First viewed : Uncertain
I know I saw the second episode of this with Tony Haygarth but that might have been on repeat.
David Jason wasn't actually a stranger to straight roles when he took on the unruly detective Jack Frost but the pre-publicity suggested that. The series was based on the novels of RD Wingfield set in the fictional Berkshire town of Denton. Despite that, the series was made by Yorkshire Television and so was mainly filmed in Leeds and Wakefield with one episode using a block of flats in Rochdale not too far from Spotland.
Although the storylines were serious, Jason was given a lot of laugh lines usually at the expense of his narrow minded superior Mullett ( Bruce Alexander ). Frost usually had a different partner each episode although some would recur. He also had an active love life which was not altogether, usually with younger women, which was not too convincing for a middle aged widower with sloppy habits. The episodes were two hours in length as in Morse and occasionally dragged but it was generally worth watching.
The episodes I remember most are :
- One with Tony Haygarth as his partner where Frost plants evidence to nail the suspect
- One with Neil Dudgeon as a detective who's been demoted for punching a superior
- One where an old lady stabs her husband and Frost has to deal with a particularly unsympathetic WPC
At the end of the fifth series, Frost investigates an incest case which leads to the death of his young partner Clive ( Matt Bardock ) who takes a bullet intended for him. Frost resigns and that looked like the end of the series.
However, it resumed in 1999 with Frost being summoned back into action. I started watching the first episode but got bored and never came back to it. In the noughties the seasons got much shorter , in some cases comprising just a single episode, and I'm quite surprised to read that it continued to 2010 when Jason called time on it, believing it looked ridiculous given his age.
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