"A Touch of Frost" Deep Waters (1996)

Director:

Don Leaver

Writers:

R.D. Wingfield (characters)
Christopher Russell (screenplay)

TV Series:

"A Touch of Frost" (1992)

Original Air Date:

4 February 1996 (Season 4, Episode 5)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

Frost is frustrated in his interrogations of two men that stabbed a young woman during a robbery and a predatory professor possibly involved in an assault on a pretty co-ed.

Plot Keywords:

Robbery | Jack Frost | Interrogation | University | Caricature

Cast

David Jason	...	D.I. Frost
Bruce Alexander	...	Supt. Mullett
John Lyons	...	D.S. Toolan
Tamzin Malleson	...	Helen Tudor
Charlotte Bellamy	...	Jamie Merrick
Damian Lewis	...	Adam Weston
Darren Tighe	...	Tony Jarvis
Jonathan Hyde	...	Dr. Keith Michaelson
Gillian Bevan	...	Suzanne Michaelson
Simon Coates	...	Simon Marsh
Stephanie Turner	...	Mrs. Jarvis
Jay Simpson	...	Peter Bainbridge
Francis Magee	...	Rod Bainbridge
Katrina Levon	...	W.P.C. Lindsey Hunter
Matt Bardock	...	D.S. Clive Barnard

James McKenna	...	Sgt. Don Brady
Arthur White	...	PC Ernest 'Ernie' Trigg
Nigel Harrison	...	DCI Jim Peters

Filming Locations:

Bretton Hall, Bretton, West Yorkshire, England, UK

Company:

Excelsior

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Frost is in the professor's office, he examines the bookshelf. First, there are two copies of the same book ("Psychology") just a few inches apart, Next, when Frost removes a book called "Violent Death" and opens it, it's clear that a phony cover was placed on a real book upside-down.

Quotes:

Frost: Mrs. Jarvis, if your son is a fruitcake, I need to know about it.

Movie Connections:

References How I Won the War (1967)

An intriguing episode

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

When a beautiful young college student is injured in a fall on campus, Frost finds it difficult to locate a suspect. In his quest to discover the truth, he is reunited with an old friend and colleague, while also having to deal with a shopkeeper's murder.... But gathering enough evidence to charge the alleged suspects is going to be much harder than he thinks....

A family tragedy dominates the satisfactory conclusion to the student's accident, but with her life in serious danger can Jack save her before it's too late? The fine suspense builds to a tense ending, making Deep Waters a suitably watchable edition. 8/10