Frost investigates two serial criminals preying on senior women, a burglar and a serial killer while working with a beautiful new partner.Frost investigates two serial criminals preying on senior women, a burglar and a serial killer while working with a beautiful new partner.Frost investigates two serial criminals preying on senior women, a burglar and a serial killer while working with a beautiful new partner.
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- TriviaThis episode is based on one of the story lines in the third Frost novel "Night Frost", which was published two years prior shortly before the series began production. It is heavily toned-down compared to the book, in which there were three additional senior citizens killed (although only two by the serial killer; the third is attacked by the house burglar in "self defense" and dies later in hospital, whereas Mrs Haynes is the one who dies later in the show and not immediately as in the book). Frost's partner in the book was D.S. Gilmore, who appeared in the previous series' Not with Kindness (1992) along with most of the novel's other story lines. In this episode he is partnered by D.S. Maureen Lawson in her first of several guest appearances, a new character created specially for the show. D.C.I. Allen is also written-in to the episode as he (as D.I.) was away sick in the book, leaving Frost to investigate basically every crime in Denton.
- GoofsWhen Frost's car is driven by his Detective Sergeant to the launderette, the car is deliberately driven the wrong way down a one-way street. This is something that no police officer would do unless in an emergency.
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D.C.I. Allen: [Talking about DS Lawson] She's a good-looker. I hope you don't find yourself tempted.
D.I. Frost: What? Sleep with a junior officer? Gawd dear! Mullet would love that, wouldn't he? Actually, Jim, I've lost the, henh, urge. You know... women. What's that... growin' up or growin' old?
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Frosty Frost is well-depicted by the actor
Jack Frost's sarcastic but rather honest views are well associated with the actor David Jason. A Touch of Frost is right on his tongue and his "comments" make the audience chuckle. I always love a finishing touch of frost at the very end of every show.
Frost is a loner and is not always in pair with sidekicks "for keeps". He is not into a relationship with anyone else and is not eager or keen to pair up with anyone for work. He is a lone wolf. His cynic personality and extreme aloofness can be a snag for perpetual partnership with anyone. New sidekicks always leave for some reason and his new sidekick this time was a female officer with ranks. That was an interesting change also.
According to the trivia of this series, the author of the character Jack Frost did not favor this TV program or the actor David Jason but I think Jason's likable personality with cynic tongue made the character shine through for years. In the original Jack Frost in books the character loves teen-aged girls, but the TV series cannot depict this in any way so that part was basically ignored. Instead, Jason's depiction of Frost added the "snide & snip", so to speak, in his "comments" that he makes to his colleagues and suspects.
In this tale of spiteful young man who was twisted by the difficult old people and his own dark past, Frost's interview to the young man is, although he duly understood how much abuse and difficulty the young man may have been suffered in life, a psychological chase that heats up little by little through discussion with him and his spiteful grandmother.
If Frost was a touch of frost, then that old lady was more than a cup of hot peppers. I did not like her too much, so I felt sorry for that young man who basically became insane because of her abusive rearing of him.
In TV drama the personality of Jack Frost seems to be extremely warm and nice although cynic at the same time, and I like this one better than what he is depicted in the books!!!
Frost is a loner and is not always in pair with sidekicks "for keeps". He is not into a relationship with anyone else and is not eager or keen to pair up with anyone for work. He is a lone wolf. His cynic personality and extreme aloofness can be a snag for perpetual partnership with anyone. New sidekicks always leave for some reason and his new sidekick this time was a female officer with ranks. That was an interesting change also.
According to the trivia of this series, the author of the character Jack Frost did not favor this TV program or the actor David Jason but I think Jason's likable personality with cynic tongue made the character shine through for years. In the original Jack Frost in books the character loves teen-aged girls, but the TV series cannot depict this in any way so that part was basically ignored. Instead, Jason's depiction of Frost added the "snide & snip", so to speak, in his "comments" that he makes to his colleagues and suspects.
In this tale of spiteful young man who was twisted by the difficult old people and his own dark past, Frost's interview to the young man is, although he duly understood how much abuse and difficulty the young man may have been suffered in life, a psychological chase that heats up little by little through discussion with him and his spiteful grandmother.
If Frost was a touch of frost, then that old lady was more than a cup of hot peppers. I did not like her too much, so I felt sorry for that young man who basically became insane because of her abusive rearing of him.
In TV drama the personality of Jack Frost seems to be extremely warm and nice although cynic at the same time, and I like this one better than what he is depicted in the books!!!
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- Kyoko88
- Nov 2, 2007
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