The character has appeared in two radio plays, ten published novels, and a TV series spanning 42 episodes between 1992 and 2010.
The character's second appearance was also on BBC Radio 4, in a play entitled A Touch of Frost, also based on Wingfield's second novel of the same name, transmitted on 6 February 1982.
Beginning in 1992, television adaptations of the novels, and further stories based on the characters were transmitted on ITV in the UK.
The first ending saw Frost the victim of a hit-and-run on his wedding day, and later suffering a fatal heart attack in hospital.
The second ending saw his colleague George Toolan die instead, as a result of the car crash.