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A Touch of Frost Season 13: Endangered Species

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I'm a great fan of this series. But the time to stop has arrived. This single 95 minute movie (hardly a season) has a very weak story and resorts to a series of gross situations that reflect the sad state of our popular culture today. And then there is the "love interest" between Frost and a woman young enough to be his granddaughter. (She's also about four inches taller.) Ridiculous. A great series gone sour. Enough!

I watched this DVD last night after picking it up at my local DVD rental store. It is only 95 mins long and there is only one story on it -Endangered Species. I immediately was suspicious and thought that the store had split up a boxed set of the 13th season in order to rent out each dvd individually, but it appears that that is not so. It is only one story. Which I find very odd, how can this be a season? Anyone else out there able to shed some light on this?

The story itself is quite entertaining but I felt it was not quite up to the standard of all of the previous Frost's.

A Touch of Frost, Season 13.A Touch of Frost Season 13: Endangered SpeciesFor the first time Amazon without total disclosure sells a DVD stated as a Season and one gets one progrom of ninety-five minutes. This has never happened in Midsommer Murder, etc.

We enjoyed the single and I want to emphasize SINGLE, program. Come on Amazon you can do better marketing than this. One program does not a season make.

William Russell

This product is a major ripoff not by Amazon but by the distributors of the film. It is advertised as season 13 but it is one episode on one disc 93 minutes long. I returned mine for credit.I have all the other seasons and I love the series but I am not paying for one episode.

OK everyone has said it before that there is only one episode and it is a pretty silly episode at that. Trouble is David Jason is always watchable!

The reason for this comment is to clear up a few misunderstandings. This isn't the last of Frost - a new series of 3 episodes is currently showing on UK TV:

Season 14, Episode 1: Mind Games
Original Air Date--12 October 2008
Season 14, Episode 2: Dead End
Original Air Date--19 October 2008
Season 14, Episode 3: In the Public Interest
Original Air Date--26 October 2008

and is being released in the UK on DVD in late October.

What is even stranger is that in the UK there is no season 13 at all! Endangered Species was first of all released on a single DVD but is listed (along with the earlier story "Near Death Experience" as season 12. Hence in the UK we have seasons 1-12, an extra disc also labelled series 12 and now series 14 is being released.

I suspect in the US Endangered Species was released as season 13 to avoid a confusing gap (but then they just added to the confusion by having 2 seasons that were effectively single episodes!)

I like Frost and I liked the one episode on the DVD well enough--I would give the episode 3 or 4 stars. However I do not recommend buying this DVD. The season has at least one other episode, perhaps two--Netflix, Amazon, and IMDB have conflicting information about which episodes belong in which season--and the other episode or episodes are not on the disk. I have no idea why. So, while the one episode is good enough, the stinginess of the studio in only release one episode is rather irritating and deserves a pan. DON'T BUY!

I've been a follower of Frost since the series first started. I have also read the books and I own all the released DVDs. I was sorry I bought season 13.

Firstly, it's just one episode, and secondly the story was just plain weak by Frost standards. Even ignoring such crass adds such as the car chase and weapons usage, the main problem is that the character behavior was as if the storywriter/director had neither seen previous episodes nor understood the characters (Mullett and Frost working hand-in-hand without acrimony!). In addition, the sub-plot of an advanced relationship between Frost and a young fitness instructor is ridulous and detracts, not adds, to the storyline. If you own the previous series don't bother with this one. If you don't own the previous Seasons, buy them over this, especially Seasons 1-10.

Most of seasons were about four shows. This was one show and the price
was not much different that the others. We need to have the amount of
shows on the descriptions.

Season 13 is just one 90 minute episode. I suspect lead actor, David Jason, has enough money that he does not want to work as much nowadays. But the episode maintains the series' high standards for plot and performances. My only criticism is the volume of the score. I have noticed that the musical score for British TV dramas is typically too loud and this episode of Inspector Frost commits that sin in spades. You will find yourself reaching for the remote to turn down the volume when the music plays over non-dialog scenes and then turning it up again when the dialog starts. Occasionally, the score overwhelms the dialog. All British TV dramas tend to do this but this episode is as bad as it gets.

I own a multi-region dvd player, so have ordered Frost from Amazon UK in the past - up to series 12. The episode (Endangered Species) in Amazon's "Series 13" was the final episode of season 12. I checked the Amazon UK site, and Series 13 supposedly has a run time of 279 minutes. I ordered Series 14 from Amazon at the same time and it contains 3 episodes. I don't know what went wrong with their (Amazon USA) version of Series 13, but I hope to get a refund.