A Touch of Frost: Series 06  (1999)

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A Touch of Frost: Series 06

Season six of A Touch of Frost (which begins two years after the conclusion of season five) finds titular protagonist DI "Jack" Frost (David Jason) feigning indifference over the promotion of his colleague Hazel Wallace (Caroline Harker) from policewoman to detective -- once Frost returns from compassionate leave in order to help Wallace and Supt. Mullet (Bruce Alexander) solve a suspicious-looking suicide and the theft of a painting. So goes the plot of the season's first two-hour episode, "Appendix Man." The remaining three episodes include "One Man's Meet," in which Frost investigates two seemingly unrelated murders: that of a homeless teen and of an environmental health official; "Private Lives," exposing the seamy underside of a "respectable" rural community; and "Keys to the Car," wherein Frost seeks out a link between a stolen car, a murdered drug dealer, and a con artist. During the three-year period following the end of its sixth season, the Frost series format briefly morphs into a trio of one-shot specials, each one presented in a two-part format: 1999's "Line of Fire," with Frost going after the killer of a fellow detective; 2001's "Benefit of the Doubt," in which a con artist posing as Frost wreaks havoc during an intense investigation of a murder and a possible kidnapping; and 2002's "Mistaken Identity," wherein while probing the death of an unidentified drowning victim, a reluctant Frost is teamed with a psychological profiler (Susan Penhaligon) and a new female partner (Michelle Foster), the latter accusing Frost of thinly veiled racism. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide