The 3rd series of A Touch Of Frost appeared on British TVs in January 1995. David Jason is Jack Frost, a Detective Inspector on the Denton Police Force. He does a good job on the detecting part of his job but the paperwork is where he falls down. There's a running gag on the topic as his boss, Superintendent Mullett, a stick up his butt kind of guy if I ever saw one, chivies him to get caught up with his reports. There's usually a new partner to work with each episode. Each of these episodes are about 100 minutes long. It's modern day England in a smallish town with nothing too modern about it. The crimes are often sad making and young people are killed or injured. There are 15 series in the set and so far all the stories are well written, well acted and well produced. It's more serious than I might like but I like the characters and want to see what happens as the story plays out. Well worth the watch. Some you can stream from YouTube and you might be able to do the same from NetFlix. I know NetFlix has the DVDs but I got them from the library. For some reason the local Hennipen County Library System sure has a lot of British shows. Yay, for me. Here's the four episodes for this series.
Frost's got two problems this week, a missing 8 year old girl and joy riders. His main suspect on the first case is Billy, a 19 year old fellow with Downs Sysndrome. The young man who plays Billy is really quite good. Of course the locals turn against him and his family when he's held at the station for questioning. This week Jack is working with his pal DS Toolan played by John Lyons. Toolan is a semi regular who appears in 39 of the 42 episodes. He's a good character and I like the actor playing the part.
There's trouble as one of a group of people protesting fox hunts is killed. Matt Burdock plays DC Clive Barnard, the Chief Constable's nephew, who's re-assigned to Denton CID. He also appeared in the first episode of the first series. Jack likes him and they get along well. Sean Pertwee plays one of the protesters.
Dead Male One
WPC Hazel Wallace, played by Caroline Harker, is Jack's partner this week. She helps Jack with the dead guy in the river and a footballer who had his drink spiked with steroids. Hazel is another character I like a lot. She only appears in 11 episodes over the course of the series.
DS Maureen Lawson, played by Sally Dexter, returns to help Jack this week. They have a tough one, a man is shot during a robbery of a glass works.
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