<Tr> <Td_colspan="6"> Frost investigates the stabbing of a woman during a robbery at a sub-post - office . He is convinced that they have the culprits in custody but is frustrated by the limits placed on his ability to gather evidence . He also looks into an attack on the very pretty Helen Tudor who was pushed down the stairs at her university . She has no idea who may have pushed her but had recently rebuffed a professor, Dr. Michaelson, who had a reputation for getting too "close" to his students . In the course of the investigation, Frost uses WPC Lindsey Hunter (Katrina Levon) to get close to Helen, and learns that a woman very similar in appearance to Helen drowned some two years previously, even though she was a very good swimmer . Clive Barnard, now a DS in Boxborough, assists Frost in locating a possible suspect, a student who knew both girls . Frost finally finds himself a flat but also gets some unexpected lodgers . </Td> </Tr> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Episode </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Written by </Th> <Th> Directed by </Th> <Th> Viewers (millions) </Th> <Th> Original airdate </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> "Penny for the Guy" </Td> <Td> Malcolm Bradbury </Td> <Td> Paul Seed </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> 9 February 1997 (1997 - 02 - 09) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="6"> It's a busy night for the Denton CID . Just as Frost is about to leave on a fortnight's leave, the body of a young boy is found dead in an alley . He was gagged and the pathologist determines he had been chloroformed and had choked on his own vomit . He had also had his left little finger cut off . The police had initially thought the young boy was Bobby Kirby who had gone missing that evening, but they determine it's not the same child so they have both a murder victim and a missing child . The same evening, a couple returns home to find their front door open and their teenage daughter missing . The parents paid 25,000 pounds for her release but Frost has his doubts having had business with the girl's father in the past . As for Bobby, kidnappers demand a half - million - pound ransom from a major supermarket chain or the boy will be killed . The payment is made but the police operation is botched and they have to go back a few steps in order to get on the right track . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> "House Calls" </Td> <Td> Malcolm Bradbury </Td> <Td> Graham Theakston </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> 16 February 1997 (1997 - 02 - 16) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="6"> Frost is in charge of the case of a three - month - old corpse found in the coal bin of an abandoned farm house . The body is eventually identified as that of a well - known thief, but Frost has little to go on . DS Liz Maud (Susannah Doyle) has a case of a child abuser who is injecting children with water . Frost recalls a similar case and, when they learn he is now in the area, have an immediate suspect . Frost feels sorry for him however and concludes that he can't be the person they're after . However, when two children are killed, both with indications of having injections, Frost may be in the soup . Supt . Mullett advises him that he will have no choice but to advise the Chief Constable and that it will likely lead to a disciplinary hearing . Fortunately for Frost, he sees a number of holes in Maud's case, leading him to the real killer . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> "True Confessions" </Td> <Td> Michael Russell </Td> <Td> Sandy Johnson </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> 23 February 1997 (1997 - 02 - 23) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="6"> Just back from a holiday in Spain with his friend Kitty Rayford, Frost investigates the death of Jeanette Barr, found on a nearby riverbank . The autopsy reveals that although she drowned, it more likely happened in her bathtub and not in the river . In the course of the investigation, Frost learns that she was having an affair with Richard Sheridan, a graphic designer who worked for her husband and his brother but he has an alibi for the time of her death . Jeanette's husband, Jack Barr, is known to Frost from when he investigated the murder of his first wife 10 years previously . Unfortunately someone is already serving a sentence for that killing and Jack finds himself suspended while an internal investigation takes place . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> "No Other Love" </Td> <Td> Sian Orrells </Td> <Td> David Reynolds </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> 2 March 1997 (1997 - 03 - 02) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="6"> Peter Lawson is a pawnbroker with a difficult family life . His father, retired after a long career in the army, is a demanding patriarch and his oldest children hate him . An armed robbery at his shop brings Frost, now reunited with DS Clive Barnard (Matt Bardock), onto the case but all does not sit well with the police . When Lawson is murdered a few days later, Frost and Barnard uncover a case of child abuse that has gone on for years . The ensuing investigation leads to a tragedy that will long affect the police and Frost in particular . At the Station, Supt . Mullett is being forced to cut his budget and has his eyes squarely set on making Frost redundant...</Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> Episode </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Written by </Th> <Th> Directed by </Th> <Th> Viewers (millions) </Th> <Th> Original airdate </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> "Penny for the Guy" </Td> <Td> Malcolm Bradbury </Td> <Td> Paul Seed </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> 9 February 1997 (1997 - 02 - 09) </Td> </Tr>

A touch of frost season 8 episode 2