Seemingly indifferent and imperious while going about his duties, Detective Inspector "Jack" Frost (David Jason) has a hard time hiding his intense dedication to his job and his essential humanity during season three of A Touch of Frost. The first of the season's four 120-minute episodes is "Appropriate Adults," in which Frost is virtually the ...
Unorthodox British Detective Inspector "Jack" Frost (David Jason) wends his way through three 120-minute mysteries during season one of A Touch of Frost. In the first episode, "Care and Protection" (based on R.D. Wingfield's novel Frost at Christmas), a beleaguered Jack struggles to solve a missing-child case while watching his wife slowly waste ...
The second season of A Touch of Frost serves up a quartet of 120-minute dramas, in which irreverent-but-compassionate Detective Inspector "Jack" Frost (David Jason) is intimately involved. The season opens with "A Minority of One," in which Frost, teamed with West Indian DC Clive Tanner (Lennie James) sets his sights on an East End family of ...
The fifth season of A Touch of Frost serves up four new 120-minute mysteries for irreverent but warm-hearted Detective Inspector "Jack" Frost (David Jason). The ball gets rolling with "Penny for the Guy," in which Frost goes head-to-head with a kidnapper-extortionist who has targeted a major supermarket chain for a vicious shakedown. Next on the ...
Author Tom Sharpe's outrageous best-seller about the power struggle that emerges when the dean of a Cambridge University dies before naming his successor gets the big screen treatment in director Robert Knights' four-part comedy. Porterhouse College is an institute of higher education steeped in five hundred-years of tradition, so when the Head ...
David Jason, Tim Curry, Nigel Planer, and Sean Astin star in writer/director Vadim Jean's imaginative adaptation of The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic -- the first two books in author Terry Pratchett's popular Discworld series of fantasy adventure novels. Naïve tourist Twoflower (Astin) is on holiday in Ankh-Morpork when a terrible fire ...
David Jason stars as fiercely independent but deeply compassionate Detective Inspector "Jack" Frost in the five 120-minute mysteries comprising season four of A Touch of Frost. Frost's professional travails literally hit home when his house is torched in "Paying the Price," giving him way too much on his mind while he tries to track down a ...
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. ...
From the mind of bestselling author Terry Pratchet comes this off-the-wall holiday film. In the parallel universe of Discworld, they don't celebrate Christmas. Instead, children look forward to December 32nd, also known as Hogswatchnight, when they'll receive gifts, not from Santa Claus, but from The Hogfather. However, this year, The Hogfather ...
Originally produced for the BBC and broadcast in the U.S. as part of the PBS series Masterpiece Theatre, this drama tells the story of the Sandringham Company, one of the most unusual teams of fighting men to march on the battlefields of World War I; under the leadership of Captain Frank Beck, the Sandringhams were made up entirely of servants and ...
The sole survivor of a mysterious World War II submarine disaster is forced to fight for his life against otherworldly forces when the sunken sub inexplicably resurfaces thirty-eight years later. The year was 1943: Jack Hardy (David Jason) miraculously managed to survive an accident that would have claimed the entire crew had he perished as well. ...
In this dark British comedy, a despondent businessman (Graham Chapman) decides to end it all after his wife leaves him. Unfortunately, he lacks the courage to do it to himself and so hires a professional assassin, telling him to do the deed no matter what. A short time passes and things look considerably brighter for the businessman who suddenly ...
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