If you havent lived oyur life.well live it through this.
Sam Tyler knocked over in a car accident in the year 2006 what there fore knock's him into a coma.He is unsure what is going on so starts pulling up his socks's and trying to find a way home through any means necesari!!!
Sam Tyler and Gene Hunt,the unlickley combantion with punch-up's and late night drinking leading towards cleaning the streets of Manchester, witch leads to the funniest moments ever wittnessed in my life.
A must buy.


Brilliant!!!
I love Life on Mars, John Simm is fantastic in it. A DVD you just have to own.

Great cars and music too...

One word - Incredible!
Well, the BBC did it with the updated Dr. Who and now they've gone and done it again. This is a terrific show and a wonderful update on the old 'cops on the box' action drama.
The basic premise is intriguing - is the hero in a coma, back in time, crazy - but it's the 1970s feel that gives it the biggest kick, and that's especially down to the big shoes filled by Gene Hunt. What a wonderful creation. A man so desperately wrong, in so many ways, yet a man who's basic instincts are often so right -- to get the scum off the streets at any cost. (Hunt - a nice play on words, too!)
This is an intelligently scripted show, that leaves you guessing as to what really is going on with regards to Sam Tyler, the hero, and the 2000s vs 1970s comparisons are often cringingly, but humorously, spot on. It's one of those shows you hope will never end.
Hunt and Tyler are the main characters, both wonderfully fleshed out. The supporting roles are adequately filled, but nothing special, but then they don't have to be as the show stands up so strongly on the interplay of the two main characters alone. Of course, there are the nods to 70s classics like The Sweeney, right down to the colour of car they drive and even some of the camera angles at particular moments (though that could be pure fluke).

A hugely entertaining series.


must have
I could go on about how good it is , explaining every detail of the show and its characters but i wont .... this is a must have , simple as !

Great stuff
I missed this on TV the first time round, so bought Series 1 to watch on holiday. With great effort we managed to limit ourselves to one episode a day. Aside from the nostalgia (I'd just started college in 1973) it was a sharp reminder of just how much things have changed (technologically and in attitudes) over the past 35 years. (I do agree with the reviewer who said there should have been more muck around).

Although Philip Glenister steals the the show as DCI Gene Hunt, John Simm is also excellent and very subtle as Sam Tyler. The portrayal of the developing relationship between the two is a joy to watch as their initial hostility to each other and their policing methods begins to turn into a (kind of) very grudging respect.
One other thing - in a "time-travelling" (?) scenario its great to have writers who don't get bogged down in the philosophical problems of the main character meeting themselves and changing the course of "history".
Can't wait to see how series 2 turns out...

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