Anyone watched this yet? It's on Discovery Britain (aka BBCA) Monday nights at 10.
The Sweeney meets Quantum Leap meets The Full Monty meets Law & Order CI.
Great stuff. Can't wait for the next one.
References in this week's episode Sending a blood splatter sketch to the Gallery on Vision On; and a spooky vision of the girl and the clown doll out of the test card!
Oh, East17, I love this programme. It was REALLY popular when it came out earlier this year. It just gets better and better, there's some cracking episodes coming up.
Gene Hunt is my hero! My sister had to record the episodes I missed and post them to me in Japan.
They've just made series 2 for UK broadcast in the new year. Series one is out on R2 DVD.
I love it too - takes me right back to when I was a kid!
Only prob is I have to translate a lot of the slang etc for hubs (like Vision On etc...lol)
Well, rumours about series 2 include Sam and Gene being characters in Camberwick Green and Sam is seen on the musical box from the title sequence.
(Don't tell me you're too young to remember!)
loved the warning they gave when they raided the textile mill
episode 3-4??????
"freeze your'e surounded by armed b******s" lol lol lol lol lol
Yes is a great series. Also like the Night detective. Was called 55 degrees north, back in the UK. Glade to see the BBC putting out some better programming. I am considering buying something that you plug into a TV Back in the UK and you can stream that TV programming to your PC here. Nice to have family and friends back home lol.
I forgot to mention, LoM has a fantatic soundtrack.
'Live and let die......DAH-DAH-DAH, DAH-DAH-DAH-DA-DA!'
WARNING- Contains episode guide/spoilers!
http//www.bbc.co.uk/drama/lifeonmars/
I've watched the last three and loved it.
It's worth having BBC America for the one show they show every three months that is actually good.
I always thought it was just me that thought the girl on the test card playing noughts and crosses with the clown was spooky.
I already bit-torrented Season 2.
I feel slightly ripped off by the ending.
I love 'Life On Mars'. We've just started the second series on DVD.
I think it's a deliberately stylised version of 1973, full of Sweeney references etc.
I don't think it really resembles the real 1973 that much.
According to 'Wikipedia', 'Life On Mars' doesn't seem to really reflect policing of the day either.
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In an interview John Stalker, Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester in the early 1980s, and himself a Detective Inspector in 1973, has stated that the depiction of the police "has got nothing to do with real policing in the 1970s. It could not be more inaccurate in terms of procedure, the way they talk or the way they dress. In all the time I was in the CID in the 1970s I never saw a copper in a leather bomber jacket and I never heard an officer call anyone 'guv'... Actually, there were a few police officers in London who started to behave like Regan and Carter in The Sweeney, but that was a case of life following art, not the other way round."
Journalist Ray King, who interviewed Stalker, notes that this depiction of the police can be defended if we assume that Sam is indeed in a coma, and that we are seeing his imaginary idea of 1973, filtered through 70s cop shows.
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One series that I thought did capture the early 1970s very well and the other eras it depicted was the 1994 series 'Our Friends In The North' giving early roles for Christopher Ecclestone and Daniel Craig.