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Life on Mars

Created by Matthew Graham, Ashley Pharoah, Tony Jordan

2006–2007

A detective chief inspector from 2006 is investigating a serial killer when he is knocked over by a speeding car. Waking up, he finds himself mysteriously transported back in time to 1973. Initially struggling to come to terms with his situation, he has to come to terms with the old-fashioned technology and attitude of the day, while figuring out how he came to be trapped in the past.

First aired
9 Jan 2006
Episode length
59 min
Also known as
火星生活BBC, huoxingshenghuo, Life on Mars: Gefangen in den 70ern, Χρονοπαγίδα
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Writers
Ashley Pharoah, Chris Chibnall, Guy Jenkin and 4 others
Cinematography
Adam Suschitzky, Balazs Bolygo, Grant Cameron, Tim Palmer
Editors
Barney Pilling, Colin Fair, Jeremy Strachan and 4 others
Executive producers
Claire Parker, Jane Featherstone, Matthew Graham
Producers
Cameron Roach, Marcus Wilson
Elsewhere
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Seasons · 16 episodes

  • Series 1

    Season 1 · 2006

    The first series of Life On Mars focuses on Sam's life following the crash and his arrival in 1973. Elements are thrown in to suggest he is mad, in a coma, or travelled back in time. Also during the first series run, Sam is informed that he is DI (Detective Inspector) to DCI Gene Hunt and the rest of the CID department in Manchester in 1973. This revelation is something that Sam finds hard to understand; he spends most of the series working alone, against his team and Gene.

  • Series 2

    Season 2 · 2007

    Sam learns that an operation is to be conducted on him in 2006 to try and revive him from his coma. However, he believes that to return to the twenty-first century, he has to betray his colleagues in 1973 — but can he regard them as imaginary, or are they real - at least for him?

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