LIFE ON MARS: SERIES 2 (UK)

Details

• Release Year: 2006
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: Same place, same job. Different time, different rules.; That's the situation facing detective Sam Tyler (John Simm, State of Play) in this British drama that TV Guide calls 'an entertaining collision of bare- knuckled police-procedural realism and mind-blowing surrealism.'; ; Knocked uncoscious by a hit-and-run driver in 21st-century Manchester, Tyler wakes up in 1973. Is he dreaming, time traveling, or just plain crazy? Whatever the case, he might as well have landed on another planet. Although shocked by the brutality of his bullying boss (Philip Genister, Cranford) and the callousness of his squad mates, Sam gamely adapts to crime solving in this retro world. But even as romance blossoms with policewoman Annie (Liz White, The Fixer), mysterious voices from hs former life keep calling him home. Trapped in the past, he must decide where his future lies - and how to get there - in the tension-filled finale.
• 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, S.J. Clarkson, John Alexander, John McKay, Bharat Nalluri, Andrew Gunn
• Director: S.J. Clarkson
• Runtime: 7:48
• Company: Kudos Film and Television Ltd
• Media Format: series