A Touch of Frost: True Confessions (1997)
Season 5, Episode 3
9/10
The sanctity of the confessional
19 August 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Eoin (not Ian) McCarthy excels as the motorcycle-riding Father Murphy, who hears a murderous confession at the beginning. Interestingly, Frost doesn't take the mickey out of religion in this fine episode, as we are left guessing who the murderer is amidst affairs and an Oxfordshire hotel.

Gwyneth Strong is impressive as DS Bailey from Complaints and Discipline, who investigates Frost's alleged misconduct in an earlier and possibly related murder. Talking about murder, Jane Wymark appears here and she played Joyce Barnaby in Midsomer Murders.

Also appearing is Anthony Calf, as the chief suspect. Anthony is DAC Strickland in New Tricks, and he's one of the best things about New Tricks, with due respect to the other major stars of course.

The house that's the scene of the possible murder is quite fancy, and I'd love to know where it was filmed, as I guess it demonstrates British people can be wealthy I guess. Also I'd love to know where the church building is.

I kind of rolled my eyes when Charlie Fairclough bemoaned the fact that the police force is now called service...kind of a dig at "political correctness" whatever that means.
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