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Life on Mars
2008 · Mystery · Drama
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320 votes
Is he mad, in a coma… or has Detective Sam Tyler really travelled back in time?
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.
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John Simm
Sam Tyler
Philip Glenister
Gene Hunt
Liz White
Annie Cartwright
Dean Andrews
Ray Carling
Marshall Lancaster
Chris Skelton
Noreen Kershaw
Phyllis Dobbs
Joanne Froggatt
Ruth Tyler
Lee Ingleby
Vic Tyler
Reece Dinsdale
Simon Lamb
Marc Warren
Tony Crane
Tim Plester
Rocket
Eva Pope
Carol Twilling
Jacqueline Boatswain
Officer
Sagar Arya
Saeed Taufeeq
Ralph Brown
Frank Morgan
Kevin McNally
Harry Woolf
Paul Copley
Reg Cole
Anthony Flanagan
Pete Bond
Alex Reid
Layla Dylan
Katherine Kelly
Auntie Heather
VanVliet
November 9, 2017
It's rare that you get anything that's original but here's a great example. In times where we are subjected to rebooted series that were popular when most of the advertisers important demographic weren't even born here we have a series that you'll have never seen anything like it before. I know people who read this will never experienced that but with this in mind here's a classic. Being original isn't, of course, go…
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