A Touch of Frost

Series Similar to A Touch of Frost

If you enjoyed A Touch of Frost, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Vera

   2011 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8), also on ITV1.

   Set around Newcastle and the stunning Northumberland countryside, Vera features complex and intriguing cases, atmospherically-shot landscapes and captivating performances, led by Brenda Blethyn who plays the unorthodox but brilliant DCI Vera Stanhope.

2. Foyle's War

   2002 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8), also on ITV1.

   Post-WWII drama. Foyle, now working for British Intelligence, is drawn into the world of corrupt Nazi businessmen when a London university professor is found murdered.

3. Miss Marple

   1984 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8).

   Miss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English crime writer Agatha Christie, is portrayed by Joan Hickson who starred in a dozen television mysteries about Miss Marple over the course of a decade. Between 1984 and 1992 the British Broadcasting Corporation in association with Australia's Seven Network and America's Arts and Entertainments Network, produced an irregular series of twelve Miss Marple mysteries. The elderly, deceptively delicate Joan Hickson starred in each of these as the amateur detective from the bucolic village of St. Mary Mead.

4. Lewis

   2006 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8), also on ITV1.

   A spin-off of the popular series Inspector Morse, a special two-hour drama picked up five years after the series ended. It is now continuing in its own series, with Lewis and Hathaway investigating in Morse's old stomping ground of Oxford.

5. DCI Banks

   2010 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, also on ITV1.

   No-nonsense Yorkshire detective Alan Banks (Stephen Tompkinson) tackles each new case with the weary professionalism of a man who has seen too much. Watch him doggedly decipher the clues in the gruesome murders on his patch.

6. Inspector George Gently

   2008 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8).

   Crime drama, set in the 1960s, about an old-school detective trying to come to terms with a time when the lines between the police and criminals have become blurred.Based on the Inspector Gently novels by Alan Hunter.

7. Messiah

   2001 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Crime drama series following the investigations of DCI Red Metcalfe.

8. Cadfael

   1994 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8), also on ITV1.

   Brother Cadfael is a twelfth-century Anglo-Welsh monk. A retired crusader disappointed in love, now a herbalist in charge of the gardens of Shrewsbury Abbey, Cadfael is often called on to solve murders and other crimes in and around Shrewsbury.

9. Endeavour

   2012 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8.4), also on ITV1.

   The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.

10. The Bletchley Circle

    2012 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended

    Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8), also on ITV1.

    The Bletchley Circle follows the journey of four ordinary women with extraordinary skills that helped to end World War II.Set in 1952, Susan, Millie, Lucy and Jean have returned to their normal lives, modestly setting aside the part they played in producing crucial intelligence, which helped the Allies to victory and shortened the war. When Susan discovers a hidden code behind an unsolved murder she is met by skepticism from the police. She quickly realises she can only begin to crack the murders and bring the culprit to justice with her former friends.