He is a down-to-earth, straightforward copper who is more interested in banging up crooks than figures and statistics. His immediate superior, Superintendent Norman "Horn-rimmed Harry" Mullett, is a by-the-book, procedural man who seems to see Jack as a personal insult.
Let's be fair. Jack is, by whatever measure, a bent copper. He has planted evidence, bribed, bullied and tricked, but he does it to get the criminals behind bars. Old, grumpy and misogynistic, Frost has a near endless supply of dirty jokes and considers teaching someone how to fiddle his expenses claim to be a cornerstone of police training. He is not as great a detective as some other TV detectives are shown, but he is good at his job. The TV adaptation actually toned DOWN the scale of Frost's unscrupulous antics compared to the original crime novels.
He also has the George Cross, a fact that has saved his career more than once, after he tried and failed to commit [[SuicideByCop suicide by armed criminal]].
The show concluded in a two-part final in April 2010, with [[spoiler: Georgie being killed after the bitter ex-husband of the woman Jack was about to marry drove his car into theirs.]]
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This show provides examples of:
* AntiHero: Jack, Type III.
* BookEnds: Jack being widowed in the first episode and remarrying in the last. And relatedly, being called William rather than Jack.
* CommutingOnABus: Hazel Wallace was PutOnABus when she was promoted from uniform to [=CID=], but returned several times.
* CrazyCatLady: One is featured in the very first episode.
* DaChief: "Horn-rimmed Harry" Mullet.
* DeathSeeker: In the aforementioned suicide attempt.
* DecemberDecemberRomance: [[spoiler: Jack himself in the last series, with RSPCA investigator Christine Moorhead ([[DowntonAbbey Phyllis Logan]]).]]
* DeusExMachina: Frost's magic keys. It is never explained how he got them, where he got them and why they can open seemingly every door in Denton. It is theorized by some however that they are meant to be the mythical Police Skeleton Keys.
* DownerEnding: Frequently, even when the killer is caught.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Frost's real first name is the normal sounding William, but prefers to go by the obvious nickname Jack.
* EpunymousTitle: "Night Frost", "Christmas Frost", "Hard Frost"...
* InformedAttractiveness: The episode ''Deep Waters'' centres around a girl who is supposedly so attractive that every boy on campus wants her and every girl is either jealous of her or wants to be her. This is not only pointed out by several characters but even Frost and Barnard are enraptured by her beauty.
* KilledOffForReal: Of the recurring characters, [[spoiler:Barnard]] and [[spoiler:Toolan]].
* {{Nepotism}}: Subverted by [=DS=] Barnard. In-universe, he is initially seen as a beneficiary of nepotism, but with Jack's support he is able to prove himself as a capable detective.
* NeverLiveItDown: In an unusual in universe example, Frost tends to get depressed whenever people refer to him winning the George Cross, feeling that he doesn't really deserve it.
* NoOneIsIndispensable: Subverted once when, after saying it, Mullet is forced to admit that yes, for the moment at least, Jack ''is'' indispensable.
** On the other hand when Frost starts catching flak for letting go a child abuser who's later blamed for a murder, a friendly journalist points out that if the publicity is bad enough anyone ''is'' expendable, even decorated heroes, so Frost had better get off his backside and find the real killer (he does).
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Jack" Frost.
* OldFashionedCopper: And doesn't it piss off Mullet.
* OvertookTheSeries
* PoliceProcedural
* ScarsAreForever: Jack has a facial scar which is explained by his backstory.
* UselessSecurityCamera: In one episode, Frost asks Toolan if he managed to get the evidence from the camera for a murder that had happened in an alley, only to be told that it was facing the wrong way.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The location of Denton is never revealed. Fans believe it to be somewhere in or between Wiltshire and Oxfordshire given the repeated references to Swindon, Reading and Oxford within the show.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Jack is only called by his real first name, William, by two people: his late wife in the first episode and [[spoiler:Christine Moorhead]] in the last.
* YouDoNotHaveToSayAnything
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