LIFE ON MARS: SERIES 1 (UK)

Details

• Release Year: 2005
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: Dreaming, delusional, or displaced in time?; Police detective Sam Tyler (John Simm, State of Play) must decide which describes him in this intriguing twist on the police procedure that has won two International Emmys and rave reviews from critics and fans.; ; Hot on a killer's trail in modern-day Manchester, Tyler gets struck by a passing car and wakes up in 1973. The high-tech tools and respect for proper procedure have vanished. Instead, he finds himself working on a homicide squad where hard drinking replaces hard thinking; forensics takes weeks to analyze; and his boss, DCI Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister, Cranford) has no qualms about roughing up suspects - or Sam himself. Stil, Tyler has real-world crimes to solve, even as strange voices call him back to his 21st century life. But, when he bonds with sympathetic policewoman Annie Cartwright (Liz White, The Fixer), Sam wonders: Does he really want to return?
• Cast: John Simm, Philip Glenister, Liz White, Dean Andrews, Marshall Lancaster, Noreen Kershaw, Tony Marshall, Rafaella Hutchinson, Joanne Frogatt, Archie Panjabi, Kevin McNally, Ralph Brown, Lee Ross, Harriet Rogers, Alexander O'Loughlin, Rae Kelly, Richard Sinnott, Georgia Taylor, Timothy Platt, Bharat Nalluri
• Director: Bharat Nalluri
• Runtime: 7:46
• Company: Kudos Film and Television Ltd
• Media Format: series